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The Invisible Weight: Are Toxins Blocking Your Energy and Clarity?

Year’s ago, I started writing about Chronic Toxin Overload (CTO). CTO isn’t just about what’s in your environment—it’s about what’s blocking you from living your best life. The energy dips, brain fog, and chronic fatigue could be signs that toxins are preventing you from being fully engaged in your work and personal life. Why High Achievers and…

5 Simple Health Hacks to Transform Life

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Today I’m here to share some simple, effective ways to dramatically improve your health without spending all day or breaking the bank. If that sounds like something you need, stick around—because these five hacks are designed to move the needle on your health and help you live a more vibrant, fulfilling life. We’ve all experienced…

Top 5 Signs You May Have Chronic Lyme Disease

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Imagine waking up every single day not just tired, but utterly exhausted. It feels like you’ve been running a marathon in your sleep. Your body aches, your brain is foggy, and you’re struggling to remember even the simplest things. Sound familiar? If it does, and no one around you seems to understand what you’re going…

This Week in COVID-19 Podcasts

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I’m so grateful to all my fellow health professionals who have reached out and had conversations with me. I’m honored to be able to share my expertise and passion with their audiences and each conversation I have requires me to learn more and look at things differently. I hear their questions and reactions to what…

Hand Washing 101

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The number 1 thing we can do to protect ourselves from Coronavirus (at least the #1 thing we know at this time) is to wash our hands for at least 20 second with soap and water. If this isn’t possible, we should wash our hands with an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that has at least 60%…

Coronavirus COVID-19 Update

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Coronavirus COVID-19 & Tips to Stay Safe during the Pandemic In January of this year, I was interviewed about how concerned we should all be about the emerging Coronavirus in an article called How to Protect Yourself from Coronavirus. Back then my recommendation was to remain calm and watch how things develop. At that time,…

Preventing Tick Bites

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In order to be well prepared to prevent tick bites (and tick-borne illnesses, such as Lyme disease), it’s helpful to know some basic facts about ticks and Lyme disease: Deer ticks transmit Lyme disease as well as Babesiosis, Anaplasmosis, Borrelia miyamotoi disease and Powassan virus. Lyme disease is the most commonly reported vector-borne illness in…

A New Angle on Detoxification

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Brain health, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Lyme, Sleep, Toxins

Why Do We Sleep? Scientists and physicians long debated why we sleep. Today we know sleep is required for consolidation of long-term memories and improves learning. It is a key component of hormone synthesis. Sleep allows for the growth and repair of muscles and tissues. And now we know sleep is critical for brain detoxification.…

Cleansing the Brain

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Brain health

The Glymphatic System has recently been discovered by neuroscientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center. The findings were published online in Science Translational Medicine. This new system has been dubbed “the glymphatic system” since it acts much like the lymphatic system but is managed by brain cells known as glial cells. “Understanding how the…

Tips for Preventing Tick Bites

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Below are a few important tips for preventing tick bites. This information has been compiled from discussions with Lyme experts and information from the CDC, the CT Agricultural Experiment Station and the Housatonic Valley Council of Elected Officials websites. Tick pictures courtesy of the Housatonic Valley Council of Elected Officials. The first step in preventing…