Rethink Cancer, Hope Lies In Awareness

Rethink Cancer, Hope Lies In Awareness

Cancer is the scariest, most deadly and misunderstood of diseases. One in two people will develop cancer at some point in their lives. There’s no question that cancer is on the rise and it’s time to rethink cancer. Cancer treatment needs to be customized for...
Chronic Inflammation and Your Body

Chronic Inflammation and Your Body

Chronic inflammation in the body has become a modern widespread epidemic. It is the source of many diseases including cancer, obesity and heart disease, which make it the leading cause of death in the U.S. With our overly toxic lifestyles, one has to be mindful in...
Preventing Oxidative Stress

Preventing Oxidative Stress

WHAT IS OXIDATIVE STRESS? When your body does not have enough antioxidants to neutralize free radicals, oxidative stress happens. Free radicals are unstable molecules that react with other substances in your body to damage cells or create abnormal ones. As your body...
Stress: Your Adrenals & Thyroid

Stress: Your Adrenals & Thyroid

Your adrenal glands are part of your endocrine system and they produce hormones that regulate your blood pressure, electrolyte balance, blood sugar, immune response, and digestion. Both your adrenals and thyroid are regulated by the hypothalamus and the pituitary...
Another Look At Lyme Disease

Another Look At Lyme Disease

In the past 10 years Lyme Disease has been diagnosed in all states except Hawaii. The Lyme disease incidence rate of 87.9 diagnoses per 100,000 Maine residents is the highest it has been in the state in the last decade. It is perhaps not surprising that Maine is also...
Kicking The Bug Before It Bites

Kicking The Bug Before It Bites

There I was ready to start off my powerful week, had my fitness and work planned, I was ready to take over the world. Until a day later I wake up with a sore throat and not the kind of sore throat you know will just go away, the one that is painful upon swallowing,...