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How to Resolve Anxiety and Depression Through Diet | My First Huffington Post Article

I'm thrilled to be spreading the word about alternative mental health perspectives on Huffington Post! I wrote about dietary changes and how they can resolve anxiety and depressive symptoms in a...

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Fix Your Brain by Going Gluten-Free

Why You Need Gluten-Free

After you read this, you’ll want to know more including the how’s and why’s of a gluten-free lifestyle. Don’t miss the world’s first ...

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Heal Your Body, Heal Your Brain: Top 4 Therapeutic Foods

A tour of 4 therapeutic foods that can be used medicinally, right from your kitchen, for optimal health and relief of depression, anxiety, cloudiness, and fatigue.

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New Research: Birth Control Pill, Depression and Autoimmunity

The evidence that our brain health depends on our immune systems and hormones continues to pile up. Given this interconnectedness, dubbed psychoneuroimmunology, it makes sense that interfering with...

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Dear Class Moms. My Top 5 Optimal Children's Health Tips

Dear Class Moms:

It was great to see all of your smiling faces at last week’s potluck. There’s nothing quite like connecting over the shared mission of motherhood – of working so...

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It's Not All In Your Head: Estrogen Dominance

How hormonal imbalances, including estrogen dominance, can impact mood in women.

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The Making of a Medical Dissident: My Path to Functional Medicine

Those who know me would say I’ve always had “issues with authority.”

Fiercely motivated by my insistence on being a know-it-all, I have an incredible hunger for information. This...

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Sugar Imbalance | It's Not All In Your Head

How sugar imbalance can look like anxiety and what to do about it.

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Vitamin D for Your Brain

Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin that influences T regulatory cells, critical for immune modulation. Consistent with inflammatory models of mental illness, vitamin D deficiency has been...

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That Naughty Little Pill: Can Birth Control Cause Depression?

Are You On the Pill?

It was early in my actualization as a righteous, post-adolescent that I began to think of birth control as a woman’s right. It would be years before I would learn the...

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The Head Bone's Connected to the Body Bone

We have long been told that “low levels” of serotonin in the brain equal bad and sad, and we have been educated by the Pharmaceutical industry about the opportunity we have, through the...

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My Journey Home to Self

It was 3 a.m. and the fluorescence of the hospital bed “nightlight” was not very flattering to either of us. Shawna had delivered her first daughter 34 hours ago and I was called, as a...

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