by Jessamine Sothard | Mar 18, 2024 | Blog, Cognitive Health
The vagus nerve doesn’t typically get a lot of attention in conventional medicine, but it actually plays a vital role in orchestrating your body’s response to stress and inflammation. And it doesn’t stop there: The vagus nerve also influences gut health, ...
by Jessamine Sothard | Mar 4, 2024 | Blog, Lifestyle
According to Google search statistics people are far more worried about dying from cancer than they are of dying from heart disease. Breast cancer is searched 100x more often than heart disease. Yet in 2019 1.4% of women died of breast cancer and 30% of women...
by Jessamine Sothard | Sep 18, 2023 | Blog, Lifestyle
Let’s raise a glass to your good health – but let’s make the contents of that glass alcohol-free. For many years, it was widely accepted that moderate alcohol use was actually healthy, in the absence of alcohol dependency or health problems exacerbated by...
by Jessamine Sothard | Sep 11, 2023 | Blog, Lifestyle, Uncategorized
Many health trends come and go, and at times it can be difficult to determine fad from fact and healthy from unhealthy (we’re looking at you low-fat and Atkins diets). In college, my friends and I would consume lots of licorice, Fig Newtons, and Snack Wells. They...
by Jessamine Sothard | May 16, 2019 | Blog, Lifestyle
Intermittent fasting is a diet cycling between regular periods of eating and regular periods of fasting, and has been linked to lower risks of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and aging. People have been fasting for years to lose weight, but what if we told you that...
