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How an integrative health coach can help you
As a nurse practitioner and integrative health coach, I help people who want to feel better. To do this, I work alongside you to identify meaningful health goals and create and implement realistic and achievable plans to move towards them. If you are struggling with not feeling as good as you'd like to, managing symptoms, facing a new medical diagnosis, frustrated with your interactions with the medical system, feel like you're tried everything and nothing helps, or you're just trying to get started with some healthy routines, integrative health coaching may be just the thing! And by choosing a coach with advanced healthcare training, you ensure that you are getting safe, smart, evidence-based guidance.
What’s the deal with inflammation?
The word inflammation comes from the Latin inflammo, meaning blaze or burn, and is defined in biology as "the immune system's response to stimulus." It's a complex biological process involving molecules, cells, blood vessels, the nervous system, and the microbiome. Inflammation is helpful in defending and healing the body from illness and injury, and in creating positive adaptations to stressors-- but sometimes it goes awry.
The placebo effect and you
The placebo effect is evidence that bodies can take healing cues from the mind. Perhaps the cartesian dualism of separate mind and body is overlooking a fundamental truth about humans and the way we function. How does meditation lower blood pressure? How does anxiety cause an upset stomach? How, indeed, does belief that you are being treated lead to healing?
Diet Science: Support for Plant-Based Eating
This study showed that a low-fat vegan diet can improve some important health markers in overweight adults in a real-world setting. Good to know! Helpful! This increases my confidence that, for a patient who wanted to do it, a low-fat vegan diet is likely to improve their metabolic health.