Why Colorado Cleanse?
Average Reading Time: 4 minutes and 3 seconds Today, we are all victims of a failed dietary strategy that was imposed on us in 1961 when the American Heart Association declared cholesterol a public health concern, putting cholesterol on the “Nutrient Concern” List. (1) When that happened, consumption of cholesterol and saturated fats greatly declined […]
Lifestyle Outperforms Medications for Type 2 Diabetes Symptoms
In a recent study published in the Journal of American Medicine, a healthy lifestyle was compared to the standard western medical care for Type 2 Diabetes. (1) The results were astonishing! The study showed that a healthy lifestyle was able to help bring blood sugar levels back into the non-diabetic range, and half of the […]
#1 Overlooked Cause of Period Symptoms + The Top 2 Ayurvedic Herbs to Help
The female hormonal system–while bio-chemically complex–is also quite simple to understand when looking at it with logic. There are 3 hormones secreted by the ovaries: estrogen, progesterone and testosterone. In addition, there are ruling pituitary hormones that send orders to the ovaries to increase or decrease the production of these hormones. Contrary to what one […]
HIRING: Office Administrator with a passion for Natural Health
LifeSpa is looking for an outstanding Office Administrator with a passion for Ayurvedic Medicine who will intelligently, efficiently, and compassionately support our customers with their general inquiries about (but not limited to) health, herbs & other products, their orders and/or refunds, process new orders and scheduling inquiries. As well as provide administrative support to the […]
Episode 48: An Ayurvedic Approach to Autoimmune Conditions
According to Ayurveda, the immune system depends on awareness. If blood, lymph or venous circulation along with nervous system innervation is blocked in any way, the body’s communication tools can be compromised. Without awareness or communication, the immune system will not be able to recognize problems as problems. Overtime, problems escalate and the immune system […]
Autoimmune and Ayurveda
By definition, autoimmune is “relating to health concerns caused by antibodies or lymphocytes produced against substances naturally present in the body.” Autoimmunity occurs when the body’s immune system turns on itself and starts attacking healthy tissues of the body. In western medicine, when the immune system goes rogue, doctors will do everything possible to suppress […]
Do Humans Have A Mating Season?
Throughout nature, we see seasonal breeding as being a part of species survival. Most animals mate in the summer-fall to give birth in the spring. Mating during the late fall or winter would push birthing back into the summer months. Doing so would not allow ample time for the babies to develop and become self-sufficient […]
How & Why to Customize Your Melatonin Dosage
For life forms to exist on this planet, a mechanism was required to deal with day and night, as well as summer and winter. Our connection to the light/dark cycles has evolved around our ability to produce one of the oldest molecules on the planet, melatonin. Melatonin is produced in the pineal gland of mammals, […]
“Eat Late and Gain Weight” According to New Study
One of the oldest and most wise Ayurvedic recommendations is to have supper early and to avoid eating late in the evening. A new 2017 study from the University of Pennsylvania has confirmed this ancient wisdom! In this study, 9 healthy individuals underwent two different meal-time conditions for 8 weeks each: First 8-week period: They […]
Stanford Study Backs Seasonal Eating for the Healthiest Microbiome
One of the last remaining hunter-gatherer tribes on earth confirm that our gut microbes were meant to change seasonally! If you are a regular reader here at LifeSpa.com, this may be old news… you are probably already eating seasonally, enjoying the monthly recipes, utilizing the grocery and superfoods lists we publish for free each month […]
