The problem Have you ever admired a trait in someone else and wished that you had it? Have you ever wanted to grow your capacity in life and character but felt stuck in your old ways? There is good news! Neuroscience is proving that you can build new traits in life by changing your brain. [...]
Homeopathy is a safe treatment that can be used at home for a variety of conditions. Homeopathy uses very dilute but energized remedies derived from plants, minerals, and animals. You will know when you have got the right remedy because it works very quickly and dramatically. While homeopathy is often the center of media scrutiny, [...]
Naturopathic Medicine is often focused on trying to find the root cause of disease and advocates for a healthy lifestyle, eating right, exercising, managing stress, and sleeping right. However, the longer I practice, I observe that for some people they must do EVERYTHING properly to feel healthy, while other people stay healthy while paying very [...]
Sugar, as we're learning, is a major culprit in health issues and afflictions. Even if we consciously make the decision to avoid it, it seems to be hidden in many of the products we purchase and consume. The benefits of 'quitting sugar' are ample, and many find that after quitting sugar they no longer crave [...]
The paleo diet isn't really a diet at all - it simply means sticking to naturally occurring plants and proteins, like humans did before the advent of agriculture. This means eating foods like fish, meat, greens, regional plants, seeds, shoots, and nuts. In essence: leaving out anything that is processed, and the tons of grains [...]
If you're an occasional beer drinker it is likely that you've purchased domestic or big-name beers like Coors Light, Corona, Guinness, Newcastle Brown Ale, Budweiser, and more. Unfortunately, what these companies fail to disclose is that these beers can be full of GMO corn and corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, propylene glycol, insect-based dyes, [...]
In local blog 'Twenty1 Days' Vancouver blogger Ania Bureacenco incorporates so-called "super foods" into her diet for twenty-one days. The result? A plethora of interesting and delicious recipes, as well as information she comes upon during the journey. Ania's blog is an inspiration in that it shows us anyone can take the time to educate [...]
New research is catching up to what many naturopathic doctors have been saying for years: that leaky gut syndrome is real. Despite gastroenterologists, rheumatologists, and enternologists refusal to accept it as a condition, for years researchers have known that it exists. In the 1980s researchers determined that "by allowing ... infectious or toxic substances to [...]
Eating meat in our modern world has become a complicated matter. Meat can be full of antibiotics, hormones, other animal byproducts, disease, feces - the list goes on. One way to try and avoid these additives is to buy organic, local, free-range, and hormone-free. This can be tricky as these labels are confusing and sometimes [...]
Tea and herbal tea can be a great alternative to coffee. However, a recent CBC Marketplace investigation uncovered that half of teas tested for pesticides had over the allowable limits. Brands like Lipton, Tetley, Red Rose, and Twinings (amongst others) showed positive for pesticides like acetamaprid, chlorpyrifos, dicofol, and countless more. "This is very worrisome [...]
