Category: Conditions
Bug Bites, Tick Bites, and Bee Stings: What Every Parent Should Know
It’s that time of year again when the days are longer, weather is warmer, and the kids go outside to play. It’s also the same time of year that bugs, [...]
Are You Suffering with Pelvic Pain?
Every day thousands of women are dealing with chronic pelvic pain. It can be debilitating and difficult to handle on a daily basis. Pelvic pain can [...]
Does All Disease Start in the Mouth?
There are certain bugs or bacteria in the mouth that are always associated with periodontal disease. To differentiate the ‘bugs’ in my patients' mouth [...]
Maintaining and Strengthening Relationships During Infertility Treatment
As the saying goes, marriage takes work. In fact, all relationships are work, but in truth it is the external factors that test our most precious ties [...]
Pelvic Pain and Manual Therapy
Do you suffer from pelvic pain? Is it chronic or does it just present when you are performing certain activities, such as riding a bicycle or having s [...]
Nurturing Your Relationship While Being a Working Mom
One of the most challenging jobs in the world is being a mom. Factor in being a working mom and that job just got a little harder. It’s easy to lose [...]
Creating a Conscious Relationship with Your Partner
Is there a formula for success in relationships? Have you ever wondered how some couples sustain healthy, happy, loving relationships while others se [...]
Why Have I Lost Interest in Sex?
I sat down with Dr. Deanna Cherrone, founder of Natural Health & Healing in West Hartford, who has been studying and practicing functional medicine fo [...]
Libido – Beyond Hormones
Sexual health is often overlooked in medical settings. While many doctors and patients realize the importance of discussing mental, physical, and emot [...]
Do you Feel Like a Train Wreck?
When was the last time you went out with your friends or your partner to do something fun? Did the experience cause you any pain? Were you feeling the [...]
Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) – The Critical Full-Body Protector
If you're older, your body becomes more and more challenged to
convert the oxidized CoQ10 to ubiquinol . . . Further, as you get
older your body l [...]
Is Stress Due To Your Mindset?
I don’t know about you, but at least once a day I hear someone—and yes, some days that someone is me—say “I’m so stressed out!” or “I can’t handle thi [...]
Treating Children’s Seasonal Allergies Naturally
Seasonal allergies, also known as allergic rhinitis, are an overreaction to substances that you breathe, causing an inflammatory response that affects [...]
Tick Talk – Prevention is, by Far, the Best Medicine
Since the late, 1970s, ticks have become a common part of the life of the New Englander. We learned back then that ticks were the vector, or carrier, [...]
Harness the Power of Your Body!
Bad posture is a modern day health epidemic that is much worse than most people understand. More often than not, we find ourselves slouching at some [...]
Allergy Season is Upon Us
The April rainfall along with all this snow melting is going to make for a very wet season and lots and lots of mold. Rainy days increase mold spores [...]
Retrain Your Body to Prevent Allergies
Allergies occur when the body reacts inappropriately to a harmless substance. The reaction is a learned error in the immune system that creates a vari [...]
Vitamin D3: A Study-Supported Essential Supplement (Part Two)
Researchers are beginning to find that low levels of vitamin D may be linked to other diseases, including breast and colon cancer, prostate cancer, [...]
Good Bacteria…Bad Bacteria…What You Need to Know
Many people cringe at the thought of bacteria, and are shocked about facts relating to them. For example, studies have shown the average adult human b [...]
When Food Sensitivities Take Over: The Mast Cell Connection
It seems that in this modern era of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), processed foods, and chemically laden products, there is an astronomical in [...]
Oral Reflexology: How Your Mouth Reflects your Overall Health
Reflexology has become a common practice in natural health. The concept of focusing on one part of the body to heal another is not new, and there is c [...]
The Right to Know…About What You’re Eating
Here we are in 2015, and there is so much to learn about our food and healthcare in America. Our food AND our health care, as they are one and the sam [...]
Autism Spectrum Disorder is Increasing at an Alarming Rate
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is now being diagnosed in 1 in every 68 children, according to the most recent data (2010) from the Center for [...]
Want to Increase Your Libido and Longevity?
The Chinese people and many Asian cultures have learned to tap nature’s marvelous resources for what some call Radiant Health. They have studied the e [...]