Oil Pulling and Detoxing Treatment: Why do it? Oil pulling is an ancient Ayurvedic remedy that is practiced to cleanse and detoxify the body via the mouth and blood stream. It is said to alleviate symptoms from a wide variety of ailments, including: allergies, arterial diseases, arthritis, asthma, bad breath, bronchitis, cancers (various), chronic infections, constipation,…
Month: October 2015
The health of your gut (micro-biome) as it relates to your brain and emotional health
What naturopaths have known for years is now making its way into mainstream medicine. What you eat does actually matter in relation to your health, but more specifically the significant impact on the health of your gastrointestinal and cognitive (brain) systems. As the prevalence of cognitive disorders ranging from depression to anxiety to dementia to…
If your child is sick, you need to treat yourself as well
Often when I see a child in my clinic, they are dealing with health concerns that are directly related to lifestyle (nutrition and stress). As we all know, having a child change their diet can amount to the energy that is needed to move a mountain. The same is true when I assess the impact…