The Whole Care

11/16/2020

Let’s talk about !

Painful cramps, irritability, moodiness, acne.. sound familiar? SO many girls and women experience these symptoms every month, thinking it’s just a normal part of our monthly cycles.

Unfortunately, although it’s widely accepted and common, it’s not actually NORMAL to be feeling all of these symptoms with our periods.

Oftentimes, we’re put on birth control to mask our symptoms.

But why are we feeling this way? And are there any other solutions?

I’m here to tell you that there are other solutions. If you feel this way, let’s work together to get to the bottom of your symptoms and fix them for good.

11/14/2020

How do visits with a work?

If you are interested in seeing our ND, but unsure of what the process will look like, we’ll break it down for you!

1. You have the option of booking a Free 15-minute Discovery call with Dr. Alisa Murli, ND to quickly discuss your health concerns and to see if pursuing care with her will be a good fit.

2. Book an initial assessment. Naturopathic care starts with a 60-75 minute initial consult, where we go through your health history in detail. Our ND will listen to your concerns and your health goals, and work with you on a treatment plan.


3. Follow ups! Standard follow ups are 30 minutes long, but longer follow ups are available as well. These follow ups are where we discuss your ongoing treatment/progress, and change the treatment plan as needed.

4. You’re done! Our goal at The Whole Care is to be able to work with you to reach your health goals. After we get there, you are finished treatment! Remember, we are always here should any other concerns come up.

11/13/2020

Naturopathy Virtual consultations!
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Did you know that we are offering both in-person and Virtual consultations for Naturopathic Medicine ?
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We understand that not everyone is confident to come in-person while some of you prefers to come in. That’s why we keep offering Virtual consultations when it’s possible !
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If you have concerns about coming in-persons and would prefer a virtual consultation but are not sure if it would be possible... email us! We will let you know what is possible and will do our best to accommodate.

11/12/2020

Have you ever tried for medicinal purposes?
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Maybe you have without even realizing. Have you ever used ginger for nausea? Peppermint for indigestion? Diffuse lavender to go to sleep? Aloe vera on your skin?
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These are all common examples of what botanicals are used for. However, we can do SO MUCH MORE with them.
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Here are a few of our faves and their studied uses:
• Ashwagandha (Latin: Withania somnifera) – studies have shown that ashwagadha is very effective in decreasing stress and anxiety. It has been shown to decrease cortisol (stress hormone) by as much as 27% in humans after 60 days.
• Vitex agnus-castus –There is strong research on the effectiveness of this herb improving the symptoms of PMS in menstruating persons. These symptoms include irritability, breast tenderness, migraines, cramping, and bloating.
• Spirulina – from blue/green algae, studies show spirulina to be very effective against allergies – particularly in decreasing nasal congestion caused by allergies.
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It is VERY important to remember that even though these botanicals are widely available for purchase, the type, dose, brand, timing all matters. Each herb may not be suitable for your use based on many factors (including medical conditions and medication interactions). Please consult a Naturopathic doctor prior to using any of these botanicals.
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11/11/2020

Dr. Alisa Murli, ND is our licensed naturopathic doctor, with extra training as a birth doula, in pelvic floor therapy, and in cosmetic acupuncture.
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Her focus is helping women to live their best lives.
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She can help you with:
* Symptoms of PMS
* Irregular periods
* Endometriosis
* PCOS
* Menopause
* Digestive health (IBS, abdominal cramping, diarrhea, constipation, acid reflux)
* Pelvic pain
* Skin concerns like acne and eczema
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If you have any questions about whether or not she can help you, feel free to book a Free 15-minute Discovery call. No obligations – just a genuine conversation!

11/09/2020

How do you balance your life ?
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With this unpredictable time, you might feel overwhelming when it comes to Balanced living means considering all aspects of your life: relationships, work, fitness and health, and emotional well-being.
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We all get bogged down with work and family responsibilities from time to time, but making time for yourself is necessary so that you can keep up with all your responsibilities. All batteries get run down, even yours. So recharge your body physically and mentally and make the commitment to enjoy some “you time” every day.
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We are here to guide you find your balance!

11/08/2020

How do you like to ?
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Walking
Running
Yoga
Pilates
Weight lifting
Cycling
Swimming
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Regardless of how you like to move, regular movement helps to keep us pain-free, mobile, gets our circulation moving (which means more healing!), keeps our good cholesterol up and bad cholesterol down, and even improves our mood!
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How are you moving today?

