Did you know that every single part of your cells are affected when you sleep? There are different stages of sleep, 4 to be exact, and the REM stage sleep in the most important. If you don’t get REM sleep then your body won’t be able to focus on detoxification and healing of your …
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While I was in Harrisburg, PA for the Arthritis Foundation’s Advocacy Day this year, one of our ‘asks’ revolved around the development of biosimilars. I’d be hard pressed to find an autoimmune patient who doesn’t know what a biologic is, but many of them aren’t as familiar with what a biosimilar is. My first reaction to …
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As much as I’d like to give you my HONEST and REAL oppinion on this product, Doterra has reached out to me and made me change the wording in this post COUNTLESS times. If you’d like to know my thoughts on the situation, please visit this post. SO I have to be honest . . …
[su_note note_color=”#f3fafe” text_color=”#1e1818″ radius=”16″] Before you read, you should know: I actually wrote this post over 2 months ago and have been reluctant to post it. At first I thought I didn’t want to post it because of the whole embarrassing stigma of online dating. Then I thought I didn’t want to post it because …
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Since October 2013, I’ve been experimenting with different dietary changes to help manage my psoriatic arthritis symptoms. Honestly, I’ve found it quite fun experimenting with different foods, learning how to cook with new ingredients and really honing in on how my body works. To be fair, it hasn’t always been ‘fun’ – it can …
I was sitting in my kitchen watching my brother chow down on Kellogg’s Cinnabon cereal and I started questioning the “Good source of vitamin D” claim the box was making. Did you know that if you live in the USA and live above Georgia, you’re more than likely Vitamin D deficient. It’s estimated something like ¾ …
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When you have a chronic condition, it’s extremely important that you feed your body the right fuel that it needs. When you add in extra toxins, it makes an already compromised environment even more compromised! So, natural peanut butter… it has to be healthy, right? I mean it says ‘Natural’. It has to be all …
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Fish oil is a natural blood thinner and before any procedure a doctor will usually advise you to stop taking it. I never realized how much benefit I was getting from taking so much fish oil. I knew it definitely helped my inflammation, but overall I never realized how much it helped me feel better. …
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I have a journal that every few pages has a prompt that you can write about if you want. I usually take the opportunities to explore the questions because they’re usually things I don’t write about on my own. While sitting on the beach, St. Pete Beach to be exact, I started writing on the …
[su_quote cite=”New Study Shows Biological Differences In People With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” url=”https://www.yahoo.com/health/new-study-shows-biological-differences-in-people-112238126322.html”]“Every time you have a thought, you have a biochemical reaction — and those biochemical reactions also interact with your immune system,” she says. There are studies, too, that show immune system changes with exercise, meditation, sleep, and even with the micro biome: “Understanding these interactions …