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Stress Contributes to Chronic Health Conditions
Stress Contributes to Chronic Health Conditions
Authored by Jesse Haas, CNS, LN As I was driving out to Hutchinson for my weekly farm fix at Loon Organics yesterday, MPR was reporting on how stress contributes to poor health and poor health contributes to stress. You can easily empathize with the stress of someone with illness, but...
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Sara Jean Barrett, N.D.
Sara Jean Barrett, N.D.
What made you choose to pursue your profession? While pursuing my undergraduate degree at Georgia Tech I worked as a research assistant investigating breast cancer. I felt that in our research we were looking at the wrong end of things. We were looking for modern treatments for cancer but we...
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Know Your Numbers
Know Your Numbers
Authored by: Dr. BarrettYou just had some labs done for your corporate wellness program and the results came back normal. This means you are healthy and don’t need any additional tests, right? Wrong. Corporate wellness screenings offer very minimal insight in to your overall health. Many screenings only look at...
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Holiday Survival Guide
Holiday Survival Guide
Authored by Jesse Haas, CNS, LN​The holiday season is a wonderful chance to spend time with family, relax, and recharge. Or not. For many of us, the holiday season is stressful and exhausting, not to mention how it derails our good eating habits. In truth, the holidays can really a...
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Sun safety and Sunburn Tea

Authored by Dr. BarrettWith summertime right around the corner I want to address some fears about sun exposure. First of all we need sunlight. Sunlight regulates our sleep wake cycle by affecting the melatonin levels in our brain. Sunlight also

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Seasonal Eating: the Foundation for Health

Authored by Jesse Haas, CNS, LN photo from Emma Freeman Eating seasonally available foods is a hallmark for traditional and holistic medicine. From Ayurveda to Traditional Chinese medicine, Western herbalism to North American tribal medicine, this simple concept provides the

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Holistic and Integrative Care is the Answer to Chronic Disease

Authored by Dr. Barrett The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) reported in January that health costs are eight times higher for those with chronic disease. Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death and disability in the United States and

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Fighting Fair

Authored by Bri Dunbar Every couple fights. Every single one. But often times couples come in to therapy when the fighting has gotten out of control. Maybe it is happening too often. Maybe the fighting has gotten too mean and

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