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Lifestyle has so much to do with wellness. Activities you do. What you eat and drink. Everything you are doing is affecting YOU (being body, mind and spirit).   read more »

What is Inflammation? 

Inflammation is a normal and sometimes beneficial process that occurs when your body’s white blood cells and chemicals protect you from foreign invaders like bacteria and viruses. Some level of inflammation in your body is healthy, like during an infection or after an injury. However, long term chronic inflammation gradually drains your health and weakens many systems of the body, setting the stage for serious disease.   read more »

It is a common complaint in the clinic.  “I am having a terrible time sleeping, is there anything you can do to help me?”   read more »

The rest of this book's title says it all "The Cutting-Edge Program That Cures Your Type of Sugar Addiction and Puts You on the Road to Feeling Great -- and Losing Weight!"  read more »

Angela Dunston Barakat is a hero to me.  Just as Sue Ingebretson, who wrote FibroWHYalgia, also reviewed here in the Lumigrate bookshelf, is.  They not only rolled up their sleeves and figured out complex and overwhelming health issues for those they are 'in charge of' (yourself, your family), but they took the initiative and the resources (time, energy, money) to write, publish, and market a book.  I've personally communicated with both of them quite a lot, and find them sincerely focused on wanting to help others.  What a wonderful gift to give the world, in tak  read more »

My life changed forever last weekend. Friday evening after my husband had pulled the transmission out of his friend's El Camino ( For you young folks that is a half car, half truck.) We went to our favorite public pier.  read more »