Posts Tagged ‘Stress’

Six Steps To Boosting Your Immune System

Cold & Flu Season is Here!

With fall officially here, it’s now time to prepare ourselves for the inevitable cold and flu season. With back to school and fall routines back in place we tend to spend more time indoors and in close quarters with others, which can easily lead to picking up the latest cold or flu virus.

The good news is we can support our immune systems early to keep healthy, and reduce the severity and duration of the common cold. Follow these six steps in order to keep your immune system in tiptop shape for this fall and winter season.

Is Stress Causing Havoc With Your Hormones?

Your Body & Stress: A Three Part Series (3 of 3)

 This is the final blog in our three part stress series. The first two blogs discussed how stress affects our immune and digestive systems. If you missed them, make sure to go back and read them both. Both include tips you can do to reduce the effects of stress on you body.

yaletown naturopath stress

 As promised, today we will be discussing how stress affects our endocrine system – which is our hormones.

3 Steps to Reduce Stress and Improve Digestion

Your Body & Stress: A Three Part Series (2 of 3)

Welcome back! In the previous series on your body and stress we discussed the general affects of stress on our bodies and mores specifically our immune system. Read here if you missed it. In this second part we are going to focus on how stress can disrupt our digestive system leading to unwanted symptoms such as bloating, cramping, and heartburn.

Why do we get sick when we are stressed?

Your Body & Stress: A Three Part Series (1 of 3)

Everyday in my practice I ask my patients about their stress; what are their particular stressors and how are they coping? I’m interested in knowing how they perceive stress and spend time educating them on how it can negatively impact their health. This allows me to help them create a plan to support their body through stressful times and improve their health and well being.

Dr. Kaleigh’s Hours

Dr. Coolsaet is not accepting new patients at this time.

Dr. Coolsaet will be seeing patients in person and via telemedicine (video conferencing) in Courtenay, BC on Mondays, Thursday & alternating Fridays until the end of Septmeber 2023.


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