Lake Norman Integrative Wellness Blog
Control insulin resistance to prevent chronic disease
Heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, and Alzheimer’s — chronic diseases are the most common and costly health problems in the United States. What’s worse is they are largely lifestyle diseases, meaning they often can be prevented through changes to the diet. Many Americans today eat diets that throw their blood sugar out of balance and…
Gluten Hiding In Your Personal Care Products
Do My Personal Care Products Contain Gluten? Do you really need to worry about health and beauty products such as shampoo and hair spray? How about mascara and eyeshadow? Do these products even contain wheat, barley, rye or oatmeal? The simple answer is ‘yes’ most cosmetic products do contain some form of gluten and can…
Ten things that cause leaky gut
The concept of leaky gut is becoming more widely accepted—even Dr. Oz talked about it on his show recently. It’s important to know the cause of leaky gut can be different for each person. For instance, it could be the result of a junk food diet for one person and chronic stress for another. Knowing…
Keg On Tap At Lake Norman Integrative Wellness& Wellness
Lenny Boy. Lenny Boy offers many different flavors and uses all organic ingredients and alkaline Appalachian mountain water. Kombucha is considered to be a “functional food”, meaning it provides health benefits above and beyond that of basic nutrition. Fermented foods can help strengthen and support digestive and immune systems, helping bodies to fight off and…
Are you working out too much?
A study found that older women (ages 60 to 72) who worked out two to four times a week burned more calories each day and found exercise more pleasurable than those who worked out more. Past studies have found exercising vigorously almost every day causes some people to be less physically active overall compared to…