Many women have a difficult time with menopausal symptoms. Although a traditional approach to treating hot flashing and night sweating with hormone therapies is effective, it has been know for many years that antidepressant medications, known as SSRI’s, have also been found to treat hot flashes and night sweating in many post-menopausal women. How is this possible? Hot flashing is…
The following article is an example of how a new and exciting, state of the art, form of medicine can help address complicated health concerns with elegance and ease! Recently I was at a 4 day conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, with thousands of other MD’s, ND’s, DO’s and PhD’s, entirely dedicated to this new type of medicine. I began…
I feel very privileged every day of my professional life to work with the amazing clients that I see in my office. I truly love what I do and can honestly say that I am blown away by peoples determination. Many people that I work with on a day to day basis are defeating all odds, working towards reversing “incurable”…
Back in the University of Victoria I studied both psychology and biochemistry. One concept that is discussed in psychology is the impact of “automatic negative thinking” or ANTS on the psychological well being of people. Everybody has them! Its that self-nagging that you get when you feel that you have done something wrong or forgot to do something. I commonly…
Juicing has got to be a vegans best friend but the problem is that most juice contains a lot of sugar! In fact, I am quickly finding out that vegan cooking is quite high in grains and starches which are also forms of readily digestible sugars. The key to my success in this vegan experiment will in part be to…
Last year I spent the first 3 months of 2012 on a strict Paleo Diet. I ate a lot of grass or vegetable feed organic meat! Over the course of the year I had a lot of clients also try the paleo diet with some pretty amazing results. The key to this lifestyle strategy is quite simple … reduce all…