Category: fitness

Importance of Calcium Supplementation It’s been well substantiated that calcium is an essential nutrient. After protein, fat and carbohydrates, calcium is the body’s most abundant nutrient. Calcium carries the highest RDA of any other nutrient for a good reason. Calcium is required to form bones and teeth and is also required for blood clotting, transmission […]

By Ty Bollinger Since before the time of record keeping, essential oils have been used to support the body, mind, and spirit. Many ancient civilizations, including the Egyptians, Romans, Greeks and Chinese highly prized essential oils, and valued them as sources of healing to include in their traditions of medicine. These days the many beneficial […]

Now Available at our Kelowna location! 13 Outstanding Benefits of Orange Essential Oil By Marnie Clark There are few things better than the aroma of someone peeling an orange. That zesty, fresh, tangy scent makes your mouth water and sharpens your senses. Such is the power of aromatherapy! Orange is well known for its mood […]

How to Use Coffee Enemas to Detoxify & Heal from Cancer By Dr. David Jockers DC, MS, CSCS The phrase “death begins in the colon” has seemingly become more popular and provides the simplifying truth of the importance of colon and digestive health. All throughout history enemas have been used in different cultures as a reliable […]

If there’s one thing we should be doing for our skin, it’s Skin Brushing… Dry skin brushing may be the single most important therapy you add to your daily program. Your skin is your largest elimination organ. It releases a pound of waste each day and will be the first organ to show symptoms of […]

Now Offering the Doc of Detox Daily Cleansing Tea Now that the holidays are over, it’s time to get ready for the New Year. One of the best ways to start the year is by “flushing out the old stuff” and starting fresh. A lot of us make resolutions to lose weight in the New […]

Carolyn Dean MD ND | Wednesday, December 21, 2016 “’America’s Other Drug Problem’: Copious Prescriptions for Hospitalized Elderly” is the title of an Aug 30, 2016 Medscape article. You get the gist from the title and it’s a problem that I’ve been writing about for years. As I’ve said many times, when I was in […]

Written by Honor Whiteman Published: Wednesday 23 November 2016 Antidepressant medication is considered a primary treatment for major depression, but the drugs fail to fully work for more than half of Americans who use them. Now, researchers suggest a way to boost their effectiveness: breathing-based yoga. In a pilot study published in the Journal of […]

History tells us that today’s chickens are descendants of wild fowl that roamed the dense jungles of primeval Asia. Thousands of years later, France’s King Henry IV stated in his coronation speech that he hoped each peasant in his realm would have “a chicken in his pot every Sunday” (a quote later paraphrased by President […]

  Hybertson BM1, Gao B, Bose SK, McCord JM. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22020111 For the past 40 years or so, oxidative stress has been increasingly recognized as a contributing factor in aging and in various forms of pathophysiology generally associated with aging. Our view of oxidative stress has been largely “superoxide-centric”, as we focused on the pathological sources […]