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Natural health and mind, body and spirit topics to live your best life.
I AM Enough!
I was fortunate enough to be one of eight experts who participated in a two-year process for creating the companion guidebook to Laurie McCammon’s excellent book Enough! How to Liberate Yourself and Remake the World with Just One Word. This morning, the "I Am Enough"...
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Acupuncture for Prevention and Wellness
The concept of prevention—committing to health and wellness by cultivating it every day, rather than trying to restore it during a crisis—requires an upfront investment. Although spending money now to avoid potential health challenges in the future still seems to be a...
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Jeffrey Smith Warns Against GMOs
Jeffrey Smith is the founder and executive director of the Institute for Responsible Technology, author of Seeds of Deception and director of the documentary Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of Our Lives. Smith and his organization’s Campaign for Healthier Eating in...
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Taking the Temperature of the Local Food Movement
No longer just a trend among counter-culture enthusiasts, the local food movement now has a firm grip on mainstream society and is steadily picking up speed. It’s never been easier to adopt a plant-based diet or learn about raw foods and juicing, get one-on-one...
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The Uses of Thermography to Maintain Wellness
Arteries dilate, blood flow increases and capillaries become more permeable in the presence of chronic inflammation, which causes heat in the body. Although we may not be able to see it on the surface, internal temperature changes are the earliest indicators of...
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Bruce Lipton on the Epigenetics Revolution: Our Beliefs Reprogram Our Genetic Destiny
Bruce Lipton, Ph.D., author of The Biology of Belief and The Honeymoon Effect, is a stem cell biologist and internationally recognized leader in bridging science and spirit. He is a visiting fellow lecturer on immunology at the New Zealand College of Chiropractic and...
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Your Mouth Tells a Story: Functional Dentistry Connects Oral Health to Sleep Apnea and Heart Disease
The focus of functional medicine—whole person health care—easily expands to include dentists trained in oral systemic health. Currently embraced by a small percentage of today’s farsighted dentists and doctors, this relatively new field of prevention and wellness...
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Whole Person Health Care: Local Functional Medicine Practitioners Use a Complete Toolbox Approach
“Illness is never simply one discrete process or dysfunction. It is a bundle—a patient’s whole life, from genetics to beliefs and how those influences are layered to create the thing we call disease.” — Dr. Mark Hyman, chairman, Institute of Functional Medicine...
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Florida Vote Yes on Amendment 2
Florida’s November ballot gives voters the opportunity to join 25 other states in the decision to support the legalization of medical cannabis for individuals with specific, debilitating diseases or comparable conditions as determined by a licensed physician....
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