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Rediscover Your ‘Normal’ During Menopause
Menopause is a topic that does not often cross our minds in our youth, nor is it often openly discussed at any time of life. This seems odd when in the United States alone, approximately 1.3 million women become menopausal each year. Yet the discussions around the...
How to Maintain a Healthy Diet During Chemotherapy and Radiation
Being diagnosed with cancer and undergoing chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy is an extremely difficult time physically, mentally, and emotionally that can have severe implications on your body’s nutrition. Maintaining a healthy diet during chemotherapy or...
How to Age Gracefully Without Pain, Fatigue, or Foggy Memory
Aging is a beautiful part of the human experience because the collective years of our youth add up to an abundance of wisdom and experience that should now make our lives easier. Yet with all that wisdom we still believe that aging inevitably comes with chronic pain,...
Looking After Your Sexual Health When You Have Cancer
As humans, sex, sexuality, and intimacy are vitally important for our wellbeing and overall health. The closeness felt through the act of intimacy has been shown to trigger hormones that reduce stress, lower blood pressure, boost immunity, and improve sleep. However,...
The Unique Benefits of Seeing a Naturopathic Doctor
Like the conventional medical system, naturopathic medicine is based on the core principle of “First, do no harm”. Naturopathy sees the mind, body and environment as a whole. A Naturopathic Doctor in Vaughan honours the body’s innate wisdom to heal by providing...
Looking After Your Body and Mind Over the Holidays
The holiday season is, for many people, the most wonderful time of the year, usually filled with social gatherings and opportunities to bring people together. This year things likely won’t look the same as the season brings added stress, work deadlines, sleepless...
Busting Stress: an Integrative Medical Approach
We underestimate the power of stress. We choose to see it as natural, and even helpful, in being productive in our family and work lives. And these days, with both of these lives often being lived at the same time in the same place, perceiving stress as a positive is...
5 Reasons TCM Practitioners use Acupuncture
Pauline Sok Yin Hwang R.TCMP Acupuncturist and Chinese Medicine Herbalist Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is one of the world’s oldest systems of medicine. Its practice is thousands of years old, and its popularity continues to rise as more and more people seek out...
Immunotherapy: an Integrative Approach to Allergies and Food Sensitivities
The immune system is our main line of defence against infection and disease, and it also defends the body against foreign invaders in the form of an allergic reaction or intolerance. In fact, it can sometimes be a little overzealous in that respect, producing...
Demystifying IV Therapy in Canada
Are you considering IV Vitamin C therapy in Vaughan and wondering what all of the fuss is about? Maybe you’ve heard about the restorative health benefits of IV drips for high energy, disease prevention, and radiant skin. IV drips are no longer reserved for emergency...