Category: Women's Health

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The ABC and E’s of Accident and Injury:  The Importance of an Integrated Healthcare Approach

The ABC and E’s of Accident and Injury: The Importance of an Integrated Healthcare Approach

Hey, quick question. Where was the rest of your body when your knee fell down the stairs or when your neck was in a car accident? Over thirty years [...]
Heal Anxiety by Facing Your Shadow

Heal Anxiety by Facing Your Shadow

I’m going to let you in on a little secret. I’m a healer, and I have anxiety. That’s right. I didn’t really understand what anxiety was, nor did I rea [...]
How To Boost Your Bone Strength While Building A Better Body

How To Boost Your Bone Strength While Building A Better Body

Our bones continually develop throughout our youthful years, forming the foundation of our body for our adult lives. When we were children we had nagg [...]
Hydrogen Water: A Powerful Natural Antioxidant

Hydrogen Water: A Powerful Natural Antioxidant

Free radicals – you’ve heard about them, but what are they really and how do we fight them? In a nutshell – free radicals are inflammation-causing mol [...]
Safe Hormone Replacement Therapy

Safe Hormone Replacement Therapy

Synthetic pharmaceuticals prescribed as “hormone replacement” therapy are among the most widely prescribed medications in this country. They are most [...]
The Importance of Health Advocacy

The Importance of Health Advocacy

I haven’t been feeling well since last Fall. I was under a lot of stress in September so I thought it was just remnants of that, but as time went on [...]
Beware of Belly Fat: Reducing It Naturally

Beware of Belly Fat: Reducing It Naturally

Each year obesity-related conditions cost over $100 billion and cause an estimated 300,000 premature deaths in the United States, making a very strong [...]
A Leaner, Happier and Healthier Holiday Season

A Leaner, Happier and Healthier Holiday Season

No matter how much our culture changes, year after year, one of the top New Year’s resolutions never seems to change. If you guessed losing weight and [...]
Estrogen: Friend or Foe? What You Need to Know

Estrogen: Friend or Foe? What You Need to Know

Hormones, hormones, hormones! What is a woman to do? Is estrogen my friend or my foe? And what can I do to balance my hormones so that estrogen remain [...]
The Webster Technique for a Healthy Pregnancy

The Webster Technique for a Healthy Pregnancy

For many women, pregnancy can be a very uncomfortable experience. Early on, it may begin with morning sickness, mood swings, and food cravings. Thi [...]
From PMS to Menopause…Try Acupuncture!

From PMS to Menopause…Try Acupuncture!

Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) are safe and effective modalities to restore and maximize women’s health. Acupuncture can b [...]
Stand Up Straight!! Your Body Posture is Giving You Clues

Stand Up Straight!! Your Body Posture is Giving You Clues

Do you remember when your mom used to tell you to correct your posture? To sit up straight? To stand tall? Now, how is your posture? Your walk? When y [...]
Dr. Lauren Young, owner of  CT Natural Health Specialists

Dr. Lauren Young, owner of CT Natural Health Specialists

This business spotlight is our 4th in a series recognizing local holistic practitioners and businesses that are celebrating 10 years in 2017. I had th [...]
The In’s and Out’s of Hormone Replacement Therapy

The In’s and Out’s of Hormone Replacement Therapy

Bioidentical hormone therapy refers to hormone replacement with hormonal substances that are, on a molecular level, identical to what our own bodies m [...]
What Is Happening With My Hormones?

What Is Happening With My Hormones?

In my many years in private practice as a board-certified Ob/Gyn, I had many appointments with women who complained to me that they felt that their “h [...]
Choose a Healthcare Team that Addresses Wellness

Choose a Healthcare Team that Addresses Wellness

Every day we make choices that affect our health and wellness. When we wake up we choose what thoughts we want to empower that color our mood for the [...]
Tools To Take Charge of Your Health

Tools To Take Charge of Your Health

Have you ever felt like you need a “tune-up?” Health and body need a re-boot? Are you feeling less than your best? Chalking it up to working too hard [...]
Keeping Your Bones Healthy for Life

Keeping Your Bones Healthy for Life

The current approach to osteoporosis illustrates two of the biggest problems in medicine today. Drug Therapy First is the myth that only drug the [...]
Why Am I So Sensitive to Chemicals?

Why Am I So Sensitive to Chemicals?

As a young child, I remember being allowed by my parents to run ahead through the department store’s perfume section as long as I waited on the other [...]
The O-Shot: The Next Generation in Natural Treatment for Sexual Dysfunction

The O-Shot: The Next Generation in Natural Treatment for Sexual Dysfunction

Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) treatments are becoming a popular option for giving a naturally based, biological boost to the healing process. Platelet ce [...]
Breast Cancer: The Integrative Connection

Breast Cancer: The Integrative Connection

That scary word that any woman would fear to hear: Breast Cancer. Breast cancer is a serious condition striking 1 in 8 women. There will be an estimat [...]
Women’s Health: A Matter of the Heart

Women’s Health: A Matter of the Heart

There is an old saying: “We don’t know what we don’t know.” This phrase may be far more true than people know. Medicine today has descended into a wo [...]
Can Your Genetics Cause Estrogen Dominance?

Can Your Genetics Cause Estrogen Dominance?

Many women struggle with estrogen dominance issues and may not even realize it. Symptoms are diverse and include premenstrual syndrome (PMS), mood swi [...]
Skip Being the Good Mom and Get Naughty

Skip Being the Good Mom and Get Naughty

I spent years trying to be the Good Mom. One year I grew Roma tomatoes in clay pots that I hand painted with the kids handprints. I blanched, peeled [...]
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