Functional Medicine La Crosse, WI – Hansen Health
Holistic and Integrative Health Coaching for Optimal Wellness
Book Review: Toxic Superfoods by Sally Norton. I recently had the pleasure of reading the book Toxic Superfoods by Sally Norton. It discusses the role that natural plant compounds called oxalates play in health. Oxalates are most popular for their role in crystallizing with calcium and creating calcium oxalate ‘stones’ or Kidney Stones. Sally makes …
The Dirty on Gluten A gluten-free diet is often a good strategy and part of a therapeutic diet I recommend when helping clients understand and reverse disease dynamics. I thought I’d share WHY I recommend it and give some strategies to help you give it a try! First, Let’s cover some basics: What is Gluten? …
Ask Doug: Why is my Hair falling out?!? This month I got a great question asking for why a person’s hair may fall out. I thought I’d give some ideas and what functional medicine would have to say about it. Hair falling out can be extremely frustrating and getting to the root cause can make …
Air your Dirty Laundry! Toxin avoidance opportunities In my pursuit of including as many Don Henley lyrics as possible in the Blog (*note this is the first one*) I wanted to discuss more toxin avoidance opportunities to include in your daily life. Detox with Doug is coming in October, and one of the tenets of …
Magnesium is used in over 300 enzymes in the body, so our body is using it up constantly. Not only is it in use all the time, but there are many characteristics of our modern lifestyle that are depleting it. For example, stress, certain medications (stomach acid blockers, water pills, etc), and drinks such as …
Sleep is so important in maintaining your health I thought I’d dive in to one of the lesser known things that happend during sleep. There are 4 stages to sleep that we go through every night: Deep sleep and REM sleep are the most important of these. Deep sleep occurs predominantly in the first half …
We’ve experienced a number of alarming days in our air quality due to the smoke from burning Canadian wildfires. The Air Quality index measures 5 different substances in the air including: Ozone, particle count (what we’re concerned about with the current fires), carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide. AirNow.gov analyzes these data points and …
We’ve been discussing some of the most common supplement recommendations I make to clients based on their unique nutrition supply and demand. #2 on this list is the Sunshine vitamin, Vitamin D! Vitamin D is made in the skin when exposed to sufficient radiation from the sun. In most areas of the Midwest, we only …
With school out, and the temperature starting to rise, it’s time to think about sunscreen and protecting yourself from a burn! Why is this important? We slather sunscreen over a large surface area of our bodies, and some of those ingredients are going to get absorbed into the body. Think of your skin as a …
Antibiotics can be a necessary treatment and certainly can be warranted in cases of serious infection, however, I want to let you know about the unintended consequences that may come about from unnecessary or prolonged use. Our microbiome, or the term given for the planetary level of gut bugs living in our GI-tract do more …