This Week's News Roundup

Posted by Jill McLaughlin on Oct 07, 2011

Where oh where did the week go? Some work, some writin’, some farmin’, and poof, it’s Friday. Here are some juicy tidbits from this week, collected just for you.

“By letting it go, it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try the world is beyond the winning.” - Lao Tzu

“Uncertainty comes with territory of being a human. Can you hang with it?” - Marc David

Kicking the Can - The Dangers of BPA

Posted by Jill McLaughlin on Oct 04, 2011

BPA — found in baby bottles and sippy cups, microwave ovenware, stain-resistant food storage containers, eating utensils, hard-plastic drinking bottles, five-gallon water jugs, and plastic wraps, to name just a few — easily leaches into food and liquids, and hundreds of studies have linked it to harmful endocrine-disrupting effects, causing reproductive, developmental, behavioral, and neurological harm.

This Week's News Roundup

Posted by Jill McLaughlin on Sep 23, 2011

As promised, here is the inaugural “issue” of my News Roundup for the week. Each Friday, I’ll post what excited, moved, educated, and inspired me. And what I think will make us all healthier and happier. To paraphrase a statement from Experience Life Magazine, I’ll be sharing with you the antidote to all the fuss and nonsense that dominates the vast majority of health information out there today.

Week 14 :: What Frost?

Posted by Jill McLaughlin on Sep 16, 2011

Well, so much for the much-anticipated frost on Wednesday night. Yes, it was darned chilly on Thursday morning (hat, gloves, and scarf warranted), and there was a slight white glisten on the grass, but the crops survived - all but the basil.

Joey, her family, and some of their neighbors scrambled the day and night before, harvesting as much as they could. The shed and walk-in were full of produce; it will never cease to amaze me the volume of food that can be grown on a small farm. 

Adrenal Dysfunction 101

Posted by Jill McLaughlin on Aug 30, 2011

Do you have a hard time falling asleep at night? Do you wake up frequently during the night? Do you have a hard time waking up in the morning early or feeling refreshed? Do you get an afternoon slump, only to perk up around 6 or 7pm, and then get a second wind around 9:30? Are you lacking in energy? Do you feel tired yet wired? Do bright lights bother you more than they should? Do you startle easily due to noise?

What They Said :: My Fire Your Thyroid Series

Posted by Jill McLaughlin on Aug 22, 2011

I recently completed leading my very first teleseminar series, Fire Your Thyroid. Yes, thyroid (and adrenal) health is the focus of my health coaching practice, but creating this series was particularly weighty and meaningful to me because it’s so personal, and because I had three classes (yes, it could have been more, but it is summer, after all) in which to share the best of the best of my knowledge and teach people how I came into unmedicated remission from Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.

Chronic Inflammation: The Silent Health Bandit

Posted by Jill McLaughlin on Aug 21, 2011

Degenerative diseases, including heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s (including other forms of dementia), and diabetes, as well their kissing cousin, obesity, expend the majority of our health care resources in this country and possess a powerful inflammatory component. The onset of autoimmune disorders, such as multiple sclerosis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, and Hashimoto’s, are, according to Dr. Sears, “clear-cut examples of out-of-control inflammation.” Think of chronic inflammation as an army of pistol-packing outlaws roaming our bodies and robbing us of our health.