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Your body makes hormones out of cholesterol. It sends them into your bloodstream, and the blood carries them everywhere. A hormone can only work on a cell that has a receptor shaped for it. The hormone is the key, and the receptor is the lock. There’s also a thermostat. Your hypothalamus and pituitary, back in…

Have you ever wondered what’s happening inside that little humming machine? A nebulizer is one of the simplest and most clever tools you can keep at home, and once you see how it works, it feels a lot less mysterious. A nebulizer has one job: to turn liquid into a soft, fine mist you can…

The days are getting shorter, the air has a bite to it, and the holiday calendar is starting to fill up. For a lot of us, November is also when we start hearing coughs at the grocery store and wondering how to stay feeling our best through the colder months. The good news is that…

Have you been seeing 133 lately? Maybe it shows up on the clock, a receipt, or a license plate right when you’re deep in thought. Many people believe repeating numbers like this are gentle messages from Spirit, nudges to pause and notice what’s stirring inside you. The energy behind 133 Angel number 133 combines two…

If you love chocolate but not the caffeine crash, carob might become your new favorite pantry staple. Carob comes from the pods of the carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua), which has grown around the Mediterranean for thousands of years. The pods are roasted and ground into a naturally sweet powder that tastes a bit like caramel…

When the digestive tract feels irritated, inflamed or raw, one of the gentlest plants we can turn to is marshmallow root (Althaea officinalis). Long before it became a fluffy campfire treat, marshmallow was a treasured herb used to soothe and protect the body’s delicate tissues. For anyone working through intestinal issues, it’s one of the…

Sometimes the simplest remedies are the ones our grandmothers knew best. The wet sock treatment, sometimes called “warming socks,” is a traditional hydrotherapy practice used in naturopathic and European folk medicine to help the body through colds, congestion and fevers. All it takes is a pair of cotton socks, a pair of wool socks and…

Saline is one of the simplest tools for supporting the body’s natural cleansing. Our eyes, sinuses and airways are lined with delicate tissue that works hard to clear out dust, pollen and everyday irritants. Making your saline with a gentle herbal tea instead of plain water adds the traditional benefits of two well-loved plants. Eyebright…

By Valora Barlow, Valora’s Garden Hi friends, I want to share a little story with you, because it’s a big part of why I do what I do. A while back, I was working through my own detox. Like many of you, I had read the books, talked to people I trust and tried a…

When we attempt to explain the power of energy, we compare it to going into a room and flipping the light switch and seeing the light turn on, we do not see the energy as it goes thru the wires, but we see the end result. That is how Bio-Kinetic testing is. You cannot see…