11/08/2020

Did you know Medicine is Covered by Most Health Insurance Plans?
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There’s only 8 weeks left to use up your health benefits for the remainder of 2020!
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Naturopathic medicine is covered by most health insurance plans. If you’re unsure if your plan covers naturopathy, try calling them or checking online!
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If you’re curious about Naturopathic Medicine and how it can help you with your health concerns including , irregular periods, , endometriosis, pelvic health, digestive health and skin health, feel free to book a Free 15-minute discovery call with our Naturopathic doctor via .app

11/08/2020

Let’s talk about vitamins!
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Do you know what’s in your prenatal?
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Did you know that there are different forms of vitamins and minerals, which all are absorbed in different ways in our ? This means that our bodies can use certain forms more readily and effectively.
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So, what forms of vitamins/minerals are typically best absorbed?
Here are a few examples:
* Vitamin B12: Methylcobalamin, NOT cyanobalamin
* Folate: 5-Methyltetrahydrofolate (This is VERY important for pregnancy) NOT folic acid
* Iron: iron bisglycinate NOT ferrous fumarate
* Magnesium: magnesium bisglycinate, NOT magnesium oxide
* You also don’t want to have additional ingredients such as BHT, sucrose, maltodextrin, titanium dioxide, talc, any colouring (eg. Blue #2, Red #27) to name a few.
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Take a look at your prenatal vitamins and see what’s in them.
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Want to talk about why these forms are better and how they each help your body? That’s what we are here for!
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10/31/2020

Look who came to visit today !
We feel so privileged to treat amazing kiddos (and super heroes!) and their families ! Thanks for trusting our team of super awesome therapists. Your support meant a lot during this difficult time !
We wish you all a happy and safe

10/24/2020

So excited to announce that we are now offering Pelvic Floor Therapy !
The goal of Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy is to improve pelvic floor function through exercises, lifestyle modifications, education and hands on treatment to decrease and eliminate your symptoms. This therapy involves assessing and treating a group of muscles that are involved with urinary, bowel, and sexual function.

Pelvic Floor Therapy can help you with a variety of concerns, including:
- urine leakage,
- pain with in*******se,
- endometriosis,
- pain in your pelvis,
- bowel troubles (both constipation and bowel leakage)
- heaviness or pressure that's new or changing in your pelvis.

Pelvic Floor Therapy is provided by our Naturopathic Doctor and covered under Naturopathy benefits.

You want to know more about it? Please Contact us and we will do our best to answer your questions!

10/21/2020

The Whole care is a new multidisciplinary clinic located in the amazing Upper Beaches - Toronto!

We are looking for a Speech-Language Pathologist to work alongside with our Osteopathic Manual Practitioner. Occupational Therapist, Naturopathic doctor and Pelvic Floor Therapist.

Schedule is flexible but most likely looking for part time position.

Split/contract to be discussed with potential candidate and depending on availability.

The clinic is on the main floor of a busy street. The space has been designed to be family-friendly and is mainly focus on Family and perinatal care. The Whole Care has a big and bright waiting area, 3 good size rooms, accessible washrooms, a kitchen and a backyard!

Kitchen, Internet, EMR, linens supplied by the clinic.

The ideal candidate should be confident in their skills, enthusiastic, have experience working with multi-disciplinary team and be willing to connect with people/family in the East end to understand their needs.

If you are interested to be part of a young and fun team, please email resume!

10/21/2020

The Whole care is a new multidisciplinary clinic located in the amazing Upper Beaches - Toronto!

We are looking for a Physiotherapist to work alongside with our Osteopathic Manual Practitioner, Naturopathic doctor, Pelvic Floor Therapist and Occupational therapist.

Schedule is flexible but most likely looking for part time position.

Split/contract to be discussed with potential candidate and depending on availability.

The clinic is on the main floor of a busy street. The space has been designed to be family-friendly and is mainly focus on Family and perinatal care. The Whole Care has a big and bright waiting area, 3 good size rooms, accessible washrooms, a kitchen and a backyard!

Kitchen, Internet, EMR, linens supplied by the clinic.

The ideal candidate should be confident in their skills, enthusiastic, have experience working with multi-disciplinary team and be willing to connect with people/family in the East end to understand their needs.

If you are interested to be part of a young and fun team, please email resume!

10/21/2020

The Whole care is a new multidisciplinary clinic located in the amazing Upper Beaches - Toronto!

We are looking for a Registered Massage Therapist to work alongside with our Osteopathic Manual Practitioner, Naturopathic doctor, Pelvic Floor Therapist and Occupational Therapist.

Schedule is flexible but most likely looking for part time position.

Split/contract to be discussed with potential candidate and depending on availability.

The clinic is on the main floor of a busy street. The space has been designed to be family-friendly and is mainly focus on Family and perinatal care. The Whole Care has a big and bright waiting area, 3 good size rooms, accessible washrooms, a kitchen and a backyard!

Kitchen, Internet, EMR, linens supplied by the clinic.

The ideal candidate should be confident in their skills, enthusiastic, have experience working with multi-disciplinary team and be willing to connect with people/family in the East end to understand their needs.

If you are interested to be part of a young and fun team, please email resume!

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

10/19/2020

09/29/2020

HST announcement for Osteopathy Services

We have been alerted of an update by Canada Revenue Agency in regard to GST/HST collection and Osteopathy.

