Celeste’s Story Part 3: The Healing Process

If you missed parts 1 and 2 of Celeste’s Journey of Adrenal Recovery, you can find them here and here.
So now I was suffering the repercussions of the unfortunate combination of events that led me to this place.  My choice to not go the conventional route in treating this condition was met by incredulous reactions [...]

Celeste’s Story of Adrenal Recovery: Part 2

If you missed Part 1 of Celeste’s Story, you can find it here.
VISIT TO THE DOCTOR
                 After the first month of my disturbing symptoms and in response to my husband’s pleas to see a professional, I went to a women’s wellness clinic 2 1/2 hours away that specialized in hormone balancing.  A blood test revealed [...]

Celeste’s Story Part 1:Recovering from Adrenal Fatigue

I am so honored to begin a series of posts on recovering from Adrenal Fatigue naturally from the perspective of one of my readers who has actually lived it.  As a nutritional therapy practitioner-in-training, I have already seen so many cases of adrenal fatigue among my practice clients that I’m pretty sure it’s epidemic.  Celeste’s [...]

All About Adrenals: An Interview with Dr. Daniel Chong

This week we have the great honor of hearing from my amazing Naturopathic Physician here in Portland, Dr. Daniel Chong.  Dr. Chong practices medicine using a foundational, nutritional approach and recommends a diet in line with the Weston A. Price Foundation and utilizes dietary protocols in helping patients heal from a variety of ailments.  Today [...]

Finding a Holistic Health Practitioner

In my recent post on Fertility, one of my commenters asked about where to fine find a functional, holistic nutritional practitioner.  I quickly realized that the response would be best put into a blog post, since I know many other readers might value this information.  What follows is by no means a comprehensive list, but [...]

Real Food for Fertility

It’s rather obvious to most that pregnant and nursing women have significantly higher nutritional needs than the rest of us. What we don’t often acknowledge, at least in this culture, are the important nutritional needs of women long before they become pregnant. 
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Is Your Body Digesting?

 My fascinating nutritional studies have lead me through a remarkable profound, in-depth study of human digestion.  The journey that food takes  from the mouth to the cells is, quite frankly, incredible.  I often spend time ranting on this blog about proper nutrition, good gut flora, and lack of sugar and refined carbohydrates.  Sometimes I chide myself [...]

Bovine Colostrum and Swine Flu

The Center for Nutritional Research has a very informative artcle on Bovine Colostrum and its ability to help boost the immune system and prevent swine flu (DISCLAIMER: These statements have not been approved by the FDA).
Colostrum is the first milk produced by the mother following the birth of a child.  It is loaded with all [...]

Nutritional Support for Eczema

Nothing has baffled me more as a mother than observing the prevalance of eczema among children.  Thankfully, eczema is not one of the many issues my children have had to deal with, but I have witnessed so many other families battle with this mysterious disorder.  Growing up, my mother always had chronic eczema all over [...]

Transitioning a Child to a Gluten Free/Sugar Free Diet

Recently I’ve gotten several questions in this regard, so I thought I should share some of the tips that have worked for us in our transition to a gluten free (grain free, really) and sugar free diet.  For our situation, it was really a medical necessity and I had no real choice but to go [...]

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