Empowered Health
April 24, 2012
By Guest Blogger
There’s something so annoying about getting sick. Whether it’s the common cold, flu-like symptoms or being hit with the cancer stick – it really is most inconvenient! And let’s be honest, it’s never a good time to get cancer. “I have things to do, thank you very much – you are mucking up my life plan, god damn you!” was my response to my “incurable” disease. I have never been one to do things by… Read More >
Are You Getting Enough Vitamin P?
April 13, 2012
By Pilar Gerasimo
Even small doses of pleasure can raise our levels of immune-boosting chemicals. Recently, at a healthy-living conference, I had one of those quickie checkups. In five minutes, you get a blood-pressure reading; a finger-stick blood draw; a computerized printout of your triglyceride, cholesterol and blood sugar levels; and a mini-analysis of your results from the attending health pro. Amazing! If you can access these kinds of tests at your fitness club or a local health… Read More >
Nurturing Your Feminine Side With Food
April 12, 2012
By Guest Blogger
I’ve had to have a lot of va-va-voom in the last couple of years. I’ve re-trained, moved countries, started speaking a new language, started a new job and created my own business. It hit me earlier this year that among all this drive and determination, I’d somehow left my femininity behind. I’d had to be strong, focused, determined and reliable — for all the right reasons. So much was going on; all good, but I’d… Read More >
Quantum Biology
April 11, 2012
By Dr. Brian Clement
During the last few months I have taken individual threads that have been hanging around in my mind for years and began to weave them into a book that I expect to finish by 2014. After four decades of working on the front lines of disease reversal and life prolonging with pure organic and plant-based methods, a vivid pattern of cause and effect has emerged. For so long, my mind labored in the arena that… Read More >
The Face of Diabetes; The Importance of Role Models
April 10, 2012
By Guest Blogger
When I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 1985 at 14 years old, I had just moved away from home for the first time. My hometown in Vermont was so small that we didn’t have enough kids for a high school, so my parents sent me to a private boarding school in New Hampshire. I loved my new school, Proctor Academy. I loved the green fields, white dorm houses and red brick buildings where… Read More >
10 Tips to Find the Right Doctor
March 30, 2012
By Lissa Rankin MD
You might have been raised to believe that doctors are gods and that you shouldn’t question us, but let me tell you the real truth, my loves. We docs are in the service industry — it’s our job to love, nurture, tend and care for you, and if we’re not doing that the way you deserve, you should fire our sorry asses! If you weren’t getting what you needed from your massage therapist, hairdresser, or… Read More >
You Know Tai Chi Looks Relaxing … Here’s Why
March 22, 2012
By Guest Blogger
Have you ever wondered what the connection is between the slow-motion choreography of tai chi and a calmer mind? There’s a natural process at work here, linking the mind and the body. If you understand that link, you can find lots of places in your life to embrace slowness and move toward more relaxation. The Speed of the Mind We live in a culture where the speed of the mind rules. We don’t move at… Read More >
Top 10 Tips (I Wish I Had Known) for Evaluating Integrative and Holistic Health Care Providers
March 21, 2012
By Guest Blogger
When I began my journey with a brain tumor at the age of 24, I knew nothing about cancer or how to choose quality integrative and holistic health care providers. After two awake brain surgeries in 1998 and 2011, four major integrative cancer care protocols and countless other therapies and providers, my experiences have taught me ways to navigate and make better choices. Some episodes and chapters have not been easy, yet I see challenges… Read More >
The Difference Between Raw Foods and Living Foods
March 19, 2012
By Tracy Piper
I was introduced to the Ann Wigmore Health Institute in Aguarda, Puerto Rico, in December 2010 by a dear raw food friend. While I went kicking and screaming, having to leave my office for two weeks, it ended up being the best thing I’ve done. I loved it so much I returned there in the summer, and I just returned from another two weeks there this holiday season. The institute taught me so much about… Read More >
Get the Lead Out (of Lipstick)
March 14, 2012
By Mia Davis
Dear Cosmetics Industry: Please stop defending lead and other nasty chemicals in your products. Love, Mia A $25 tube of department store lipstick should be safe, right? You might assume it is safer than $2 drugstore brand. Not necessarily … During the busy 2011 holiday season, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly released its new data on 400 popular lipsticks sold in the U.S. These products are contaminated with widely varying levels of… Read More >
Clean Foods, Clean Living
March 12, 2012
By Guest Blogger
I’m a clean eater. What does that mean, exactly? Well, it’s about eating from nature’s bounty: fresh foods in their most natural state. Nothing with a label, nothing processed: purely nuts, seeds, fresh produce, healthy fats and lean proteins. Not sure what to make of this? How about whetting your appetite with kale cashew pesto with chia seed falafel; fresh spinach salad with roasted eggplant and avocado-basil dressing; and leek and tomato-apricot soup? I learned… Read More >
Does Your Comfort Food Really Meet Your Needs?
