No one can live long without the will to go on, and mood swings can sometimes make us feel that life is too much for us. These episodes are often due to inner imbalances or even nutrient deficiencies. The Europeans use supplements of a natural compound found in human cells to regulate mood and restore [...]
The average American consumes nearly 240 pounds of sugar per year! Most of the excess sugar is stored as fat in your body, which elevates cancer risk and suppresses your immune function. When study subjects were given sugar, their white blood cell count decreased significantly for several hours afterwards. This held true for a several [...]
Conventional meat, poultry, and dairy products contain high amounts of pesticides, hormones, and antibiotic drugs that are harmful to your health. Add the risk that your meat comes from diseased animals raised in stressful, inhumane conditions, and you have a good case for converting to vegetarianism. Commercial feed for animals is full of growth-stimulating hormones, [...]
Yelp, that's right! Do you realize that our life expectancy is directly proportional to our lung capacity? For the majority of people living in or near metropolitan areas, traffic and secondhand smoke vastly accelerate loss of breathing capacity and increase the incidence of lung cancer. However, antioxidant rich vegetables and fruits such as broccoli and [...]
I speak to almost everyone I work with regarding massage therapy, as Western medicine focuses so intensely on the blood that patients often know little about lymph, another vital bodily fluid. Lymph is a clear liquid that drains impurities and cell waste for elimination. The fluid runs in the space between cells, but has no [...]
The winter season is the sleep of nature. Days are short and nights are long. Humans long ago stopped hibernating like their ancestral cousins, but our bodies still experience the slowing of natural processes in winter. According to Chinese medicine, the winter season is linked to the kidneys, the adrenal glands and the bladder. Toxins [...]
Autumn marks the turning point between the heat of the summer and the cold of the winter. The cooling weather ushers in the harvest and heralds the dying cycle in nature. The seasonal change also causes the respiratory system to constrict, leading to cough, asthma, bronchitis, and even pneumonia. Chinese medicine has always associated autumn [...]
S.A.Wilsons All the coffee used for our coffee blend is 100% certified organic. It is also bird friendly and shade grown. Purchased from small independent farmer co-operatives, the beans have been hand picked and the farmers have been paid far more for their product than they would have been paid if sold to the local [...]
Holistic Nutrition Defined In accordance to the dictionary: a. Putting an emphasis on the importance of the whole and the interdependence of its components. b. Concerned with whole rather than analysis or separation into parts. Holistic is a term put into use to describe remedies that attempt to care for the individual as a whole [...]
Water is the most powerful healing substance known to man! The human body is primarily composed of water. Water is not only beneficial but also vital to life — only oxygen is more important to human survival. Water plays an enormous role in how well our body functions. Simply put the more fresh water [...]