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I am continuing my discussion about minerals that your body needs, and today I am talking about potassium. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers fu...

In this episode, Anita Adams shares her journey, from everything falling apart around her at the start of the pandemic to learning to look inwards and listen to her soul voice in order to be guided into closing down her business and starting on a completely new path. A path that now teaches others how to listen to their soul's voice, and tap into their inner guidance, using Three Guiding Prin...

Today I'm talking about sodium. Yes, salt. Partnered with magnesium and calcium, and potassium, these four make up our key electrolytes that are so important to our health. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover...

I'm continuing the conversation around minerals your body needs, and today I'm talking about calcium. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functio...

I'm starting a new series here over the next few weeks talking about minerals that your body needs, and I'm going to kick it off today by talking about magnesium About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxi...

This month my theme is peace, and so today I’m sharing with you my tips on how to achieve more joy and less stress this holiday season. With less stress, we can achieve more peace.  The holidays are such a busy time of year, and it can feel like overwhelming, but these tips to help you create a structure to work with! If you are someone that gets overwhelmed with all the events...

Today I'm talking about Arsenic, and many of you have probably heard of Arsenic as a poison, and it's definitely something that we do not want in our bodies. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic lo...

I am continue continuing to talk about what toxins are lurking inside your body and today's toxin of the top five that I lab test for and see showing up on a regular basis amongst my clients is cadmium. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back in...

I am continuing to talk about common metal toxins found in the body and today I'm talking about lead. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functio...

Join Suzanne Sutherland, my thermographer, as we share the differences between thermography, ultrasound, and mammograms when it comes to preventative breast health. Having a mammogram to find a lump isn’t prevention…and by the time the lump is big enough to be detected by a mammogram, you will need some form of treatment for breast cancer. What if you could do it differently and detect i...

Today I want to focus on mercury toxicity. Mercury is another nasty heavy metal that can cross the blood-brain barrier and become a neurotoxin. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then r...

Today I want to talk to you about aluminum toxicity in the body as I start my series on heavy metal toxins. Aluminum is one that can become a neurotoxin, as it can pass through the blood-brain barrier into our brain, and I don't think anybody wants metal toxins running around in their brain. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of thei...

Today I'm starting a series on heavy metals. What heavy metals are lurking inside your body? And what are they doing to your health? The five heavy metals that I'm going to be talking about over the following five health hacks are aluminum, mercury, lead, arsenic, and cadmium. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues....

This episode is something I’ve never done before, but I’ve put together a compilation of all the amazing holistic practitioners and coaches that I’ve had on my show since March 2021, to have this content all in one place for you, and show you the depth and breadth of holistic health.  Listen to all the wisdom in just this one show and then you can go back and listen to the full episode o...

Today I am talking about the number six and number seven reasons of why women experience hair loss, and these are nutrient deficiencies and inflammation About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” a...

Today I am talking about the fifth reason why women may experience health loss and that is something called PCOS or polycystic ovarian syndrome. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then...

Today I am talking about the fourth reason women can experience hair loss, which is very similar to why most men experience hair loss. The reason is the conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone or DHT. This can happen in women when we have high levels of testosterone, which is rare, but it can happen. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the...

Join Dinalynn Rosenbush and I as we discuss Dinalynn’s journey with Lyme Disease back to a full recovery. Dinalynn volunteered her time to be on my podcast, to share this story to give others hope and let them know that there is more than one way to heal from Lyme Disease and that just because your symptoms aren’t classified as “typical”, doesn’t mean you can rule out Lyme Disease. &nbsp...

Today I'm talking about the third reason that women can experience thinning hair and hair loss, and that reason is low thyroid. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxi...

Today, I want to ask you, what are your hormone levels, your estrogen levels, your progesterone levels, do you know what they are? I ask this because they are a factor in hair loss as well, having both high or low estrogen can actually cause a woman's hair to start thinning, and this can happen at any age. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root...

Today I want to celebrate because it's important that we celebrate baby steps and big milestones in our life. Guess what today is? One year since I started doing health hacks, and over the course of that year, I have committed to three episodes of my health hacks every single week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. There is so much content that I've put out over the course of the last year to help yo...

In this episode, I share with you 7 branches of holistic medicine upon which the Integrative Health Organization is built. My purpose in sharing this information is to show you that there isn’t just one way to heal your body, there are likely multiple options if you know where to turn to for guidance. Some of these forms of medicine have been around for thousands of years and while they...

Today I'm talking to you about one reason that women suffer from hair loss. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing t...

Today, I'm going to talk about why men lose their hair, because there's one main reason why men start losing their hair versus women, it's not as cut and dry. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic l...

For the next few episodes, I'm going to be talking about hair and hair loss, because I have been frequently asked about it lately. I will be talking about hair loss for men, and also hair loss for women. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back i...