Recently, I explored how food can provide powerful nourishment to the brain. I discussed specific nutrients for cognitive support and how they can modulate neurotransmitters. I also highlighted two of my favorite natural supplements for balancing mental health, N-acetylcysteine and L-theanine. In my naturopathic medicine practice, I often combine a personalized dietary approach...
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Addressing All Matters of the Heart: Cardiovascular Support Using Essential Oils
As a naturopathic doctor that honors the whole person, I believe that physical health is only one component of living a life of passion, purpose, vitality, and joy. In fact, striving for “perfect” bodily conditions through diet and exercise could be counterproductive if it is ignoring the importance of social connections. This is one...
Living in an Expensive, Ineffective, and Sick Health Care Model and How Kale and Keto Aren’t the Solution
According to the Multinational Comparisons of Health Systems Data, 2018 by the Commonwealth Fund, the United States is one of the most expensive health care systems among the industrialized countries. From 1980-2017, America spent more of its GDP (17.2% adjusted for cost of living) for healthcare spending. In an earlier study, it was found...
Can You Be “Too Healthy?” What is Orthorexia?
As a naturopathic doctor that advocates for a personalized approach to dietary suggestions and honors the power of food as medicine, I’ve become very concerned with how practitioners and wellness experts are fixating and normalizing restrictive food practices and extreme exercise. Applied to the right person at the right time, these various “nutritional interventions”...
The Pitfalls of Chasing Dietary Perfection in the Pursuit of Weight Loss
Why Diets Will Never Work for Weight Loss As a naturopathic doctor who honors biochemical individuality and the healing aspects of nutrition, I have become very concerned with how “healthcare” is shifting away from using food as medicine and more as a means to control body weight. Practitioners are sounding more and more like...
Heading Into the New Year- Nourishing Yourself With Your Own Personalized Diet
The Dangers of Subscribing to the Morality of Eating When I first started out as a naturopathic doctor in 2007, I was in a new field where most people didn’t even know what the heck I did. Since nutrition is one modality that I use, I found myself spending a lot of time teaching...
A Naturopathic and Functional Medicine Doctor’s Guide on Using Personalized Medicine for Making Nourishing Dietary Choices
Naturopathic Medicine and Personalized Diets I recently released an article, Five Reasons Why Essential Oils & Naturopathic Medicine Are a Perfect Duo. It explained how my love of essential oils merges with all the philosophies of naturopathic medicine. As a naturopathic doctor, one of the most precious naturopathic medicine principles to me is to...
Local Naturopathic Doctor Re-Opens Doors to New Clients
(I was asked to provide an announcement about my naturopathic medicine practice re-opening on this site. Below is a tweaked version of my press release.) A Unique Combination of Naturopathic and Functional Medicine Returns to Upstate NY Albany and Saratoga, NY- December 2019- This month, I’m pleased to announce that I will be re-opening...
Five Reasons Why Essential Oils & Naturopathic Medicine Are a Perfect Duo
A quick skim over of my latest naturopathic blogs makes it very evident that essential oils are an important part of my naturopathic and functional medicine practice. I’ve often stated that they are my favorite wellness tools. In this article, I will explain the five main reasons why these heavenly smelling plant secondary metabolites...
Holiday Essential oils and Naturopathic Medicine Tips for Avoiding Triggers and Creating a Happier Home for Gatherings
In my previous posts, I have provided tools for my readers to get through the season with a greater sense of ease. As a naturopathic doctor, essential oils are one of my top “naturopathic medicine brain hacks” for emotional and mental wellness. Last month, I specifically focused on several essential oil blends that would...