Trips to the sunny south are what makes a Canadian winter bearable–at least to a cold-hating, sun-loving person like me. 🙂 As result, we’ve traveled to many different countries under many different circumstances ranging from 5-star resorts to 0-star bunks. In some of these situations, it can be challenging to stay well. Here’s what I do… Continue reading →
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Breakfast Ideas for Food Intolerances
We do a lot of food intolerance testing in our office. Patients come in with symptoms of IBS, sore joints, headaches, fatigue, skin issues and all manner of other inflammatory conditions, and often the first place we look is food. It’s not uncommon for those tests to show issues with gluten, dairy, or eggs (or all… Continue reading →
Understanding Your Hormones in a Post-40 World
Valentines Day is approaching, and it brings to mind thoughts of beautiful flowers, delicious chocolates and LOVE. For many of our patients in their 40’s and beyond, however, this time of year leaves them wondering just where their thoughts of love have gone. Or, if the thoughts are there, what happened to the get up… Continue reading →
Is Sitting the New Smoking?
Dr. James Levine, director of the Mayo Clinic-Arizona State University Obesity Solutions Initiative and inventor of the treadmill desk, is credited with coining the phrase, “Sitting is the new smoking.” Levine has studied the impact of sedentary lifestyle for years. Here’s his take, summed up in two sentences: “Sitting is more dangerous than smoking, kills… Continue reading →
Shingles and IV Vitamin C
Every year many Canadian suffer from a painful case of the shingles. Shingles is a re-activation of an old chicken pox virus (the herpes zoster, or HZ) that is hiding in the dorsal root ganglion, a little sack where our nerves leaves our spinal column to go out to our body. When our immune system… Continue reading →
Beating the Winter Blues
Unless you are one of those “love to ski” types, winter can be a long, cold, boring, cold, dark, cold season. For many of us it’s hard to be happy. For others, the winter season is more then just a little difficult–they suffer from seasonal affective disorder or become clinically depressed. There are many symptoms… Continue reading →
A New Face (And New Rates!)
StoneTree would like to welcome our new student clinic intern Candice Soldaat to the team. Naturopathic medical students complete an internship period where they see patients under the supervision of an experienced doctor in practice. Candice will be seeing patients under the supervision of Dr. Tara on Friday mornings, as part of her final year… Continue reading →
Just Keep Swimming
I remember reading a study many years ago that I thought was absolutely ridiculous. The authors of the research wanted to answer the question, “What makes the people who quit smoking, successful at quitting smoking?” Their answer? The more times a person quit, the more likely they were to be successful at quitting. I remember… Continue reading →
What Christmas Means to Us
Here’s what the StoneTree team is thinking about this Christmas… “Christmas lights, the Grinch, tourtière, stockings full of wrapped presents, clementines, bubbles with canned peaches and an absolute belief in the “magic” of it. It is all the things that happen EVERY year no matter what that connect us as a family to all the… Continue reading →
Christmas Hours
The StoneTree Clinic team will be in the house over the Christmas break to make sure that you are able to get care for those pesky colds and flus, and for convenient follow-up visits during your holidays. There will be someone around to take care of you on the following dates: Mon Dec 22 Tue… Continue reading →