March 5, 2012
By Guest Blogger
Foods are strongly linked to our emotions and moods. Therefore, our day’s events can drive our eating habits. Due to our hectic lifestyles and chronic stress, many of us are turning to food to soothe, comfort and provide relief from intense feelings or low moods. We are bombarded daily by stressors, whether in our environment, workplace, family, relationships, financial or all of them. As these generally bring forth unpleasant feelings or low energy, we may… Read More >
Diabesity – A Reversible Epidemic
February 29, 2012
By Mark Hyman MD
What life threatening, life sapping, energy robbing condition affects one in every two Americans (that is, every other person) including 80 percent of those overweight and up to 40 percent of normal weight people? What condition is responsible for more deaths from heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes and dementia than anything else? What condition also causes acne, infertility, sexual dysfunction and depression? What condition accounts for more then 70 percent of our $2.4… Read More >
What To Do When You Doubt Everything and Want To Stay In Bed
February 20, 2012
By Marie Forleo
Do you ever start questioning everything you’re creating, everything you’re working on and everything you’re working toward? Do you sometimes wish you could just pull the covers over your head and stay in bed all day long? Gurrrl, I feel you. Now before we go any further, I want you to know that you’re not alone. Millions of highly successful people go through periods of questioning what the heck they’re doing and crave a few… Read More >
The pH Diet and Your Fertility
February 15, 2012
By Michelle Schoffro Cook PhD
If you’re like most people, you probably have vague recollections of boring high school chemistry classes when you heard the word “pH.” Don’t let chemistry class stop you from accessing one of the greatest factors for health, including your reproductive health. Chemistry 101 All you need to know about pH to start reaping the health benefits of a more balanced body chemistry, is that it is a measure of acidity (think vinegar) or alkalinity (think… Read More >
Be Your Own Advocate
January 31, 2012
By Guest Blogger
It’s 1982, and tomorrow I am donating my bone marrow for my 9- year-old brother, who has leukemia. I am his only hope. I’m scared for him and truthfully just plain scared because tonight will be this first night I have ever stayed in a hospital. I have never felt so vulnerable. Hospitals do that. Make you feel vulnerable, and in this state we often give away our power. A nurse’s aid waltzed into my… Read More >
Why Antidepressants Don’t Work for Treating Depression
January 27, 2012
By Mark Hyman MD
Here’s some depressing recent medical news: Antidepressants don’t work. What’s even more depressing is that the pharmaceutical industry and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have deliberately deceived us into believing that they do work. As a physician, this is frightening to me. Depression is among the most common problems seen in primary-care medicine and soon will be the second leading cause of disability in this country. A study published in The New England Journal of… Read More >
Redefining Creativity and Home at Midlife: An Interesting Shift in Priorities
January 20, 2012
By Christiane Northrup MD
An excerpt from “The Wisdom of Menopause” by Dr. Christiane Northrup: As a woman in midlife today, I am part of a growing population that is an unprecedented 48.5 million strong in the United States alone. This group is no longer invisible and silent, but a force to be reckoned with — educated, vocal, sophisticated in our knowledge of medical science, and determined to take control of our own health. Think about it: more than… Read More >
Healthy Is the New Sexy
January 16, 2012
By Guest Blogger
So you’re a “wellness warrior,” but for some reason you are still not always practicing what you preach with self-care, and everything you’ve been “meaning to get back into for a while now” still keeps getting put on the back burner. What gives? I am not here today to mother you. Lordy … I don’t want that job. But I am here to take a stand for what I know is possible when you commit… Read More >
Are You Suffering From a Nature Deficiency?
January 3, 2012
By Frank Lipman, MD
This modern, hermetically sealed lifestyle is turning many into indoor zombies — with dulled senses, suppressed immune systems, depressed spirits, and sharply increased risk for illness and disease. One can hardly call that living — particularly when the healing power of nature is so close at hand and, literally outside your front door. If you are suffering from a nature deficiency, and there’s a good chance you are, the good news is that it’s an… Read More >
