Michelle's Health Blog Archives:
Here you will find all of my blog posts by the date they were posted.
Natural Treatments for MRSA and Staph
Entering an environment such as a hospital today is no longer the safe haven it once was. While visiting medical clinics or during a hospital stay, patients now struggle to stay healthy while being treated for an entirely different disorder. The bacterium strain Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus (MRSA) is responsible for the rise of many difficult to treat infections in humans. A new reality in this area has curbed our use of antibiotics. Research has found that different strains of bacteria such as MRSA can actually survive by eating antibiotics “alone”.
Category: Health Tips
Drug Free Ways to Aid Depression
Mood disorders for all ages are bordering on epidemic proportions throughout the world. Our modern lifestyle has changed our inherent balance primarily through technology. We no longer rest when the sun goes down or eat food that is whole and void of chemicals. Everywhere we look today, people are living at a high speed pace with little thought of their internal environment until they crash. Most people run to their doctor demanding a quick fix. Drugs are no panacea. Almost a third of patients do not respond to antidepressants and the ones that do, find the drugs less effective over time coupled by unpleasant side effects. A collective accumulation of internal and external developments leads to a depressed state. It makes more sense to find natural, non drug ways to correct the imbalance of neurotransmitters like serotonin and other key elements involved with depression.
Category: Restoring Health
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Super Immunity Properties in Foods
The immune system is our hero, equipped with a series of defensive mechanisms which provides us with constant surveillance against invaders. Its primary function is to protect the body from bacteria, viruses, infection and the subsequent development of illness and disease. Our immune system and other related systems of the body become depressed through nutrient deficiencies.
Category: Health Tips
Healthy Energy Drinks
A new trend is fast tracking in the world of energy drinks. An outcry of public concern has prompted proactive companies to develop naturally healthy energy drinks, chemically free and nutritionally supportive while promoting sustained energy for increased stamina and reduced fatigue.
Category: Nutrition
Natural Athletic Performance Enhancers
Whether you are an Olympic contestant or a weekend warrior, athletes continually seek out any advantage to enhance their competitive performance. The list of sports performance enhancers is long and ever growing in the hope of gaining an edge over another competitor. Any advancement may make the difference in the outcome of a competition. The aim of natural athletic performance enhancers is to energize an athlete before and during a workout, increase muscular endurance and mental focus, while instilling calmness of the mind for better reflexes and timing. The following suggestions are categorized as ergogenic aids, which simply means, any substance that improves an athlete’s strength, speed or endurance.
Category: Holistic Health
Raw Food is Natures Way to Better Health and a Longer Life
Culturally as human beings our evolution of food and its preparation is alarmingly opposed to our genetic makeup. Our inherent nature is to be predominately alkaline. We achieve this by eating a diet in accordance to our body’s natural law which includes 80% fruits and vegetables, and of that percentage, 70% should be raw. The quality and longevity of our life depends on meeting our body’s nutritional needs on a regular basis.
Category: Holistic Health
Resveratrol and Plant Sterols: Nutritional Precaution for Heart Health
To ensure optimal nutrition, many people today are supplementing for general health as a nutritional precaution; another way to provide health insurance. To establish assurance that the body is well stocked with vital nutrition, daily supplementation has become just as important as eating right.
Category: Nutrition
Lack of Vitamin D and Sunshine Pose a Hazard to Our Health
As human beings, it is our natural instinct to be on a quest for better health and a longer life. Everyday research is showing us more and more benefits from consuming vitamins, minerals and other phytochemicals. In growing numbers, a mind set of treatment mentality is shifting to one of being proactive in preventing illness before it occurs.
Category: Nutrition
Top Foods (Acai Berry) for Anti-Aging
Anti-aging is a hot topic today. Why are some people 10 to 15 years younger looking than their chronicle (real) age, while others appear well beyond their years? Viewing ourselves in the mirror is only a small portion of what is really happening within our bodies.
Category: Holistic Health
Flavonoids Benefit Oxidative Stress and Inflammation Associated with Autism
Autism has increased tenfold in the last fifteen years. Without question there is a reason for such an escalation to occur. Despite many years of assuming that autism is primarily an untreatable brain disorder, today many children are being helped to get better by treating biological imbalances and the potential culprits rather than treating the resulting behaviour.
