by michelle | | Dietary Supplements, family, Healthy Lifestyle, Medications, Recipes, Your health
Magic potions and elixirs…. sounds like a witches brew or sorcerer’s spell. Or, a maybe a more contemporary version would be a healing tincture. The herbs in the garden are plentiful this time of year and they have been a wonderful addition to my cooking....
by michelle | | Diet, Dietary Supplements, Healthy Lifestyle, Medications, Recipes, Your health
I love ginger, plain and simple. I don’t know what it is about it, but I really like consuming foods that have ginger in it. I remember as a small child relishing the candied ginger root that made all my friends look at me sideways with raised eyebrows. Not much...
by michelle | | family, Healthy Lifestyle, Medications, Mindset, Your health
You’ve heard of the placebo effect- where a medication doesn’t really have a therapeutic effect, but you THINK it does, so you experience a benefit. It’s the basis of most scientific studies …. and a statistic reported in every package insert...
by michelle | | Detox, Dietary Supplements, family, Healthy Lifestyle, Medications, Toxic Products, Your health
Essentials oils are AMAZING! You’ve probably heard about them by now. You may have even read my posts about them. What you may not know though, is that they CAN hurt you because they are NOT benign. The harm that they can cause has nothing to do with the...
by michelle | | Detox, family, Healthy Lifestyle, Medications, Uncategorized, Your health
You’ve heard the phrase from Hippocrates, “Let food by thy medicine”. And while to some people fungi may not be considered “food”, there are several that having healing properties. I was first introduced to medicinal mushrooms by my...
by michelle | | Detox, Diet, Dietary Supplements, Healthy Lifestyle, Medications, Toxic Products, Your health
A few years ago, I began hearing about the importance of gut health. But what did that mean, “gut health”? For me it meant that if you had no heartburn, diarrhea or constipation, your gut was healthy. But then I began learning about probiotics to support the good...
