Patients will often come in with a list of symptoms that may include: belching, nausea, heart burn, racing heart, irregular heart beats and/or changes in blood pressure. It is easy to see that some of…

Understanding how your body responds to invading organisms can be a huge advantage in eradicating a viral infection and even in preventing a more serious illness that may follow. The typical response…

During my training in Naturopathic College, I was required to learn pharmacology. Always in the background of our training was the thought that nutrition and mental/emotional state played a large role…

January and February often feel like the longest months of the year. We are in full winter; the days are short, the nights are long and if the cold of outdoors isn’t drying our skin, then the dry air…

Stress is a major cause of disease. As a result of stress, hormones are released into the blood stream that shut down the normal physiological processes of healing and immunity. Cortisol is the main…

Menopause: that time in a woman’s life when she no longer needs to worry about her menstrual cycle. The life of freedom and release from the monthly hormonal shifts that cause extreme moodiness…

H1N1: The topic of much conversation, conjecture and fear. Over the past several months this virus has been highlighted on the news as something that can attack you at any time, any place and is…

Ahh, the Chinese are wise people indeed. They developed a form of medicine thousands of years ago based on observation and experiences within their environment. Their system of medicine is based on…

Osteoporosis and osteopaenia are defined as a decrease in bone density with osteopaenia being the early stage of osteoporosis. Conventional treatment addresses these conditions with drugs to drive…