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Today I want to talk about the vagus nerve. What is the vagus nerve? Well, it's a really important nerve that is connecting your gut to your brain. 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 want to talk to you about your second brain. Yes, did you realize you actually have two brains and your gut is your second brain. 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 re...

As we start out 2022 with grand intentions, I want to invite you to also slow down.  Instead of running around like a headless chicken trying to get it all done, learn how to slow down and get into your “zone of focus” to actually get more done in less time and buy back time in your day!  Wouldn’t you love to have more time in your day for yourself?   I...

Rounding out my week on sugar, I want to talk about sugar alternatives. 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 tes...

Today I just want to talk about what drives your sugar cravings. Sometimes people think it's they have weak willpower. And it's not all about willpower. It's about the signals from the body when the body is out of balance. 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 bri...

I want to talk to you about sugar because it's in everything and sometimes we don't even know where it's sneaking into our diet, and how it affects our mood. 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 “tox...

Julie Boyer, my guest, hijacked this first episode of 2022 and turned the tables, and interviewed me! It’s a super fun episode as we discuss my journey into health and wellness, as well as podcasting, and my 2022 plans for both my business and the podcast, as well as taking time to celebrate the successes of 2021!  You’ll get to know more about Melissa and her work in this episode! ...

This week I've been talking about sleep, and today I want to talk about sleep comfort. Because when our room is comfortable for sleep, we tend to be able to sleep through the night instead of waking up. 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...

Today I want to talk to you about blue light and how it's impacting our melatonin 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 your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional med...

Today I want to talk to you about why we all need bedtime routines, and not just for our children. 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 funct...

This episode dives into the power of our beliefs.  The beliefs that were created in our subconscious mind prior to the age of 8, can in many cases hold us back from living our best life as adults. Our conscious mind doesn’t’ have access to our subconscious filing cabinets though and so changing our beliefs to better serving beliefs is more than just about thinking “positive thoughts”.&nb...

This week, we've been talking about stress and your sympathetic nervous system and your parasympathetic nervous system and how you can't be in both at the same time. So how do you turn on your parasympathetic nervous system in order to be able to digest your meals, and get good sleep, your rest, and digest state?  About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to...

Today I'm talking about the parasympathetic nervous system, your rest and digest state. 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 medic...

Today I'm talking about our sympathetic nervous system and our parasympathetic nervous system. 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 functiona...

In this episode, I discuss the role of your conscious subconscious minds – and how it’s the subconscious that is really the boss and how our childhood programming impacts our adult beliefs, thoughts, feelings, actions, and results!  When we understand this, we can choose to reprogram those beliefs to better serving ones, but first, we must know what we need to override, and I share those...

Today I'm talking about getting the mold out of your home. Don't keep living with mold. Check out the book "The Mold Medic" and take the steps you need to take to get the mold out of your home. 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 balanc...

Today I want to talk about mold in our environment. We can get mold spores in our window sills within the house, due to moisture from a lot of rain at this time of year. Mold can be caused by water damage in the house. We breathe that in. We can also have mold in some of our grains and nuts and seeds because of the way that they're stored. These are just some areas to be aware of, not panic over....

Today I want to talk to you about mold. Because we're getting into the fall season, there's mold out in our environment. And sometimes that mold can get into our body, we breathe in the spores all day long. And they can cause health issues. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor c...

Ken Streater is one of those rare people who now choose to live life his way.  It wasn’t always like that though, he got sucked into the corporate world, feeling beaten down and chewed up, feeling stuck, but then realized he could change that.  It took some time, but he figured it out and was able to build an even bigger business, serving more people as a result of finding alig...

Today I want to talk about starting your day with a shake. The reason that it's such a great way to start the day is that you can pack your shake full of good nutrients and vitamins from fruits and vegetables, etc. But then the blender is doing a lot of the work for you and digestion doesn't have to work as hard. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to t...

What counts as hydration? Does your morning cup of coffee count as hydration, does that glass of wine at the end of the day count as hydration? No. What counts is hydration is actually water and it can be flavored with lemon or lime juice. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cu...

I know we are notoriously bad at as human beings is hydrating enough and it can be confusing to know how much is the right amount for me? Well, I have a great formula for 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...

In this episode, I dive into a topic near and dear to my heart and mind!! The voices in our head!  How do we respond to them, do we listen to ourselves or talk to ourselves, and which is better?   Understanding the growth mindset and closed mindset work of Carol Dweck is really helpful, as is knowing the 4 questions devised by Dr. Daniel Amen to eliminate the ANTS in...

You might be wondering, why do you even bother with detoxing? Well, here's the thing. I like knowing that I am creating a body that is inhospitable to disease. 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 “t...

That's something that we so often forget, most of us only chew our mouthfuls three to five times, and we could actually be chewing them 20 times or more. 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...