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How to Balance Blood Sugar with Holistic Diet Strategies. Featured photo. Meal prep bowls with boiled eggs, vegetables, salmon, and brown rice.

How to Balance Blood Sugar with Holistic Diet Strategies

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.

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The Cusack Protocol for Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. Person doing physical therapy with an exercise band.

The Cusack Protocol for Ehlers Danlos Syndrome

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.

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Vegan vs. Paleo for Autoimmune Disease. Green smoothie, parsley, green apple, and cucumber on a wood cutting board.

Vegan vs. Paleo for Autoimmune Disease – Which One Works Better?

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.

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How to support a loved one with a chronic illness

How to Support a Loved One with a Chronic Illness

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.

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