The theme this month is inspiration and I’m bringing you the stories of 3 amazing guests but wasn’t sure what I’d do for my solo episodes! And then I was inspired to look up the definition of inspiration and then sources of …
in my last session, I explained how gluten breaks down and one of the amino acids it breaks down into is called glutamate, and that it's an excitatory neurotransmitter. But it also wipes out or lowers your natural anti-anxie…
One of the things that I want you to know is that one of the main proteins in gluten is gladden, which I talked about in my last session. When this is broken down, it breaks down into two amino acids, Prolene, and glutamine.…
This week I'm talking about gluten. This a spin-off of last week's episodes when I was talking about gut health because gluten is highly inflammatory, and it is one of the known triggers of leaky gut. About the Host: Melissa…
Tim shares his own powerful story of his “wake-up call”, when he found himself needing emergency surgery in a 3rd world country, and how his health doesn’t only impact his life, but those of his loved ones too. He was your a…
Today I want to talk about parasites and h pylori, and they sound horrible and scary and maybe things that you don't think about in our first world however, the reality is that 14% of North Americans have parasites and 30% h…
Today I want to talk about leaky gut. Leaky gut is unfortunately very common in today's world. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melis…
This week, I'm talking about gut health. And one of our biggest issues with our gut health, our most common I should say, are people being diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome or irritable bowel disease, but I want you to…
Chronic Illness is at near epidemic levels in the Western World today, if you don’t want to be yet another diagnosis tune into this episode to learn the factors that have driven us to this point AND what you can choose to do…
You are not just what you eat, but you are what you absorb. And in order to absorb the nutrients from your last meal, your body has to have been able to break it down really well. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative He…
What happens is our body needs stomach acid, and it needs it to be breaking down food. And too many people these days are using antacids which stops your body from making that stomach acid. Not only a stomach acid used to be…
This week I'm talking about motility, and what that means is the time that it takes for your food from when you put it in your mouth for it to actually go through your body get fully broken down and then what isn't needed to…
Tricia walks her walk and talks her talk, coming from a childhood of sexual abuse and turning to alcohol as a pre-teen to “hold it all together” like the adults in her life were also doing, she numbed herself. She didn’t hav…
Today I want to talk about estrogen dominance because it is so common these days. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner helping people get to the root cause of their health issues. Melissa neither di…
This week I am talking about hormones and how they change throughout our lives. Something that you may not know is that there are functional medicine lab tests that you can do that can test your hormone levels. About the Hos…
This week I want to talk to you about hormones. Our hormones are always changing throughout our life, but how many times have you heard somebody complain about their PMS, or complain about hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia…
My theme this month is the power within – our body’s ability to heal itself when we create the environment for it to do so. Unfortunately, modern-day life has us too depleted, from poor nutrition, poor sleep, and high stress…
I've been talking about toxins this week, and one thing that you may not know is that when our body has too many toxins, the liver works really hard to try and keep those toxins out of our bloodstream What it will do is stor…
Today I want to talk to you about the choices that you're making in terms of the products that you're putting on your skin, the products that you're using in your home to clean your home, etc. Because many of these are just…
We need to help our liver detox and you might be interested to know what is your toxic load? I have put in the comments the link to my discover your toxic load quiz. You can start by figuring that out, and then determining i…
Self-love is at the very basis of you living the life you love. Do you love your life right now? Do you love yourself right now? These might be hard questions to read, but worth pondering on and getting curious about. T…
I would love for you to just be able to spend time with family and loved ones. And just be in gratitude for all that you have for all of the loved ones you have around you. About the Host: Melissa is an Integrative Health P…
I just want to remind you of the power of taking a break to breathe. You always have your breath with you it is completely free. If you slow down long enough, just for five minutes to breathe, it has an amazing calming eff…
Today, I want to talk to you about the power of a love bra or a love cake. We all have those holiday gatherings, generally with family because we can't choose our family and we can choose our friends that we are obligated to…
