How many people really set new year’s resolutions? More importantly, how many people really carry out, live up to or reach their new year’s resolutions? To set a resolution or goal to lose 10 pounds or to go to the gym and exercise 4 to…
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Through relationship with our closest friends and family we develop trust and understanding. To a shaman or energy healer their relationship with spirit or the divine is no different. Let’s start with the poem below that focuses on relationship. While reading it, notice who or…
The HeartMath Institute or HeartMath, Inc. is an organization that has existed for many years. Their technology can be used to relieve stress and improve health and performance. Training on the HeartMath technology is very simple and a person can be taught how to use…
Many people awake in the morning to an alarm clock, jump in the shower, slug down some coffee and grain-filled breakfast, rush to a bus or train, or jump in the car to sit in traffic to get to a job. We then work all…
Put a DENT in your Stress through Detox Cortisol is a steroid hormone, in the glucocorticoid class of hormones, and is produced in humans by the zona fasciculata of the adrenal cortex within the adrenal gland. It is released in response to stress and low blood-glucose concentration. It functions to increase blood sugar through gluconeogenesis, to suppress the immune system, and…
For most of us who are over stressed on a daily basis, we must realize that quality nutrition is imperative to maintain our health and help our metabolism and biochemistry function optimally. The hormone cortisol increases with stress and steals from numerous other hormones and…
Exercise and physical activity, similar to food provides information to your body. The information given to your body through exercise or physical activity can be health promoting or health depleting. It can help decrease your stress and balance your hormones; or, it can increase your…
The top Dietary foods that can put a DENT in your Stress In the Diet portion of my DENT program I teach people how to optimize their Diet to put a DENT through Diet, Detox, Exercise, Nutrition and Treatment in different chronic conditions. This blog…
Everyone experiences stress, it is impossible to avoid it. There are numerous types of stress, such as physical stress from contact sports, vigorous exercise or accidents. There is also chemical stress that we have no immediate control over from things like noise, water and air…
Our Mutual Relationship with Bugs: The third step in the functional medicine approach to a healthy gut is to re-inoculate with beneficial bacteria. Humans live in a symbiotic or mutually beneficial relationship with bacteria. The human colon is populated with as much as two pounds…