How we eat, how we move, how we sleep, and how we think all have profound impacts on our overall health and resistance to disease.

Social distancing and proper hand washing are just two important aspects to keeping you well. Lets hear the messages our wise farming friends have been trying to remind us of while we have developed an amnesia around self-care and community-care. September is a perfect fresh start.

During pregnancy your daily nutritional requirements increase making it is a good time to boost up some of the essential nutrients needed to support you and your developing baby. Dr. Pamela Thornton shares her tips, her favourite Prenatal Vitamin and answers to some common questions.

Are you thinking about getting pregnant? Have you had your thyroid tested? If the answer to #1 is yes but the answer to #2 is no, this may be an important article for you to read.

Thyroid disease has a staggering prevalence in North America. Recent studies indicate that 1 in 10 Canadians suffer from some form of thyroid disease and as many as 50% are undiagnosed. The thyroid gland is a master gland located in your neck just above your collar bone that is important to every human being, but it’s role in pregnancy and infant health are of particular interest here.

Miscarriage and infant loss. So sad, painful and misunderstood we avoid talking about it all together. Because of this, there is a lack of information and support for the women going through it; whether it be education to understand and make an informed choice on what is best for your body or actual love and tenderness for the overwhelming emotions and sometimes physical discomfort that come with it.⠀⠀