Supporting Immunity with Targeted Supplements for Cold & Flu Season
As cold and flu season kicks into gear, supporting your immune system becomes more essential. Using a targeted approach to choose which supplements offer the biggest bang for your buck is very important. Here’s how some powerhouse supplements can help support your body and keep you resilient against seasonal illness: Vitamin D: The Sunshine Vitamin […]
Supporting Immunity with IV Nutrient Therapy
As cold and flu season approaches, many people are searching for effective ways to strengthen their immune systems. One solution gaining popularity for its quick and powerful results is IV nutrient therapy. This treatment bypasses the digestive system, delivering essential vitamins and minerals directly into the bloodstream for faster and more complete absorption. Why is […]
Boost Your Immunity: The Power of Healthy Eating for Your Family
As cold and flu season sets in, maintaining a strong immune system becomes more important than ever. One of the best ways to support your family’s health is through clean, nutrient-rich foods. By reducing processed sugars and focusing on wholesome, natural ingredients, you can give your immune system the fuel it needs to fight off […]
Unlocking the Sunshine Vitamin: The Vital Importance of Vitamin D
Vitamin D is a unique nutrient because our bodies can make it with a little help from the sun. When our skin is exposed to sunlight, it synthesizes Vitamin D from cholesterol. It’s like our bodies are little solar panels, converting sunlight into a form of Vitamin D that we can use. Learn about vitamin D benefits, sources, and deficiencies.
Best Natural Treatment for PANDAS/PANS from a Naturopathic Doctor
The world of PANDAS/PANS can be a very frustrating ones tarting with trying to get a medical professional on your side to help support your child in need. I have many parents who either are unable to find the care they need or are currently working with their MD/psychiatrist and want to explore natural supportive […]
Why you need to consider naturopathic treatment for tics
Most people with tic disorder or Tourette Syndrome have not tried natural medicines like supplements, herbals and dietary changes, to help with their symptoms and underlysing cause. Here are 10 reasons why you should consider natrual treatment for your tic disorder or Tourette Syndrome: Natural remedies can help reduce the frequency and intensity of tics: […]
Healthy Eating for Autism – learn why it’s so important
As a parent of a child with autism, you have to decide every day what food they should eat. As much as it may be difficult to stay in line with a healthy diet for your child due to busy lifestyles and shuttling them from therapy session to therapy session, the importance of diet cannot […]
Why is the paleo diet so great?
The paleo diet is a way of eating that focuses on whole, unprocessed foods that were available to our hunter-gatherer ancestors. This includes meats, seafood, vegetables, fruits, and nuts, and excludes grains, legumes, dairy products, and processed foods. One of the main benefits of the paleo diet is its emphasis on whole, nutrient-dense foods. These […]
Insider Look at the Nutritional Treatment of PANDAs
Obsessive compulsive behaviour, anxiety, terror, phobias, tics, irritability, mood swings, developmental regression, sleep problems, and hallucinations are all symptoms of PANDAS, a crippling neuropsychiatric disorder that emerges unexpectedly in childhood. This variety of symptoms are thought to be brought on by an autoimmune reaction to a Group A streptococcal infection. However, the precise aetiology and […]
4 things to do NOW for your child with Autism
Whether your child was just recently diagnosed with autism or perhaps they were diagnosed years ago with a developmental delay, there are some great services available to help support their needs behaviourally like ABA (Applied Behavioural Analysis) and IBI (Intensive Behavioural Intervention). Unfortunately, you may have already felt that there is not a lot of […]
Have you Been Bit by a Tick? 5 Facts you need to know!
If you’ve recently been bit by a tick and don’t know where to start, here’s some interesting facts you should know. Lyme Disease is the #1 tick borne infection in the US Lyme Disease is caused by Borrelia Burgdorferi The acute “viral like” illness includes symptoms of fatigue, sore throat, swollen lymph nodes, arthralgias – […]
What is a Functional Medicine Doctor?
What is a Functional Medicine Doctor? A functional medicine doctor looks at your body as a single integrated entity, functioning to maintain balance. When there is imbalance in one system it effects so many areas in the rest of your body that may cause issues or imbalances. For example, if you have chronic diarrhea you […]
Nurtition for Autism – 5-Day Smoothie Challenge
Even in the past 3 years we have seen many scientific studies on the benefits of a healthy diet on behaviour and cognition in autism. Gluten-free, casein-free, and modified ketogenic are amongst the most recently studied. In clinical practice I use a specific autism diet that is a combination based on Derek McFabes research, the […]