Category: Wellness Wednesday

Though back muscle strain is common, there are many holistic ways to decrease and prevent back pain, and all are available to us without a prescription!  Recent research points to muscle strain and sp…

Edgar Cayce specifically mentioned massage in over 3,000 readings. Additional readings described “rub downs” and osteopathic treatments that included massage strokes. Massage was an integral part of t…

Right outside my office door is a popular place for visitors to the A.R.E. Health Center and Spa - a mini charred oak keg. I enjoy hearing visitors’ questions and reactions as they try out this Cayce …

We are bombarded with information about the microbiome—the environment of viruses, bacteria, protozoa, and fungi that live around us, on us, and in us. People in Edgar Cayce’s day were also acutely aw…

Opioid addiction and resulting overdose deaths are in the news every day. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that 11.4 million people in the U.S. currently illegally take prescription pai…

Each year, more than 800,000 people in the U.S. are hospitalized because of a fall injury. A fall is often the event that moves someone from independent living into assisted or dependent care.

I recently attended a conference entitled Nutrition as Medicine: how patients can reverse chronic diseases, lose weight, and improve their quality of life through what they eat, and it reinforced what…

For decades, we were taught that eating fats made you fat. Most of us know that fat contains more calories per gram than carbohydrates or protein, but fat’s calorie density does not make fats the sole…

Everyone has felt the impact of stress on their bodies. Though few of us are running away from bears, our “fight or flight” sympathetic nervous systems kicks in too often in our fast-paced, 24-hour-ne…