Many people don’t think much about their digestion until something goes wrong. Bloating. Constipation. Loose stools. Reflux. Food sensitivities. Fatigue after eating. Brain fog. Skin issues. Feeling flat and depleted. In Chinese medicine, these symptoms are often seen as signs that the body is struggling to properly transform food into energy and nourishment. Your [...]
April 7, 2016 is World Health Day and this year the theme is "Beat Diabetes". Insulin is the hormone that regulates the amount of glucose in the blood. When your body becomes resistant to the normal effects of insulin or gradually loses the capacity to produce enough insulin in the pancreas the result is [...]
Spring and Autumn, the transitional seasons, are a great time for detoxifying and cleansing your body of the harmful impurities that have collected in your organs and tissues over the past months or years. Seasonal cleansing offers an important chance to decide what you want to let go of in pursuit of greater health [...]
New Year's Eve is often a time for reflecting on our past, deciding where we want to head in the coming year and then making resolutions in order to achieve these goals. Without a direction we often wander aimlessly through the year and then wonder why we haven’t accomplished anything as the year draws [...]
Imagine living in a pollution-free environment, drinking only pure, mineralized, alkaline water and eating naturally untainted nourishing foods. Imagine living in homes free of chemicals, breathing clean air, wearing natural fibre clothes washed in clean water with pure soaps. Unfortunately very few of us live this way and so the toxicity of modern life, [...]
