Adrenal Fatigue & Stress ReductioN

Stress is everywhere in today’s busy world.

The adrenal glands control your body’s response to this stress, both internal and external. They also regulate the stress hormone cortisol–which is meant to be at rest, except when we're briefly threatened. Think about a run-in with a bear or lion.

However, the constant stress of modern life interrupts your adrenal's ability to control cortisol levels. This can cause harm to your brain and body over time.

If you have deficient adrenals, you may experience fatigue, insomnia, brain fog, blood sugar disorders, immunity and allergy issues, and a host of other symptoms.

Western medicine typically only recognizes extreme adrenal dysfunction, like hypo-Addisons or hyper-Cushings. By using muscle testing, we can pinpoint imbalances early.

Treatments include glandular extracts, adaptogenic herbs, supportive nutrition, lifestyle assessment, and acupuncture.

 

Brain Mood Optimization

Twenty years ago, scientists believed that when brain cells died, that was it—kaput. We now know that the brain is flexible, neuronal cells do reproduce, and healing is possible!

When the brain and nervous system are out of balance, you can experience anxiety, depression, anger, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), insomnia, pain, tremors, twitches, cramps, nerve problems and other conditions.

Many factors cause imbalances in the brain, including serotonin/dopamine/epinephrine deficiencies, trauma, surgery, stress, inflammation, cell or radiofrequency overexposure and toxins.

With applied kinesiology, Annie can pinpoint brain deficiencies and support healing, recovery and improved mood over time. Treatment includes electrolytes, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids, B vitamins, ribonucleic acid, herbs and protomorphogens (PMGs) to support healthy brain and nerve cell reproduction.

 
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Natural Medicine

Natural medicine is a holistic approach to health and healing. It recognizes your body's ability to heal itself.

Natural medicine treatments support the innate healing processes in the body. Therapies include nutrition, herbal medicine, homeopathy, lifestyle suggestions, and dietary supplements.

 

Digestive Health

A healthy digestive system is foundational to good health. Nearly 75% of your body’s immune and neurotransmitter production comes from the digestive tract.

Symptoms of digestive imbalance include gas, bloating, diarrhea, constipation, chest pains, GI rumbling, reflux, and heartburn.

Diagnoses such as Crohn’s disease, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), colitis or interstitial colitis (IC), Intestinal Permeability (leaky gut), and H.Pylori are all signs of treatable imbalances.

There's always a root cause of digestive discomfort. Annie uses proprietary enzymes, probiotics, herbal energetics and homeopathic remedies to clean up the gastrointestinal tract and rebalance your gut.

 
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Allergies & Immunity

The immune system is the body’s key mechanism of defense against pathogens and infection, and allergies are often a sign of a weakened immune system.

Causes can be as simple as eating too many high-protein foods–like dairy, gluten, processed soy, and nuts– which can clog up your lymphatic system.

To treat allergies, we clean and strengthen the immune system with enzymes, liver and kidney detox formulas, herbs, glandular extracts, homeopathic drainage remedies and a revitalized diet.

Your body can heal from a lifetime of weakened immunity relatively quickly, often in a matter of months.

Homeopathy

Homeopathy is the use of natural substances in small doses to trigger healing responses in the body. It's energy medicine, proven again and again over the last 250 years.

At Annie’s Natural Medicine, we use homeopathy in many situations. It can support mineral and vitamin absorption and organ and endocrine function. It can help you detox from foods and toxins. High potencies can clear miasms—that "dark cloud” energy, where you don’t feel good and can’t heal. It can support physical, mental, emotional and spiritual healing.

 
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ACUPUNCTURE

Acupuncture has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for almost 2,000 years. It involves stimulating points on the body with thin needles to balance the body’s vital life force, or Qi (Chi).

It's thought that acupuncture works through neurohormonal pathways, stimulating nerves that signal the brain to release beta-Endorphins. This causes relaxation or even euphoria, which reduces inflammation, pain and stress.

Acupuncture is proven to ease many health conditions, including acute and chronic pain, nausea, insomnia, anxiety, migraines and many more.

Annie uses acupuncture alongside natural medicine to help individuals achieve balance and harmony.

 

Natural Weight Loss

Weight loss can be a welcome side effect of getting healthier. Many people—especially women—are overweight, and obesity is at an all-time high.

Excess fat contributes to many health problems, including joint pains, high blood sugar, high blood pressure, heart disease, depression, sleep apnea, infertility, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), lower life expectancy, and increased risk of cancer.

Many factors also contribute to difficulty in losing weight. These include hypothyroidism, pancreatic insulin resistance, pre-diabetes and congestion blocking the liver from processing fats and cholesterol.

We can support natural weight loss through clinical nutrition, resetting the hypothalamus, helping your body to flush out fats and toxins and balancing the pancreas, thyroid, pituitary and liver.

Annie also works with emotional and psychological blocks to losing weight. There's always hope; get help and reset to a healthier lifestyle!

 

Infertility & Pre-Conception

Many factors cause infertility in men and women, such as chemicals in medication, radiation, second-hand smoke, exposure to environmental estrogens, ovulatory dysfunction, amenorrhea, PCOS, uterine fibroids, past infections, endometriosis, reduced sperm counts, and natural aging.

Natural treatments for women include balancing the ovaries, pituitary, hypothalamus, adrenals and thyroid with nutritional supplements–and may also include changes in lifestyle to reduce exposure to toxicity.

For men, we detoxify the body and balance the function of the testes to increase sperm count and optimize testosterone levels.

 

Men’s Health

We see many men experiencing depression, fatigue or energy problems, and imbalances in testosterone, prostate or thyroid. Many men experience andropause, the male version of menopause in women.

In these cases, we use applied kinesiology to pinpoint deficiencies. We then help rebalance with naturopathy, acupuncture, nutritional supplements, male hormone support, homeopathy and bio-energetic therapies.

 

Longevity Medicine

It's possible to slow the degeneration of the body and extend our lives with holistic medicine.

Annie uses naturopathic nutrition and supplements alongside homeopathy and acupuncture. Together, these methods can balance hormones, improve mental health, support weight control, and reduce insomnia. The combined effect is a longer, healthier life expectancy.

 
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Bio-Energetic Therapies

Bioenergetic therapies work with the mind-body connection to bring you relief from trauma, PTSD, prolonged stress, surgeries, and blocked emotions.

These therapies include electro-dynamic light frequencies (bio-photon, LASER, and LED healing), magnetic therapy, and vibrational medicine such as breath and energy work to help heal physical and emotional patterns in the body.

These tools help you release harmful patterns and experience more joy and aliveness.