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Have You Had Your Probiotic Today?

Probiotics play a key role in the body by improving gastrointestinal functions, enhancing immunity, regulating hormones, protecting us from food-borne illnesses, controlling overgrowth of bad bacteria, and assisting in vitamin production & nutrient absorption. Here’s what to look for in your probiotic:
1. High culture count – Culture count refers to the total amount of live bacterial cultures in a single serving i.e. 50 Billion cfu (colony forming units)
2. Number of strains – There are over a thousand strains of beneficial bacteria in the gut. Look for multiple strains of lactobacilli and bifidobacteria.
3. Make sure the capsule is designed to protect probiotics – Enteric coated capsules remain intact throughout the harsh stomach environment and begin dissolving in the intestine where the pH is more alkaline.
All of these factors can be found in the Ultimate Flora line of probiotics by Renew Life.
Aviva Natural Health Solutions, AvivaHealth.com

Trust your Gut

Your immune system works hard to protect you from injury, illness, and disease. This process usually involves inflammation, a natural response to stress, tissue damage, and harmful stimuli like viruses, bacteria, and toxins. Inflammation functions similarly to an engine warning light, alerting you to the presence of a problem through symptoms such as heat, pain, redness, swelling, and/or loss of function. 85% of the immune system is located in our gut. An anti-inflammatory diet rich in vitamins A, C, and E and the mineral selenium provides your gut with the ingredients it needs to bolster immunity and achieve optimal mental and physical health. Sean Miller, CMHA, mbwpg.cmha.ca

Set The Stage For Your Children’s Future

Struggling with a child who is acting out? Frustrated with school? Overly anxious? Or even completely shut down? Begin to bring some ease into your life together by finding a safe outlet for your child’s inner world through creative play and the arts. Acquire practical, hands-on parenting tools that will make a difference and strengthen your relationship with your child. Replace old patterns of interaction with healthier ones that will lovingly support and strengthen your child developmentally and create a sense of peace and centeredness in your world at home. Rearranging your child’s stage will deeply impact their coming years. Sophie von Herrmann, B.Ed. M.A. BCATA ExpressiveTherapiesVictoria.ca

Why Implant Supported Dentures?

With tissue-only supported dentures, the roots of teeth are removed. And over time, the bone heals and starts to shrink. This process is called resorption and is primarily why dentures get loose and why they periodically require rebasing or refitting.

Reasons to consider implant-retained dentures:

• Quality of life improves because the extra support from the implants stabilize movement on the gum tissue
• Loss of jaw bone close to the implants is greatly reduced
• Your appearance or integrity of facial bones is supported, thereby preserving your full facial features
• Choice of more food groups and the ability to chew and digest is enhanced
• Renewed confidence in your smile is empowering and contagious! J. Lane Janke DD, FCAD James Bay Denturists, JBSdenturists.com

Dysregulation, Disorders, and Music Therapy

Music has nonverbal, creative, structural, and emotional qualities. These are used in the therapeutic relationship between client and music therapist to facilitate contact, self-expression, communication, and other clinical goals. Our bodies pulsing with internal rhythms of the heart, the digestive system, and the lungs synchronize to music with its intrinsically rhythmical structure. For people living with autism, ADHD, mood disorders, effects of TBI, stroke, or trauma, the skillful use of music and its elements such as melody, rhythm, and dynamics promotes positive change. Most significantly, it influences the important and necessary shift in physiological and emotional responses away from dysregulation towards regulation and balance.

One Visit May be Enough

Seeing a counsellor just once can help with CHANGE. That is because you have CONTEMPLATED and PREPARED. You have put your thoughts and feelings into physical action and initiated a counselling session. A good counsellor sees that you have already done the first two stages of change. Then, processes such as looking at old or new perspectives; making decisions to accept and understand; and learning how to ‘connect YOUR dots’ can happen at that first meeting. In just an hour, you can feel enabled to manage change.
Barbara Gilmore, RPC, Clinical Counselling, BGilmoreCounselling.com

Serrapeptase, the Little Miracle Enzyme!

Serrapeptase is a proteolytic enzyme, which means it breaks down long protein chains into amino acids that the body needs. These enzymes bind to the alpha 2 macroglobulin in our plasma, where they are shielded from the immune system while retaining their enzymatic activity. They are then free to roam through the bloodstream, seeking to break down hard protein (non-living tissue), fibrin surfaces, scar tissue, and granuloma, and even thin out mucous to ease conditions such as chronic sinusitis. It’s been proven to be a safe and effective alternative to NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen), and should be taken on an empty stomach. The capsule must be a special DRcap (delayed release capsule) or enteric-coated capsule that allows the serrapeptase to pass through the stomach to the small intestine, where the enzyme is then released. Enerex Botanicals Ltd., Enerex.ca

Have You Had Your Probiotic Today?

Probiotics play a key role in the body by improving gastrointestinal functions, enhancing immunity, regulating hormones, protecting us from food-borne illnesses, controlling overgrowth of bad bacteria, and assisting in vitamin production & nutrient absorption. Here’s what to look for in your probiotic:
1. High culture count – Culture count refers to the total amount of live bacterial cultures in a single serving i.e. 50 Billion cfu (colony forming units)
2. Number of strains – There are over a thousand strains of beneficial bacteria in the gut. Look for multiple strains of lactobacilli and bifidobacteria.
3. Make sure the capsule is designed to protect probiotics – Enteric coated capsules remain intact throughout the harsh stomach environment and begin dissolving in the intestine where the pH is more alkaline.
All of these factors can be found in the Ultimate Flora line of probiotics by Renew Life.
Aviva Natural Health Solutions, AvivaHealth.com

Water for Your Healthy Lifestyle

Water is essential for life. It makes up nearly 70% of our body weight and is a vital component needed for the proper operation of many bodily functions.
•Regulates body temperature
•Helps maintain proper muscle tone
•Serves as a solvent for minerals, vitamins, amino acids, glucose and other small molecules, aiding their assimilation into the body.
•Carries oxygen and nutrients to all parts of the body.
•Lubricates the areas around joints
•Aids in digestion of food
•Removes the waste products of our metabolic processes.
•Minimizes urinary tract infections.
•Prevents constipation
•Keeps skin healthy
It’s only natural that you’d want only the purest water possible to quench your thirst and replenish your body, head to toe. Dewdrop® World of Water

Support Your Body In Healing

Food is the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison. Having a health issue indicates that you are on the losing end of a dietary issue. It has been proven that consuming foods that are appropriate for your ancestral heritage helps your body/mind to heal. Take advantage of a free discovery call with a Primal Health Coach and determine what steps are required to support your body in healing. Take control of your health. Sleep, stress, exercise/play, and toxins are addressed in your healing plan. No fad diets, detoxes, cleanses, or hunger. Eat like your life depends on it, because it does! Tom White, EndDiabetesManitoba.ca becomeHEALTHY.ca

Trust your Gut

Your immune system works hard to protect you from injury, illness, and disease. This process usually involves inflammation, a natural response to stress, tissue damage, and harmful stimuli like viruses, bacteria, and toxins. Inflammation functions similarly to an engine warning light, alerting you to the presence of a problem through symptoms such as heat, pain, redness, swelling, and/or loss of function. 85% of the immune system is located in our gut. An anti-inflammatory diet rich in vitamins A, C, and E and the mineral selenium provides your gut with the ingredients it needs to bolster immunity and achieve optimal mental and physical health. Sean Miller, CMHA, mbwpg.cmha.ca