Optimal Health
Dioxins: The Facts about this Toxin in Tampons and Sanitary Pads
Feminine hygiene products are a fact of life for women. Most often, we use what our mothers used, rarely surveying the options, or the risks involved. But, as we discovered, there are risks. Conventional tampons and sanitary pads are bleached white using chlorine dioxide,...
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A Tampon Experiment: A Picture Tells the Tale
I recently started a petition, along with my Naturally Savvy team, telling Procter & Gamble to disclose what's in their feminine hygiene products. As consumers, we’re in the dark about what’s in our sanitary pads and tampons, largely because they’re considered a ...
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Sign the Petition! Tell Procter & Gamble to Disclose What's in Their Feminine Hygiene Products
At NaturallySavvy.com, we believe as women, we deserve to know what goes onto and into our bodies every single month.Did you know that feminine hygiene companies don’t have to fully disclose the ingredients of their tampons and pads on their packaging? That’s because...
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Conventional Feminine Hygiene Products: A Women’s Issue With Toxic Implications
Sign our petition now: http://chn.ge/10hDR2wI’m a vigilant label reader and have been since I first began to uncover the toxic additives that make seemingly healthy food, junk food. The same is true of the supplements I take and the cosmetic products I put on m...
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Food Sources for a Healthy Pregnancy
If you’re planning to start a family, it’s never too soon to prepare your body. The earlier you begin eating nutrient-dense foods the better. In this way your body will receive all the nutrients it needs to make a healthy, happy baby.Before we add new foods it may be...
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Living with Osteoarthritis, Naturally
Have you ever had one of those days where your whole body seems to ache? If only squirting your joints with an oil like the Tin Man could would make you feel good again! Unfortunately, we don't live in a land where "all the streets are paved with gold, and no-one ever g...
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Endometriosis And Your Health
Endometriosis is a common and sometimes debilitating condition that affects between six and 11 percent of reproductive aged women. This gynaecological disorder is characterized by the growth of endometrial tissue (which normally lines the inside of your uterus) outsi...
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Screen Yourself For Skin Cancer
Unfortunately, skin cancer is becoming more of a prominent problem these days. The good news is that awareness is growing about the issue, which is evidenced by the attention placed on encouraging the discontinued use of tanning beds and ensuring that adults and kids of a...
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Period Problems: Nicole Jardim Interview
“I Could Talk About Periods All Day Long!”You’ve got to admit that isn’t a phrase you hear often—or ever, really. If you’re one of those women who can pirouette her way through every day of the month without ever having a cramp or blood clot make her knees buckle…well hel...
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Make Your Own Shaving Cream
If it wasnt already obvious, those commercial shaving cream products are loaded with toxic ingredients that can make you wish the worst part of shaving was just the occasional nick. But the health effects from long-term exposure to the chemicals in shaving cream can cause...
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Menopause Relief From Tree Bark?
Most women try not to think about menopause until it becomes an undeniable reality. The thought of uncontrollable moodiness, hot flashes, night sweats, and losing an aspect of our sexuality can be a bit mortifying. But the good news is were living in a time where science ...
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Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy
Just recently the leader of my writing group started to frantically fan herself as she ran across the room to open the window. “It’s my age,” she said, “I just turned fifty.” I remember that time so well. Years ago I worked side by side another woman also in her early fif...
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Female Herbal Menstrual Tonic Recipe
Being a modern woman certainly has its perks, whether youre a fan of stilettos or not. We do it all: work, mom, friend, community member…its enough to make you want to don a cape and spend a bit of time coming up with a superhero name (Im considering going with SuperFoodi...
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Can Stress Be Inherited?
Trying to understand the complexity of human genetics is nothing short of nerve-wracking…but try to avoid any stress over it, especially if youre considering starting a family. New research shows a propensity for certain factors—including stress—to be passed down through ...
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5 Tips For Healthy Weight Gain
Do you wish women would stop glaring at your size zero frame? If only you could explain that you’d love to gain weight! Perhaps you’re someone with a fast metabolism, prominent skinny genes or just one of those people who doesn’t gain weight. Or maybe your child is wafer thin...
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Welcome To Perimenopause (Yay?)
Menopause is the official term used to describe the end of a woman’s menstrual years, and occurs only after a woman has passed one year without a period. Many women use the term to describe the journey toward menopause – replete with hot flashes and moods swings – but this par...
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Men's Skin Care Products: 8 Gross Ingredients
Yes, we give you a hard time about eating too fast, leaving your dirty underwear in the bathroom and your obsession with Battlestar Galactica, but guys, you know we love you. In fact, you dont really need to do much to impress us. And you especially dont have to slather toxic ...
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Boost Your Metabolism
Metabolism is the amount of energy (calories) your body uses - or “burns” - to maintain itself. That includes your physiological processes, such as digestion, breathing, and elimination.A minimum amount of energy (or calories) is needed daily for these functions, and the ...
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Fighting Back Against The Flu
Winter has arrived for some and unfortunately it’s brought along some familiar and unpleasant friends. If you’re one of the unlucky ones, you’ve already been struck by an infection - a cold or even worse, the flu. Symptoms of the flu include a high fever, coughing, congestion,...
