The World Allergy Association has named April 13-19 as World Allergy Week. Chances are, you don’t exactly want to celebrate your allergies, but this designation helps raise awareness of the widespread impact of allergy, and draw together collaborative clinical efforts and attention to decrease the suffering of the millions of people affected by allergy and the related conditions of…
With the warm, sunny weather approaching us, it’s the perfect time to achieve our health goals. Treat yourself to a fantastic fun-filled and health-filled summer. Whether you want to maintain good health or achieve a new health goal (including weight loss, decreasing your pain levels, or improving your energy), one simple piece of kitchen advice…
May is National Neuropathy Awareness Month! Today we’ll explore what neuropathy is, why it happens, how to know if it’s happening to you, and what you can do about it. Let’s get started! There you are, working at the keyboard like always, minding your own business, when suddenly your hand starts to feel funny. Maybe…
A lot of women suffer needlessly. Up to 90% of women report painful periods. That’s a lot of us women, the vast majority of us even.
Month in, month out. Take more Tylenol, strap on the hot pack and wait it out, curled up in bed on a Netflix binge. Really? I wouldn’t want to be down for the count on a PMS anti-vacation every month, and neither should you.
And painful cramps isn’t all I’m talking about. I’m also talking about periods so heavy you don’t want to leave the house, periods that seem to come to soon, or not frequent enough. The first step in achieving regular, easy-breezy periods is doing a little of what I call hormone wrangling. It’s true. Those hormones are unruly, and need some gentle-yet-stern guidance.