Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!

Tonya Joyce refused to believe her doctor’s when they said she’d never walk again, she’d never talk without a stutter, never recover from a second horrific car crash.  She didn’t take on that diagnosis, she instead chose to prove them wrong.  She shifted her mindset and looked for others who had done just that, to prove to herself that she could too and to act as her inspiratio...

One of the problems with Omega sixes is they have linoleic acid in them, and that is a huge health concern for people today. In fact, if we go back to just as recently as 1959 9.1% of our calorie intake was linoleic acid, but when we get to 2008, it was already up to 21.5%. This is just far too much of this putting our ratios way out of balance. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Pra...

I'm talking about the importance of the ratio between our omega threes and our omega sixes. These are essential fatty acids that the body cannot make, and we do have to get them through our food, but we need to have them in the right ratio. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues.  Melissa neither diagnoses...

This week, I want to talk to you about omega threes, Omega sixes, and enroll inflammation plays in 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 your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa...

The theme this month is inspiration and I’m bringing you the stories of 3 amazing guests but wasn’t sure what I’d do for my solo episodes! And then I was inspired to look up the definition of inspiration and then sources of inspiration and that then inspired me to share with you a list of 20 sources of inspiration and how they have impacted me in my life and I hope they will resonate with you.&nbs...

in my last session, I explained how gluten breaks down and one of the amino acids it breaks down into is called glutamate, and that it's an excitatory neurotransmitter. But it also wipes out or lowers your natural anti-anxiety neurotransmitters. So it's a double whammy! About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. &...

One of the things that I want you to know is that one of the main proteins in gluten is gladden, which I talked about in my last session. When this is broken down, it breaks down into two amino acids, Prolene, and glutamine. 30 to 35% of the protein in wheat is glutamic acid, which can break down into something called glutamate, another amino acid, and glutamic acid has to be removed from the body...

This week I'm talking about gluten. This a spin-off of last week's episodes when I was talking about gut health because gluten is highly inflammatory, and it is one of the known triggers of leaky gut. 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 bac...

Tim shares his own powerful story of his “wake-up call”, when he found himself needing emergency surgery in a 3rd world country, and how his health doesn’t only impact his life, but those of his loved ones too. He was your average overweight 37-year-old with gut issues and symptoms he’d been ignoring. Then friends started dying around him, and another friend with cancer chose to live. To...

Today I want to talk about parasites and h pylori, and they sound horrible and scary and maybe things that you don't think about in our first world however, the reality is that 14% of North Americans have parasites and 30% have H Pylori. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues.  Melissa neither diagnoses no...

Today I want to talk about leaky gut. Leaky gut is unfortunately very common in today's world. 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 function...

This week, I'm talking about gut health. And one of our biggest issues with our gut health, our most common I should say, are people being diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome or irritable bowel disease, but I want you to know that these are actually not root causes, but they are symptoms of something else going on in your gut. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helpi...

Chronic Illness is at near epidemic levels in the Western World today, if you don’t want to be yet another diagnosis tune into this episode to learn the factors that have driven us to this point AND what you can choose to do in your own life to counter the reality of living in our modern world.  You can choose to be empowered in your health and take simple steps today to start improving...

You are not just what you eat, but you are what you absorb. And in order to absorb the nutrients from your last meal, your body has to have been able to break it down really well. 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 hel...

What happens is our body needs stomach acid, and it needs it to be breaking down food. And too many people these days are using antacids which stops your body from making that stomach acid. Not only a stomach acid used to be breaking down our food, but it's also really helpful in preventing pathogens from getting in through our mouth. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner h...

This week I'm talking about motility, and what that means is the time that it takes for your food from when you put it in your mouth for it to actually go through your body get fully broken down and then what isn't needed to come back out. This is really important to understand because when food stays in our body for too long, and our motility is really slow, it actually starts to ferment in our s...

Tricia walks her walk and talks her talk, coming from a childhood of sexual abuse and turning to alcohol as a pre-teen to “hold it all together” like the adults in her life were also doing, she numbed herself. She didn’t have the tools to process the emotions any other way.  However there came a point in her life where she realized that she had to take responsibility, not blame others, a...

Today I want to talk about estrogen dominance because it is so common these days. 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 l...

This week I am talking about hormones and how they change throughout our lives. Something that you may not know is that there are functional medicine lab tests that you can do that can test your hormone levels. 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 you...

This week I want to talk to you about hormones. Our hormones are always changing throughout our life, but how many times have you heard somebody complain about their PMS, or complain about hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, brain fog, when they're going through menopause. These are all symptoms that we are very quick as a society to simply accept as being the normal rite of passage of being a wo...

My theme this month is the power within – our body’s ability to heal itself when we create the environment for it to do so. Unfortunately, modern-day life has us too depleted, from poor nutrition, poor sleep, and high stress for our body to find its way back to balance on its own.   We also lack the education to know how our daily activities are causing these imbalances inside our b...

I've been talking about toxins this week, and one thing that you may not know is that when our body has too many toxins, the liver works really hard to try and keep those toxins out of our bloodstream What it will do is store them in our fat tissues, and one of the places, particularly as women, have a lot of fat, it's in our breasts. The toxins are getting stored in our breasts, and then on top o...

Today I want to talk to you about the choices that you're making in terms of the products that you're putting on your skin, the products that you're using in your home to clean your home, etc. Because many of these are just ladened in toxins. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues.  Melissa neither diagnos...

We need to help our liver detox and you might be interested to know what is your toxic load? I have put in the comments the link to my discover your toxic load quiz. You can start by figuring that out, and then determining if you need to be taking action to help your body detox About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health i...

Self-love is at the very basis of you living the life you love.   Do you love your life right now?  Do you love yourself right now?  These might be hard questions to read, but worth pondering on and getting curious about.  This is the topic of this week’s episode with guest, Luce Campagna, leadership and life coach who knows from her own journey, that s...