Many of Echinacea’s chemical constituents are powerful immune system stimulants that can provide significant therapeutic value. How does Echinacea help with colds? The University of Connecticut performed a meta-analysis study that determined that Echinacea cuts the chances of catching a common cold by 58%. It also reduces the duration of the common cold by almost one-and-a-half days. Craig Coleman, Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice and lead author of the study, added that, “The take home message from our study is that Echinacea does indeed have powerful cold prevention and cold treatment benefits.” It can be used as one of several effective natural cold remedies.

Core Exercises and The Pelvic Floor Your abdominal muscle strength may exceed the ability of your pelvic floor. If you have, or are at risk of, pelvic floor problems, it is important you train for the “weakest link” and out your pelvic floor first. There are several ways to modify your core exercises to protect your pelvic floor. *Crease strong abdominal exercises. *Reduce the level of your abdominal muscle exercise program. *Avoid breath holding by exhaling with effort. *Maintain good posture. *Lift your pelvic floor first and hold it during the exercise, then relax after. *Notice how many repetitions you can do before your pelvic floor muscle tire. You may need to add some rests or reduce the number of repetitions until your pelvic floor muscle fitness improves.

Did you know we actually have three brains in the body and when they work together, they create harmony and thus less stress? First, we have the head brain, which is meant to gather information about an issue. Then we have the heart brain, where we learn how we relate to an issue. Finally, we have the gut brain, which is where our decisions actually are required to come from. Many of us try to make our decisions with our head brain and get overwhelmed, as it was not designed for this. What is required is more focus on our heart brains and our gut brains – creating more harmony in the body and the mind when they all work together

With the return of school comes the return of daily backpack wearing. Backpacks are designed with two shoulder straps to distribute weight evenly. Wearing only one strap at a time with the weight of textbooks and laptops can cause shoulder muscle strains and muscle imbalances. Long-term muscle imbalances can leave people, especially young, growing adults, susceptible to long-term injuries such as tendonitis. These injuries can be painful and bothersome to recover from. The best way to avoid these backpack-related issues is to use the backpack as intended. Your shoulders may thank you for it.

Access Bars – A simple body process that is changing the world. There are two things that will change anything in your life; choice, and Access Bars. The Access Bars are the very core and foundation of Access Consciousness. It can be the starting point of a great adventure, and it can be something you add to your life that will assist you in creating a greater ease with everything. Access Bars has assisted thousands of people to change many aspects of their body and their life including sleep, health and weight, money, love making and relationships, anxiety, stress, and so much more. During a Bars session, a practitioner lightly touches 32 points on your head over the course of an hour to an hour and a half. Touching the bars allows for the electromagnetic charge that holds thoughts, feelings, and emotions in place to dissipate, allowing you to perceive