Author T. Harv Eker uses an interesting analogy of a printer to explain your financial results in life: “For example, let’s suppose you’ve just written a letter on your computer. You hit the print key and the letter comes out of your printer. You look at your hard copy, and lo and behold, you find… Continue reading →
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Help Us Protect Your Health Care Rights
We need your help! Please take a few moments to read this. Taking action (see below) is extremely easy and takes just minutes. Over the last several years the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care has been working with our profession to have Naturopathic doctors fully regulated under the Regulated Healthcare Practitioners Act. That’s the… Continue reading →
A New Seasonal Allergy Remedy
Last year we showcased a little allergy remedy in the “Things We Love Section” of our newsletter. Lufeel is a very safe and very effective homeopathic remedy for seasonal allergies and hayfever that came in a tablet format and a nasal spray. This year, the maker of that remedy is no longer distributing in Canada, so we… Continue reading →
The Clarity of a Vice-Check
One of my mentors recommends his students do a “vice-check”. In this exercise you pick a vice–like drinking coffee, drinking alcohol, eating sugar, or being excessively busy–and you take a 30 day break from it. His premise is that if you find it seriously difficult to abstain for those 30 days, you may have found… Continue reading →
4 Keys to Boosting Your Sports Performance This Season
The warm, sunny weather is driving Collingwood and area athletes outdoors to re-engage in their activities of choice. The runners are running, the cyclists are cycling, and the swimmers…well they still have a little wait for the ice to get out of the bay. Brrrrrrr. While it’s easy to get caught up in the granular… Continue reading →
The Iodine-Thyroid Connection: How To Test Your Iodine Levels
According to the 2012 Iodine Status of Canadians paper, nearly 30% of Canadians have mild to moderate iodine deficiency. Symptoms of low iodine look remarkably like hypothyroid symptoms—weight gain, fatigue, depression, mental impairment and fibrocystic breasts. That’s not surprising, because iodine is an important component of the thyroid hormone—you can’t make it without iodine. Why does this matter? We’ve… Continue reading →
It’s Detox Time: The Two Main Steps to a Spring Cleanse
We have found through the years that the idea of detoxification and cleansing is one that people are inherently attracted to. After a winter full of being cooped up in the house, breathing stale air, not exercising enough, holiday drinking, and eating “comfort foods” there is just something compelling about the idea of cleaning out… Continue reading →
International Day of Happiness
The first day of spring always makes me very happy, so I was thrilled to discover that March 20th is also the official “International Day of Happiness”. It was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012 to recognize that the pursuit of happiness is a fundamental human goal. I love the idea. But how do you create… Continue reading →
Preventing Allergies Before They Happen
Three cheers for saying good-bye to dark days and cold temperatures! The sweetest days of winter are upon us and spring is just around the corner. Naturopathic doctors are big on prevention–in fact, it’s one of our core values. Preventing a problem or symptom is always so much easier that treating it. So, as we… Continue reading →
Be Tortoise Healthy
We all know Aesop’s fable of the Tortoise and the Hare. The turtle, tired of the rabbit’s boasting, challenges him to a race. The rabbit is so confident in his ability to win that he stops halfway through and naps. The turtle plods along slowly and consistently, passes the sleeping rabbit, and wins the race. This fable… Continue reading →