Helpful Tips Towards Leading a Healthy Life

Build Resilience and Decrease Stress

In my practice I’m seeing many patients struggling with stress and stress related concerns like sleep issues and mood changes. With the world the way it is now, no wonder stress is such a concern for so many individuals. I’ve included some tips below to......

Tick Talk

When it comes to Lyme Disease, timing is crucial! ———————————————————————————— By Vera Fuke-Wilson RMT, FSHM, DSHomed This past Thanksgiving, while visiting a friend in Ottawa, we hiked with our dog in the backwoods behind our friend’s home. While we did not realize it right away,......

Winter Superfoods

Sweet potatoes: packed with beta-carotene, vitamin A and potassium. Try to purchase smaller, sweeter organic potatoes. Turmeric: It’s powerful active compound curcumin has been pitted against painkillers, anti-depressants, heart and diabetes medications. Ginger: One of the most well researched anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory natural compounds are......

Treating Lupus with Acupuncture

Greetings Dear Readers, If you or someone you know is living with Lupus there is hope.  Oriental medicine has had a lot of success with many types of auto-immune diseases such as Lupus. Systemic Lupus Erythmatosus (SLE) is an auto-immune disorder  in which the immune......

Low Back Pain – Recent Evidence-Based Guidelines

Recommendation 1:Given that most patients with acute or subacute low back pain improve over time regardless of treatment, clinicians and patients should select nonpharmacologic treatment with superficial heat (moderate-quality evidence), massage, acupuncture, or spinal manipulation (low-quality evidence). If pharmacologic treatment is desired, clinicians and patients......

Warming Tea – Golden Milk

As a naturopathic doctor, I will frequently recommend turmeric to patients because of all of the health benefits that it has. A great way to get a larger amount of turmeric is by consuming golden milk, which refers to tea that has been made from......