In This Issue: Your Next Doctor’s Visit Could Simplify Your Medications Catherine O’Hara: How One Brilliant Life Made the World Kinder A Recipe For Breakfast, Lunch, or Dinner Good News: Your Next Doctor’s Visit Could Simplify Your Medications Good news for anyone managing multiple medications 😊 A study of 201 primary care doctors found that electronic health record (EHR) alerts during visits led to up to a 10% increase in deprescribing, that is, safely reducing or stopping medications that...
22 days ago • 2 min read
In This Issue (3 min read): What Happens After We Stop Taking Ozempic? The Deeper Drivers Beneath Weight and Metabolic Health Reflection What Happens After We Stop Taking Ozempic? A large review from the University of Oxford examined what happens after people stop taking GLP-1 weight-loss medications like Ozempic, and the findings are hard to ignore. Across studies involving more than 6,000 adults, most participants regained weight steadily once the medication was discontinued, averaging...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
In This Issue (3 min read): Surviving the Holidays: Your First Victory of the New Year Coffee on an Empty Stomach: Problem or Just a Persistent Myth? Thought To Start Off The New Year Surviving the Holidays: Your First Victory of 2026 The New Year isn’t always about vision boards, gym memberships, and reinventing your morning routine. Sometimes it’s about one simple, glorious truth: you survived the holidays. My husband would say, "he barely survived, but 'barely survived' still counts."...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader , We're a week out from the holidays, and if you're staring at your screen wondering what to buy for the people you care about, this is for you. Below is my Top 10 list of gifts that work. They are practical, well-made, and genuinely supportive of wellbeing. No gimmicks. No trend chasing. No clutter that ends up in a drawer by January. They are the things I personally use, love, and feel good about recommending with no affiliate bias. 1. Hello Joyous Hella Hydrating SerumThis is...
2 months ago • 3 min read
In This Issue (3 min read): The Cost of Flu & COVID-19 Hospitalization Reaches Far Beyond the Bill A Swift Response to a Strained Healthcare System Prevention Over Prescription Your Naturopathic Rx The Cost of Flu & COVID-19 Hospitalization In Canada Reaches Far Beyond the Bill This fall has pushed our immune systems hard. As of late November 2025, Canada is seeing a rise in circulation of both influenza and COVID-19, with the flu leading the surge. Confirmed flu cases grew nearly 61% in...
3 months ago • 2 min read
In This Issue: Agency Over Illness: How Awareness Alters Biology A Better Reason to Use Your Benefits Fullscript Is Offering Its Annual Black Friday Discount This Week Agency Over Illness: How Awareness Alters Biology The disease process is not a spontaneous event that manifests itself separately from the individual experiencing it. It unfolds within the lived reality of the individual, shaped by their history, pressures, coping strategies, and the ways their body has adapted over time. At...
3 months ago • 1 min read
In This Issue: How Elephants Respond to Their Internal Signals Interoceptive Awareness: How Humans Understand Their Inner World Quote Of The Issue How Elephants Respond to Their Internal Signals Elephants sense when their plant-based diet is low in essential nutrients and know when to make their way to nearby streams to excavate mineral-rich soil and access underground water and salt licks. But how do they “know”? When elephants are low in certain minerals, especially sodium, their physiology...
3 months ago • 2 min read
In This Issue: (< 3 min) Editorial: The Paradox Of Our Health Obsession In The Information Age The Paradox Of Our Health Obsession In The Information Age We are health-obsessed. We strive to eat better, look younger, live longer, and feel more vibrant, or at the very least, suffer less. The global Health & Wellness industry, valued at 6.3 trillion dollars back in 2023, has capitalized on this fixation, promising solutions, often claiming to have a pill “for every ill”. We are bombarded with...
4 months ago • 1 min read
In This Issue: The Anatomy of a Thought: What Really Occupies the Mind When Thoughts Become Biology: The Hidden Link Between Mind and Body The Anatomy of a Thought: What Really Occupies the Mind It’s been estimated that the human mind generates about 6,200 thoughts per 16-hour waking period - roughly 400 an hour, or one every nine seconds. Most of these are not conscious, deliberate, or meaningful. They’re a kind of mental weather: patterns of attention shaped by conditioning, memory,...
4 months ago • 2 min read