How the Gut Microbiome Affects Your Mental Health
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How the Gut Microbiome Affects Your Mental Health

How does your gut microbiome affect your mental health?

Did you know that there is more serotonin and dopamine in the gut than in your brain? About 90% of serotonin is in the gut! How did it get there?

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How Does the Gut Microbiome Affect Your Immune System
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How Does the Gut Microbiome Affect Your Immune System

Did you know that you have about 40 trillion bacteria in your body? Which is about the same amount of cells you have in your body!

Given the number of these tiny living organisms in your body, you have to wonder if they have a function other than just sitting there?

Come find out what they do and how they shape your immune system!

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Autumn is a time for Reflection
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Autumn is a time for Reflection

What are our body’s needs during the autumn?

The good news is that the “lungs” in TCM also represents resilience. The lungs represent the metal element which is very malleable and can adapt to the different pressures that are applied to it. And given the right tools and skills, it can be refined to become something beautiful, like a piece of jewelry.

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Why Your Body is Asking You for Help to Detoxify?
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Why Your Body is Asking You for Help to Detoxify?

Why your body needs help to detox?

Toxins are found everywhere, even places we don’t expect such as the plastic shower curtain. All these accumulation of toxins in the body results in a “toxic load” which overtime begins to affect our endocrine system such as our metabolism and ability to gain or lose weight, our hormones such as our ability to be fertile and have a baby and even affect our mood.

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