Author: ESS_Naples
Planning Ahead for Healthy Lunchboxes
Planning Ahead for Healthy Lunchboxes
Even though it’s summer break, it’s a good time to begin efforts on improving school lunches for your childre [...]
How to Augment the Immune System in response to childhood vaccinations
History of Vaccines
The vaccine controversy has been a source of heated debate amongst the natural and traditional medical and parenting communitie [...]
Words that Heal: Communicating with Kids
A teen boy was agitated with staff on a pediatric psychiatric unit – cursing, threatening, pacing – so he was sent to a small room to calm down o [...]
What’s Your Widget? (AKA – What Are You Really Selling?) – Part 2.
Widget. A pretty funny-sounding word, don’t you think? According to Dictionary.com, a widget is defined as “a small mechanical device, as a knob or [...]
Autoimmune Disease and Naturopathic Treatment
It was not very long ago that I became interested in Naturopathic Medicine. I always thought if I was ever to become a Naturopathic Physician I would [...]
Can Love Survive Commitment?
Yes, Love CAN survive commitment and in the right environment continue to grow and flourish throughout our life span. Isn't that just such good news, [...]
Harp: “The Ultimate Musical Massage”
Many people may be unaware of a unique and deeply therapeutic musical intervention, Therapeutic Harp Music. Imagine yourself lying on a massage table, [...]
Optimizing Athletic Performance: Identifying and correcting shortcomings for tennis players and golfers
Every sport creates areas of strength and areas of imbalance and weakness for the athlete. This is mainly due to a select group of muscles working rep [...]
Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory and autoimmune disease which affects the Central Nervous System. In particular, it attacks the myelin sheat [...]
Fibromyalgia: Fact or Fiction
It seems that now more than ever we hear about diseases that baffle the medical community. One of the more common ones today is Fibromyalg [...]
Migraines Aren’t Just in Your Head
Symptoms of a migraine are hard to ignore. Migraine headaches have an onset of significant pain that can last hours even days. Typically these one-sid [...]
Soothing Support for Reflux
Heartburn: those who have experienced the extreme discomfort that can occur when acidic stomach contents move upward into the esophagus know how well [...]
Break Through to the Next Level with EMDR
Emotional baggage: we all carry it around with us. We think of it as our negative, neurotic thoughts that rear up and try to block our way or swipe at [...]
Walking- It’s Not Only For Exercise
The benefits of walking are well known by most people as a first rate exercise, but walking is also especially good for the little known and [...]
Everybody Needs A Body Sometime
Did you ever stop to ask why we are given bodies in the first place? They don’t last forever, tire easily, need sleep, cause much grief and pain, malf [...]
Giving the Gift of Story: Spoken Treasures for the Family
When I was a boy growing up in Central Pennsylvania, every summer my mother would pack up the station wagon and drive all five of us kids 100 miles so [...]
Eco-luxury travel in Napa Valley at The Inn on First
When you think of Napa Valley, what comes to mind? Images of picturesque rolling hills with miles of vineyards, world class restaurants with food and [...]
Your Behavior Can Affect Your Body
Have you ever wondered why you’re more prone to infection when sleep-deprived and sleepier when you have an infection? Do you know why people feel dep [...]
Can Love Survive Commitment?
Yes, Love CAN survive commitment and in the right environment continue to grow and flourish throughout our life span. Isn't that just such good news, [...]
Autoimmune Disease and Naturopathic Treatment
It was not very long ago that I became interested in Naturopathic Medicine. I always thought if I was ever to become a Naturopathic Physician I would [...]
Natural Approaches for Managing Head Injuries
We have all had the unfortunate experience of bumping our heads and seeing stars at least once in our lives. Head trauma, even from minor incidents, c [...]
Bugs: The Natural Way to Keep Them at Bay
Bugs! Do I respect them as part of Nature’s miraculous design…yes. Do I like them…not really. Despite daily intake of supplements reputed to be bug de [...]
Chronic Cancer Pain: New Hope for Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy (CIPN)
Pain is “An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience, associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.” IA [...]
Treating the Cause of Kidney Stones
Each year almost three million people will visit their doctor and more than half a million will go to the emergency room for the distinct severe flank [...]