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The 2024 Clean Fifteen Dirty Dozen List: Your Shopping Necessity

July 23, 2024

Health Hints, Healthy Life, Lifestyle Medicine

We know we need to eat more fruits and vegetables. Recommendations suggest consuming up to eight servings a day minimum (6 vegetables/2 fruits). However, growing concern over the impact of pesticides and fungicides sprayed on our produce is real and needs to be considered. That is why we are so appreciative of the work done by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit, non-partisan organization that provides individuals with the information they need to live cleaner, healthier lives. Every year they come out with a list of the cleanest, and dirtiest, produce to help guide our buying choices. While buying organic produce is preferred, this is not always an option due to cost and availability. The EWG guide can help steer our choices. In March 2024, they...

Vagus Nerve Regulation

July 17, 2024

Blog, Dr SG, Health Hints, Healthy Life, Lifestyle Medicine, Massage & Bodywork, Uncategorized

[caption id="attachment_11875" align="alignleft" width="226"] Dr. Scott Greenapple[/caption] A relatively recent treatment seems to be sweeping across the healthcare industry. Although we have known for many years what the Vagus nerve is responsible for, it is relatively newer information on how many systems are affected by stimulating or increasing what is known as Vagal tone. You would be hard-pressed these days to go to a health conference, read a health magazine, attend a biohacking conference, or visit any social media health website and not find an article or two on the Vagus nerve. Is it possible that this one long nerve in the body can help reduce stress, anxiety, and panic attacks, improve sleep/insomnia, maintain a healthy heart, dampen inflammation, maintain a healthy gut and digestion, increase heart rate...

Grilling: Food Preparation and Toxicity: 2024

June 25, 2024

Health Hints, Healthy Eating, Healthy Life, Lifestyle, Lifestyle Medicine

There is a lot more attention paid to our food sources and the type of food we eat. We recognize the importance of organic, minimally processed foods and their roles in health and disease prevention. It turns out that how we cook these foods plays an equally important role. When the weather is favorable, many cook meals on our outdoor grill. While small amounts of grilling are acceptable, research has suggested that meats may form carcinogenic chemicals called heterocyclic amines (HCAs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) when charred or cooked over high heat. Epidemiologic studies have linked cooking meats at high temperatures with an increased risk of pancreatic, prostate, stomach, and colorectal cancers. The culprits associated with this risk may be these heterocyclic amines (HCAs) and polycyclic...

Food As Medicine: Consider the Broccoli Stalk

June 11, 2024

Health Hints, Healthy Eating, Healthy Life, Lifestyle Medicine, Vitamins

When your parents told you to eat your broccoli, they were looking out for your best interests. We now know that broccoli has several disease-fighting benefits that can optimize many aspects of your health. Some of this pharmaceutical importance includes its antimicrobial, antioxidant, anticancer, immunomodulator, antidiabetic, hepatoprotective, and cardioprotective roles. We will dive into science a bit, but you will leave this article wanting to crunch on more of this important vegetable. Broccoli, which originated in Italy, is a cruciferous vegetable or brassica, like cabbage, Brussels sprouts, kale, and cauliflower. Its edible parts include the stem, leaves, and the flowers or head of the stalk. Nutritional Benefits Broccoli is an excellent source of vitamins C, K and A, It also provides important minerals like potassium, calcium and iron when consumed. Vitamins...

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Summer “Do’s” and “Don’ts

May 14, 2024

Health Hints, Healthy Life, Lifestyle, Lifestyle Medicine

We hope you and your families enjoy a relaxing and rejuvenating summer. Check out the list of do’s and don’ts we put together below. Our summer here at Thrive is off to a busy start. We are excited for another year of growth and are looking forward to counting to serve you and your families. Don’t Put on Sunscreen… At least for the first twenty minutes, you are in the sun. Vitamin D deficiency is common, with over 80% of Americans being deficient. This is a result of our overreaction to the risk of skin cancer with sun exposure. Vitamin D is important for adequate immune function and control of inflammation, neurological and cardiovascular function, bone-building, fighting depression, and, most importantly, fighting and preventing cancer. The body...

