I've been aggressively addressing this issue for more than a decade now, testing and supplementing almost every client within my midwifery practice. It's an issue I am a bit passionate about and one that I believe well demonstrates the flawed mindset of our country's #sickcare system. Consider that if we really had a healthcare system, the profession would prioritize research towards what level of vitamin D is optimal and strive for those standards in our recommendations, rat

More than twenty years ago now, I took my first back-packing trip in the depths of the Costa Rica jungle. It was glorious, life-transforming, and the challenge of a lifetime. It was also my last back-packing trip. My second decade of life was a little life-transforming as well. I married a man who has autism, had a few babies (a few of them with autism), began my nursing career, and returned to university for a few more degrees. I also traumatically lost one of my beloved chi

Nearly twenty percent of our national expenditure is for healthcare expenses. Ten percent of that expense is for prescription medicine. This implies our country is suffering significant illness and we have an inability to prevent disease in the first place. In fact, we haven't healthcare at all; we have a failing #sickcare system. Many experts have suggested we are paying a steep price in terms of degeneration and illness as the result of our separation from Mother Nature. Tr

Known as connecting ourselves to the surface of the #planet through sitting, standing, or walking #barefoot on Earth (or by sleeping on special conductive sheets and pads connected to a simple metal rod stuck in the ground outside a bedroom window), earthing restores and maintains the human body's most natural electrical state, which in turn promotes optimum health and functionality in daily life. The primordial natural energy emanating from the Earth is the ultimate anti-inf