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Nine Months into the Pandemic, What Do We Know So Far About Kids, Schools, and COVID-19?
Life was turned completely upside down in March, 2020 when schools closed. As a self-employed mother, I wondered, was I supposed to let my business tank and take care of my daughter at home just to protect our household from COVID-19? Here we are six months later and...
Suicide Is The Number One Mental Health Emergency- Do Professionals Have What it Takes to Prevent Rising Tide of Suicide?
Suicide rates are likely to increase all over the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly half of Americans say their mental health has been negatively affected by stress and worry over coronavirus. A convergence of multiple factors brought on by the pandemic can...
Summertime Organic Berries: Low Prices, Delicious, and Great for Your Health!
This summer, indulge in the many benefits of berries for your health, your taste buds, and your pocketbook.
The Best Kept Secret to Your Overall Optimum Wellness
The gastrointestinal tract (or gut) is involved in many of your body’s natural and healthy processes. When your gut is working well, it sets off a domino effect- improving many other systems in the body as well.
How Do We Avoid a Second Wave of Coronavirus While Keeping Businesses Open? Ask South Korea.
To avoid a second wave of coronavirus while we carry on with business and education, we need to step up our technology, our commitment, and bring our unmatched innovation to beat this illness. It can be done. South Korea did it. They didn’t have to close schools. They...
Coronavirus Testing: What You Need to Know
We need accurate, sensitive, specific testing for the virus that causes COVID-19 to help us understand the disease, figure out who has really been affected, and its outcome. And maybe it could be used to safely resume “business as usual,” or at least business...
Ten Natural Immune Boosters to Beat Coronavirus
One of the best things you can do to fight coronavirus is build up your immune defenses. With some basic vitamins and nutritional support, you can improve the odds that you can resist COVID-19 infection, shorten the duration of the illness, and prevent relapse. Well,...
Keep Your Home Safe Coronavirus Checklist- Disinfect and Sanitize Surfaces
FREE Handout: Your Home Checklist – Coronavirus Cleaning & Disinfecting Surfaces Keep your home free of coronavirus with this home sanitation checklist. Sanitize high-touch surfaces once a day while on high alert about coronavirus, especially if people are leaving...
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.
