The scoop on buying vegetables: the fresher, the better
My husband is a gardener. He spends hours digging, preparing the soil and nurturing the seedlings...
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Health & Happiness: Your Second Brain
Butterflies in your stomach? Gut feelings? Absolutely! In fact, the second most complex nervous...
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Health & Happiness: Recovering from a concussion takes time
The brain needs rest to heal A concussion occurs when the brain moves or twists inside the skull,...
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Breaking the Chains of Pain
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” –...
Read MoreObstacles to Cure
While I treat people for acute problems – sprains and strains, a cold or the flu, general exams, etc., mostly I treat chronic illness. People come to me with a variety of issues ranging from chronic fatigue and pain syndromes to...
Read MoreHealth & Happiness: Sugarplum Blues
By Jennifer Means Every year as the holidays approach, my mind drifts to thoughts of cookies, warm sweet drinks, yummy stews and thick chewy breads. I start seeing all those pretty treats on the covers of magazines in the...
Read MoreHealth & Happiness: Reduce stress by sticking to a routine
By Jennifer Means, ND, LAC For many of us, it seems like time just keeps speeding up. Our lives are demanding more every day, and we have to rise to the occasion and better our coping skills. Our stress response system is like a...
Read MoreHealth & Happiness: The healing power of nature
By Jennifer Means, ND, LAC One of the basic tenets of naturopathic medicine is “Vis Medicatrix Naturae” or The Healing Power of Nature. This is the inherent self-organizing process of living systems which establishes, maintains...
Read MoreHealth & Happiness: Tick Talk – Let’s talk about lyme disease
By Jennifer Means, ND, LAC Perhaps you don’t believe that Lyme disease exists in the Pacific Northwest. And we can argue all day about whether it can cause chronic neurological and inflammatory disease. But hopefully, we can all...
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