Holistic Health Blogs
Know Your Supplements: NAC
Today’s blog is about N-acetyl-L-cysteine. That’s a bit of a mouthful, so we just refer to this amino acid as NAC. Now, before getting into the particulars of what NAC is, where it comes from and what it can do for you, here’s the standard disclaimer about...
A Key to the Wellness Reset
16-Hour Intermittent Fasting When most people hear the word “fasting” they tend to think of a religious ritual first, followed by unpleasant gnawing hunger. We’re raised with the expectation of three square meals a day and feel deprived on anything less. We’re even...
What’s in Your Water?
How's Your Water Intake? I’m not asking about the quantity of your water intake, although that’s important too. What I’m really asking is, how is the quality of your water? Did you know that city water can contain up to as many as ninety different contaminants? ...
Day 6 = Sleep
How Are You Sleeping? It may seem like a strange question to ask, but sleep is a vitally important part of your healing journey. While we’re sound asleep, our bodies are hard at work releasing hormones and proteins that rebuild damaged cells, regenerate tissue, and...
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Shower the People You Love … With Love
It's been a tough couple of years. For lots of people, it's been it's own unique kind of emotional upheaval. I guess COVID can do that to people, especially the fearful and unhealthy. All of us, I dare surmise, were caught off-guard (remember putting Amazon® boxes in...
SHAPE DROPS
Proper nutrition isn’t always enough to achieve optimal health. Whether it be due to unknown food sensitivities, poor digestion or metabolic imbalances, many people need additional support in order for their diet to have a healing impact. This is why SHAPE ReClaimed®...
What to Expect From Your SHAPE Program Journey
From the Desk of SHAPE Reclaimed™ ManagementCongratulations! You’ve chosen to begin your SHAPE Program journey to better health. We know you are probably wondering how this program works and what you can expect along the way.Here are six things that can help...
How to Eat Healthy When You Don’t Want To
Here we are ... standing at the door of this year's holiday season. Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's ... food, food, food. Good times. Do you find the more you eat of a certain dish (for example, your favorite holiday dessert), the more you want of it? Maybe the...
Functional Medicine
It is a systems biology-based model that empowers us (as clients and practitioners) to work together to achieve your highest expression of health by addressing the underlying causes of your disease. Functional medicine utilizes a unique operating system and...
How the SHAPE Program Works
The SHAPE Program is a health transformation plan that is customized to meet your goals. To begin, schedule a session with me, your SHAPE practitioner; we’ll have a meaningful conversation about your health challenges and long-term goals. When you are ready to get...
How to Deal With Stress Naturally
Stress is something we all feel although each person’s stress levels will be different due to individual circumstances. Addressing stress without harsh chemicals can help us be more calm and have peace of mind during today's troubled times.Overview Stress impacts...
3 DIY Ingredients for a Natural Insect or Mosquito Repellent
As more research is released about the health hazards of DEET for insect repellent, you might be searching for a DIY insect or mosquito repellent that works best. I have a DIY 3 ingredient natural mosquito repellent using essential oils that works. I use essential...
Lysine: One Powerful Amino
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Why Women Hurt
Growing older isn't necessarily as graceful as we'd like to think. I see people in their 30's and 40's who are broken ... broken down and broken hearted. They feel decades older than their years and modern medicine has no answers for them other than drugs or surgery....
Gout: Better by Tomorrow
Here are a couple of essential oil recipes designed to address gout. If you're new to essential oils, you may want to try Gout Recipe 2 since it has exact measurements. If you're more familiar with them, you may enjoy Gout Recipe 1. You can even use both recipes if...
GABA
GABA, which is short for gamma-aminobutyric acid, is the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter. Its primary role is to calm the brain, slow things down, and relax you. Reduces stress really fast because it crosses the blood-brain barrier and helps to deactivate stress...
L-Tryptophan
L-Tryptophan is an essential(1) amino acid. It is a precursor to the neurotransmitter serotonin, the hormone melatonin, and vitamin B3. Serotonin transmits signals between your nerve cells and also narrows (constricts) blood vessels. Serotonin is sometimes called the...
L-Asparagine
Deficiency Symptoms from the Lack of L-Asparagine include Gall Bladder Dysfunction and Liver Trouble. Learn more …
Why Supplement?
There are times when conventional meds are the right solution for someone. It really depends on that particular person and their comfort level of self-care and their trust in Western medicine. Additionally, there are times when conventional medicine is the absolute...
The Nervous System: Vertebrae, Areas and Effects
Your nervous system coordinates and controls every organ and structure of your body. Slipped disks and other soft tissue issues may cause irritation to the nervous system which can cause pain and could even effect the system resulting in complications as indicated in...
The Nervous System: Your Nerves
Your nervous system controls everything you do, including breathing, walking, thinking, and feeling. The nervous system is made up of your brain, spinal cord, and billions of nerves throughout your body. These nerves are like tiny wires that run through your whole...
The Nervous System: Your Brain
In this class, we'll start at the top ... the brain. Let's take a look at the anatomical structures of the brain and provide a non-inclusive overview of what each structure holds. The forebrain (Diagram a) shows a human brain cut through the middle to show parts of...
The Liver and Gallbladder
The liver is located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity, just below the diaphragm. It is partially surrounded by the ribs and extends from the level of the fifth intercostal space to the lower margin of the ribs. BTW: The pancreas is included in the...
The Intestines
Once food leaves your stomach, it is no longer a solid mass. It is a liquified accumulation of nutrients waiting to be distributed throughout the body. In order for nutrition to be assimilated, it has to go through the intestines. Nutrients are sent to cells to...
The Stomach
The stomach is where protein digestion, through the use of hydrochloric acid (HCL) begins. Did you know ... The stomach is a muscle? The body creates HCL so it can accommodate digestion of protein? 40 seems to be the average age when the body begins decreasing...
The Mouth
The mouth is a truly amazing space that serves a very unique set of functions: It is a receptacle for receiving solids and liquids It is our mechanism for mastification (chewing) of the foods we consume It is the place where saliva and digestive materials are mixed...
Why Our Food Harms Us
What is “processed food“? Let’s get a quick look at some of the negatives associated with processed foods because the dangers in eating processed foods abound: Processed food makes you fat Processed food makes you sick Processed food causes your cells to begin to...
The Digestive System
You may be wondering why it’s important to obtain a good overview of Body Systems. The answer is pretty simple: Knowing how the body works (e.g.: physiology) and how nutrition works with the physiology of the body can be the key we need to unravel the mysteries of why...
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