Naturopathic Medicine

Breathe Easy: Discover a Natural Way to Lower Your Blood Pressure

Available for Interviews: Dr. Alice Fong

Alice Fong, ND, is an integrative naturopathic doctor specializing in stress, integrative medicine, diet & weight loss, and is a business growth consultant for holistic healthcare providers.

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on How to Lower Your Blood Pressure:

High blood pressure is a medical condition that can increase a person’s risk of some serious, even life-threatening concerns such as heart attacks and strokes. A common cause or contributing factor to hypertension is stress. When we are stressed, our sympathetic nervous system is activated and the blood in our body is directed to the heart to be able to beat it faster in anticipation of danger. This mechanism also elevates our blood pressure.

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Is Stress & Anxiety Slowly Killing You?

Available for Interviews: Dr. Alice Fong

Alice Fong, ND, is an integrative naturopathic doctor specializing in stress, integrative medicine, diet & weight loss, and is a business growth consultant for holistic healthcare providers.

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About Stress & Anxiety’s Impact on the Body:

What happens to your body when you are stressed or anxious? Your sympathetic nervous system gets activated. This is also known as your “Fight or Flight” Response. When a stressor or “threat” is present the amygdala in the brain sends a cascade of signals that end up causing the adrenal glands to release adrenaline and cortisol. The purpose is to get a boost of energy to be able to fight or run.

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Addressing the Root Causes of Anxiety to Find the Best Treatment

Available for Interviews: Dr. Alice Fong

Alice Fong, ND, is an integrative naturopathic doctor specializing in stress, integrative medicine, diet & weight loss, and is a business growth consultant for holistic healthcare providers.

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on Anxiety:

There are many options out there when it comes to treating anxiety such as cognitive behavioral therapy, medication, supplements, meditation, and exercise to name a few. Yet how do we know what set of tools is best for a particular individual? One method might work fantastic for one person with anxiety, yet the same treatment might not work as well (or at all) for another person. How do we figure out what is the best approach?

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5 Health Conditions That Could be Caused by Anxiety

Available for Interviews: Dr. Alice Fong

Alice Fong, ND, is an integrative naturopathic doctor specializing in stress, integrative medicine, diet & weight loss, and is a business growth consultant for holistic healthcare providers.

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on Anxiety:

Anxiety is characterized by feelings of fear, worry, dread or uneasiness often as a result of difficult thoughts and/or life circumstances. When a person feels anxious, their stress response gets activated, also known as the sympathetic nervous system. Staying in a prolonged state of anxiety or stress can lead to a lot of detrimental effects on the body and lead to certain medical conditions.

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3 Health Tips for COVID Long-Haulers

Available for Interviews: Dr. Alice Fong

Alice Fong, ND, is an integrative naturopathic doctor specializing in stress, integrative medicine, diet & weight loss, and is a business growth consultant for holistic healthcare providers.

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on COVID Long-Haulers:

One of the many things we have come to learn about COVID, is that some people who have overcome the virus, still experience symptoms of the illness weeks and even months after having it—referred to as long-haulers. Here are just a few tips that can help alleviate some of the negative effects:

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6 Ways to Address Burnout to Be More Productive

Available for Interviews: Dr. Alice Fong

Alice Fong, ND, is an integrative naturopathic doctor specializing in stress, integrative medicine, diet & weight loss, and is a business growth consultant for holistic healthcare providers.

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Burnout:

Burnout is the cumulative effects of stress built up over time without enough time to recover. Taking the time to rest and recharge is vital for any human being to be able to function, but many people live in fear of doing so because there is “so much to do.”

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6 Remedies to Help Treat The Flu

Available for Interviews: Saundra Dalton-Smith, MD

Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith is an internal medicine physician, a work-life integration researcher, and an international expert on mind-body-spirit connection. She is also an international speaker and bestselling author of Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity.

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Treating the flu:

On top of the Coronavirus pandemic, the flu season is here too. Beginning in early fall to mid-spring, the number of diagnosed cases of the influenza virus begins to rise. In any given year 10-20 percent of the population will become infected with the flu. Characteristically the symptoms of the flu are very similar to the common cold; however, these two diseases are the result of different viruses. The flu often presents with fever, headache, body aches, fatigue, sneezing, and cough. The common cold, however, tends to have more sinus involvement with a stuffy or a runny nose and is much milder than the flu. The flu is more likely to result in progression to pneumonia or bronchitis which increases the mortality rate of this virus. The elderly and the young are most at risk.

The best defense against the flu is a healthy immune system. However, if you do contract the flu, the following are 6 helpful tips you may want to consider to help alleviate the symptoms.

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4 Steps to Deal with Pandemic Fear

Available for Interviews: Dr. Alice Fong

Alice Fong, ND, is an integrative naturopathic doctor specializing in stress, integrative medicine, diet & weight loss, and is a business growth consultant for holistic healthcare providers.

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How to Deal with Pandemic Fear:

We must manage our fear or anxiety. Just like any other emotion, fear is spontaneous. Emotions, generally, do not stay for long. Fear, however, is not one of those. Left unchecked, a simple doubt can escalate into something much more uncontrollable, disruptive, and consuming. Here are 4 important things you can do to manage your fear.

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