Amy Johnson

Natural Alternatives to NSAID

In recent years, the opioid epidemic has been covered extensively in the news media and framed as an urgent public health issue. However, opioids aren’t the only pain-relieving drugs we should be concerned about. Research indicates that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are also widely misused in the United States and have a slew of alarming side effects, …

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Stress Support 101 Gaba and L-Theanine: The Fast Acting Stress and Anxiety Antidote

These days, we often view stress as a badge of honor—proof that our hectic lives are packed to the brim with work, play, friends, family, exercise, shopping, cooking, and limitless other tasks from laundry to surfing social media and tuning in to 24-hour weather and news. We’re drinking every last drop of life. We’re making …

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Look to Your Liver, Your Gut, and Glutathione When Detox is Tough

The rites of detoxification are many, varied, and ancient. Romans gathered daily to immerse themselves in hot thermal baths and then cold rooms, and Finns similarly crafted saunas using piles of burning hot rocks—and then jumped into the snow. That startling combination of hot and cold therapy is well-known to naturopaths as a potent detoxifier …

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