Join Dr. Arns on Thursday, June 15th at The Well On Main at 6:15pm to learn how to overcome chronic digestive, autoimmune, hormonal, and mental health challenges. Click here to register! The scientific community is increasingly delving into the correlation between digestive and nervous system health, and for good reason. The impact of an unhealthy … Continue reading The Gut-Brain Connection Workshop
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Magnesium and Epsom Salt Baths – Soak Your Pains Away
Are you tired of feeling sore and achy after a hard workout or a long day at work? Are you struggling to sleep soundly and restfully? It can be tough to unwind, but have you considered soaking in a tub filled with Epsom salt? Not only is it a relaxing way to wind down, but … Continue reading Magnesium and Epsom Salt Baths – Soak Your Pains Away
The Gut-Brain Connection
Have you ever heard the phrase "gut feeling"? It turns out that there may be more to this saying than just a figure of speech. Recent research has shown that there is a strong connection between gut health and brain health. The gut and the brain are connected through a complex network of neurons, chemicals, … Continue reading The Gut-Brain Connection
The Importance Of A Mother’s Diet During Pregnancy
There is no better food for a newborn human than breast milk from a mother eating a nutrient-dense diet. What foods the mother is consuming will have a profound effect on the quality and nutritional density of the milk she is supplying. Ideally, an expectant mother (and father) would be consuming a nourishing, nutrient-dense diet … Continue reading The Importance Of A Mother’s Diet During Pregnancy
Healing From Mental Health Challenges
As I’ve written in previous posts, mental health conditions, along with many other chronic degenerative diseases, are at unprecedented rates. There are many reasons for this, please see this post to see how substantial mental health problems have become. While traditional mental health treatment focuses on simply trying to manipulate brain chemicals like serotonin and … Continue reading Healing From Mental Health Challenges
The Key To Better Sleep
Do you ever find that no matter how hard you try, you can't seem to get comfortable sleeping? Perhaps you have bought countless sleep aids and you still find that you are waking up with a stiff neck, lower back pain, numbness in your hands or legs, headaches, or even sinus congestion? Since we spend … Continue reading The Key To Better Sleep
The Fats and Foods That Harm Your Heart
We’ve long been told that cholesterol and saturated fats (mostly found in animal foods like meat and dairy) are the cause of heart disease. The preponderance of scientific and historical evidence continues to indicate that this is NOT the case. As I’ve written about previously, damage to arteries around the heart is caused by chronic … Continue reading The Fats and Foods That Harm Your Heart
There Are No Quick Fixes When It Comes To Getting Healthy
We humans tend to love the ‘quick fixes’. We all wish getting healthy and optimizing our physique and/or losing weight were as simple as taking the latest miracle supplement or popping a pill. While these tools can be a useful addition to help complement an overall strategic lifestyle approach to getting healthy, they CANNOT sustainably … Continue reading There Are No Quick Fixes When It Comes To Getting Healthy
Does Eating Red Meat Cause Inflammation?
Conventional nutrition advice tells you to avoid red meat for a myriad of reasons. We are told it is acidic, inflammatory, causes cancer, causes heart disease, etc., etc. But is this sound advice? If conventional nutrition advice to avoid meat were true, it’s hard to believe that humans didn’t go extinct, considering traditional cultures prized … Continue reading Does Eating Red Meat Cause Inflammation?
The Dangers Of Avoiding The Sun
Now more than ever, humans suffer from many deficiencies. Nutritional deficiencies. Movement deficiencies. Social deficiencies. Another deficiency wrecking our health, is sunlight deficiency. We are often told by mainstream health authorities to “minimize sun exposure, as it is the cause of cancer.” While the discussion about whether the sun causes skin cancer is much … Continue reading The Dangers Of Avoiding The Sun