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Grab Your Spot! Special May 2023 - Women in Wellness Series

Don’t miss your opportunity to connect with the top experts in women’s health and well-being!

We are excited to announce women’s health pioneer Marcelle Pick, OB/GYN, NP, author and creator of the PBS show, Is It Me or My Hormones? will be hosting our weekly Women’s Wellness Series in May! Plus, she will be featuring an ongoing lineup of women’s health experts for our new monthly show Women’s Integrative Health beginning in June.


Learning to cope with stress is important for your mental and physical well-being, and women are more likely than men to suffer stress-related health symptoms. This is why the Women’s Wellness Series will focus on “Overcoming Stress: How to Balance It All.”


Each Tuesday in May we are bringing to you some of the most influential experts in the field of women’s health. If you were to attend presentations and workshops from these experts separately, it would cost you thousands of dollars (if you could even get a seat). As an introduction to KnoWEwell, we are offering this award winning line-up for the cost of a cup of coffee a month. For that price you don’t get one session, but the entire series!


Join us each Tuesday in May at 5 p.m. PDT / 8 p.m. EDT, as the top integrative health and functional medicine experts present cutting-edge insights into the many ways that stress can impact hormones, thyroid function, fertility, and libido. You will come away with tangible recommendations to manage stress and improve aging, mindset, skin care and sleep. Don’t worry if you miss a live session because your registration includes a one-year KnoWEwell Explorer membership to the Regenerative Whole Health Hub. As a member you will have access to a recording of each presentation. 


The Explorer membership also offers an array of benefits including access to thousands of evidence-based articles, hundreds of topic-specific communities, over 100 expert courses, monthly online events (including the June Men’s Health Series), trusted community directories, health library and so much more.

JOIN AND CLAIM YOUR SPOT NOW!

The Schedule: Overcome Stress: Balance It All

Aging Gracefully - Tuesday, May 2nd

Carol A. Penn, DO, MA, ABOM, FACOFP, best-selling author of Meditation in a Time of Madness, shares tips on anti-aging, utilizing meditation in daily life, and movement as medicine.


Jaquel Patterson, ND, MBA, IFMCP, naturopathic physician, success coach, and author of Women and Lyme, discusses strategies to reset your sleep and improve your circadian rhythm.



Stress, Skin and Beauty Care - Tuesday, May 9th

Trevor Cates, ND, author of Clean Skin From Within and known as “The Spa Dr,” will examine how stress and hormonal imbalances impact your skin, and tips to have a radiant, clear complexion at any age. 

 

Anne Marie Fine, ND, Medical Director of Environmental Medicine Education International and author of Cracking the Beauty Code, shares how to decrease the toxic burdens on your skin.



Stress and Your Sex Drive - Tuesday, May 16th 

Anna Cabeca, DO, OBGYN, FACOG, triple board certified, author of The Hormone Fix, host of “The Girlfriend Doctor Show,” explores the impact of stress on your libido and how to reestablish a healthy, natural sex drive.



Stress, Thyroid and Hormones - Tuesday, May 23rd

Carrie Jones, ND, MPH, FABNE, a naturopathic physician examines the relationship between stress and your thyroid gland.

 

Lorraine Maita, MD, author of Vibrance for Life: How to Live Younger and Healthier, provides helpful strategies to reduce stress and its impact on your hormones.



The Role of Stress on Fertility - Tuesday, May 30th

Kela Smith, PhD, DNM, DHM, BCFN, author of multiple books on fertility, hormones, and pregnancy, as well as seven distinct online courses, shares stress impacts and tips to increase fertility. 

 

Jaclyn Smeaton, ND, a leading expert on integrative approaches to infertility, reproductive, and genitourinary health, discusses the root causes of infertility and how to restore reproductive health.



BONUS SESSIONS 
By registering, you also will be given access to the following bonus sessions that will be available for you to view online during May.

Stress, Gut Health, and Chronic Conditions
Arti Chandra, MD, MPH, double board-certified and Institute for Functional Medicine educator, gets to the root causes of stress and the impacts on gut health and chronic conditions. 

Stress, Lifestyle, Homeopathy 
Maryann Ivons, ND, and Jyl Steinbeck, founder of Shape Up US, share lifestyle strategies and homeopathic remedies to manage acute stress.

JOIN AND CLAIM YOUR SPOT NOW!


Tick Talk

Spring officially sprung on March 21. We have turned our clocks ahead. We are looking forward to warm winds, sunny skies and the smell of fresh cut grass. The daffodils and tulips have recently bloomed and we are just starting with the yard work that comes with the warmer weather.  Sadly, another season has started ramping up.  Tick season.

•             The best form of protection is prevention. Educating oneself about tick activity and how our behaviors overlap with tick habitats is the first step.

•             According to the NJ DOH, in 2022 Hunterdon County led the state with a Lyme disease incidence rate of 426 cases per 100,000 people. The fact is ticks spend approximately 90% of their lives not on a host but aggressively searching for one, molting to their next stage or over-wintering. This is why a tick remediation program should be implemented on school grounds where NJ DOH deems high risk for tick exposure and subsequent attachment to human hosts.

•             Governor Murphy has signed a bill that mandates tick education in NJ public schools. See this for the details.  Tick education must now be incorporated into K-12 school curriculum. See link:

https://www.nj.gov/education/broadcasts/2023/sept/27/TicksandTick-BorneIllnessEducation.pdf

•             May is a great month to remind the public that tick activity is in full swing. In New Jersey, there are many tickborne diseases that affect residents, including Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, Powassan, and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis.

•             For years, the focus has mainly been about protecting ourselves from Lyme disease. But other tick-borne diseases are on the rise in Central Jersey. An increase of incidence of Babesia and Anaplasma are sidelining people too. These two pathogens are scary because they effect our blood cells. Babesia affects the red blood cells and Anaplasma effects the white blood cells.

•             Ticks can be infected with more than one pathogen. When you contract Lyme it is possible to contract more than just that one disease. This is called a co-infection. It is super important to pay attention to your symptoms. See link.

https://twp.freehold.nj.us/480/Disease-Co-Infection

A good resource from the State:

https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/tickborne.shtml

 

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