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6 Steps to Boost Your Metabolism and Lose Weight

Take your Omega 3’s to reduce inflammation. Omega-3s have been found to balance blood sugar and reduce systemic inflammation, affecting your metabolism. They also reduce resistance to leptin which is increased in inflammation and affects how your body burns fat. Look at your labels to see the breakdown of how much DHA and EPA is …

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“What’s Our Next Step, Dr. Elena”?

You may have come in to see me or perhaps your sessions have been via phone or skype. You may be wondering about your progress and ask me, “What’s our next step”, “What’s the plan”, or “Where are we going with this, Dr. Elena”? Those are valid questions and the answer is as different as …

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Forget What You Know? Don’t Do It!

“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”  – Oliver Wendell Holmes My years of research and study have led me in many different directions to help others. When I sit with someone in my office, I often get “intuitive flashes” of what is going on with them that has …

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3 Ways To Enhance Your Relationships

Someone asked me recently what’s the best way to enhance relationships? We all have issues and sometimes friction in our relationships, whether they be with our significant other, children, extended family, coworkers or friends. First and foremost, we cannot change another person. That’s their job. What we can do and have complete control over, is …

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4 Ways to Spring Into…Slowing Down?

Spring is here, the flowers are blooming, excitement is building and we have more daylight hours to do more things. Often it’s difficult for people to slow down and even more so when we have more daylight hours and there seems to be so many things to do. The other day, a friend had a …

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Are You Interested or Committed to Your Healing?

Are you simply interested or are you committed to your healing and reaching your goals?  What’s the difference? If you are “interested” you might simply be checking things out, seeing what your options might be and considering the idea of moving forward. If you are “committed”, you are at that place of being sick and …

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Why Does Healing Sometimes Take So Long?

— by Dr. Elena Michaels   Someone recently contacted me saying she was frustrated that her health goals had not been achieved.  She wanted to give up on the program we had created because things “weren’t happening fast enough”. Sometimes healing happens rapidly, then it may stall for a bit and plateau, and then speed …

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Take Supplements and a Multi or Not?

Here is an interview I did that was printed in Whole Live Times. Click here to read the short article: It specifically mentions my thoughts on supplements (supposedly “healthy” supplements) and how they can wreak havoc in someone who is dealing with autoimmune conditions. Some of these “healthy” nutrients, such as oat bran, kelp, iodine, …

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