inflammation Archives - Mary Vance, NC

A Roadmap to Beat Long Covid Syndrome

Many people who get sick with COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2, which I’ll call Covid for the duration of this post), even those with minor illness, do not experience a smooth recovery. Certain people who recover from the acute Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 illness are left with...

How Cold Water Therapy Can Improve Your Health

Wellness

Does the thought of plunging yourself into cold water make you cringe? Once you learn about the benefits of cold water therapy, you may warm up to the idea. Cold water therapy involves immersing yourself into very cold water to activate the body’s natural healing...

How to Use a Ketogenic Diet for Your Health Goals

Nutrition

If you want to jumpstart weight loss, improve body composition, or lower blood sugar, a ketogenic diet can help you reach your goals. “Going keto” has become a mega fad recently–and I’m not a fan of fad diets–but the ketogenic diet has a...

Top 10 Supplements to Combat Inflammation

Wellness

Inflammation is a necessary part of the body’s immune response. But research is showing that chronic inflammation may be the common factor in many diseases. (source) If you’ve been told by a doctor that you have inflammation, or if you have joint pain or...

Top 5 Gut Healing Foods (#4 Will Surprise You!)

Digestive Health, Nutrition

All disease begins in the gut, said Hippocrates approximately 2,000 years ago. This very statement is why my practice has shifted from hormones to digestive wellness predominantly. Nearly all of my clients, no matter their primary health issue or goal, have symptoms...

Is Coconut Oil Unhealthy?

Nutrition

The holistic health world was in a uproar recently when headlines surfaced that coconut oil isn’t healthy and never has been. The American Heart Association (AHA) claims that because coconut oil increases LDL cholesterol, a cause of CVD [cardiovascular disease],...

How to Live Longer

Nutrition, Wellness

We’ve learned a lot about longevity. For example, in the 1960s, 40 percent (!) of adults smoked, and it wasn’t unusual to die of a heart attack in one’s 50s. (source) Since then we’ve learned that smoking isn’t doing us any favors, and...

Heal IBS Naturally in 4 Steps (FREE Downloadable Guide)

Digestive Health, Nutrition, Wellness

Sarah (names changed to protect client confidentiality) had just returned from the trip of a lifetime. She’d spent weeks traveling around North Africa and the Middle East and was finally back on American soil. But something wasn’t quite right. She’d...