Do You or Someone You Love Need Spring Allergy Relief? All the signs of spring are here: blooming flowers, grass is growing, longer days and… allergies. Who’s feeling it? Sneezing, stuffy head, malaise, and itchy eyes – we all know the telltale signs of spring allergies. What are allergies and why are you getting them? […]
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Since March’s Uplift theme is rest and restore it’s the perfect time to take a closer look at your sleep habits. Many people overlook sleep as an important healing and detoxing tool. Sleep is essential for maintaining and repairing your body, maximizing your metabolism, balancing moods, clearing toxins from your brain, and even preventing illness.
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Bugs Bunny had it right. Carrots are good for your eyes because they contain beta carotene (part of the carotenoids family), but that’s only part of the story. Beta-carotene is an antioxidant which converts into retinol, or vitamin A. It’s the vitamin A that is essential for eye health since it maintains the health of
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Loving Your Liver We think of our liver when we think of detoxification but your liver also does so much more. It is responsible for about 500 functions including: Hormone balance. Vitamin D production. Formation of proteins that carry nutrients all around your body. Digestion including the production of bile which breaks down fats. (Fats
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Holiday parties have you eating more cookies than usual? Relatives staying at your house causing extra stress? Or maybe all the holiday cheer is keeping you up later at night? Tis the season for abandoning our regular routines and eating habits. Here’s a few tips to keep you feeling jolly during the revelry: Take digestive
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Winter is here which brings the holidays, snow days, hot cocoa and unfortunately colds and the flu. Luckily nutrient-dense foods can strengthen your immune system to fight off those viruses and keep you and your family healthy and happy all season. Here are my top 3 favorite winter immune boosting foods: Winter squashes, such as
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It doesn’t happen often, but yes, I get sick too. We all do. This time it was the perfect storm of causative factors. I went to New Orleans with my family to celebrate my sister’s 21st birthday. (I wasn’t joking when I said I have four siblings 20+ years younger than me.) We had a
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What does your Gut Health have to do with the Flu? A lot! About 70% of your immune system resides in your digestive tract (or “gut”). The purpose of the digestive tract is to filter out nutrients and foreign invaders from all of the things we swallow. Whether we like it or not bacteria and
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