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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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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Tea Time

If you don’t consume tea, it might be worth trying it out. Tea can be good for you physically, mentally and emotionally too. You can easily find various teas in your local grocery store, either packaged with individual tea bags for a convenient single serving option or you can buy loose leaf tea which allows…

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Alcohol Awareness In Practice

April is Alcohol Awareness Month. which means it’s a good time to simply reflect on our habits, our choices, have honest conversations with ourselves and others we care about, and think about how to approach our alcohol use so that we can explore healthy choices. Whether we believe it or not, alcohol is a drug.…

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Neck Joint Pain

Manage Your Joint Pain

Joint pain affects over 350 million people worldwide that includes osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and other conditions. The symptoms range from mild to severe and can become debilitating over time if not treated or managed carefully. Here are some things you can do to help minimize or manage the pain associated with your joints. Physical activity-…

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Healing Your Gut

Do you have gut issues? We were fortunate to sit down with Dr. Ken Brown, Functional Gastroenterologist, from Plano, Texas. As a functional doctor, he focuses on preventing disease as opposed to treating disease. He’s dedicated over 20 years of his practice to specializing in inflammatory bowl disease and irritable bowl syndrome. He also developed…

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Red Light Therapy

Explore the Benefits of Red Light Therapy

There’s a lot of talk about alternative therapy these days, and you may have heard the term, “cellular health”. If you haven’t tried Red Light Therapy, it might worth looking into for improving your overall health. Some benefits include: Improving skin health– As we age, we produce less collagen. RLT stimulates fibroblasts, which are responsible…

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Benefit Your Health with Thermal Stress Tools

We often talk about how you can improve your health through nutrition, exercise or mind-body practices. There are alternative tools that can be utilized along with your regular health and wellness routine that might be worth checking out. Thermal Stress tools like cryotherapy and saunas offer unique health benefits that are easy to implement into…

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Are Wellness Trackers For You?

Did you know that approximately 30% of adults in the U.S. use some form of wearable technology, with fitness trackers and smartwatches being the most common? They can offer a range of benefits for our wellness. Here are some benefits to wearing a wellness tracker: Activity tracking- they can help track your steps, traveled distance…

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