Every year at New Year’s I review my year and take time to celebrate the “little things”. Many of you have read my Jar of Awesome from previous years but for those of you who haven’t, here’s a little background. The jar of awesome is a simple task that I first heard about listening to […]
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Antibiotics may be the biggest reason for why our microbiome becomes unhealthy and yet they may also be necessary to treat an infection. So what is a patient to do? Here are 5 tips to keep your microbiome healthy when prescribed an antibiotic: 1. Take a probiotic during the entire course of your antibiotics + up
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The way I evaluate blood work is not going to be the same as a medical doctor. So many times I have had a patient tell me their blood work is “normal” and yet when I look at it, that is not actually the case. That is because the lens through which I look at
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Talk about a surreal experience. One minute I’m riding my bike home for lunch. The next minute I’m in the ambulance with a C-collar on going to the hospital. Luckily, I am here to tell the tale. And since I’m a writer at heart I had to put down on paper what I learned from
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It is estimated that about 1 in 8 Canadian women will develop breast cancer during their lifetime and 1 in 33 will die from it, according to the Canadian Cancer Society. Unfortunately year after year I am also seeing women younger and younger being diagnosed. So prevention strategies are becoming more and more important. This is an
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With the pandemic over the last year I was forced to pivot on how to continue my group detoxes with people without doing their bioimpedance measurements (weight & body fat) as an objective measurement of results. And I have to say, the pivot has turned out to be better than the original way of doing
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How many of you can say kohlrabi? It wasn’t a vegetable I was familiar with until I started getting my veggie box from Fiddlehead Farms. I remember looking at it thinking that it kinda looked a bit like an alien. And, what the heck was I going to make with it. Turns out as long
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When you become really good at a certain skill it often feels like second nature to you. And it’s easy to forget that not everyone has the same skill set. One of the best pieces of advice I have ever received about making a difference with my readers and my patients is to write about
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What do you think could age you faster? Poor nutrition, lack of exercise, or not enough sleep? If you picked sleep, you would be right. Sleep is such an important building block for our health yet in today’s modern world it is often considered an inconvenience. How often do hear people get praised for “burning
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Every year around New Year’s Day I review my year and take time to celebrate the “little things”. Many of you have read my Jar of Awesome from previous years but for those of you who haven’t here’s a little background. The jar of awesome is a simple task that I first heard about listening
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