Topic: naturopathy

Q&A: The Hormone Diet‘s Natasha Turner on How Your Sleep Patterns Are Making You Fat

Q&A: The Hormone Diet's Natasha Turner on How Your Sleep Patterns Are Making You Fat

Meet Dr. Natasha Turner, a Naturopathic Doctor and founder of Clear Medicine, an integrated medicine wellness boutique in Toronto, who recently authored a ground-breaking wellness tome called The Hormone Diet: Lose Fat, Gain Strength, Live Younger Longer. Trust me: This is no diet book — it’s a clinical series of revelatory lifestyle changes based on the hormones that your body naturally produces (or doesn’t produce enough of, as the case may be), many of which will likely be very new to you, no matter how healthy you think you are. Soon, Dr. Turner will begin contributing weekly posts to Blisstree about health, wellness, Naturopathic Medicine, and how our hormones can help us (and we in turn can help our hormones). But in the meantime, I asked her a few questions about her very intriguing “non-diet” diet book. More »

Vitamin drips (or Myers’ cocktails) are intravenous infusions of safe, naturally occurring, water-soluble vitamins and nutrients tailored to the specific needs of each individual. Not surprisingly, these treatments are gaining popularity, because benefits include reducing wrinkles; combating feeling run down; overcoming cold and flu symptoms; and topping-up socialites before their next late-night event – and after it.

Vitamin drips (or Myers' cocktails) are intravenous infusions of safe, naturally occurring, water-soluble vitamins and nutrients tailored to the specific needs of each individual. Not surprisingly, these treatments are gaining popularity, because benefits include reducing wrinkles; combating feeling run down; overcoming cold and flu symptoms; and topping-up socialites before their next late-night event – and after it.

– Naturopathic Doctor John Dempster of The Dempster Clinic in Toronto on the appeal of vitamin drips