Pandemic survival tips
This is certainly a year of disruption, which in my mind will lead to an evolution within our culture and businesses. However, first thing we need to do is focus …
How’s your indoor air?
With the hint of spring around the corner, it is time to consider airing out the house.. For me, I like to open a window or two and let in …
To ice or Not to ice…
As a young athlete I was fortunate to not sustain any major injury. However, there was the occasional jammed finger or thumb (basketball, volleyball) or shin splints (lacrosse) which were …
Food shopping and chemicals…
One of the key pieces of information that I learned through my IIN training was to shop carefully and limit the purchase of processed foods. In most cases in order …
Winter Health Support
The shorter, colder days provide us with mental and physical challenges. There is less sun (at least in the mid-Atlantic region) with more grey; less time to comfortably be outdoors; …
Should I or shouldn’t I? – the vitamin dilemna
In 400 BC, Hippocrates, the father of medicine said “let food be thine medicine and let medicine be thine food.” It has been over 2500 years and we still haven’t …
Are you “vampire” worthy? You may not want to be!
Before modern medical science, unexplained diseases such as plagues and epidemics seemed to appear without warning or cause. Because of these frightening illnesses “ (P)eople turned instead to the supernatural. …
Thank you and Happy Birthday, Johnny Appleseed – September 26th
Where does the “apple a day, keeps the doctor away” come from. There were two different sources for this noted in my research. The first was that it was a …
Zzzzzzz ?
How many “zzzz” are you getting each night? I have just finished reading two books –Why We Sleep (Matthew Walker) and The Circadian Code (Satchin Panda, PhD) and am anxious …
Live to Eat or Eat to Live?
Not so long ago, I would have put myself in the “live to eat” category – I love food – all cultures, all sorts of crazy combinations. Then I took …