A Walk Down Epigenetic Lane for Healthy Bodies and Hormones In part I of my series about the mind-body perspective in relation to hormonal balance, I explored how beliefs, emotions, and social influences impact our health. I highlighted studies that explored the concepts of interactions between our environment (epigenetics), food [...]
…And Tips for Using My Favorite Singles, Combos, and Essential Oil Blend for the Colder Season Ahead In this week's blog, I discussed five reasons why essential oils provide powerful, yet gentle immune support. I also highlighted some of my favorites and their general usage tips. In this 17-minute video, I [...]
Five Reasons Why Essential Oils Are My Favorite Wellness Tool for Natural Immune Support To me, essential oils are the most powerful natural tool to support immunity. This is for many reasons. 1. Essential oils are selective, yet far-reaching. Due to the presence of their many compounds, essential oils have multiple [...]
Hormones &.... the Impact of Belief, Emotions, Relationships, and Culture! In my latest blog series, I explore other aspects of reproductive health that are often overlooked. This video discusses how beliefs, emotions, relationships, and culture impact health, hormones, and a woman’s experience of menopause. I also highlight resources that connect emotions, beliefs, [...]
In the past few weeks, I’ve explored hormonal balance from an integrative, naturopathic, and functional medicine perspective. These chemical messengers are so powerful, the body has complex feedback mechanisms in place to control their levels. In fact, even minute shifts in amounts of hormones can have systemic effects on other vital functions of [...]
On my homepage blog this week, I reviewed three major factors that are often overlooked when using bioidentical and synthetic hormones. Without being aware of them, one can unknowingly create more imbalances that result in seemingly unrelated, or related, hormonal symptoms. Thankfully, our body is smarter than us when it comes to [...]
Revealed: Why swallowing, injecting, rubbing, and/or applying bioidentical or synthetic replacement is the last thing I think about when balancing hormones for my clients. After extensively covering the role of essential oils as a tool for reproductive harmony, I wanted to provide an overview of complexity of the [...]
Many women today are struggling with distressing hormonal and reproductive symptoms. These often result from levels of hormones fluctuating in the bloodstream and/or altered cellular sensitivity to them. There are many diverse causes that can lead to perpetual imbalances in these chemical messengers. These include: lifestyle factors genetic and epigenetic vulnerabilities stress physical imbalances functional [...]
This week I completed my review on rose geranium essential oil. I highlighted studies that demonstrated its ability to calm the brain and body and provide relief of symptoms that can result from women’s hormonal shifts throughout their lifespan- from labor to menopause. I found no evidence that rose geranium, when [...]
