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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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How to Support Ovulation

Authored by Dr. Brittany Stamer Credit is Corina Ardeleanu from Unsplash Ovulation is vital to the health of menstruating women. Ovulation is the only way women make a significant amount of progesterone. Progesterone is the hormone responsible for creating the

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How Health Coaching can Help You

Authored by Olivia Beisler Ron Lach on pexels.com I recently sat down and made a list of frequently asked questions about health coaching. I want to share this list with you because the field of health coaching is rapidly growing

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How Does Birth Control Prevent Pregnancy?

Authored by Dr. Brittany Stamer Photo Credit: Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition Let’s discuss how hormonal contraception works to prevent pregnancy. Normally, the two dominant sex hormones that are produced during a menstrual cycle are estrogen and progesterone. They are mostly

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Honor Yourself this Season for Happier Holidays as a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) by Lynn Salmon-Easter, Reiki Master

Authored by Lynn Salmon-Easter, Reiki Master Photo by Elina Sazonova from Pexels.com With the holiday season upon us, I want to reach out to those of you that identify with being highly sensitive and reassure you that you can create

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