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How To Avoid A Tick Bite And What To Do The Minute You Get One

    Well we are well into summer, which hopefully means all of us are spending more time outside than ever!  Unfortunately, ticks carrying the Lyme disease bacteria (Borrelia Burgdorferi) have been found in all 50 states, so don’t be fooled into thinking it’s only something that folks in the northeast have to be concerned with.  But as much as I detest ticks, I really don’t want you to limit or stop your healing practice of connecting to Mother Earth outside daily because of a fear of ticks. To me, this healing practice of grounding is as crucial as eating […]

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How To Deal With Summer Bugs… Including The Dreaded Tick Bite

    Ticks carrying the Lyme disease bacteria (Borrelia Burgdorferi) have been found in all 50 states, so don’t be fooled into thinking its only something that folks in the northeast have to be concerned with. But as much as I detest ticks, I really don’t want you to limit or stop your healing practice of connecting to Mother Earth outside daily because of a fear of ticks. To me, this healing practice of grounding is as crucial as eating or hydrating or breathing or wearing a seatbelt to stay healthy for an entire lifetime. The earth has food, air,

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Do You Know All 8 Ways To Decrease Your Seasonal Allergy Symptoms Today?

    For many, the first thing that comes to their mind during spring isn’t pedicures and bare feet, picking fresh strawberries and blueberries, gardening and sunshine… its allergies: puffy eyes, sneezing attacks, runny noses and difficulty breathing.  Well that stinks. But I’ve got your back! This season I am not letting allergies bring you down, because spring is such an exciting time of renewal and awakening and I want you outside enjoying this spring time every single day, not hiding from it. So instead, here are 8 things you can do RIGHT NOW to decrease allergy symptoms this spring,

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Honey for Gut Protection and Healing, Here’s How

  A new major medical study left absolutely no doubt about the incredible healing power of honey.     Published in Laryngoscope on June 11, 2018, researchers found that using honey literally protected the gut lining against corrosive damage from swallowing a battery — how’s that for protection?   Honey helped: slowed the amount of acid discharged from the battery neutralized the tissue pH at the battery contact site to optimal levels for clinical protection prevented deep tissue injury and completely prevented all esophageal perforations (which was a 50% rate in controls, meaning one out of every two ingestions resulted

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Sea Salt Spray Heals Diabetic Ulcers

As I blogged about last week… I love treating skin issues. I love taking care of skin, and I love supporting skin healing. As a physician, skin is like magic to me.   In medicine, we see the miracle of skin repair all the time:   You can cut it during surgery, and it will grow back together within a week. You can scrape it to take a biopsy, and it will re-establish an intact barrier within days. You can puncture it with a needle, and it will fill back in to stop bleeding within a matter of minutes… sometimes

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How To Ground Outside Without Getting Bitten Up By Bugs

The weather is warming up here… …and this always means my inbox is full of emails from patients and readers asking:       How can you reduce your chance of tick bites (and other insect bites) while still connecting to the earth outside?   I really don’t want you to limit or stop your healing practice of connecting to Mother Earth outside daily. Instead, let’s deter the bugs all together. As I was giving one of my patients advice about this exact topic today, I thought this would be the perfect information to share with my blog readers too!

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How To Prevent Bug Bites While Grounding Outdoors

The weather is warming up here where I live… …and this always means my inbox is full of emails from patients and readers asking:     How can you reduce your chance of tick bites (and other insect bites) while still connecting to the earth outside?   Especially with the latest press about the Zika virus, patients are wanting to know more than ever how to reduce their risk of mosquito bites and yet continue the beautiful, healing practice of touching the earth outside daily. I really don’t want you to limit or stop your healing practice of connecting to

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