MS and Lifestyle Management!

March is MS Awareness Month

March is the MS (multiple sclerosis disease) Awareness month. I want to talk to you about the importance of lifestyle management in managing MS (multiple sclerosis disease) There are several aspects of how we live that make a difference on whether you maintain your mobility, improve, or start to decline. A lot of these things […]

Diet and MS: The Wahls Protocol!

March is MS Awareness Month

  It’s March, which is designated as the MS (multiple sclerosis) Awareness month. This has become near and dear to my heart because I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis about three years ago. I’ll work with you and show you how I have managed to keep my symptoms at bay for the last several years […]

How Do I Keep My Immune System Healthy During the Winter Season?

How Do I Keep My Immune System Healthy During the Winter Season?

It’s cold , and I have a lot of people coming in with an Influenza A Symptoms and asking, “How do I keep my immune system healthy? How do I keep from getting all these things that everyone else around me is getting such as the influenza A virus or colds?”   In my practice, […]

5 Tips for Treating Influenza!

Elderberry

How do I prevent getting Influenza? It’s January and the people who have been visiting my practice, the last couple weeks, have symptoms related to a cold or Influenza. Its flu season, it’s definitely in full force, and I’m hearing it from people who are local as well as people who live around the country. […]

Are Allergies the Reason I’m Sick all the Time?

Allergies

Why Do I Keep Getting Sick? I get asked this question a lot. People who come in to my practise; they sometimes claim “I get sick over and over. Just as soon as I get over one illness, I’m moving right into the next one. I always nurse a congestion, stuffy nose, head pressure – […]

Beat Colds, Flus & Inflammation with this Simple Remedy

Woman with the flu

Naturopathic medicine focuses on treating the body and person as a whole, and finding underlying causes of diseases and disorders. In addition, prevention is also integrated into every protocol, as it is a major principle in naturopathy. When illnesses such as the flu, a cold or upper respiratory infections strike, the symptoms may be a […]

Study Finds No Benefit in Using Echinacea to Treat Respiratory Infections

Echinacea flowers

Children who take echinacea (Echinacea purpurea) at the initial onset of a cold or lung infection do not experience a reduction in the duration or severity of symptoms, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (2003;290:2824–30). This is the first large study to examine the effects of echinacea in the […]

The Flu: 9 Ways to get Better Naturally

Woman sick with the flu

The flu has been receiving a lot of media coverage this year because of the troubling statistics related to it. While it seems that this year’s flu is more severe than previous years, there are still many ways that you can protect and treat yourself naturally. Frequent hand washing is one of the easiest and […]

The Flu & Vitamin D

Sick Woman with a Cold

Sean E. Heerey ND, MA, CCC/SLP There is a chill in the air. It gets darker earlier. We no longer need to run our air conditioners. Summer is gone and fall is upon us. That also means flu season is upon us. Radio and TV remind us of this constantly. If you walk by a […]