When working with clients who are victims of emotional imbalances that include, but are limited to, anxiety, panic, and depression, we work together to help them balance Wholistically: body, mind and spirit.

Science has demonstrated the importance of cultivating a healthy intestinal ecology known as the – microbiota – those health-enhancing microorganisms in our digestive health - critical inhabitants   to achieve wellness.  

Research has now validated that the bacteria in your gut can directly affect your behavior, emotions and everything from the ability to lose excess weight to our immune responses. This might be surprising for many, however it’s a critical, and often overlooked factor in treating anxiety. Healing and restoring balance to one’s digestive tract, ideally with the help of a nutritionally-aware health professional like a certified  practitioner, can make a huge difference in alleviating symptoms and overcoming imbalances...

Your digestive tract can be damaged by chronic stress, medication use (prescription and over-the-counter), exposure to foods that aren’t “real” food and have been chemically-altered, toxic environmental exposure, toxic dental products/restorations, etc., to name a few. In addition to the biological factors, other factors such as being in an unhealthy relationship, suffering from low self-esteem, struggling with panic attacks over needless worry about little things, all affect your intestinal ecology and therefore manifest throughout your body and mind.

No matter what the underlying issues of your anxiety, panic attacks or depression, experiencing it leaves you feeling isolated, down-right scared and mentally exhausted. When it comes to treating emotional distress, utilizing multiple agents of change is the most beneficial way to experience relief. For example, when treating anxiety, it’s extremely beneficial not only to receive therapy, but also to change your diet, exercise, use positive patterns of self-talk, self-discipline for self-care, introduction of relaxation techniques, and unconditionally understanding that we are what we eat!

CONSTIPATION & BREAST CANCER SATURDAY EVENING POST ~ APRIL 1982
		Around the turn of the century, doctors blamed all sorts of diseases on constipation.  It was thought that a slow transit time through the intestines caused toxic waste to  build up, enter the bloodstream and affect various organs of the body. This theory was  laid to rest after researchers, using the primitive techniques then available, had  failed to identify any toxic substances in the blood of constipated sick people.  However, recent statistics suggest that there may be something valid in this discarded  theory after all. Physicians Nicholas L. Petrakis and Eileen B. King of the  University of California, writing in Lancet, have found that women who have two  or fewer bowel movements per week have four times the risk of breast disease  (benign or malignant) as women who have one or more bowel movements per day  have less of a risk.  The doctors studied more than 5,000 women by employing nipple aspiration (a variation on the use of the breast pumps nursing mothers use) to get small samples of breast  fluid, which is normally secreted by these glands. The presence of large numbers of  abnormal (dysplastic) cells helps to identify women who are at a higher than average future risk for breast diseases - including breast cancer. Dr. Petrakis reviewed the history of past researchers who failed to identify constipation as a factor in the development of malignancies. As a matter of curiosity, he chose to include questions concerning bowel function in the research protocols developed for his studies of breast-fluid chemistry and cytology.  To quote Dr. Petrakis, "We found that 5% of women having one bowel movement per day would have abnormal dysplastic cells, while 10% of women having fewer  than one bowel movement a day would have this abnormality and 20% of women  having two or fewer bowel movements per week would show these dysplastic changes in cell character of the breast fluid."  In his view, these findings reactivate turn-of-the-century questions concerning an  association between constipation and, in this particular instance, breast disease.  He added a concern that this supposition should not be allowed to create a  cancer panic among constipated women.  Dr. Petrakis added that "We found that 70% of the women we tested had  exogenous (foreign) chemicals in the breast fluid. We don't know why they are there,  but we do know that the breast cells are in contact with the bloodstream, which will  contain foreign substances absorbed into the circulation system from the skin, lungs,  and the gastrointestinal tract."  Dr. Petrakis also cited dietary consideration of interest to vegetarians, including the observation that the bowels of people who eat meat contain greater  amounts of mutagenic substance than do the bowels of those who abstain from  eating meat. Also cited were observations that the intestinal bacterial flora of  meat eaters includes certain species that interfere with so-called glucuronide  linkages necessary to complete the excretions of estrogen delivered to the gut in  bile. It is theorized by some that such "unlinked" estrogen's are reabsorbed in  the large bowel of meat eaters, a circumstance leading possible to higher estrogen levels and a greater change of cancer-producing effects.   WOMEN WHO HAVE TWO OR FEWER BOWEL MOVEMENTS PER  WEEK HAVE FOUR TIMES THE RISK OF BREAST DISEASE AS  WOMEN WHO HAVE ONE OR MORE BOWEL MOVEMENTS PER DAY.