Restorative Massage & Lymphedema Therapy

03/02/2026

🦷 Is your mouthwash secretly affecting your blood pressure?

We’ve been taught that killing bacteria equals better oral health — research proves that to be wrong!

Your mouth contains beneficial bacteria that help produce nitric oxide, a molecule essential for relaxing blood vessels and maintaining healthy blood pressure.

Many antiseptic mouthwashes act like antibiotics. They don’t just kill “bad” bacteria — they also wipe out helpful microbes, disrupting the oral microbiome and reducing nitric oxide production.

The result? Regular use of antiseptic mouthwash contributes to higher blood pressure and sets the stage for chronic disease such as heart disease, cancer, and much more!

✅ Healthy alternatives:
• Salt water rinses
• Oil pulling with coconut oil
• Alcohol-free, microbiome-friendly rinses
• Eating nitrate-rich vegetables (beets, leafy greens)

Oral health isn’t about sterilizing — it’s about balance.

Support your microbiome, and you support your whole body. 🌿

Comment below what mouthwash are you using?

02/23/2026

02/23/2026

Melatonin does a lot more than sleep, A LOT!

02/01/2026

🌿Fasting reduces side effects and increases efficacy of conventional cancer therapy: chemotherapy, radiation, surgery.🌿

Metabolic shifts during fasting — including lower glucose and insulin levels and activation of cellular repair pathways — makes cancer cells more vulnerable and support treatment effectiveness while protecting normal cells through mechanisms like autophagy and stress resistance pathways.

Here’s what science demonstrates:

🔥 Benefits
• Fasting reduces insulin and growth-factor signals that support cancer cells.
• Fasting lowers markers of DNA damage and reduces neutropenia and neuropathy
• Fasting enhances immune responses and therapeutic sensitivity to chemotherapy or radiation

💡 Important Note
Fasting during cancer treatment should not be done alone. Safety varies by cancer type, treatment plan, nutrition status, and individual medical history.
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🌱 Supporting Your Journey with Evidence-Based Guidance

✨ My Fasting Coaching Program
I guide my clients through safe, personalized fasting protocols tailored to their treatment schedules, goals, and energy needs — with a focus on minimizing risks and supporting resilience.

✨ My Survivor to Thriver Roadmap
This holistic program integrates nutritional strategies, therapeutic fasting, detox pathways, metabolic support, and mindful lifestyle interventions to help you move from surviving cancer treatment to thriver status.

It’s not just about reducing side effects — it’s about building lasting strength and quality of life.
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Let’s talk about safe timing, medically appropriate approaches, and how it fits into your overall therapy plan.

📩 DM me or comment below if you're ready to stop surviving and start thriving!

🤝 You Deserve Support That Matches the Science

Emerging evidence suggests that fasting could play a key role in cancer treatment by fostering conditions that limit cancer cells' adaptability, survival, and growth. Fasting could increase the effectiveness of cancer treatments and limit adverse events. Yet, we lack an integrated mechanistic model....

12/30/2025

✨ Lunch & Learn: Supplements—What’s Worth It & What’s Not ✨

There’s a LOT of information (and marketing!) out there when it comes to supplements — and it can be confusing to know what your body actually needs versus what’s just expensive hype.

Join us and learn from the experts at our monthly Lunch & Learn.

We’ll talk about:
• Which supplements are truly necessary
• Which ones are often not needed
• Food-based alternatives to supplements
• How to choose trusted, high-quality brands
• How and when to take supplements for best absorption
• How to avoid wasting money while still supporting your health

Space is limited. RSVP to secure your spot!
https://www.muskokamarketeatery.com/lunchandlearn

📅 Date: January 3, 2026
⏰ Time: 11am
📍 Location Muskoka Market & Eatery - Food Cooperative

Bring your questions, and your curiosity 💙

12/10/2025

New research is challenging one of medicine’s oldest assumptions: that cancer must be attacked to be cured. By treating glioblastoma patients with a simple combination of resveratrol and copper, the researchers found dramatic reductions in tumor aggressiveness, cancer biomarkers, immune checkpoint...

12/10/2025

A recent study found that when women with breast cancer combined vitamin D with chemotherapy they had a “pathological complete response”(pCR) of 43%, versus women taking placebo had only 24% (p = 0.04). And a logistic regression found that women whose vit D levels were ≥20ng/mL were more likely to achieve pCR (OR 3.65, p = 0.04) - that is, they were 3.65 times more likely to have a pCR.

Importantly, both the vitamin D and the placebo group had vitamin D deficiency at the start of the trial.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40098326/?fbclid=IwRlRTSAOmVDJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEebMjDuwEUoAyohiXiJ_GR6tA9cyPAS6UUq8soSGjleOZU9ruECZObQweN_5c_aem_tfkRYFixVVVq7A5d9NjZpQ

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10/31/2025

Yep!

10/25/2025

Knowledge is power!

Just in time for cold and flu season, learn the tools to strengthen your immune system and your resiliency.

10/24/2025

Cancer accounts for one in seven deaths worldwide and is the second leading cause of death in the United States, after heart disease. One of the standard cancer treatments is chemotherapy which sometimes can lead to chemoresistance and treatment failure. Therefore, there is a great need for novel th...

10/23/2025

Pink ribbon will do nothing. Addressing your body and mind will do everything.

10/18/2025

In light of October being breast cancer awareness month, here is what happens when you play an ACTIVE role in your cancer journey.