Dealing with Addictions During the Holidays and How Essential Oils and Spirituality Can Help One Cope & a Link to November 2018 Holistic and Integrative Medicine Top Reads

By | December 10th, 2018|Essential Oils, Integrative Medicine Hints, Latest Articles, Naturopathic Medicine, Newsletter Postings, Top Reads of the Month|

  Last week, I concluded our discussion on the many powerful benefits of frankincense (Boswellia sp.) and the properties and actions of the four most popular species. My goal was to help you in deciding between which oil brand would best support you and your loved ones during the holiday jitters and daily stressors. The [...]

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Have No Fear…Essential Oils for the Spring Allergy Symptoms Are Here!

By | April 20th, 2018|Essential Oils, Integrative Medicine Hints, Latest Articles, latest news, Naturopathic Medicine|

Breathing Easier this April with Essential Oils: This Weekend’s Oily Tip   This week, I was powerfully swayed off my hormonal rants on the balancing effects of essential oils for endocrine health. Spring has sprung in the Northeast, and the sniffles and sneezes of pollen suffers and hay fever haters is deafening! Achoo! I realized [...]

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April Just Got a Little Less Stale… the Fresh Smelling Scent of Essential Oils to Start the Spring with Less Sniffles

By | April 17th, 2018|Essential Oils, Holistic, Integrative Medicine Hints, Latest Articles, Naturopathic, Naturopathic Medicine|

                  Time to take a little breather from my soap-box series on hormonal balance with essential oils. It hit me in the lungs when I realized that the timely topic of the spring sneezing season should be addressed before this month’s essential oils’ promotions vaporize into thin [...]

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How Essential Oils Can Help Keep Us Healthy in the Times of Super-Scary Super-Buggies

By | November 18th, 2013|Latest Articles, Naturopathic Medicine, Saratoga Blog at Living Well|

I had a Eureka movement within the past few months. The origination of BreakFree Medicine started when I was 21 years old, post-back surgery, and searching for a new career path. This was due to the injury forcing me to withdraw from my nursing program and to head into the wide-eyed world of integrative and [...]

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How to Avoid Toxic Fat and Toxic Beauty

By | November 11th, 2013|Integrative Medicine Hints, Naturopathic Medicine, Newsletter Postings|

We are amidst a chronic disease epidemic. Currently, over a third of our adult population is obese and the number of children with obesity and adult-associated illnesses continues to rise. In other words, our aging population is becoming unhealthier and sickness is starting earlier. Conventional treatment for obesity has been to eat less, exercise more, [...]

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5 Ways Moving Your Bootie Promotes Health and Prevents Disease

By | November 4th, 2013|Naturopathic, Naturopathic Medicine, Newsletter Postings|

The power of exercise for cardiovascular health hit headlines in October. This was due to the British Medical Journal's (BMJ) release of findings on the benefit of exercise in cardiovascular disease (1). After interpreting fifty-seven randomized trials, this meta-analysis set out to determine the effect on mortality of exercise and drugs in the secondary prevention [...]

October 2013 Holistic Health Top Reads

By | October 28th, 2013|Naturopathic, Newsletter Postings, Top Reads of the Month|

The time for our little ones to be spoofed by “spookables” is coming to a close and the day light hours are growing shorter. With the transition into more indoor activities, what better time to settle in and catch up with all the health read emails crowding your inbox?  If you’ve been waiting for an [...]

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The (Scary) Facts on the Emotional, Physical, and Societal Health of America’s Youth

By | October 14th, 2013|Naturopathic|

The Health of Our Children, The Health of Our Country According to the American Heart Association and USA today about 4% to 6% of American youth are obese. They report that the number of overweight and obese children is leveling off;  however, the percentage of severe obesity within the same age range is increasing. What [...]

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Living Cleanly and Safely in a Chemically Polluted World

By | September 17th, 2013|Holistic, Integrative Medicine Hints, Naturopathic Medicine|

By Sarah A LoBisco, ND Ok, here it comes again. One of my favorite topics is back at center stage in this week’s blog. It’s all about toxicity and detoxification, also known as biotransformation of environmental exposures. Approximately a year ago, I discussed how we are serving as human reservoirs for the chemicals that are [...]

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