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Natural Ways to Beat the Winter Blues and Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), also known as seasonal depression or, in its milder form, the winter blues, is a type of depression linked to seasonal changes. Understanding its root cause can help us maintain good health during the fall and winter months. There are a few natural strategies that can empower us to prevent and, when necessary, treat this...
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The Health Benefits of a Morning Cold Shower
Cold water immersion has steadily gained popularity in recent years, but is far from a trend. People have been using cold water for its therapeutic effects for thousands of years. In fact, interest in it for medicinal purposes dates back to the fourth century BCE, when the Greek physician...
The Health Benefits of Earthing and Grounding
When was the last time you actually felt the Earth beneath your feet or walked barefoot on the grass or squelched mud between your toes? For too many of us, the idea of being outdoors without shoes is a foreign one but this wasn't always the case. The practice of drawing from Earth's natural...
11 Tips for Vitamin D, Sunlight, & Sunscreen
For years, we’ve heard about the damaging effects of sunlight: skin damage, wrinkles, and skin cancer—all of which should be carefully considered. However, in our best efforts to avoid the negative consequences of sun exposure, most of us no longer balance getting the right amount of sunlight....
The Health Benefits of Sweating
For many of us, we avoid sweating. When we do sweat, we usually make a great effort to conceal it. Yet sweating is vital to our health, just as it was for our ancestral humans. The ability to perspire while hunting in a hot environment enabled humans to adapt, survive, and become proficient...
12 Tips for Better Sleep
Sleep is essential to our health, and yet so many of us miss out on a full night’s rest. Most adults need 7–9 hours of quality sleep a night. Getting six hours or less, on a regular basis, is not ideal and puts you at risk for serious health conditions. A few nights with too little sleep impacts...
Tips for Boosting Your Immune System
Below are some natural strategies that you can implement today to strengthen your immune system: Vitamin D3: Vitamin D deficiency weakens your immune system, so have your medical provider monitor your vitamin D levels and vitamin D supplementation. Ideal levels are between 50 and 90 ng/ml....
Yogurt: What’s Healthy & What’s Not
Yogurt often tops the list as a natural food that packs a lot of nutritional value. When produced in its simplest form, which is fermenting good bacteria with milk, yogurt is a great source of protein, B vitamins, calcium, and probiotics (mostly Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus...
The Health Benefits of Tai Chi
In the United States alone, there are millions of yoga devotees, and for good reason. However, there is another relaxation practice that provides as many mind-and-body health benefits as yoga and is also low-impact. To better understand this practice called Tai Chi Chuan (also commonly called Tai...
The Health Benefits of Butter Coffee
For decades, we were advised to keep away from butter and other foods containing saturated fat because of the misguided belief that saturated fat raised the bad LDL cholesterol, thus causing heart disease. Foods like red meat, eggs, and butter were unfortunately avoided and often under-consumed....
The Health Benefits of Dry Brushing
The process of gently running a soft-bristle brush over dry, bare skin is known as dry brushing. When performed daily, dry brushing exfoliates dead skin cells on the body and also delivers some major benefits to your overall health: The skin is the body’s largest organ. It serves us well as a...
