The other morning I headed out to run my regular 5km route at our cottage. A few minutes into my route, I realized I was having a lot of trouble with my breathing. My airways felt really tight and my sinuses felt full. I don’t have asthma, but I wondered briefly if...
Infrared sauna therapy is a profoundly effective method of detoxification. Our sauna is a “medical grade” sauna. It was produced without the use of glues or any volatile organic compounds. Your sauna therapy includes a no-charge consultation with a...
I have read literally thousands of my diet diaries over the years and have observed one common dietary weakness. Even in those nutrition-conscious individuals, one meal stands out as inadequate – poor quality, low-nutrition. That meal is almost universally...
Many of us notice that solid, undisturbed sleep becomes elusive in mid-life. After 40, most men and women start to experience interrupted sleep, restless sleep and/or frank insomnia. Why does sleep quality change is this decade for so many of us? I like to think of...
How do we get to the bottom of the complex chronic medical problems of today? In the functional medicine conference I am attending, they give shape and life to a practise model that I inherently embrace as a naturopathic doctor. Imagine a diagram of three circles (a...
