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A Happy, Healthy Holiday Season Part 2: Remember what you want

In part one of this blog, I explained how overindulgence in holiday fare can really sabotage the season’s merry and offered suggestions to help you accomplish your health goals, despite the ulterior motives of fruitcakes and gingerbread men. Here I … Continue reading

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A Happy, Healthy Holiday Season Part 1: Don’t bite off more than you can chew

Overeating and over-consumption of refined, sugary, fatty, or caffeinated foods and alcohol (all plentiful this time of year) can wreak all sorts of havoc on your body, like: Promoting inflammation Causing weight gain Impairing mood and concentration Lowering energy levels … Continue reading

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Stress and Leaky Gut: Implications and solutions

Stress has many negative effects on gastrointestinal function, including increased intestinal permeability—otherwise known as “leaky gut.” When a person experiences stress, the brain releases a chemical called corticotrophin releasing factor (CRF). CRF triggers a cascade of other chemicals which eventually … Continue reading

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School Yourself on Back to School Stress

It’s back to school time, and the hope of free time springs eternal in parents’ souls. Then, splat! oatmeal lands on the Cocker Spaniel’s head, bringing buckets of laughter from your 5 year old and tear-filled yelps from your toddler. … Continue reading

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Travel Stress Affects Those Staying Behind

It’s easy to appreciate how stressful traveling can be on the traveler: long drives in rental cars, racing to make flight connections, foraging for something healthier than a miniature bag of pretzels for sustenance and overcoming the ennui of jet … Continue reading

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De-stressing your vacation part 2: Avoiding travel related illness

De-stressing your vacation part 2: Avoiding travel related illness You’ve been planning your vacation for months. Finally, you step onto the sand, gaze across the waves and breathe in the fresh salty air—then erupt in a coughing fit. Travel can … Continue reading

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Adrenal Fatigue and Lifestyle: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Separating the Good from the Bad and the Ugly It is important to be able to distinguish which things in your life are contributing to your health and which things are detracting from it. A good first step in helping … Continue reading

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How Dr. Wilson’s Supplement Quartet Helps Support Adrenal Fatigue and Stress

The adrenal glands must respond to every stress by producing hormones that enable the body to react to the stressor and maintain homeostasis. Hormones released by the adrenal glands affect every cell and system in the body. Healthy adrenals and … Continue reading

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Effects of hysterectomy on adrenal glands & Handling stress through rotating shifts and travel

What’s the effect on the adrenal glands when a woman has a total hysterectomy and the ovaries are removed? I am asking specifically about women after menopause. A total hysterectomy is the removal of the entire uterus, as opposed to … Continue reading

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Why Does Adrenal Fatigue Give Me a Racing Feeling?

Q: My cortisol levels are finally normal after several years of being quite low. However, it’s taking my body much longer to regain strength and i still “race” inside all the time. What exactly is going on physiologically when i … Continue reading

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