“You don’t have to do this life and health journey alone.” “Being alone in our own heads can be so isolating,” explained health coach Suzi, who prefers to use only […]
Holistic Medicine
Healthy Food Hits Food Deserts
Food and nutrition play a major role in our everyday health and in disease prevention, but not everyone has access to affordable, healthy sustenance. Lowcountry Street Grocery, a grassroots local […]
Walk With a Doc
The internet is peppered with stories of doctors rushing through appointments, not “hearing” patients’ concerns and even becoming insidious agents for “big pharma.” Despite these media negatives, there remains a […]
Get Up And Out: Patients Prescribed Exercise
Patients often expect to receive a prescription for medicine when they visit their doctor, but some doctors are now taking an innovative approach and prescribing exercise. An exercise prescription goes […]
Foraging For Edible, Medicinal Plants
In modern society, we live almost completely disconnected from the Earth, spending up to 90% of our time indoors. Isolation from nature’s vital life source has negatively impacted our health, […]
Health Benefits of Bees
“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think. Because although eating honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment […]
The New Trend of Going Gray
What does the term “going natural” describe in a post-pandemic world? For some, it seems to refer to escaping today’s materialism and conventionality for a simplified, back-to-the-Earth experience. Homesteading, building […]
Massage for Your Mental Well-being
For thousands of years massage therapy has been used to alleviate pain and restore balance. But in today’s world, 50% of that thousands of years history is missing: the part […]
Pay Attention to Serving Sizes
Growing up in Thomasville, North Carolina, during the Great Depression, Lewis Clark Jr., recalled his first experience with food serving sizes. “There were six of us in the family, and […]
The Mushroom Craze
Capsules, extracts, powders – oh, my. Mushroom is the trendy fun-guy for addressing health ailments, preventing disease and improving body functions. As most trends go, the mushroom was well-known and […]
Getting To The “Holistic” Tooth
Once upon a time, Dr. Duke was a Californian with a love of relaxing on a quiet beach right around Malibu. It was on a normal sunny Saturday when I […]
Using Plants to Heal
By early 2020, longtime Botanist April Punsalan had already spent more than 20 years studying the use of plants in healing but wanted to impart her knowledge and experience to […]