Finding fulfillment beyond your diagnosis: 3 unique ways to thrive
Reading Time: 6 minutesLife after a chronic illness diagnosis such as an autoimmune disease can feel daunting and uncertain. It can feel like…
Chronic conditions
How to get the answers that you want without having to wait for your symptoms to show
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe biggest reason that many people keep getting more and more sick is because they are waiting for symptoms to worsen enough after significant damage has occurred to get a diagnosis.
This is actually the opposite of what we should be doing.
A mother’s journey to embracing a life that helped heal her daughter’s severe health condition
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis extremely difficult phase in our lives taught me that healing goes beyond managing your symptoms and is not only about physical health. It’s an emotional, spiritual and physical healing that starts from deep inside of you.
Balancing the immune system is an effective way to treat autoimmune disease without strong immunosuppression
Reading Time: 5 minutesYour autoimmune disease diagnosis is NOT a life sentence.
No diagnosis is. You don’t have to be sick all time or be in constant pain. You don’t have to deal with severe exhaustion, all day, every day. Your immune system can be healed, and you can do it.
How food can be used as medicine and heal you from autoimmune disease
Reading Time: 5 minutes If we treat “food as medicine” we can change the way our genes are stimulated and respond, thus creating health through changes in our biological functioning.
How do you cope with painful, chronic, incurable diseases?
Reading Time: 6 minutesYou accept your body just as it is, right now, with all its warts, flaws and imperfections. You forgive your body for any mistakes just as you would for a good friend. More importantly, you stop being at “war” with your body.
Increasing low energy levels begins with supporting your mitochondria
Reading Time: 6 minutesMitochondria is an organelle or the “little organ” that is found in each and every cell (apart from red blood cells) in our body. Any dysfunction in this organelle will lead to a dysfunctional cell and eventually a tissue. After enough damage has accumulated, the entire organ system will become dysfunctional and contribute to chronic disease progression.
Should you try to improve your immune system if you have an autoimmune disease?
Reading Time: 5 minutesA healthy immune system is one that can self regulate and have an appropriate and balanced immune response. So it’s not really about how to boost your immune system. Having a healthy immune system is about balance.
4 things you need to look out for if you are dealing with chronic fatigue
Reading Time: 6 minutesFatigue is one of the most common symptoms when it comes to autoimmune diseases. Some common underlying reasons are lack of proper sleep, low iron levels and poor nutrition. However, there may be other causes that are less common and hence remain unaddressed.