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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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Put Your Blues Away for Another Day

Authored by Jesse Haas, CNS, LN Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a depressed mood that can happen during the winter when the days are shorter and darker. The lack of sunlight is thought to contribute to symptoms of SAD including

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Put down the Melatonin – Let’s talk about Sleep

Authored by: Dr. Barrett Struggling with insomnia? Before you go reaching for melatonin think about what could be the underlying cause. In the world of alternative medicine it can be easy to slip into ‘green allopathy’ where you swap out

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TTC, trying to conceive, pre-pregnancy, fertililty, pregnancy, natural pregnancy, naturopathic medicine, herbs for pregnancy, diet for pregnancy

Authored by Dr. Hulsing Are you thinking about starting or growing your family in the future? Perhaps you wonder if you are doing everything you can to enhance your fertility and increase the chances of a healthy pregnancy and baby.

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March Melts Usher in Allergy Season

Authored by Jesse Haas, CNS, LN As soon as the snow melted, my throat started itching and sneezing become my preferred past time. Allergies are the pits so I am thankful mine have improved over the years. There was a

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