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10 Ways To Shrink Your Belly This Week
Gained a few pounds over the holidays? These belly-busting tips will help you squeeze into that tight dress by Friday night or look better in your bathing suit just in time for your vacation.1. Eat slowly. Chew foods carefully. Very carefully. The more work your mouth doe...
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Lose The Holiday Weight
Returning those unwanted gifts to your waistlineOnce the holiday season is over and you realize that you’ve gained more weight than you thought, it’s time to take action. Weight loss is not easy. It requires willpower, having a plan and sticking to it.Small changes s...
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Beat the "Holiday Creep"
Psychology Today calls holiday weight gain, the “holiday creep”. A study was conducted to determine how much weight people gain over the holidays. Many people thought they only gained about two pounds. But, the people surveyed actually gained four times more than they thought...
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Go with the Flow: Natural Feminine Hygiene
Thanks to equal rights, women can now do virtually any job a man can do—but being on our period can make it…meh. While we dont love talking about our cycle too much, it is a fact of life, annoying as it is. And half of the annoyance over it can be in those feminine hygiene pro...
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8 Immune Boosting Foods
In our efforts to go a whole cold and flu season without succumbing to the illnesses that can leave us listless and miserable for weeks, many of us will go to great lengths to avoid getting ill. Well boost up our vitamin intake, wash hands obsessively, and we may even get a fl...
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Ladies, Are Bras Bad for Your Health?
Its part of being a woman, in the Western world, at least. Who doesnt remember their first bra? While it may have at first, felt like the most ridiculous abomination to the human body, many women grow to love and even feel naked without one on.Regardless of cup sizes, its...
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Vitamin E May Decrease Liver Cancer Risk
Recent research published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute suggests a strong link may exist between increasing vitamin E intake—either as a supplement or directly through diet—and a reduced risk of developing liver cancer.Vitamin E has long been known for i...
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The Coffee Enema
The coffee enema is truly one of the most amazing detox procedures in the world. Proponents play like a who’s who of the history books. In pre-revolutionary France, royalty preformed a daily enema after dinner. This was considered ‘de rigueur’. It was thought to be indispensab...
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Rising Obesity Rates Are Affecting Fertility
As Charles Darwin noted, the process of evolution can happen fairly quickly, or take generations to work itself out. And throughout the eons of history, there have often been overlapping evolving species of humans co-existing on the planet for long periods of time. While weve ...
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Multi-Tasking and Staying Healthy
For some people, this is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year. The kids are back in school and life should go back to normal for the next 10 months. The lazy hazy days of summer are quickly fading and so too is your ability to put your feet up and relax. ...
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Menopause Stereotypes & Humor
I am a woman who has gone through the transition of menopause and who has come out relatively sane (I think!). But the stereotypes about women going through “The Change,” are not all complimentary. We are supposedly all moody – actually bitchy is often the word – forgetful, sc...
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Are You Tired All The Time?
If you suffer with fatigue, tiredness, or a lack of energy, you are not alone. Fatigue is one of the most common concerns among women today. How often do we say or hear the words, I am stressed out? Feeling stressed with not enough time for pleasurable activities, relaxation o...
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How To Get Your Sex Drive Back
For many women, it may take more than roses and candlelight to get their engines started. Kelli Young, an occupational therapist, sex therapist, and group psychotherapist answers some questions surrounding the causes and solutions for low libido.Q: Is low libido a common ...
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Female Hair Loss: Causes and Treatment
The scalp contains approximately 100,000 strands of hair and on average we lose about 50 to100 strands per day. Aging and medication use, among others can cause visible changes in the hair's structure which can lead to hair loss.A Single Strand of HairA si...
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How To Prevent High Blood Pressure
For many people who work full time, healthy living requires effort. Sitting at a desk all day is not conducive to a healthy lifestyle and when your workday is done, you go home to make dinner, do laundry, clean the house, run errands... you get the idea. I recently had a reali...
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Toxins and Breast Cancer
I lecture quite frequently on cleansing, detoxification and digestive health and I consistently shock people with a statistic published by The Lancet, a British medical journal, from 20 years ago that stated: “Women who are constipated are 4 times more likely to develop ...
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Psi Bands Give Cancer Patients the Gift of Relief
When undergoing chemotherapy, it can be even the smallest things – like wearing a functional yet fashionable wrist band to ease your nausea – that can make a large difference. That is why cancer patients and those who love them prefer Psi Bands, a product that gives the...
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Cancer Epidemic: The EMF Link
You can’t turn on the TV or radio these days without being inundated with ads for fundraising events for cancer research. There are lotteries, walks, bike-a-thons and even cancer hockey tournaments. All noble causes, right? After all, we all want to conquer cancer… don’t...
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What Should I Eat To Keep My Blood Sugar Even?
Q: What should one eat in order to keep blood sugar even? I have tried whey protein powder drinks but they did not work. -CathrineA: Two important strategies can help to balance your blood sugar:Firstly, always balance starchy carbs with some protein (or with a...
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Breast Thermography
The statistics are alarming: one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. The disease is often found after symptoms such as a lump or mass in the breast appear. In its early stages, however, many women with breast cancer dont have any symptoms. Women with a family ...
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The Stages Of Menopause
The average age of menopause is 50 to 51 years of age, but it can occur naturally between the ages of 40 and 55. Many women who are experiencing the signs and symptoms of menopause may not realize whats causing them and that there are things they can do about them.T...
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