Heart Shaped Stone

New Heart Connections

For decades heart health advice centered around eating a healthy diet and including regular exercise in your weekly routine. Eating right and exercising is still important when it comes to taking care of your heart. Emerging research, however, tells us a much bigger picture, as we have come to realize that everything is connected. 

Our heart is deeply connected to the nervous system, gut microbiome, our muscular strength, our sleep and emotional well-being. New findings show that mental stress can influence inflammation, our gut bacteria affects cardiovascular risk, our muscles protect our blood vessels, and our heart repairs during sleep. So what can we do?

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Bitter Melon

Bitter Receptors for Sustainable Weight Management

Most of us associate the word “bitter” with unpleasant flavors — but in the body, bitterness is actually a biological signal for health. Long before modern nutrition science, traditional cultures valued bitter foods and herbs for digestion, appetite balance, and overall wellness. Today, science is catching up.
At the center of this connection are bitter taste receptors — powerful sensory receptors that do far more than help us taste food.
To help us get a better sense of what this means, we looked to someone who specializes in nutrition. We recently hosted an educational webinar with guest speaker, Carolyn Brown, licensed nutritionist and co-founder of Indigo Wellness Group based in Connecticut. She had some things to say about our bitter receptors that exist not only in our mouth, but throughout our entire gastrointestinal tract. They exist in the gut and intestines, the stomach, the pancreas, our lungs, the immune system and even in fat tissue.

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Reading Between The Lines

I had the pleasure of speaking with Ellen Phinney, author and entrepreneur, about the power of reading. Ellen and I met through work years ago, and discovered we both find joy in health and wellness, particularly when it comes to mindfulness, including activities like yoga, meditation and running. She is also an avid reader and writer and recently wrote & published a book for young readers called A Dog and His Boy- The Switch. 

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FDA Label Change for Hormone Replacement Therapy Products

For over two decades, following a study run by the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) regarding the role of estrogen and progestin in women, the FDA placed a black box warning on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) products for menopause, noting risk of cardiovascular disease, breast cancer and dementia.

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Healthy Thrift Trends In Youth

Ever since my teenage years, I’ve been a devoted thrifter. Salvation Army, Goodwill, local secondhand shops—you name it, I was there. While others rushed to grab the newest gadgets, I was rarely an “early adopter“. Why spend $30 on a brand-new shirt when a $3 thrifted find could stretch my budget further set and me…

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Understanding & Treating Depression

Do you or someone you love suffer from depression? We held an educational webinar on mental health wellness recently with special guest speaker, Dr. Martha Koo at NeuroWellness Spa, pyschiatrist & pyschoanalyst, who shared her extensive knowledge with us about depression and integrative treatments to help those suffering from depression and other related conditions. She…

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Back to School

Back to School Tips for Parents

Support your child’s return to school with care and confidence. As the summer winds down and the school year approaches, it’s the perfect time to prepare your child for a smooth return to the classroom. Preparing by making sure they have what they need in their wardrobe and school supplies is just part of the…

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TMS- An Alternative Treatment For Mental Health Conditions

Integrative health and wellness is about focusing on the whole person as it relates to physical, emotional, mental, social, spiritual and environmental. Instead of managing symptoms, we work on getting to the root of the problem by supporting our body’s natural healing processes. While we understand that medications support health, particularly compound medications that are…

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