May is Mental Health Awareness Month

May 6, 2024

Blog, Dr SG, Functional and Integrative Medicine, Healthy Life, Lifestyle Medicine

Dr. Scott Greenapple May has been deemed Mental Health Awareness Month. In this article, I will combine some thoughts and theories and offer “tools” to help people become aware and educated. I will also offer some guidance for you or anyone you may know who suffers from this disease. Mental health issues are on the rise at alarming rates. Many theories are being studied and observed as to the reasons. Some of the most obvious stem from political unrest in this country and the world; the constant reality of war, poverty, climate change, financial struggle, and the barrage of news from social media are certainly at the top of reasonings. And, of course, the more personal ones such as family dynamics-dysfunction, trauma, genetics, chronic disease, pain, inter and...

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Whole Health Spring Cleaning

April 24, 2024

Dr NP, Health Hints, Healthy Life, Lifestyle, Lifestyle Medicine, Uncategorized

As the flowers bloom and the weather turns warmer, we come out of the winter hibernation and tackle spring cleaning. Nearly 8 out of 10 Americans practice spring cleaning regularly. While clearing up the clutter and the pollen is important this is a great time to clear up some of the unhealthy practices, we allowed in during the winter months. We must tackle these “chores” mindfully to embrace true self-care. Do not think of them as obligatory but rather empowering and liberating. Reducing clutter and unhealthy habits can be beneficial for our mental health and our physical health. Let’s try to embrace this mindset while we tackle the physical jobs. Spring cleaning, like many resets, can be referred to as a “temporal landmark”. These are the times in our...

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Super Seven Salad

April 5, 2024

Blog, Healthy Eating, Healthy Life, In The Kitchen, Nancy's articles

Super Seven Salad Eating Healthy Never Tasted This Good This Super Seven Kale Salad is a unique blend of seven superfoods and a delicious dressing. Have you searched for a great Kale salad recipe that the kids will devour? Well, look no further than the Super Seven Salad. This smart sweet Kale salad is a unique blend of seven superfoods and a delicious poppyseed dressing. The combination of kale, red cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, toasted walnuts, toasted pumpkin seeds, and dried cranberries make this Super Salad something you need to add to your weekly diet. Try it with Annie's light poppyseed dressing, but don't overdo it with the dressing, the cranberries and pumpkin seeds give this super salad a perfect level of sweetness all by itself. Super Seven Salad 3...

Springtime Detox to Enhance Your Immune System

March 24, 2024

Acupuncture, Dr SG, Healthy Life, Lifestyle Medicine

In theories of acupuncture, humans are looked at as part of the natural world that surrounds them. Seasons change and during this transition from one season to another, it is important to stay balanced with acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Each season is linked with an organ system in the body. Spring season is also known as the Wood element in TCM. Spring is the Liver and Gall bladder organ and meridian. Spring is when the liver should thrive. However, during transition, or early spring, the liver can get out of whack or out of harmony and become vulnerable. Acupuncture improves the function of the liver meridian and can restore balance to the organs. According to TCM, the liver is responsible for smooth flowing Qi (chi) or energy...

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Matcha Green tea Mochi

March 3, 2024

Healthy Eating, Healthy Life, In The Kitchen

Japan is famous not only for its culture but also for its cuisine. Due to their healthy eating habits, the Japanese are at a low risk of acquiring diseases, and this Match Green Tea Mochi recipe is an example of why! Matcha Green Tea Mochi Ingredients: 1 cup rice flour 1 cup coconut milk full fat 1 T matcha powder ½ cup coconut sugar 2 T butter 1 t baking powder Directions: Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Spray an 8x8 baking pan with coconut oil. Mix all the dry ingredients, whisking to blend. Add the melted butter and coconut milk and stir well. Put the mixture in a baking dish. Bake for 20 minutes until done in the middle. Cooking perfect rice: Rinse several times until the water is clear....

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The 2024 Clean Fifteen Dirty Dozen List: Your Shopping Necessity

Vagus Nerve Regulation

Grilling: Food Preparation and Toxicity: 2024

Food As Medicine: Consider the Broccoli Stalk

Summer “Do’s” and “Don’ts

May is Mental Health Awareness Month

Whole Health Spring Cleaning

Super Seven Salad

Springtime Detox to Enhance Your Immune System

Matcha Green tea Mochi

Where is a Patient to Go? Planning Unplanned Medical Care

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