Previously, I explored how one’s belief can shift health in a positive or negative direction. The expectation that one holds about an intervention being harmful (the nocebo effect) or healing (the placebo effect) changes one’s physiology and impacts health outcomes. Researchers have struggled for years to outcompete the power of the mind in their...
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How Your Mind Can Be Medicine: The Power of Placebo
Did you know that what you believe has a powerful influence on your health outcomes? Spiritual masters have been touting throughout the ages how beliefs have the ability to heal. Researchers have observed and controlled for this “placebo effect” in their experiments since evidence-based medicine was initiated. What both spiritualists and scientists have accepted...
How Naturopathic Medicine and Personalized Care Can Become a Global Health Movement
Modern medicine excels in treating acute traumas, managing chronic pathologies, and handling emergency situations. Unfortunately, these same modalities are being used for long-term treatment options. In both the physical and mental health arenas, the results have been dismal. American’s healthcare system is one of the worst among developed countries and the most expensive. Long-term...
Are You Ready for a Change in Healthcare with Naturopathic Medicine?
If you’ve been following my posts on the broken, ineffective, expensive healthcare system that is the prevalent form of disease-management, you are probably realizing that sick care cannot provide you with the solutions you desire to achieve the wellness and resiliency you crave. Furthermore, you might have concluded that America’s undertreated mental health issues...
Mind-Body Holistic Health Transformation with Naturopathic Medicine (Part II)
Is attaining health as simple as managing disease? Are your emotions and moods just a neurochemical imbalance? If you believe that health is more than just the absence of symptoms… then there’s more to the story. Last week, I explained that the American medical system is costing lots of money with a return of...
Are You Happy with Your Sick Care?
Why Naturopathic Medicine is Needed for Optimizing Your Health
If you ever made a visit to the emergency room, you have probably felt gratitude, after the terror, that modern medicine and its diagnostics, technologies, and modalities were accessible during your time of trauma. At the same time, you may be feeling discouraged by the pitfalls in conventional medical care including the high cost...
My Top Essential Oils for Attention, Mood, and Brain Vitality
You don’t have to feel exhausted and in a brain fog all the time. There are natural solutions. Throughout the past few weeks, I’ve been reviewing how mindset, lifestyle, and biological factors impact drive, focus, and mental resiliency. In my previous post, I reviewed six of my favorite herbs as a means to enhance...
Feeling Fatigued? My Six Favorite Rejuvenating Herbs for Energy, Focus, and Cognition
Feeling tired stinks!! You shouldn’t have to live in a state of exhaustion. In my previous posts, I have focused on the topics of mental fatigue and lack of focus. I reviewed how inattention and brain fog have many root causes. In the articles: I highlighted the mindset and biological factors that were associated...
Feeling Tired and Mentally Exhausted? Discover How to Naturally Boost Focus, Cognition, and Energy with Naturopathic Medicine Therapeutics
In my previous post, I discussed that lack of drive is not a character flaw. Rather, there are biological and psychological reasons why one may feel unmotivated. I explained what these factors were and offered some tips on how to enhance focus and get unstuck. Once these aspects are addressed, those who have been...
What is Making You Feel Unmotivated and How Your Brain Keeps You Stuck
Do you ever feel like you want to do something, but you just don’t have the brain power or motivation to follow through? It isn’t necessarily because you’re weak-willed. Beyond mindset, there are actual neurobiochemical reasons why one may feel stuck in a rut. In my latest post, I discuss what motivation is and...