Merry Christmas!
Wishing all of our readers the best of the holiday season. The UpWellness team wishes you great things now and in the New Year to come. Stay safe, share love and always, always, be grateful! -The UpWellness Team
How to Make Your Own Healthy Plant-Based Vegan Pizza
I live just up the road from New Haven, Connecticut, which is home to a large Italian-American population who takes their pizza very seriously. The classic New Haven “apizza” comes with an ultra-thin crust that is cooked in a wood-fired oven until it’s extra crispy…almost burnt. Forgive me because I don’t want to start World […]
What is Really in Your Cold Medicine? Natural and Effective Alternatives
This article might just save us 40 billion dollars. That’s how much Americans spend on cold medicine every year! That seems like a really high price tag, especially considering that these medications just mask the symptoms rather than treating the underlying cause of the illness. And, to make matters worse, OTC medicines are not without […]
How to Avoid Getting Caught Up In the Holiday Rush
If Jingle Bells has started playing on a loop in your head at ever-creasing speeds, and you have started to dread any mention of Christmas, you may be beginning to crack under the stress of the holiday rush. As you frantically try to bake a thousand cookies, plan a Christmas party, and buy the perfect […]
Be Grateful Always, It’s Good for You and It’s Good for Others
‘Tis the season that calls us to “over-everything”…To overeat, overspend, over-socialize, and just plain ol’ overdo it all. Unfortunately, all this overdoing can cause us to become rather ungrateful and can lead to burnout pretty quickly. However, if we have a gameplan going into the holiday season that is devised to protect ourselves from becoming […]
The Primary Goal of a Naturopathic Physician: Getting on the Same Page
We asked our own Dr. Joshua Levitt ND, to help us better understand the primary goal of a naturopathic physician is and what he strives for when dealing with patients. With millions of people each year seeking the best in holistic and conventional treatments, it is always a good idea to have a candid discussion […]
Where the Standard American Diet (SAD) Falls Short (and what you can do)
For breakfast, it’s a bacon, egg, and cheese on an English muffin with a large coffee with extra cream and sugar. Lunch is a sub with ham and swiss, a bag of chips, and an energy drink. And dinner is usually a cheeseburger, fries, and a soda. Oh, and most days, every meal comes with […]
Raw Honey vs. “Regular” Honey: What’s the Difference and Does it Really Matter?
When people ask me if I have any pets, I like to tell them that I have about 60,000 of them. And it’s true…I have one dog (a Hungarian Vizsla named Raya) and about 59,999 bees who live in a hive I built in my backyard. (Only my queen bee has a name…she’s Sophia. The […]
Natural Treatments for Dry Skin that Actually Work
I did a rotation in medical school with a dermatologist with a sense of humor. We saw a patient one day who had terribly dry and cracked skin, which prompted the dermatologist to ask her: “Do you know what the leading cause of dry skin is?” Confused, the patient said she wasn’t sure…”weather maybe?” No, […]
Fat is In: Try These Healthy and Delicious Plant-Based Fats
Brace yourself…I’m gonna use the “F-word” today. You might think it’s ugly, obscene, indecent, offensive, or vulgar, but it’s something we can all relate to and, therefore, something we need to be able to talk freely about. And in case you were concerned about me cursing here on the UpWellness blog today- don’t worry, the […]
