What is The Whole Health Cairn? The Whole Health Cairn is a model developed by Dr. Lissa Rankin to help us honor and assess all the key components to wellness. It also helps to reinforce that the body is typically, actually a mirror of the strength and balance (or lack
How to Take Supplements Sometimes it can be hard to get pills or capsules to go down! You might find the following tips helpful: Relax first. Take a deep breath, and relax the muscles in your head, neck, and throat. Take 1 pill at a time. Try putting water in
Vitamin D The Happy Supplement Why is Vitamin D the happy supplement? We are meant to be happy and enjoy sunshine. Sunshine is where we get our vitamin D. Just 10 minutes in the sun can give us about 10,000 IUs of the happy supplement. And after a nice exposure
The longest cranial nerve of our parasympathetic nervous system, the vagus nerve (VN), branches off into two, and traverses its way throughout our body. It innervates major organs, glands, and blood vessels, and controls a few skeletal functions, such as the muscles of our face, digestive tract, inner ear, and
For Health and Wellness Avoid Toxins In our modern world, we are unfortunately surrounded by hazardous substances that can have negative health effects, even in tiny doses. Chemicals eaten in foods or drinks, applied to your skin or inhaled from the air are indeed absorbed into your systemic body, and
Being Healthy is Managing Stress Being healthy is more than just eating well and exercising regularly. Being healthy includes managing stress. The human body is well designed to weather stress. Just not on a constant basis. The human nervous system has two primary modes: Sympathetic (SNS) and parasympathetic (PNS). The
Stomach Acid is Good For You – But is Often Impaired! Normally, a healthy stomach creates a helpful and necessary, strongly acidic environment with a pH of between 1.0 and 2.5. However, there are many modern lifestyle dynamics that can lead to lowered production of stomach acid. In particular, sustained
health benefits of good sleep We all know it: high-quality sleep is vital for both healing and sustained wellness. While the body appears from the outside to be still and inactive, sleep is a time when the body is quite busy. During the night, we restock hormones, process toxins, repair
It’s easy to have goals. It’s typically much harder to actually achieve them. When setting goals, we want to ensure that we are setting ourselves up for success at the same time. This is where S.M.A.R.T. goals can come in. S – Specific – What are you trying to achieve?
Much like the Rosetta Stone helped decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, this guide will help you translate the nutrition label into everyday English with information relevant to your health. Since serving size may not reflect portion, calculate what you’re actually eating Using the example of 2 full cracker sheets = 1
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