Category: Restoring Health
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Acai Berry Provides Protection Against Breast Cancer
The Acai berry (pronounced ah-sah-ee) appears to be the crown jewel among fruits and vegetables. This prized commodity is native to the rainforests of Brazil and the Amazon basin. Its claim to fame is primarily due to its extremely high ORAC score (oxygen radical absorption capacity), which measures the antioxidant capacity of a food. (Acai’s ORAC value is more than 6,000). Also, impressive by anyone’s standards are the copious amounts of phytonutrients found in the Acai fruit, keeping scientists busy identifying and cataloguing the numerous new compounds being discovered.
Category: Nutrition
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Fight Chronic Illness and Aging with Proteolytic Enzymes: Natural Medicines Modern Miracle
Proteolytic enzymes are showing to be today’s modern miracle. Enzymes sustain life and can improve your quality of life. Your body contains approximately 5000 different enzymes, yet one cannot duplicate the function for another. As we age proteolytic enzymes decrease in our body. In fact, three days after the last drop of this enzyme is produced by our body, we are dead. Taken in supplement form, proteolytic enzymes have powerful applications to many health problems.
Category: Women's Issues
Prevent and Treat Diabetes; Type I & II: a Holistic Doctor’s Secrets
Today, we have an arsenal of natural fighting tools, designed for prevention and treatment of diabetes whereby reducing or eliminating ones dependency on medication.
Category: Restoring Health
Restore and Maintain a Healthy Immune System
All aspects of our lives impact the immune system. Raising the integrity of this system will ensure the future health of those already well, lessen the frequency of infections, speed up recovery time from illness and improve chronic disease.
Category: Holistic Health
Improve Your Memory and Mental Acuity
Forgetting an occasional name or a birthday is a natural occurrence at any age. But it is not natural to experience memory lapses, become disoriented or confused with such frequency that it affects ones quality of life. Weakening cognitive abilities had been looked upon as a characteristic associated with advancing years.
Category: Holistic Health
Weight Loss Wonders: Hints to Keep New Years Resolutions
Enthusiastically, we embark on a new year filled with grandiose ideas of throwing out the old and bringing in the new. Many times dietary efforts are hampered by unrealistic expectations. Typically, changing all bad habits overnight is overwhelming, leaving one frustrated and discouraged. Moderation is the key.
Category: Weight Loss
The Perfect Antioxidant to Enhance Your Immune System
All aspects of our lives impact the immune system. This brilliantly orchestrated system eliminates and fights off attack from many different invaders throughout the body. Raising the integrity of this system will ensure the future health of those already well, lessen the frequency of infections, speed up recovery time from illness and improve chronic disease.
Category: Holistic Health
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Liver Toxicity: The Effects, How to Prevent and How to Repair
Each day we expose our liver to thousands of toxic chemicals. In the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink and from our homes and workplaces. A healthy, well functioning liver with adequate antioxidant capacity is our body’s best defense and essentially determines whether or not a foreign substance has a toxic effect. Free radial formation is associated with degenerative disease and aging. Antioxidants kill free radials. Glutathione is our livers main antioxidant.
Category: Restoring Health
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Effectively Manage Your Stress: a Holistic Doctor's Approach
Stress occurs at all levels of life. It was traditionally implied that health was merely the absence of disease. The medical community has finally acknowledged that stress is not just in the mind, but in the body and can actually be measured. Controlling stress in your life is the most important measure in optimizing your health. Stress is an individual experience. How well we adapt, largely depends upon the health of our adrenal glands, the main component in surviving long periods of stress. Nutrient deficiencies can lead to physical and physiological stress while inversely, stress can deplete nutrients.
Category: Health Tips
Reverse the Aging Process with Live Foods
As hard as we try, we cannot improve on the foods nature provides. Vital nourishment is lost through the process of preserving, pickling, stewing and changing food’s natural state. Devitalized foods cannot build good blood, strong bodies or help us to maintain a youthful appearance. Disease can develop from the lack of nutrition in lifeless foods.
Category: Nutrition
Weight Loss 101: Research Supported Natural Approaches
Over the past two decades, rates of overweight and obesity have more than doubled for Canadian adults and nearly tripled among Canadian children. Similar trends are occurring worldwide. Medical complications associated with obesity are steadily rising. Obesity is related to major preventable chronic diseases, including heart disease, high blood pressure, gallstones, type 2 diabetes, stroke and some cancers. Improve your chances of maintaining a healthy weight with a weight loss program that includes researched dietary approaches, herbs and supplements.
