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...
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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...
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...
New Year Changes- Fulfilling Transformations vs. Fear-Driven Processes
Listen to this blog in less than 5 minutes here. In my previous blog, “Essential Oils for the New Year,” I stated that creating changes in health that have long-term success are multi-factorial. It is now becoming well-known that most resolutions fail and this futility may be why many people simply don’t make...
There is a Santa Clause, and Love Really is Medicine: Part I
Listen to the whole blog in 6 minutes here. Today is one of the most celebrated day around the world. According to history.com: Christmas as we know it today is a Victorian invention of the 1860s. Probably the most celebrated holiday in the world, our modern Christmas is a product of hundreds of years...
The Season of the Heart & Heartbreak
Click here to listen to the full blog in 7 minutes. Although I’ve been talking a lot about gratitude, I’ve also been acknowledging that the holidays can be triggering times for many. According to an article in Integrative Practitioner, although many may be of Yuletide cheer, multiple studies have found an increase in...