Prevention & Lifestyle Blog
How To Safely Manage A Fever
For some, when your child gets a fever, it can be a horrifying experience. Unfortunately, we’ve all been programmed to think that fevers are dangerous, and that they need to be treated and eliminated with medication. Yet what’s important to understand, is that when a...
My Child Is Sick. How Do I Effectively Treat A Viral Infection?
When it comes to antibiotics, the medical profession is finally making a shift. Remember when you were a child, every time you got sick, had a bad cough, fever, or flu, you’d head to the doctors and be prescribed a round (or more) or antibiotics? Sometimes it would...
My Top 5 Healthiest Foods
As a naturopathic doctor I regularly help people integrate healthier nutritional habits into their lives. Whether it’s preventative or to help treat an acute or chronic disease, nutrition plays a pivotal role in better health. Helping patients navigating diet and...
Sick Or Healthy, Why Does Your Immune System Matter?
We all hear about how important it is to have a healthy immune system. For the most part, the assumption to keep this defence system ticking along is so that we can all do our best to fight and avoid colds and flu’s during the winter months. What many people may not...
The Most Effective Naturopathic Cold And Flu Home Remedies
As I’ve previously mentioned, naturopathic medicine has extremely effective ways to prevent and treat colds, flu’s and viruses (see here). At the first signs of feeling run down, visiting a regulated naturopathic doctor will likely be all you need in order to beat a...
Preventative Medicine And Stress
As a naturopathic doctor, I hear it all the time: “I’m stressed, I’m burnt out, I have no time for me, and I have no idea what to do about it”. One of the number one influences on a person’s current state of health is exactly that; stress. Although providing patients...
5 Things You Need To Do At The First Sign Of Getting Sick
We all get sick. Unfortunately, some of us get sick more often than others. But regardless of how often a cold or flu gets you down or how long it keeps you ‘under the weather’, here are 5 things you need to do at the first sign of getting sick. Slow Down When...
Mustard Plaster To Heal Cough, Colds, And Pneumonia
Hippocrates, the father of medicine, was the first to introduce and make use of what we call the mustard plaster. Mustard seed, as a traditional plant, has been used for thousands of years as a treatment for respiratory illness as well as rheumatism (arthritis and...
Top 5 Immune Boosting Foods
Most people only think about their immune system when they get sick. Rather than waiting until the cold or flu bug hits, we should all be constantly priming our immune systems to help reduce and prevent getting sick in the first place. It’s not always possible,...
How a Healthy Immune System Fights Cancer
We all know it’s our immune system that helps take care of fighting off infections and colds. But did you know that outside of working to keep you healthy during ‘flu season’, your immune system has many other important functions? One of the critical actions that it...
5 Easy Changes You Can Make Today To Slow Your Risk And Growth Of Cancer
The thought that ‘everything in life causes cancer or damages your health’ is not a proactive mindset that any one person needs to live by. Realistically, there is a lot out there that can negatively impact your health, however there are just as many opportunities (or...
Integrative Cancer Care Should Be a First Resort, Not a Last Resort
With any approach to medicine, the most gentle and least invasive therapy should always be a first priority. Patient care and quality should be one of the most important concerns, regardless of the disease or treatment goal. Naturopathic integrative care principles...