Archive | March, 2016

Mediterranean Bowl

Try This Super Easy, Heart-Healthy Mediterranean Salad

Sometimes it can be difficult to find the right balance between easy, healthy, and delicious food. And when your life is constantly in motion, just finding the time to cook can be a pain, too. Luckily, my cookbooks are full of simple, quick meals with the health-conscious movers and shakers among you in mind.

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Super Berry Antioxidant Boost

Spring Clean Your Body With This Antioxidant-Rich Water Infusion

The first day of spring just passed, and I know that like me, a lot of you are spring cleaning your homes – or at least you’re thinking about it. 😉 But spring is also a great time to clean out and detoxify your body! Berries of all kinds are coming back into season, and they are THE super-food when it comes to fighting free radicals.

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Adrenal Fatigue

Top 5 Tips for Beating Adrenal Fatigue

Are you constantly exhausted? Does dragging yourself out of bed in the morning feel like a major victory? If you feel chronically tired, weary, and unwell, you might be experiencing adrenal fatigue.

Adrenal fatigue occurs when your adrenal glands function below the optimal level. Prolonged stress is one of the most common causes of adrenal fatigue.

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Bridgit Danner

What’s Going On With Perimenopause?

By Bridgit Danner, FDNP, LAc

Menopause is, in our cultural vocabulary, described as the symptoms of hot flashes and night sweats. But menopause is actually the cessation of your menstrual cycle. You know it’s ceased when it you haven’t had a cycle for a year. Perimenopause is a period that extends for a long time before menopause.

Perimenopause starts at age 35, or starts 10 years before menopause, depending on who you ask. It is the slow decline (sorry to use that word) of your ovaries as a player in your endocrine system. Accompanying that is a slow decline of fertility, that really speeds up in your 40s.

Now that many women are delaying childbirth, many women are being hit with the double whammy of trying to conceive while dealing with perimenopause. Still others are experiencing troubling perimenopause symptoms while raising young children.

But what is going on in perimenopause anyway?

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