How to Recover from Surgery like a Champ! (or a Naturopath)
After a surgery, bouncing back to your regularly scheduled life as quickly as possible while moving forward with your healing is very important. I don’t…
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Hypothyroidism – What is it really about?
Your thyroid is the main organ that controls how wonderful and energetic you feel. When you wake up full of energy, happy, and eager to…
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5 Ways Pets Keep You Healthy
If you’re on the fence about whether or not to get a pet, allow us to sway you with some solid evidence—pets are good for…
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Holiday Travel Tips – Don’t Leave Home with out ‘Em!
Let’s just take a minute to be thankful for traveling!! It has been an isolative few years and now that we get to mosey out…
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How to Avoid/Reverse Diabetes – A Naturopath’s Perspective
Believe it or not, it is now estimated that more than half of the U.S. adult population has diabetes or prediabetes.(1) With this trend continually increasing…
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Secret Gems You Need to Try
If you’re like me, when you plan a trip to Peoples Rx, you have the intention of just getting the items on your list. Then…
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Melatonin – Sleeping off a Viral Infection
Most people know melatonin for sleep support, but few know melatonin is helpful for the immune system, especially with viral infection. It turns out, melatonin…
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Fixing Fatty Liver
Fatty liver (steatohepatitis), from both alcoholic and bad dietary habits, is on the rise. Once classified as “benign,” the liver cysts found in Non-Alcoholic Fatty…
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How to Optimize a Plant-Based Diet
Many people seek a plant-based diet for health reasons, but some health and wellness experts are opposed to people consuming only plant-based foods. I have…
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Back To School Jitters: Anxiety & Learning
Summer is fun! Sleeping in, playing outside, sunshine, schedule freedom. But for many, the end of summer and looming return to school really challenges mental…
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Guest Blog: New Chapter on Fermentation
The good stuff in life is fermented! From bread to wine, kimchi to yogurt, fermentation has been the way humankind has transformed and “unlocked” food’s…
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Avoid Heat Stroke: A Quick Summer Guide
Summers in Texas seem more like oven temperatures than weather. The hottest day ever recorded in Austin, Texas was 112 degrees F on September 5,…
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Stress Much? Adaptogenic Herbs for the Win!
Have you heard of the fabulous class of herbs called adaptogens? They help our bodies cope with, be more resilient during, and recover from stress….
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The Gut Brain Connection – Your Emotions Are Linked to Your Digestion
It goes without saying that the last two years have been hard on our moods. Worry and stress mounted to new levels leading many people…
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Is My Sunscreen Safe?
The dirty truth is, there are several chemicals in traditional sunscreens that cause endocrine disruption and even have carcinogenic properties. I know what you are…
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Pets Need Nutrition Too! (This one’s for the dogs)
In honor of National Pet Week, May 1-7, Peoples Rx is featuring a few of our favorite nutritional support tips, foods, and products to help…
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Know Your Herbs: Bitter Melon for Weight Loss & Healthy Aging
Bitter melon has an intriguing name, but its evolution from odd-looking edible fruit to a plant medicine perfectly suited for modern times is even more…
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Is Intermittent Fasting Right for You?
More than 73% of Americans are considered to be overweight and of this population, 42% are obese.(1) This statistic is not to body-shame anyone. After…
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Reduce Stress & Balance Mood – Simple Tips from an ND
There’s no denying that the past few years have been stressful for everyone. In my practice nearly all of my patients have needed extra support…
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Lose Weight for Good!
This time of year, many people start thinking about getting in shape for the warmer weather inevitably on its way. With spring around the corner,…
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Dissolving Blood Clots – Supportive Care
Have you been hearing more about blood clots in the news lately? Anytime we cut ourselves, we’re certainly grateful for our ability to clot and…
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Better Life After Detox
So you just completed your cleanse, diet or detox program, now what? Whether it was to get out of inflammation, burn fat, boost energy or…
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Natural Support for the Omicron Variant
If you have recently contracted the omicron variant of Covid-19 or know someone who has, we are here to recommend ways to support your immune…
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Four Foundational Staples to Start the Year off Right
If you are like most Americans, making plans to improve your health in the new year, you’re going to want to make sure you are…
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Restart Health with a Detox
People often crave a detox as a way to change their lives. It may be a resolution, or just coming to terms with the fact…
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How to ‘Rise and Shine’ in the Era of Stress
Most of us are all too familiar with stress—both acute and chronic. Work-life balance, or lack thereof, is one of the many things that heavily…
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Why is Your Cholesterol High? It’s Not Because “It Runs in the Family”
“High cholesterol runs in my family.” I hear this a lot. But, truth be told, deducing things to “running in the family” is pretty dismissive…
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Functional Mushrooms for Fundamental Immune Support
Autumn weather brings moisture, fallen leaves, and the return of forest fungi. These mysterious and often colorful fruiting bodies remind us that matter is not…
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Ouch! Leg Cramps Demystified
We have all been there – middle of the night, you awake from a deep sleep with the slow, intense, cramp in the lower leg,…
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The Many Uses of Low-Dose Naltrexone (LDN)
Peoples Rx recently held a free, live webinar providing insight into the science, physiology and mechanisms of action of LDN, as well as the many…
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Regenerative Agriculture and New Chapter
New Chapter has joined a growing agricultural movement and is working to inspire other companies to do the same. Regenerative agriculture goes beyond organic. Regenerative…
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Get to know herbs–Vitex for women’s health
Vitex / Vitex agnus-castus Commonly referred to as chaste tree, chasteberry, or monk’s pepper, Vitex has a long use in history and has been widely…
