From child to adult, everyone gets an earache sometime, some more than others. These earaches are usually a sign of infection, from mild to severe. Generally the more severe it is the more it hurts. In such cases medical attention should be sought. But for more minor earaches there are some easy, natural ways to [...]
I woke up this weekend with aches all over my body and generally feeling like garbage. I don’t get sick too often, and when I do it tends to be either allergy related or this flu-like sickness. I usually get this after a stressful week (or month) and it feels like a bunch of gross [...]
What is Pau D’arco? Pau D’arco comes from the inner bark of of a tree native to South America, which can now also be found in Florida. It comes in the form of tea, tincture, and tablet and has been used by the indigenous population of South America for thousands of years. Pau D’arco benefits [...]
What is adrenal fatigue? Many people suffer from adrenal fatigue without even knowing it. Symptoms include: Feeling tired for no apparent reason. Trouble getting up in the morning after a full night’s rest. Feeling constantly stressed or overwhelmed. Feeling most energetic after 6PM. These symptoms can certainly have causes not to do with adrenal fatigue. [...]
What is it? Tea tree oil is an essential oil made from the Melaleuca tree, native to Australia. It is antiviral, antibacterial and antifungal, a veritable power house plant. Today you can buy the pure essential oil as well as products prepared with the oil from soaps to toothpicks. The list of benefits for tea tree oil [...]
Olive leaf extract has been used for millenia for a variety of reasons. From fighting colds to lowering cholesterol it has been known to be helpful in many fields of health, one of the most notable being aiding in lowering blood pressure. In spite of its history and medical studies on the effects of olive [...]
Anemia There are many kinds of anemia, some of which are easy to treat and clear up quickly, others that are chronic and require more serious medical attention. Anemia occurs when there are not enough healthy red blood cells in the body. While the causes of this are very broad, the most common cause is [...]
There is a lot of debate on whether or not detoxes are necessary for your body. You can read some of that in the links at the bottom, but this wasn’t written to enter into that debate–it’s just an account of my own personal experience with detoxing. How it started When I started working in [...]
A study led by Dr. David J. Maron, a Vanderbilt University Medical Center researcher, has shown that flavanoids present in both green tea and black tea reduces LDL cholesterol (aka “the bad cholesterol”) by up to 16%. Maron used a 375mg capsule made up of a mixture of flavanoids from green, black, and other teas [...]
Probiotics are live microorganisms and bacteria that naturally live in everyone’s digestive tract. Different from harmful bacteria like E. Coli, probiotics help your body to keep the intestinal lining clean, regulate the immune system, and break down and absorb nutrients. Probiotic Depletion While our bodies are capable of absorbing and building their own probiotics, many [...]
