This was one of the more popular posts from two years ago (I’m not really sure why…ha! ha!) so I’m posting it again this summer while I’m off on vacation. Enjoy! So often I will have people ask me, or more often ask people who know me, “ does Dr. Durkin (Michelle) ever eat meat…have […]
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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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You want to eat healthy but you don’t have time. Sound familiar? While it may be true that your time feels limited, you actually have the same number of hours in the day as everyone else. It’s just super easy for the busyness of life to get in the way of eating your best. When you
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It’s been a while since I have run my hormone detox program so I am excited to have it back on the schedule this spring and have some new recipes for participants to try! Did you know that cruciferous veggies are necessary to detoxify environmental estrogens called xenoestrogens? That is why I am including them
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When I was growing up we always said grace before every meal. It was a tradition that was part of the religion I grew up with. Now taking a picture of your meal seems to have become the norm. But should you stop saying grace just because you put it in the category of religious
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We are living in interesting times. If the pandemic this year has taught us anything, it is that what was “normal” is no longer sustainable. When we step back and look at the big picture we can see this manifesting in so many different areas. Where we have cut corners for what is fast, fun,
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Just because technology makes our lives easier it doesn’t mean that it makes our lives less stressful. In fact, it can be quite the opposite. Can you relate? We are digitally connected to work and each other like we have never been before. Technology has created the expectation that we should be responded to immediately
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Do you every wonder why you do really well with healthy food choices for a specific period of time, only to slide back into old patterns? Consider this – Survival trumps good intentions. Every. single. time. It all has to do with human behaviour and our limbic, or reptile brain. And any stress in our
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Do you know what the three biggest complaints I hear from patients? Fatigue Weight gain AND Hormone imbalance Did you also know that you can prevent all of these by making sure that you are eating this one food group at breakfast? In fact, all of these symptoms are preventing by having proper blood sugar
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