Keep Your Home Toxic Free With These 3 Natural DIY Holiday Scents
Keep Your Home Toxic Free With These 3 Natural DIY Holiday Scents

One of the best things about the holidays are the smells! Pine, warm vanilla, caramel latte, frosted eggnog – you can’t help but smile when these scents fill the air. These heavenly aromas often come from plug-ins or candles that might not be as therapeutic for us as we think. Most candles actually contain toxins that fill your room with chemicals! Candle emissions have actually been compared to diesel fumes and secondhand cigarette smoke! Most cheap candles have lead, paraffin, and fragrance in them that aggravate our respiratory systems and cause a whole host of health concerns.

Fortunately, there are still numerous ways to make your home smell great, without the side effects.

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General HealthSprigs Lifenon toxic, lifestyle, holiday, christmas, essential oilsComment
What Chronic Stress Is Actually Doing To Your Body & How To Stop It
What Chronic Stress Is Actually Doing To Your Body & How To Stop It

We have all been told stress is a killer, but how many of us take this statement literally or relate it back to ourselves. I think many of us live with so much stress on a daily basis that we just assume we are immune to its effects. Unfortunately, until we are actually brought face to face with a life-threatening situation and/or condition we don’t tend to take this statement very seriously. In the hope that something will actually speak to you and help you avoid future issues, lets take a look at some of the effects stress does have on the body.

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General Health, Dr. MomSandra Ellis, MHstressComment
Understanding How Viruses Work
Understanding How Viruses Work

We are surrounded by viruses. These tiny microorganisms are in the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink. We absorb them through our skin when we shake hands. When we have a conversation with people, we pass viruses back and forth. When we walk in the dirt, we absorb them through our skin. There are hundreds of millions of different kinds of them, and they are literally everywhere.

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How to Heal from Adrenal Fatigue
How to Heal from Adrenal Fatigue

The smallest changes added up to a big thing--the restoration of health to my adrenal glands. It can seem impossible to quit drinking coffee or to ever feel strong and energetic again, but I encourage you that it is possible! The choice to change your health is always in your hands.

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What Your Headache is Trying to Tell You
What Your Headache is Trying to Tell You

Headaches can be caused by many different things. In very rare instances, they can be a sign of something serious going on such as a brain tumor. However, in the majority of cases, headaches are merely a symptom to let us know that something is out of balance in the body and many of these imbalances can be traced back to dehydration. In this article we will take a look at some of the conditions which can trigger a headache, what we can do to alleviate the problem and we will see how many of them tie back to dehydration.

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General HealthSandra Ellis, MHheadache, dehydration, circulation, constipation, General HealthComment
Pregnant with PCOS
Pregnant with PCOS

I never knew how much I wanted to be pregnant until I was told that there was a chance it might never happen. A few weeks before my wedding, I was 22 and getting some routine bloodwork done at the gynecologist. I was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) and told there was a 30-40% chance I would have children naturally. How was I going to tell my husband to be this? How would this affect our marriage? The doctor had said if we were going to have kids, that we needed to start trying right away because the chances would decrease even more after I turned thirty.

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Women's Health, Pregnancy CareJoel Mindlerpregnancy, Women's HealthComment
Food As Medicine
Food As Medicine

We’ve all heard the saying “you are what you eat”, right? But how deep have you actually thought about it? We tend to think of it on the more superficial level such as, you eat fatty food, you’ll get fat, or you eat greasy food you’ll have greasy skin or hair, you eat lots of protein, you gain lots of muscle. However, I want to invite you to truly embrace the phrase and look at it almost as if through a microscope, so to say.

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General HealthTatiana Motafood, nutrition, healthComment
Unmasking COVID-19
Unmasking COVID-19

A few weeks ago, I was speaking to someone much older than me. I was talking about COVID-19 and how crazy the world has become. Trying to be positive, I said, “the world seems crazy right now, but I am sure you have seen times like these within your life.” Without even letting me finish, she cut me off and said, “I have never seen anything like this. It seems like the world has completely lost its mind.”

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Children's Health, General HealthJonathan LaudonChildren's HealthComment
How to Reduce Your Child’s Toxin Load As They Go Back to School
How to Reduce Your Child’s Toxin Load As They Go Back to School

It is that time of year again when the little one’s head back to school and we begin our more structured routines. But this year is a bit different than past years with more concerns about the spreading of viruses. Schools will be taking more precautions on cleaning and sanitizing to eliminate the breeding and spreading of germs. That might set a lot of minds at ease knowing that these extra measures are being taken, but for us who understand that these cleaning products are harsh on our systems might be a bit worried for our children.

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Children's HealthNatalie Semmelmann | Functional Nutritional TherapistChildren's Health, school, toxinsComment
Survival Guide for Awkward and Embarrassing Birth Moments
Survival Guide for Awkward and Embarrassing Birth Moments

There are so many things in life we can’t predict or control! Childbirth comes with a colorful variety of these things. From pooping yourself during childbirth, tearing your downstairs, your baby getting “stuck”, or your vagina never being the same again, there are some inevitable, uncontrollable, awkward, and uncomfortable birth moments that remind us how little control we have over our bodies. But perhaps the worst thing is that there is no knowing whether or not a series of things will happen to you during childbirth.

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Women's Health, Pregnancy CareTatiana Schmidtpregnancy, lab, birthComment
Baby Blues or Something More?
Baby Blues or Something More?

The baby blues, feeling sad and a little overwhelmed after having a baby is a real thing that most moms experience. Even more than that, the baby blues, also known as postpartum depression, are a much bigger problem than most mamas care to admit. Thousands of women are silently suffering from postpartum depression and don't recognize the symptoms or are too scared or embarrassed to speak up.

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Women's Health, Pregnancy CareCrystal Uptain, CNM MSNWomen's Health, pregnancy, PostpartumComment
Daily Super Greens VS Sustain
Daily Super Greens VS Sustain

We just launched our newest product, Sustain, and have been getting a lot of questions regarding how they differ from our Super Greens!

Sustain™ is what you reach for instead of something unhealthy to curb cravings.* Sustain™ helps you feel great and supports you on your health and weight loss journey.*¹ It is designed to make a difference right away. The Daily Super Greens can also help you feel better right away, but are designed to help you get more micronutrition if you are not eating 10 or more servings of fruits and vegetables (which most of us are not). Daily Super Greens help to fill in the nutritional gaps and give your body the nutritional building blocks to support a healthy immune system and detox response.* Daily Super Greens also have probiotics and enzymes to improve your digestion and gut health, and help you get a little healthier every day.*

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General HealthSprigs Lifenutrition, General Health, sustain, Super GreensComment
Simplify Your Life With Sustain
Simplify Your Life With Sustain

Sustain is a quick win for your health. Too many people have one bad snack and then tumble down into bad habits simply because they were hungry and busy at the same time. Sustain is what you can reach for instead when you are hungry or craving something. It is designed to be functional nutrition to help you with a combination of things that your body needs right away to feel great.

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Jonathan LaudonComment
The Story of Sustain
The Story of Sustain

A year and a half ago I spoke to Perry, head of our research and development department, about the possibility of creating Sustain. Perry has been part of our team for 3 years and has led the effort to reformulate the Daily Super Greens and other products. Perry is one-part chef and one-part nutritionist; he loves to make healthy things taste delicious.

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General HealthJonathan Laudonsustain, greens, productComment