Category: Weight Loss
Herbal Tonics: the Gentle Healers - Effective Ways to Help Yourself
The natural balance of plants has served humans for thousands of years not only as a food source but as a medicinal one. Mans evolution has developed a synergistic compatibility with the biochemistry of plants. Since ancient times, plants have been used as medicine but have been studied more extensively in recent years. As with other traditional and complementary therapies, herbal medicine endeavors to resolve the underlying imbalance and disharmony of the whole person. The availability of plants active constituents to the human body, when taken properly, stimulates our inherent ability to apply the healing energy needed to return the body to homeostasis. Balance and harmony are key components in the gentle healing quality of herbal tonics.
Category: Restoring Health
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Healthy and Natural Tips for New Moms: Keeping Your Baby Safe
New moms experience all kinds of changes during and following pregnancy. Prenatal nutrition and lifestyle are paramount while the body is adapting to accommodate this new life. Researchers have shown that the diet can have a profound effect during pregnancy on the child’s future mental and physical state of health.
Category: Health Tips
Osteoporosis For Natural Health Care Dummies
Osteoporosis is a loss of calcium from the bones, due to lack of calcium in the blood stream and in the diet. Calcium becomes more difficult to assimilate with age, especially when the flow of hydrochloric acid (HLC) is reduced in most cases.
Category: Women's Issues
Acid Reflux and Heartburn: Natural and Simple Solutions
A fairly common symptom of gastro-esophageal (acid) reflux disease is experienced as a burning sensation behind the breastbone. Irritated esophageal tissues need time to heal. This is achieved essentially in three approaches. 1. By reducing gastric acidity, any stomach reflux that reaches the esophagus will be less irritating to the tissues. 2. Maintain a high degree of pressure in the area of the esophageal sphincter in order to avoid acid reflux from the stomach. 3. Minimize direct irritation by food making contact with the inflamed esophagus.
Category: Restoring Health
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The Facts of Fat: Lower Cholesterol Naturally
Can you lower your cholesterol naturally? Emphatically yes! Cholesterol, with all its hype, is the most misunderstood fat. Our bodies must have cholesterol to produce hormones, bile acids and vitamin D – plus it is an essential part of our brain and cell membranes. The majority of cholesterol is manufactured by our own bodies, acting as a protector to remove plaques from the arteries.
Category: Restoring Health
Effectively Resolve Chronic Yeast Bladder and Urinary Tract Infections
Candidiasis is considered to be a twentieth century disease. Yeast infections most frequently strike women, prompted by a yeast type fungus Candida that normally populates the intestinal tract. A weakened immune system, certain medications, allergies, hormonal changes, high sugar intake and a poor diet are usually the main causes.
Category: Women's Issues
Safe and Natural Alternatives to Pain Medications
Pain affects more North Americans than any other disorder. Natural healing therapies relieve pain by calming the nerves and increase circulation to promote healing without suppressing the condition. Natural therapies include the use of enzymes, amino acids, minerals and COX-2 inhibiting herbs. Many herbs today are being reported to possess COX-2 inhibiting properties which have long since been recognized by ancient medical traditions.
Category: Holistic Health
Nutritional Needs of Aging
People, who receive adequate nutrition, live longer healthier lives with enhanced youthful vitality. Common health concerns associated with aging are reinforced through a poor diet. Our nutritional needs change as we grow older. Even though we may feel younger than we are, our nutrient requirement is not the same as when we were twenty five. With age, nutrient absorption becomes more difficult.
Category: Nutrition
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Nutritional Keys to Healthier Happier Families
Although genetic disposition may play a role in determining disease, good health is not simply the absence of disease but complete physical and mental well being. Living healthy involves key essential components, earmarked to an individual’s lifestyle. Rebuilding your life today for tomorrow is your best defense against ill health. The way in which we live taking into account factors such as diet, exercise, stress levels, sleep and emotional outlook will either prevent or cause an illness.
Category: Nutrition
Improve Your Memory and Mental Acuity
Forgetting an occasional name or a birthday is a natural occurrence at any age. But it is not natural to experience memory lapses, become disoriented or confused with such frequency that it affects ones quality of life. Weakening cognitive abilities had been looked upon as a characteristic associated with advancing years.
Category: Restoring Health
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