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Pediatric Nutrients, Insomnia and Constipation

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Written By Michael Gerber, MD, HMD | The last article looked at the therapeutic importance of vitamin A and cod liver oil. This month, I would like to address other vitamins, minerals and dietary issues that are especially important for children. Insomnia and Constipation From infants to toddlers and older children, sleep disorders and slowed down bowel are quite common. Causes are biological, and certainly these problems are aggravated by milk-based and soy-based formulas. We suggest … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alternative, Ayurvedic Medicine / Oriental, Current Issue, Family Health, Holistic Therapies, Homeopathic / Naturopathic Tagged With: baby, insomnia, kids, pediatric

Insomnia and Chinese Medicine

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by Gary Danchak | In Chinese thought, all of nature is a dynamic oscillation of the two primal forces of yin and yang: water and fire, cold and hot, dark and light, wet and dry, passive and active, female and male. Out of this simple binary system all of Chinese medicine is spun. You’ve seen the t’ai chi symbol before: a black fish curled up next to a white fish. The black fish has a white eye and the white fish has a black eye–symbolizing that within yang is the seed of yin, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ayurvedic Medicine / Oriental Tagged With: insomnia

Natural Remedies For Insomnia

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Take Control of Your Tossing & Turning—NATURALLY. By Jamie Agee It’s the middle of the night and you’re still tossing and turning, wondering how you’ll make it through the next day if you don’t get to sleep soon. Without resorting to a diet of left over Thanksgiving turkey, there is hope for insomniacs to naturally achieve the same level of after-dinner drowsiness, ensuring a good night sleep any time of the year. The key ingredient that gives turkey its fatigue-inflicting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alternative, Natural Health, Natural Solutions Tagged With: insomnia, sleep disorders

SLEEP Like A Baby

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Melatonin Supports Healthy Sleep & Provides Other Health Benefits By John Morgenthaler If you have difficulty falling asleep, you might want to consider inducing sleep naturally by taking supplemental melatonin. Melatonin is a hormone produced in the brain by a pea-sized endocrine gland called the pineal gland. The pineal gland regulates our internal body clock and sleep cycle through the secretion of melatonin, the release of which is stimulated by darkness and inhibited by light. How … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Natural Health, Natural Solutions, Supplements 101 Tagged With: anti-oxidants, insomnia, supplements

Fighting INSOMNIA

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By Carole Bucher For some lucky people, sleep comes as soon as their head hits the pillow. For most of us, it’s much harder. According to National Sleep Foundation polls, more and more Americans are getting less than eight hours of sleep per night every year. Chronic sleep deprivation has effects from mild to disastrous. 1. Several studies, including one published in the journal SLEEP in 2005, indicate that sleeping less than 8 hours a night leads to obesity. 2. A Harvard study found that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Conscious Health, Family Health, Natural Health Tagged With: insomnia, sleep, sleep disorders

Ways to Deal With Summer Stress and Overload

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By: Dr. Bruce Eichelberger, OMD Stress is a sneaky thing. It usually happens a little at a time so you don’t always see its effects right away. Even so, given enough time it can kill you as surely as a heart attack or stroke. And summer has its own unique stresses for us to deal with. Travel Do you remember when travel was fun? These days, travel is often difficult and uncertain. Just this past month people have told me of recent travel delays because of immigration, computer … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alternative, Conscious Health, Family Health Tagged With: adrenal fatigue, headache, insomnia, stress
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