Last week, we explored the importance of physical connection and intimacy in relationships. Libido and sex drive are influenced by a variety of interacting factors that are biological, emotional, and psychological. Focusing solely on addressing one aspect, such as hormones or physiological responses, is often just treating one symptom in a complex condition. It...
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Libido: The Healthy Relationship-Intimacy-Lifestyle-Essential Oil Connection for Spring Fever
In my series of posts for American Heart Month, we’ve explored that taking care of the physical heart is important, but just one aspect of optimizing our cardiovascular system’s functioning. It is now known that the heart-brain connection and the state of coherence, the synchronization of our physical, mental and emotional systems, has...
The Macrocosm of the 2018 Winter Olympics Meets the Microcosm of the Universal Coherence in Our Hearts
Applying What We Learned About the Heart-Brain to Be Champions in Healing and Wholeness The closing ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics brought with it a final demonstration that with a focus and commitment to a higher cause and a shared goal, anything is possible. Just as athletes continued to break “impossible” records and awed the...
Blood Type, Genetics, and Heart Risk- Balancing Our Genes with Our Epigenetics
In honor of American Heart Month, my February articles are focusing on a broader perspective of cardiovascular health and disease prevention. In the first two posts, I have brought you on a journey that broadens our previously accepted “truths,” and into the mysteries of this central organ and its associated pathways. First, I...
Could Isolation or Toxic Relationships Be Harming Your Heart and Health?
The Healing Power of Connection and the Dangers of Loneliness Part I: The Power of Healthy Social Connection for Healing You’ve “cleansed” your body of toxins, individualized your supplement protocol, overcome orthorexia tendencies, fully nourished your body, and hacked your sleep. Yet, you still feel lousy. Could it be that the person you’re eating...
The Heart’s Mysteries Explored and Why It May Be More Than a Pump: Integrative Medicine for Heart Health- Epigenetics, Essential Oils, and Beyond
Part I: The Psychophysiology and Neurocardiology of the Heart: The Research of HeartMath Institute Federally designated by President Lyndon B. Johnson (via Proclamation 3566) on December 30, 1963, the Congress, by joint resolution on that date, has since requested the President to proclaim February as American Heart Month. In correspondence with this, and...
Using Lifestyle, Nutrition, Integrative Medicine, Mind-Body Practices, and Essential Oils to Create Optimal Health through Epigenetics: Part I
The Empowering Study of Epigenetics Epigenetics is a relatively new area of study which is producing an explosion of evidence on how we can influence and alter our cellular functions at the DNA level, through our everyday choices. Although we can’t change our genes, we can alter how they express themselves. There...
The Multi-Factorial Epigenetic Effects of Essential Oils for Supporting Immunity, Cellular Vitality, and Aging
Last week, I discussed how essential oils are able to act as environmental influencers to alter our cellular functions at the DNA level. This is known as epigenetics. Many people who are savvy health blog followers have heard of this term, but may be confused by what it is. According to the National Institutes...
The Reasons for Inconsistent and Confusing Conclusions in Studies Assessing Nutrients and Supplements
Listen to this blog in less than 10 minutes here (bottom of blog). Why Your Body Needs Nutrients: A Review Last week I discussed the vital role of nutrients for optimal functioning in the body. Due to our modern, stressful lifestyle, many people are deficient in a variety of vitamins and minerals that...
When Diet is Not Enough: Is It Important to Optimize Nutrients for Health… Using Supplements?
Listen to this blog in less than 6 minutes here. Nutrients in Health and Disease Any doctor is aware that practicing good medicine does not consist of giving people a drug, supplement, or anything for that matter, haphazardly without analyzing the need for it. Most pharmaceuticals are designed to manipulate a...