Jane Litsey

Have you heard of seed cycling? It is an old - food as medicine - way to support hormone production and elimination. Our hormones are made of fats and the fatty acids in seeds give our bodies the building blocks to make hormones. Seeds also contain fiber which helps our bodies get rid of hormones. The saying is you want to use hormones and lose hormones. If they don’t get out of the body, symptoms such as PMS, breast tenderness, headaches before the cycle and cramping can occur.  There are...

The core philosophy of Naturopathic Medicine is that symptoms are an intelligent response to imbalanced ways of living. If obstacles creating imbalance are removed, and the conditions for health are restored, the body heals itself. This way of seeing orients the doctor and the patient to look for what is disturbing balance and what is missing to restore health. It looks to create the conditions for vitality and well being instead of fighting disease. The clinical thinking of a Naturopathic...

On a gut level we have an instinctive pull toward what supports us and an instinctive withdrawal from what doesn’t. We have a built in...