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Vaccination: Your Body. Your Baby. Their Flu.

As a conventionally trained, dyed-in-the-wool psychiatrist, I learned that mental illness is a manifestation of an imbalance of brain chemicals that can be largely reduced to too little serotonin...

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Non-Intervention Child Wellness

A mother’s hand is the finest-gauged instrument available when it comes to assessing the presence of a fever in her child. When I felt my daughter’s head this morning, I knew her body...

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From Gut to Brain: The Inflammation-Depression Connection

When a woman experiences fatigue, brain clouding, flat mood, PMS, and constipation, we call it anxiety or stress and we stick her on an antidepressant that she will likely take for the...

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Want To Know What I Do? My First Online Course!

Although the first part of this course has already taken place, it has been recorded, so if you sign up now, it will be available to you for viewing, along with the second, which is taking...

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Navigating our Toxic Environment: What are Safe Products?

I had the pleasure of being interviewed for Irina’s excellent website, I Read Labels For You, where she helps moms and families navigate the multi-syllabic ingredients in even those...

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Low Carb and Medication Free


Two women achieved mood stability
 for 2-3 years through a very low carb, ketogenic diet. Their stability was superior to that experienced on medication, and side-effect free.

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Enhance Your Mood With Food – Eat Naturally

When I was three months postpartum my first child, I thought: when I’m done nursing, I’m going vegetarian. I had the competing impulse to cleanse my diet and to postpone restricting my...

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Heal Your Body, Heal Your Brain: Top 4 Therapeutic Foods

A tour of 4 therapeutic foods that can be used medicinally, right from your kitchen, for optimal health and relief of depression, anxiety, cloudiness, and fatigue.

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Video - Therapeutic Foods

A tour of four therapeutic foods that can be used medicinally, right from your kitchen, for optimal health and relief of depression, anxiety, cloudiness, and fatigue.

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New Research: Birth Control Pill, Depression and Autoimmunity

The evidence that our brain health depends on our immune systems and hormones continues to pile up. Given this interconnectedness, dubbed psychoneuroimmunology, it makes sense that interfering with...

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Dear Class Moms. My Top 5 Optimal Children's Health Tips

Dear Class Moms:

It was great to see all of your smiling faces at last week’s potluck. There’s nothing quite like connecting over the shared mission of motherhood – of working so...

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Drop That Pill: Why I Want My Patients Off Birth Control

A discussion of the little known risks of oral contraceptives, particularly for those with anxiety and depression. For non-hormonal options, see: http://bit.ly/1tpNVzi.

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