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8 Natural Treatments for Depression, Anxiety, Suicidal Thoughts, and Other Mental Health Challenges
Did you know that your body is equipped with everything it needs to make good mood chemicals and keep you happy? If you are feeling overly sad, anxious, angry, violent, or like you need to escape with drugs or even suicide, then your brain is telling you it needs...
Build the Microscopic Army in Your Mouth to Fight Oral Cancer and Improve Dental Health
Oral Cancer Is No Match for a Healthy Oral Microbiome Fostering a healthy oral microbiome can fight oral and other cancers. That’s nothing to say for its benefits on cavities, root canal infections, and gum disease. Your friendly bacteria protect you from disease,...
The Best COVID Vaccines, Safety, and How To Get The Most Out of Vaccination
A year ago today, we NEVER could have imagined we would still be swimming in the COVID-19 quagmire. Yet here we are, a little more adjusted to masks and distancing and a lot more stir-crazy and wishing it would end. We are totally over COVID-19, but it isn’t over us...
The Folate Tests You Need to Know About for Your Heart, Brain, and Reproductive Health
When I got my first job fifteen years ago at a premier nutritional medical laboratory, all the talk of “methylation” had me confused. What’s so special about methylation? There’s a methyl group (-CH3) on every organic compound! So what if it’s being transferred...
Folate: Too Little, Too Much, or Just Right?
Reviewed and Updated January, 2021 I originally wrote this blog some years ago when we were discovering that folate was a double-edged sword. The topic of folic acid, folate, and methylation is just as important and controversial today as it was in 2012. Since writing...
Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s: Address the Root Causes of Inflammation And Bring About Remission Without Drugs or Surgery
Inflammatory bowel disease. Chances are, you or someone you know has it. Three million Americans are believed to have IBD, which includes ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease. It’s an ugly condition that has no cure by mainstream medical methods. However, integrative...
Natural Treatments for Concussion, Stroke, and Other Brain Injuries: Don’t Leave Home Without This Info!
Nobody knows when they might need a crash course in brain health. Don’t let a head injury catch you unprepared. Eating a healthy diet, encouraging gut health, and taking good foundational supplements for brain health will protect you beforehand. If you recently had a...
Beating Breast Cancer: Six Steps to Optimize Breast Health and Support Whole-Body Healing
To Treat Breast Cancer, Treat the Whole Person. If you have been diagnosed with breast cancer, you may be shocked and overwhelmed, and have no idea where to start with breast cancer treatment. An integrated approach may be the best strategy to beat cancer. That means,...
Cass Nelson-Dooley, MS, is a researcher, author, educator, and laboratory consultant. She studied medicinal plants in the rain forests of Panama as a Fulbright Scholar and then launched a career in science and natural medicine. Early on, she studied ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology, and drug discovery at the University of Georgia and AptoTec, Inc. She joined innovators at Metametrix Clinical Laboratory as a medical education consultant helping clinicians use integrative and functional laboratory results in clinical practice. She owns Health First Consulting, LLC, a medical communications company with the mission to improve human health using the written word. Ms. Nelson-Dooley is an oral microbiome expert and author of Heal Your Oral Microbiome. She was a contributing author in Laboratory Evaluations for Integrative and Functional Medicine and Case Studies in Integrative and Functional Medicine. She has published case studies, book chapters, and journal articles about the oral microbiome, natural medicine, nutrition, laboratory testing, obesity, and osteoporosis.
