This week marks the beginning of February, a month of Valentine’s Day decorations, longer evenings, budding trees, and the final throes of flu season. While typically the flu hits earlier in the season, this year influenza has been particularly severe and widespread. If you’re lucky, you spent a couple of miserable days in bed with chicken soup and […]

There is a profound relationship between the mind and the body and nowhere is that more apparent than in the manifestations of stress. You might feel the physical effects of stress when your head hurts for no reason, when you find yourself clenching your hands or your jaw, or when you’re tossing and turning, unable to sleep at […]

Most people think of cilantro-that leafy green herb you find in Mexican food and Thai salads- are fairly innocuous, but it turns out that far from being a tasty garnish, it has powerful cleansing properties! Cilantro binds to toxins and metals that have accumulated in the body, and then helps the body to eliminate them. This is particularly […]