Sensory Overload can cause fatigue, inability to fight infections, and poor digestion. It can contribute to high blood pressure, high cholesterol and painful muscle tension too. Here's why. Sympathetic and Para-Sympathetic Nervous Systems Humans have two nervous systems – the sympathetic and the para-sympathetic. We evolved primarily to use our calmer para-sympathetic system. That’s where we eat, hunt, work, sleep, make love, create shelter, ... Keep Reading >
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10 Tips and Supplements for Adrenal Fatigue Repair
The correct supplements for adrenal fatigue changed my life more than once. First diagnosed with low cortisol after a heat stroke in 1987, I fell to almost complete adrenal failure in 2001 after severe Epstein Barr Virus. My goal has always been to repair the adrenals, not just take things for fatigue. I never went on the steroids I was told I'd need. I took rebuilding supplements and made changes in my life. Want more ... Keep Reading >
5 Calming Herbs for Anxiety, Sleep and Stress
Here are my favorite herbs for anxiety, sleep and stress. Use these herbs separately or in combinations. Get to know them individually and take them frequently, even daily. My Primal Diet - Modern Health podcast on this topic will help teach this to you too. The player is at the top of the page... Why do you need these? Because we are STRESSED in the modern world.... Too many sensory inputs, and task overload! Wireless ... Keep Reading >
Rubin Naiman on Treating Insomnia Naturally
I spoke with Dr. Rubin Naiman on treating insomnia naturally, and looking at the meaning of sleep, dreams, sleep medications, and the effects of modern lifestyle on sleeping. Sounds like a pretty normal conversation so far, right? But surprises await! Dr. Naiman has a unique background, and his approach to sleep may fascinate you. For example, our conversation on Sleep and Nutrition was NOT about vitamins, food or diet, ... Keep Reading >
Anxiety and Addiction
GABA is our main inhibitory neurotransmitter, and a key regulator of both anxiety and addiction. It helps us stay in that calm, healing, para-sympathetic mode, and avoid the sympathetic flight or fight mode. It governs dozens of functions in the mind and body. Along with Serotonin, GABA provides the brakes in our body, much as Dopamine and Acetyl-Choline provide the "go-go". Like yin and yang, we need "go" and "slow" to be ... Keep Reading >
GABA Deficiency Symptoms
Gaba deficiency symptoms are diverse and can affect the whole body. If you struggle with pain, anxiety, IBS, reflux, sweaty hands or dozens of other health concerns, you may be showing Gaba deficiency symptoms. Gaba and Serotonin are considered the calming or "braking" neurotransmitters. Dopamine and Acetylcholine are the energizing or "accelerating" ones. The "go-go's" and the "slow-slow's" as I call them! Our 21st ... Keep Reading >
Understand and Manage Anxiety Without Medication
Anxiety often goes unrecognized in ourselves and our children. What is anxiety? How do I manage anxiety without medication? How did I get this way and what are anxiety symptoms? Here's an introduction to my podcast on anxiety. Read this, then click on the podcast link at the bottom of the page for more..... Culturally, we are stressed and anxious. Overworked, under-rested, and over-extended to the max! Whatever ... Keep Reading >
5 Clues You Have Chronic Anxiety
It's hard to admit, but it wasn't until my health fell apart (again) in my early 50's that I was diagnosed with chronic, severe anxiety. Like the proverbial goldfish in the bowl, we don't "see" the water we swim in. It's simply the way we/it/they are, and we often assume everyone feels or lives like this. "Isn't this a normal part of life"? "Doesn't everyone feel like this"? Am I normal, or abnormal?? Do YOU have chronic ... Keep Reading >
How Love Heals… The Emotional Side of Healthcare
I'm looking deeper lately into some chronic health issues. Asking myself how love heals, and what is the emotional side of healthcare. I do know this.... When I get overworked, worry too much, or get caught in one of life's little traumas (leaky roof, sick animal, etc.) it can just get to be too much. Know what I mean? When we're under pressure, our immune system stops working. When we don't sleep enough, our hormones ... Keep Reading >
Health Nuts Podcast – my Interview on Anxiety
Here's my Health Nuts Podcast on anxiety and neurotransmitters with Mary Vance, NC and Caitlin Weeks (the Grass Fed Girl). They interview me on our amazing Neurotransmitters and how they affect every cell of the body. I explain the neurotransmitter system in easy to understand language and talk about anxiety too. Maybe you'll relate to more of this than you think! Many people don't realize they ... Keep Reading >
Neurotransmitters 101
Read up on neurotransmitters 101 and you'll know more about GABA, Serotonin, Dopamine and Acetylcholine than your doctor might... These four neurotransmitters govern much of the body, and imbalances in any of them create an extremely diverse set of mild to severe symptoms. Rather than treat 3, 4 or 6 different issues, wouldn't it be easier to find the common theme between them and look to support that? The four main ... Keep Reading >
What’s the Best Temperature for Sleep?
What's the best temperature for sleep? If you want to live longer, have more energy and have your brain, hormones and immune system still working, here's one idea for better sleep. A big key to longevity is great sleep. We do our repairs at night and make hormones, enzymes and other supplies we use up during the day. With poor sleep we will have digestive, hormone, immune, and energy problems. And we won't make new cells to ... Keep Reading >