Top 3 Supplements to Promote Fertility
Fertility starts at the egg: the quantity and quality of eggs can determine how long it takes to conceive and level of risk for miscarriage. The number of eggs your ovaries contain is determined when you are in utero. As you age these eggs grow older too, making their DNA more fragile and susceptible to […]
IV Therapy for Holiday Recovery
What is IV Therapy? IV therapy is a fast and effective way to boost your energy, recharge your immunity and support your modern-day living. It is sometimes referred to as a vitamin drip, IV vitamin therapy, IV hydration or IV drip. Vitamin or IV drips involve the injection of vitamins, nutrients and minerals directly into […]
Immune-Boosting 101
Looking for ways you can support your immune system this winter? Check out our favourite remedies, including an easy health elixir and a warming socks nighttime routine. Simple things that you can do at home to increase your immunity and keep you and your family healthy! Health Elixir Searching for a way to support your immune […]
What Should I Eat When I Feel Burntout?: 4 Food Tips to Heal Burnout
The catastrophic events that we have endured these past years has led to a flooding of do-or-die emotions, resulting in what I am seeing the most in my office these days: exhaustion and burnout. With the blurring of work-life boundaries and the urgent call-to-action to protect our families, communities and jobs, we have been left reeling and […]
Signs You’re Burnt Out: A Guide To Understanding If You Are Suffering From Burnout
Talk to any parent, health care worker, or teacher during these dark winter days and you are likely to hear a tone of exhaustion, resentment and inadequacy. These feelings mirror the exact criteria for burnout, a term coined in the 1970s by the German-born American psychologist, Herbert Freudenberger, in his book Burnout: The High Cost of High Achievement. […]
Pandemic Undertow: It’s not just “languishing”, it’s burnout
How to find our way back to our health Written by Dr. Mary Choi, ND Happy New Year??? The pandemic has swept across the globe and hit Canadians like a tsunami. Anticipating the approaching tidal wave, we ran screaming for toilet paper and ushered our children out of schools and playgrounds to save our most […]
The Ten Best Foods For IBS
Article by Dr. Laura Brass, ND – Natural Gut Guru There are plenty of foods you shouldn’t eat when you have irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), there is no denying that. You might focus solely on eating foods that won’t make your IBS any worse, but what gets overlooked is a focus on what foods might actually help to make your IBS […]
Breathless
By Dr. Mary Choi Athletes are often taught to pace themselves on long endurance runs to push their efforts to a point that is challenging enough but not so hard that they fall short of the finish line. How an athlete calibrates this complex balance of effort is measured by her ability to have conversations […]
Growing Up in a Grocery Store
My childhood playground were the aisles of a grocery store. I am convienced my mother secretly Mr. Miyagi-ed me to sort through the hundreds of cases of blue berries to tediously select out the rotting and shrivelled ones. This task was a painful pursuit that I absolutely hated. But there was some strange feeling of […]
Natural Immune Boosters
With the changing colour of the leaves and the darkening days, cold and flu season is upon us. This extra layer of the COVID -19 creates more urgency for self-care and understanding how to best improve our immunity. The immune system is a multifaceted and sophisticated network of our cells, organs, proteins and chemicals that […]