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We invite you all to discover health and wellness in a way you’ve never experienced before. On our blog, you’ll find Dr. Hart and Dr. Aoki will provide tips, tutorials and articles that cover many topics.
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3 Diet Hacks for Lyme Disease
Many patients come into my office wanting to know what they should eat to help them recover from Lyme Disease. I wish it were so easy, just give out one diet and call it good. Over the years I have found that healing requires personalization and diet is no different. Let's look at 3 diet hacks for dealing with Lyme Disease we use at our clinic.
Why Are You Sleeping on the Couch?
As a career, fatherhood, and marriage took root in my life, my daily naps and lack of sleep were becoming an issue. I set on a path to find a few methods which would bring me into that glorious land of slumber, deep sleep, and rejuvenation. Today I will share those methods with you.
Dealing with Dandruff: A Chronic Illness Side Effect
When we are sick, we have our main symptoms: fatigue, brain fog, pain, neurological symptoms, and the list goes on. But we also get side effect symptoms. These symptoms are not usually life debilitating or harmful but annoying. One of these side effects is dandruff. While there may be many overall causes to dandruff, two immediately stand out.
The Courage to Heal
Sometimes, on a healing journey, your symptoms may flare, you may be overwhelmed by your therapies, by your diet, by you supplements. You might be going through a detox reaction or emotional release and in this stress your brain may fall back into old, unhelpful routines. It takes courage to push past the routines, to push past the flare-ups, and into something greater.
The Secret of Essential Oils for Injured Brains
Are you confused about how to help heal your brain? Have you read about essential oils but have no idea how to use them? Essential oils can seem "woowoo" and far fetched. The truth is that these tiny oil bottles can hold a research backed boost to brain healing that few people know about.
Team. Family. Tribe.
Have you worked with a healthcare practitioner but felt more alienated, more confused, and more alone afterwards? Did it feel like you were being talked at but not with? Working as a team creates a synergy that energizes healing on all levels, inside and out. This blog is about the four quandrants of healing.
Feeding the Sugar Fiend
What does the Cookie Monster and chronic illness have in common? Sugar cravings. These cravings make it difficult to stick to a healing diet. They may lead to binge eating, energy rushes and crashes, bloating, symptom flare-ups, and may even feed the chronic illness we are trying to heal. So what leads to sugar cravings and what can you do about it?
Are You Too Inflamed To Detox?
Do you react to everything? Do you have increased anxiety, pain, brain fog, neurological symptoms? Does every detox attempt go poorly? You may be too inflamed to detox. Specifically, you may have neuro-inflammation.
Three of the Easiest Tips I use to Improve My Digestion
As many of my patients may know, digestive issues were a chronic complaint for me in the past. I grew up on the Standard American Diet, was constantly on antibiotics, scarfed down my meals, which all led to a constant state of digestive distress. I would like to share three easy tips that you can start right now to improve your digestion.