Immunity, Immunity, Immunity ... Need I repeat?

Some studies seem to show that although our lifespan is significantly longer than at any point in history, we actually are being assaulted daily by chemicals, toxins, drugs and stresses that would have killed even the strongest human at any other time. We believe that because we are so advanced, we should be able to live a long, healthy life. But the reality is very different. Studies show that infection and immune dysfunction are the strongest contributory factors to chronic disease and debilitation.

Can Food Treat Your Illness?

Food as therapy is a great thing but it can take weeks and months for the body to assimilate, create essential factors such as enzymes, new cells, hormones, and then initiate a cascade effect that ends in alleviating your symptoms.

All About Food, How the Body Works, Living A Balanced LifeKaren ClicknerFebruary 15, 2018Food As Medicine

Talking to Your Thyroid

Nature may have given us a built-in method for regulating thyroid hormone release.... talking or even singing.

How the Body Works, Living A Balanced LifeKaren ClicknerFebruary 15, 2018Thyroid

Understanding Your Muscles and Muscle Injury

How the Body Works, Living A Balanced Life, Dealing With SymptomsKaren ClicknerFebruary 15, 2018

Your Hair Can Tell You More Than You Think

Do you realize how much information is in your hair? Hair is a blueprint of your body’s nutritional and chemical health.

Editor's Pick, How the Body Works, Living A Balanced LifeKaren ClicknerFebruary 7, 2018Hair Health, Minerals

Eating the RDA Way

How many people believe that the Recommended Daily Allowance of vitamins and minerals is the best guide to human health? Please raise your hand…

The Disadvantage of Insurance

Lots of us wish that insurance would cover natural options such as the therapies, supplements, homeopathics and testing options that we provide at Conscious Body. But it's important for you to understand why it's better that they don't.

Conventional Medicine, Living A Balanced LifeKaren ClicknerFebruary 9, 2017Health Insurance

Striving For Emptiness

The idea of emptiness is something we struggle with. This also extends into our digestive tract and if you think about it, this is an area of our body that is never empty unless we make a very focused concerted effort.

Living A Balanced Life, Editor's PickKaren ClicknerDecember 7, 2016Meditation

Why is Rest a Four Letter Word?

The concept of rest is to provide the body with additional energy needed for numerous fabulous things that need to happen when we are not active such as restoring hormone levels, shuttling nutrition from blood to tissue, detoxifying cells, repairing injured areas, building new tissue. The lack of rest is one of the most common things I see.

Living A Balanced Life, The History of HealingKaren ClicknerNovember 1, 2016

Step Away From the Diet Coke

Our bodies are experiencing water shortages, and methods are being put in place to accommodate these shortages. The shortages exist because we are failing to fully hydrate our bodies. We are drinking iced tea, diet coke, carbonated beverages, coffee blends that would astonish Juan Valdez and expecting that they will do what water does because they each contain water. You would be wrong.

Healthy Short Subjects, How the Body Works, Living A Balanced LifeKaren ClicknerAugust 19, 2016

A Society of Impatience

A patient used to be a person who would seek out solutions for their health conditions and then would wait for them to work. The time needed was usually determined by the speed at which their body would change and move toward healing. But now we are a world of impatience.

Living A Balanced Life, Dealing With SymptomsKaren ClicknerJuly 9, 2016

It's All In Your Head

Growing up one of the phrases that I think I heard more often than any other was "it's all in your head!". This would usually be said in response to my stay home from school mystery illness, or when I tried to tell my mother that aliens had landed in the back yard. But the truth is that everything really is all in our head, every symptom, every illness, every ounce of healing.

The Herbal Advisor Magazine is the research and information by Certified Clinical Herbalist Karen S. Clickner, with 35 years of experience through her clinical history in Massachusetts.