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Slow as a snail?
Feel sluggish, tired, constipated, have difficult concentration, or are a wee bit depressed?
Naturopathic Medicine exists to strengthen and encourage optimal health. It is a practice that addresses the fundamentals of disease. It honours and cooperates with the healing power of nature.
If you seek a caring professional who is a registered naturopathic doctor in Guelph with a functional medicine approach, you’ve come to the right place.
Subclinical hypothyroidism is when you have sluggish di…
Measure Your Mood
Are imbalances in your brain chemicals and hormones affecting your sleep, work and pleasure in life?
Check each of the following that apply to you:
- I wake feeling unrested
- Sleep is difficult for me
- I am always tired, fatigued or lack lustre for life
- Concentration and focus are a challenge
- My motivation is low
- I am always forgetting things
- I am often irritable and grumpy
- My sex drive is low
- Weight control is difficult and my love handles or muffin top are embarrassing
- Hormones drive me crazy…
Probiotics - our pillar of strength?
The microbiome shows distinct differences in pre and post menopausal women, a 2019 study reports.
The change in microbiome could help us better understand the reasons for health decline in many post-menopausal women. The presence of estrogen protects against cardiovascular, metabolic disease and bone health. Now mounting evidence shows how the gut microbiota affects estrogen metabolism levels. It is unclear if the post-menopausal decline in estrogen is directly related to the change in divers…
Flourishing Flora
Trillions of cells that live on our skin and line our gastrointestinal and urogenital tracts must be diversified and in balance to keep us fit. Woodlands and jungles thrive when several plant species populate the environment, so goes it for our microflora.
Naturopathic Medicine exists to strengthen and encourage optimal health. It is a practice that addresses the fundamentals of disease. It honours and cooperates with the healing power of nature.
If you seek a carin…
All Ears
~William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Earwax, (medically known as cerumen auris) is a protective normal secretion from a skin gland in the external ear canal. Some people make more earwax than others. Certain habits or careers may put an individual more at risk for earwax impaction.
Do you wear earphones, earplugs hearing aids or use Q-tips?
Do you have dizziness, ear pain, itchy ears, or hearing loss?
If so, you may have earwax impaction.
That Garden Calling
Naturopathic Medicine exists to strengthen and encourage optimal health. It is a practice that addresses the fundamentals of disease. It honours and cooperates with the healing power of nature.
If you seek a caring professional who is a registered naturopathic doctor in Guelph with a functional medicine approach, you’ve come to the right place.
Green therapy
Time outdoors is significantly important to our well being. Fresh air, sunshine, the aroma of the plants around you and the energy th…
Lymphatic Therapy
Our lymphatic system is made of fluid from the intestines and our immune fighting cells. It is like the drainage, filter and sewer pipe for the body because it provides immune cell circulation and collects cellular waste. It includes the spleen, thymus, lymph nodes and lymph channels, GALT, the gastrointestinal associated lymphatic tissue, the MALT or mucosal associated lymphoid tissue, as well as the tonsils and adenoids.
Naturopathic Medicine exists to strengthen and encourage optimal health. …