Better Than Caffeine What could possibly be better than caffeine for productivity? Whether it is in your favorite style of coffee, diet Coke, Dr. Pepper, or an energy drink, it wakes you up, makes you more alert, gets you moving faster. All factors for greater...
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Drink Water
If you go without any water, you'll die in a few days. Clearly, water is something we need to function. You don't have to look far to see the (contradictory) advice of how much and what kind of water to drink. Let's unravel this to come to a personal guideline. What...
More than a buzzword: Structured Water
I remember strolling through convention halls were people were proclaiming the virtues of structured water. If you would only buy and drink a certain bottled water, you would feel marvelous. I never got it. It seemed contrived and expensive. But as a Naturopathic...
Cuppa Joe – or No?
“Coffee is an amazingly potent collection of biologically active compounds,” says Dr. Walter C. Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health. Naturopathic medicine uses plants with biologically active compounds as medicines. And medicines have particular uses for...
Dandelion – Spring’s Gift
It's Spring! No doubt you have noticed the coming of spring with plant life pushing upwards from the earth. The sun is rising earlier and we can too, to participate in the active nature of spring. We can work with the profound cyclic effects of the seasons on our...