This category of chronic illness includes conditions like Ankylosing Spondylitis, Celiac Disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Late Stage Lyme Disease & Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome, Crohn’s Disease, Type 1 Diabetes, Endometriosis, Fibromyalgia, Grave’s Disease, Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis, Narcolepsy, Psoriasis, Reactive Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Sjogren’s Syndrome, and Ulcerative Colitis.
These factors combined lead to systemic inflammation and immune system overload.
*Lowering toxicity is not “magic”. Some companies, though, are gimmicky and try to claim that only their “proprietary” supplements can help your body detox effectively. Your body detoxifies itself, but that doesn’t mean these processes never benefit from support. True detoxification support can be achieved through reducing the use of food, household items, and beauty products that contain toxic additives; improving any of the body’s detox mechanisms that aren’t functioning optimally, and supporting genetic detoxification genes that may be weakened by common mutations.
That’s why I decided to become Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition, a Clinical Herbalist, and a Certified Health Coach – to help other people like us with autoimmune diseases and similar chronic illnesses get to the root of their health conditions and restore their quality of life through holistic modalities.
That’s also why I started this health blog, Naturally at Home – as a free resource to others who have multiple chronic conditions and don’t know where to turn for help.
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Ultimately, when your lifestyle, body, and mind are healthy, you can trust that the weight your body naturally falls into is the one that’s best for your overall health and wellbeing.
We’re going to do a deep dive into the many individual factors that may be contributing to your weight gain, and how to address each component holistically.
In this post, I share my tried and true methods for removing lectins from beans and grains, so if you are sensitive, you don’t have to cut them out of your diet in order to enjoy improved gut health and reduced inflammation.
I have sucessfully been able to balance my blood sugar (reverse years of hypoglycemia) through several specific holisitic diet strategies. As a result, my health has turned around in a way that has been absolutely life-changing. In this post, I’m going to share with you what I did, to hopefully help anyone who may be going through something similar with their blood sugar.
Ehlers Danlos Syndrome can severely weaken the tissues of the body and cause many debilitating symptoms, so it often requires complex treatment across several specialities. This can include treatment like pharmaceutical symptom management and surgery from medical specialists, as well as physical therapy, chiropractic or osteopathic care, braces, regenerative medicine, and supplements/herbal medicine from other types of providers.
The population of people with chronic illness and autoimmune disease do not always have expected reactions to healthy lifestyle choices that benefit the average person or population as whole. One person might experience near remission of their symptoms by following an Autoimmune Paleo (AIP) pattern of eating. Another person might feel severely ill on AIP, but thrive eating a vegan diet with a daily green smoothie. This can be extremely frustrating and confusing when you’re trying to figure out a way of eating that works for you. The goal of this post is to help work through the confusion.
Recovering from trauma and PTSD of any source is a long, difficult process. These strategies have brought me far on my healing journey, and I hope they can for you as well.
You can get high quality, effective treatment if you see a naturopathic or functional medicine doctor. There’s also a lot you can do on your own.
Learn about the conventional and functional medicine treatment options for Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, so you can get a semblance of your quality of life back.
When navigating how to support a loved one with a chronic illness, your gut instinct is probably going to be a strong desire to “fix” the problem. Especially if you’re in a caregiver position. I mean, who wants to helplessly watch their loved one suffer? Because “fixing” chronic illness is not really possible in the traditional sense and treating it is nowhere near straightforward, things get complicated.
Health insurance is expensive. In addition, many of the tests, treatments, and physicians you need in order to treat and monitor your chronic illness aren’t
Nutritionist vs. health coach. How are you supposed to tell who does what? Let’s say you have a chronic disease, and/or you want to improve
*Disclaimer – I am not a Licensed Medical Doctor and do not diagnose, treat, or cure disease. I am not a Licensed/Registered Dietitian and do not practice Medical Nutrition Therapy. Legally, I am able to provide nutritional counseling, herbal consultations, health coaching, and health education services. I make a referral to the appropriate practitioner whenever a client has a health need that falls outside my scope of practice. I publish health articles for educational purposes, not as a substitute for medical care.
