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Holiday Hangover: A Guide to Recharging

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How do we recover from seasonal overindulgence?

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Changing With Your Body

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Got a gut feeling about how your health is changing?

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Testing: Beyond Normal Results

Undiagnosed symptoms, food sensitivity testing, food sensitivity, naturopathic medicine, functional testing, new patient consultation, nutritional testing

Imagine having ambiguous yet persistent symptoms…

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How to Repair Your Gut Microbiome

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The whispers of your gut are loud and clear…

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Is a restrictive diet right for you?

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Think of your gut microbiome as a vibrant garden…

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10 Ways a Naturopathic Doctor Can Help You Manage Stress During Hormonal Imbalance

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Hormonal imbalance can happen as life naturally transitions for women…

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Gut Health

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Life can be hard on the digestive track…

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Weight Loss

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What’s best for metabolism?

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3 Steps to Detoxing from Summer Overload

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Bloated? Sluggish? Unfocused?

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Healthier Summer Comfort Foods

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Summer screams bbq, chips, ice cream, pies, and popsicles…

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Spring Detoxification

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Ready to shed winter and welcome spring?

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New Year, New Body

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Ready to start the new year off with goals of nurturing your body for better health?

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Incorporating herbs into the holidays for health

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Sprinkle some holiday cheer on your wellness…

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3 Things to Remember Before You Indulge in Thanksgiving Dinner

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Does indulging in Thanksgiving dinner make your tummy feel crummy and your mind feel unkind?

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Fall Superfoods

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Give your diet a seasonal boost!

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Late Summer Foods

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Savor the end of summer …

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Get Back On Track

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Get back to yourself …

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Summer BBQ Tips

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Feel your best this summer …

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Farmer’s Markets

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Get the most out of a farmer’s market…

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Lifestyle Fasting

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Find a fresh-start this spring …

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Clean Spring Eating

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4 tips to clean up your diet …

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Meal Prep Tips

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5 meal prep ideas …

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Cholesterol

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Not all cholesterol is bad …

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Eating Healthy

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Let’s go back to the basics …

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Prebiotic Foods

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Simple ways to incorporate healthy foods …

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Gluten

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Is gluten bad for you …

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Food Guilt Part II

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Tips to work through food guilt …

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Food Guilt

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How to help alleviate food guilt …

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Fall Detox

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10 ways to detox this fall…

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Digestion Questions

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Weird digestion questions & answers …

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Weight Loss Myths

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4 Myths and 1 Common Question …

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Anti-Inflammatory Summer

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7 Summer Foods That Fight Inflammation …

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Reducing Inflammation

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6 Ways to Reduce Inflammation …

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Weight Loss Resistance

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How stress can impact your weight…

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Eating Lighter This Spring

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Some of Dr. Graves’ favorite recipes …

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Detox and Diet

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Support your natural detox system …

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10 Ways to Move Forward

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Small, strong, steps forward …

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Diet: Health vs. Looks

How healthy = beautiful …

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Reset After Holiday Eating

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Learn to reset your digestive system …

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Healthy Holiday Eating

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Superfoods, smoothies, insulin levels, and more …

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Immune System Lifestyle

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Small, day to day changes are key …

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Fun Seasonal Summer Eating

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Light, fresh, and nourishing …

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Spring Cleanse Health Boost

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Cleanse, detox, boost immunity …

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Customized Diet Plan

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Our 4 step process to the right diet …

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10 Best Superfoods for 2020

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Our favorite superfoods and why we love them …

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Food and Drink Swaps

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15 easy swaps to stay merry and bright …

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Weight at the Holidays

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How to enjoy holiday treats with health goals in mind …

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Exercise and Weight Gain

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Dr, Graves discusses the negative effects of workouts …

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Staying Healthy While Traveling

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Grab these supplements for your travel bag!

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Farmer’s Market

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Your go-to Farmer’s Market tips for this summer!

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Swimsuit Anxiety

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Embrace your body, beyond looks, and jump into swimsuit season …

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Lower Your High Cholesterol: Natural Solutions

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Getting to the root cause of high cholesterol.

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Weight Stuck?

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Are you stuck at a weight above your goal? Do you feel like, no matter what you do or how hard you work, you aren’t seeing results? Learn more about why …

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The Best Diet for 2019: Popular Diet Options

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Looking for popular diet trends for 2019 as a way to kick-start your motivation? Look no further …

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Weight Gain and the Holidays

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Holiday weight gain can contribute to 1 pound per year! Don’t let that start adding up over the years. Enjoy these tips on how to have a guilt free, sweet, holiday season this year.

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Constipation: Relief, Remedies, and Digestive Health

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Long- term or more frequent constipation issues can lead to things such as, bloating, weight gain, hormonal imbalances, long-term GI diseases, colo-rectal cancer, and more.

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The Un-Diet: HEC, Sustainability, and Happiness

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HEC: Hunger, Energy, Cravings. Triggered by hormones like cortisol, insulin, dopamine, and seratonin, these can be the key to finding your undiet. Dr. Graves explains more here …

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Eating, Cooking, and Living for Fall 2018

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Fall foods as medicine and how to eat with the season. Pumpkin, squash, kale, kohlrabi, turnips, sweet potato, peas, and brussel spouts. Learn why they are so good!

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How to Heal Acid Reflux

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Natural remedies for acid reflux is our topic. This painful condition can be caused by a variety of mental and physical stressors. Dr. Graves has tips here that can help you heal …

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Is Stress Making You Fat?

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“I’m working out everyday, but I’m not seeing results!”  “I’m so frustrated – I push harder and harder, yet I keep gaining weight!”  “I am trying everything, but I can’t seem to lose weight – I am about to give

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Bone Broth, Collagen, and Beet Root

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If you’ve been reading any health or food magazines lately, chances are you’ve come across an advertisement or two (or twenty!) on new trends such as:             – Bone Broth             – Collagen             – Beet Root We’ve even seen

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Healthy Ways to Party This Summer

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It’s summertime! And that means it’s also party time! With Fourth of July just around the corner and summer in full swing, it’s time to get that barbecue grilling, the water balloons flying, and the guests smiling and laughing! Ahhh….sounds

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Summer Guide for Healthy Kids

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School's out and summer break is officially in session! Can you believe another school year has gone by?  Before we know it, they will be graduating! When we look back, it seems that time seems to fly by when raising kids

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Hormone Diet: Create Balance in Your 30s, 40s, and Beyond

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Most of us will experience it.  The moment when we realize that what we’ve always done has simply stopped working.   When weight is creeping up even though your exercise routine may have stayed the same.  When actual “dieting” is

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Best Diet for 2018: Weight Loss, Energy, Improve Health

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  Just thinking about writing this blog makes our heads spin! It seems as though there is a new diet being touted every day. Whether it’s how to lose weight fast, how to keep weight off, or how to feel

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What is a Detox Diet? 3 Steps to Help You Detoxify Your Body

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The sluggishness. The bloating. Those extra pounds that you need to jump start to shed. The weeks of overindulging, the wondering if you have a food allergy, or the noting of endless advertising of magical detox solutions that will take

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