Yeah, it's as bad as it sounds, if not worse. About thirty years ago when I was a newer obstetrical nurse, I remember a medical student,...

Almost every day I get a new client request and essentially every one asks about insurance or Medicaid. It's interesting to me for a...

Vitamin A is a vital nutrient in our diet. It supports vision, the immune system, and all of our major organs. It's important for...

We know that plant "roughage" is important to our health, but most of us still fall far short of meeting our daily dietary...

If you've nosed around holistic approaches to caring for your teeth, you've certainly come across oil pulling as a potential for...

As a new clinician, nearly twenty years ago now, managing endocrine concerns was a bit intimidating. It seemed that a rather significant...

There is no judgment here. I am daily working on my own challenges for creating a healthy and happy life. But having been in functional...

Certainly if you've worked much with the elderly, or as a nursing assistant in a nursing home, you've worked with those who have...

Most healthcare consumers, I would assume, are well aware that we have a profound, unnecessarily so, epidemic of chronic disease, as well...

The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any high-income country and Indiana has the third worst rates of maternal...

This may prove to be a rant post that I'll later delete, and I try really hard not to be overly reactive about the gross dysfunction in...

My grandmother had big knuckles in her fingers, Herberden's nodes, and when I turned thirty, many years before even finding my first grey...

Women's health has long been a specialty focus in my practice, largely become I lean into caring for those who aren't heard, who feel...

As a teenager, I did get the occasional #pimple, sometimes a few at a time, more often across my forehead or down my nose. It seemed I...

Evening primrose oil is commonly used as an alternative therapy, popular among women's health providers and midwives, and it is rich in...

Aging has its privileges, but one of the reasons it isn't always embraced is because we are more inclined to joint pain, and general...

My oldest daughter, now 30 years-old, started her menses when she was crazy young. She was prepared though, not real bothered by it, nor...

Oh, I can't believe I haven't written about this before because this little nasty condition plagued my childhood. I remember crying late...

An inherited cardiac syndrome, Brugada syndrome is a condition that predisposes individuals to ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac...

It's been many years ago now, but a client introduced me to dry brushing and through the years, it's been a practice I've certainly...