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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...

I would love for you to just be able to spend time with family and loved ones. And just be in gratitude for all that you have for all of the loved ones you have around you. 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 dis...

I just want to remind you of the power of taking a break to breathe. You always have your breath with you it is completely free. If you slow down long enough, just for five minutes to breathe, it has an amazing calming effect on your body About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cur...

Today, I want to talk to you about the power of a love bra or a love cake. We all have those holiday gatherings, generally with family because we can't choose our family and we can choose our friends that we are obligated to go to. And there may be people there that trigger us. And how do we cope with that? About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the roo...

Do you love yourself? Have you ever stopped to consider that?  In this episode, I dive into self-love, and self-worth and steps to develop both.   The way we show love to ourselves can show up in many ways, from the nutritious food we put into our body, to the boundaries we set around our self-care time, and the people we hang out with that lift us up!  There are...

Another thing that causes stress on our body over the holiday season, is the fact that we tend to be drinking more alcohol than usual again because there are so many social events. 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...

One of the stresses on our bodies during the holiday season is food. That could be because you have food intolerances, and you're eating out a lot and you're not in control of your food intake because it's being made by other people. Maybe it's just the sheer volume of food because there are tons of baking tons of invitations, et cetera, et cetera. So how do you better manage the intake of food ov...

Today, I want to talk about your calendar. For this time of year its about controlling your calendar instead of having your calendar control you. 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...

Whitney Kobrin, Love Coach, saw a need in our world today – the need to first help women adjust their beliefs and expectations about themselves and their love life before they could have a successful lasting relationship. It was just about matchmaking, but about helping women become the person they were always meant to be.   We also dive into the expectations vs reality of Valentine...

Back for episode three of managing your stress through the holiday season, and my message today is to do a little bit at a time. 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 th...