As an Integrative Health Practitioner I have come to realize that we simply haven't been taught how to optimize our health, and that the average person has habits that are negatively impacting their health, due to this lack of knowledge, through no fault of their own. Public health and our school system simply don't teach us enough about nutrition, sleep, stress, gut health or how interconnected our bodies are! Modern life has us more sleep deprived, stressed out and the sickest ever, and I believe it is time to bring this education to you, so that you CAN be empowered in your health and you can then make the right choices for you and your family. The choices you make today impact your future 1 year, 5 years, 10 years + from now. It is never too early to start looking after your health, as Health is your TRUE wealth....without it what do you have?
I use this podcast to support my passion project - non-profit, Girls Matter (www.girlsmatter.ca), breaking the poverty cycle 1 girl, 1 family, 1 village at a time. The mission is to keep girls in school and stop teenage marriages, because school isn’t free in over 50 countries around the world and when parents have to make the difficult choices of feeding their kids or paying for school, food wins. And when the girls hit their teen years, they will often be married off so that someone else becomes responsible to feed them. Keeping girls in school instead creates a generational ripple effect, because an educated girl is more than twice as likely to ensure her own children are educated. Educating girls also grows the GDP of countries, when they get into the workforce. This is how together, we can change the world. Guests on this podcast are invited to donate to this important cause. Listeners are invited to donate as well. Learn more here in this short video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3-xqzJLZW14om1PhFClcU_oRSZ8zgip/view?usp=share_link
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 r…
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 inspira…
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 lower…
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…
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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 love…
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…
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 thei…
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 d…
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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.
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Melis…
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…
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 …
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 numbe…
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 issu…
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 horm…
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 flashe…
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, po…
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 bloodstrea…
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. Becau…