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Category: Health & Nutrition

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If I Were Starting Trim Healthy Mama With Traditional Foods Over Again… (KYF147)

How Staying Hydrated Can Help You Avoid Candida | Do you know the dangers of dehydration? Migraines, less energy, compromised immunity, and... candida? As an opportunistic pathogen, candida can use an immune system weakened by dehydration to gain a foot hold. Here's how staying hydrated can help you avoid candida!

How Staying Hydrated Can Help You Avoid Candida

Gut flora can affect mood, the way someone thinks, and even mental illnesses! Learn about the connection between mental illness and candida overgrowth... plus why healing your gut and brain requires a lot more than anti-fungals.

The Connection Between Mental Illness & Candida (+ why you need more than anti-fungals)

Whipped Body Butter | It's not frosting, but it does look good enough to eat. This whipped homemade body butter is thick and rich. It nourishes the skin with just a few ingredients like shea butter and essential oils. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Way Better Than Lotion: Homemade Whipped Body Butter with Essential Oils

Herb-Infused Baby Bottom Balm {cloth diaper safe!} | After buying an expensive 2-ounce tube of herbal bottom balm, I decided to make my own -- and I like my version even better! With skin-nourishing oils and healing herbs, this baby bottom balm is even cloth diaper safe! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Herb-Infused Baby Bottom Balm {cloth diaper safe!}

What about using essential oils for those deeper issues... the ones no one sees but we most certainly feel? For relief from PMS or menopause, pain relief during childbirth, hormone imbalances, and even in the bedroom, you need to know about these top 5 essential oils for women.

Top 5 Essential Oils For Women (for hormone balance, PMS, menopause, & in the bedroom!)

What’s the best way to take herbs? It’s the herbal supplement showdown… Tea, infusion, capsule, or tincture? Watch, listen, or read to find out my answer! | AskWardee.tv

Using Essential Oils In Cooking #AskWardee 039

No More Cramps! Essential Oil Roll-On | Argh...cramps. They can feel like your uterus and ovaries are staging a coup. Conventional medicine prescribes over-the-counter pain meds and even hormonal birth control for relief. Is there a better way? This essential oil roll-on brings natural relief for stomach and back cramps before and during your period. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

No More Cramps! Essential Oil Roll-On

Headaches, cramps, and bloating... Then, confidence, focus, and energy... Women run the gamut of weird, cycle-related symptoms! Can essential oils act like or balance hormones in the body? Find out! Plus, learn the 10 essential oils to use during every phase of your cycle -- from menstruation to ovulation to PMS -- for hormone balance, pain relief, libido, brain fog, and more!

10 Essential Oils To Use During Every Phase Of Your Cycle

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5 Foods That Are Wrecking Your HPA Axis

Have you experienced fatigue, insomnia, weight gain, blood sugar imbalance, anxiety, and cravings for sweet or salty foods? A nutrient-dense diet is exactly what sufferers of HPA axis dysfunction (formerly called adrenal fatigue) need! It is possible to find healing through diet with these 5 foods that nourish the HPA axis!

5 Foods That Nourish The HPA Axis

The hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal loop produces hormones that regulate our blood pressure, libido, metabolism, and stress response. When interference happens, symptoms of a hormone imbalance occur: insomnia, fatigue, anxiety/depression, thryoid issues, and more. This used to be called 'adrenal fatigue', but was that accurate? Learn why adrenal fatigue is actually HPA axis dysfunction.

Why Adrenal Fatigue Is Actually HPA Axis Dysfunction

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What Is Rhodiola? (the anti-fatigue, anti-stress adaptogen!)

Would you like to start cooking traditionally? Watch, listen, or read to learn my 6 simple steps to getting started with traditional foods! | AskWardee.tv

6 Simple Steps To Getting Started With Traditional Foods #AskWardee 013

Let's Demystify The GAPS Diet

Let’s Demystify The GAPS Diet

What's The Difference Between Intro and Full GAPS? | Onward and upward with our GAPS series! Today, I am going to talk about the overall goals and differences between the 2 phases of the GAPS Diet. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

What’s The Difference Between Intro and Full GAPS?

Homemade Essential Oil Roll-On Headache Stick | When I paid $9 for an essential oil "migraine stick" the other day, I knew I could save a bundle by making my own! Make this DIY Essential Oil Roll-On Headache Stick to get quick, natural relief from migraines and tension headaches! Video instructions included! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Homemade Essential Oil Roll-On Headache Stick {print & video instructions}

Essential oil (or aromatherapy) inhalers! Have you ever used one? They're so handy to keep in your purse or pocket and carry the benefits of essential oils with you wherever you go! Learn how to make an essential oil inhaler for seasonal allergies!

Essential Oil Inhaler For Seasonal Allergies