Reprogramming Your Genes

Everyone goes through life with a certain amount of "baggage" — an inheritance that's both physical and emotional in nature. When it comes to our physical inheritance (our genes), many individuals feel that there's not much they can do to change matters. But "DNA" doesn't spell "destiny" — and we do have the ability to influence how our genes respond to our environment.
It's so important that you realize that we can communicate with our genes and get them to change their behavior — we talk to them all the time through our nutritional choices and the patterns of our emotions, whether we realize it or not. Where our metabolic set point and weight are concerned, we can start by having a conversation with our body — paying attention to our emotions, our nutrition, and our exercise.

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About Your Blood Pressure

When you get your blood pressure taken, the cuff of a sphygmomanometer (not so easy to pronounce; I know) is placed manually over your brachial artery, the largest artery in your arm, and inflated by a pump. This compresses the artery and stops blood flow. The air in the cuff is slowly released while the practitioner listens with a stethoscope. As the pressure in the cuff deflates, blood begins to pulse through the artery again. The first sound the stethoscope detects is called the systolic pressure, or peak pressure. This is the pressure that gets exerted when your heart beats, pumping blood from the arteries to the veins. Diastolic pressure, or resting phase, is the pressure in the vessels in between heartbeats. It is the lowest pressure and the last sound picked up by the stethoscope.

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Phytotherapy, a Gentle Approach to Healing

Phytotherapy — the use of medicinal plants to heal and restore balance — is an age-old tradition that is slowly gaining more interest in the United States and other parts of the world. And in my opinion, it's been a long time coming. Plants hold truly amazing healing properties and some of the most exciting research is being done around how plants can act to naturally balance hormones. As we learn more about the underlying mechanisms of phytotherapy, science has been able to increase its effectiveness.

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Your Appetite, Your Weight & Your Hormones

Alot of clients come to us having complaints of MINDLESS eating with little awareness of hunger, only to realize that “handful” of chips turned into having the entire bag! Did this ever happen to you?

On the other side of the spectrum, some clients present to us telling us that usually they are so caught up in their busy day that they forgot to eat altogether, only to suddenly discover they were absolutely ravenous!!!

If you relate to the latter, have weight problems, read on...

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