How Stress Messes with Your Gut (The Gut-Stress Axis)

By | April 13th, 2023|Articles, Digestion & Gut Health, Essential Oils, Integrative Medicine Hints, Latest Articles, Mood & Brain, Naturopathic, Naturopathic Medicine|

Stress effects everything, instantaneously. When in “fight and flight”, our whole physiology and psychology shifts quickly to survive. Thankfully, once the stress is gone, the mind and body can enter into recovery. However, if there is no respite, long-term stress can be detrimental. Chronically, either the perception and continued rumination of emotional stressors, or, [...]

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Why We Sleep: The Sleep Phases, Stages, Your Chronotype (Night Owls vs. Early Birds), and 11 Tips for Optimizing Sleep from a Neuroscientist

By | April 6th, 2023|Articles, Digestion & Gut Health, Essential Oils, Integrative Medicine Hints, Latest Articles, Mood & Brain, Naturopathic, Naturopathic Medicine|

Why We Need Shut-eye: The Many Benefits of Sleep In my series on slumber, we’ve learned enough about sleep to give us a healthy level of concern if we don’t get adequate amounts of it. Research has revealed that being underslept leads to poorer job performance and negatively impacts brain health, cognitive function, [...]

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Who Needs Sleep? Is Attaining the Status of Being Busy Worth the Sacrifice in Slumber?

By | March 23rd, 2023|Articles, Digestion & Gut Health, Essential Oils, Integrative Medicine Hints, Latest Articles, Mood & Brain, Naturopathic, Naturopathic Medicine|

Who Needs Sleep When There’s So Much to Do? In our fast-paced culture, busyness has became a badge of honor. Somehow, getting more hours of work into the day has taken precedence over sleep time at night. (source, source, source, source, source) Alas, we are discovering that attaining this medal of distinction may [...]

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Hold Your Horses! Serotonin and Depression Are, in Fact, Linked…

By | March 16th, 2023|Articles, Digestion & Gut Health, Essential Oils, Integrative Medicine Hints, Latest Articles, Mood & Brain, Naturopathic, Naturopathic Medicine|

Here's Why Functional Medicine and Naturopathic Doctors Do NOT Need to Pull Serotonin Precursors off their Supplement Shelves for Mood Disorders.   Introduction: Should We Consider Serotonin When Dealing with Depression? It’s become obvious that we can’t treat depression solely based on serotonin levels. Yet, does that mean we shouldn’t consider it all? [...]

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Lack of Antidepressants and Serotonin Deficiencies Aren’t the Only Cause of Depression and Mood Imbalances?! But We Already Knew That!

By | March 9th, 2023|Articles, Digestion & Gut Health, Essential Oils, Integrative Medicine Hints, Latest Articles, Mood & Brain, Naturopathic, Naturopathic Medicine|

Introduction- Much Ado About Bashing Serotonin’s Link to Depression… Recently, a hot debate on the efficacy of antidepressants and the accuracy of the serotonin hypothesis of depression was once again stirred up. With the release of the results from a new analysis of a review of studies, the media’s headlines proclaimed that the [...]

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The Gut-Liver Link and the Dangers of “Leaky Gut”

By | February 23rd, 2023|Articles, Digestion & Gut Health, Essential Oils, Integrative Medicine Hints, Latest Articles, Mood & Brain, Naturopathic, Naturopathic Medicine|

Optimizing Your Microbiome and Liver Health for Better Brain and Hormonal Health: Part I   The Many Wonders of the Microbiome Throughout almost every topic I have written about, especially hormones and brain health, I have weaved in the influence that the tiny bugs that inhabit our bodies, specifically the ones taking residence [...]

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Calming Down Cortisol: Taming the Stress-Hormone Attack on Our Sleep-Wake Cycle with Naturopathic and Functional Medicine: Part I

By | January 27th, 2023|Articles, Essential Oils, Integrative Medicine Hints, Latest Articles, Mood & Brain, Naturopathic, Naturopathic Medicine|

The Stress-Cortisol-Melatonin-Hormonal Relationship Without hormonal balance, our bodies and brains can suffer. This is because our hormones regulate almost all bodily processes. Though potent, they can be easily triggered by various aspects. Furthermore, when one hormone becomes imbalanced, all the others do too! In a previous post, I provided some natural tips to [...]

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How Stress Causes Your Symphony of Hormones to Go Out of Tune, Essential Oils for Cooling Down Cortisol, & What’s Progesterone Got to Do With…. Everything?

By | January 6th, 2023|Articles, Essential Oils, Integrative Medicine Hints, Latest Articles, Mood & Brain, Naturopathic, Naturopathic Medicine|

Intro: Your Symphony of Hormones Estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone are likely the three main amigos that come to most people’s mind when thinking of hormones. Although they are first chairs in reproductive health, they have many other vital functions in both sexes. Furthermore, they are just part of a symphony of many underappreciated [...]

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Merging Science and Mind-Body-Soul Medicine: Honoring the Spirituality of the Season with Ancient Healing Traditions and Essential Oils: Part I

By | December 16th, 2022|Articles, Essential Oils, Integrative Medicine Hints, Latest Articles, Mood & Brain, Naturopathic, Naturopathic Medicine|

Diffusing Good Cheer to Calm the Holiday Hustle and Bustle The world continues to move at a fast pace and its people are hustling and bustling preparing for their upcoming holiday celebrations. As they manage everyday hassles, do their best to cope with global events, and seek to find time for all the [...]

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