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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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The Healing Power of Ritual

Authored by Julie Schmit, MA, Energy Healer and Relationship Guide I just attended my first funeral during the current pandemic; not as a result of COVID-19, but the timing of the death made it truly challenging, nonetheless. It was my

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Taking It In Stride: How Walking In Nature With Friends Is Saving My Sanity During A Pandemic

Authored by Lynn Salmon-Easter, Reiki Master Photo taken by G. Easter I have to be honest, these days I deeply desire to see people in-person. I crave seeing my friend’s face and I long to laugh, cry and (maybe) even

Nurturing a Resilient Nervous System

Authored by Dr. Hamilton “The Protection of Nature Begins in the Mind,” Robert Luck, Heidelberg University One way of measuring our health is our capacity to be resilient. In other words, health is not about feeling strong and centered in

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Loneliness and Autoimmune Disease

Authored by Dr. Barrett This is the first article in a series exploring autoimmune disease with a holistic lens. Don’t miss upcoming articles diving into chronic infections, nutrition, hormones, environmental medicine and mind body medicine. Photo by Keenan Constance on

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