After consulting with their tax lawyer, the Ontario Association of Osteopathic Manual Practitioners is advising its membership to begin collecting HST effective immediately. As such moving forward we will be charging 13% HST on our Osteopathic Manual Therapy services.

Please note that this will commence on October 1, 2020.

We are alerting this to you as soon as possible as we just received confirmation of this.

If you have any questions regarding this information, please email us and we will be in touch.


Thanks and stay healthy and safe.

08/19/2020

07/11/2020

Parents ask us : How do you treat kids? How do they stay still during treatment? What do they feel?
As you can see, this little one is pretty 😅!
Our practitioner is trained in paediatric osteopathy and has lots of experience. treatment are very gentle and help our little ones to overcome tensions due to fall, bumps, new motor skills learning or simply growing up!

06/18/2020

The hospital for Sick children came with these recommandations. This is very informative and worth the read !

06/12/2020

The clinic is ready to welcome you and your little one! You will see that there has been quite a few to create a space and accommodate the guidelines in order to . We will advise you on for your next visit very soon !

06/11/2020

What did you say ? Yes !! We are very happy to share that we are ready to reopen 😍 it’s been quite a journey and we can not thank you enough for your words and messages ! It’s now time to help you and your little one(s) while we are doing our very best to keep our community safe! We hope to see you soon 😍

03/19/2020

As we remain close until further notice, starting tomorrow, we will start providing virtual initial intake consultations for FREE !
So If you are wondering about naturopathic medicine or Osteopathy, that’s the time to ask 😀

If you are a current patient, our practitioners are here to support you through this journey. We will share further details and videos.

Let’s do it together 💪

Link in the bio for online booking !

03/16/2020

To all our beloved clients, patients and community :

Your health and your families are our priority!

We have made the very difficult decision to close our doors for face-to-face visits until further notice. We are following the guidelines released by the Ontario Medical Association over the week end to suspend all non-essential in-person visits, and to partake in social distancing.

We will keep to monitor guidelines and recommendations and keep you updated.

We will offer follow up appointments for naturopathic medicine online and free initial osteopathic and naturopathic online intake starting this week as we hope we can still support your little ones and your families.

We will be in touch with you in the next couple of days to help you with rescheduling.

Feel free to email at info@thewholecare.com or call us at (647) 804 2273 if you have any questions.

We know times will be tough and are working to find ways to support our community.

Stay safe and in health,
The Whole Care team.

03/16/2020

To all our beloved clients, patients and community :

We have made the very difficult decision to close our doors for face-to-face visits until further notice. We are following the guidelines released by the Ontario Medical Association this afternoon, to suspend all non-essential in-person visits, and to partake in social distancing.

We will keep to monitor guidelines and recommendations and keep you updated.

We will offer follow up appointments for naturopathic medicine online and free initial osteopathic and naturopathic online intake starting this week as we hope we can still support your little ones and your families.

We will be in touch with you in the next couple of days to help you with rescheduling.

Feel free to email at info@thewholecare.com or call us at (647) 804 2273 if you have any questions.

We know times will be tough and are working to find ways to support the community.

Stay safe and in health,
The Whole Care team.

03/11/2020

☀️ Prenatal Care ☀️

Naturopathic medicine has so much to offer in pre-natal care.
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One really important aspect of prenatal care is your prenatal vitamin. There are so many different prenatal vitamins out there, but remember that all prenatals are not created equal.
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Some things to look out for in your prenatal:
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🙅🏻‍♀Folic acid —> instead look for Methyltetrahydrofolate
🙅🏻‍♀Cyanocobalamin —> instead look for methylcobalamin
🙅🏻‍♀No vitamin A —> small amounts of vitamin A are needed for development, but since high doses of vitamin A is associated with birth defects, getting vitamin A from your diet is often enough.
🙅🏻‍♀No additives such as BHT, talc, corn, sugars, dyes, etc.
🙅🏻‍♀oxide, carbonates, fumarates forms of minerals
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Always consult a naturopathic doctor before starting supplements. 👩🏻‍⚕
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Not all brands and formulas are created equal, and it’s important to check with someone trained in the field to lead you in the right direction!

03/05/2020

Did we forgot to mention that our space is kid friendly 😊
Kids love to play and hang out with us !!

03/04/2020

Cold and flu season can be hard on the whole family.



Protect yourself and your family by feeding yourselves the optimal nutrients to help your body to fight off infections before they even have a chance to affect you!



However, sometimes this isn’t enough and we need a little extra help. Some great options to help boost your immune system are Vitamin C, Zinc, Vitamin D and lots of different herbs including elderberry and astragalus.



Not every supplement / homeopathic remedy is right for everyone, so please consult with a naturopathic doctor for recommendations on what will work for you!

03/04/2020

Acupuncture !
It’s one of the many modalities our Naturopathic doctor uses.
Interested in trying !? Ask us about acupuncture

02/22/2020

Cosmetic acupuncture is an anti-aging method in which fine needles are inserted into your face in order to stimulate your facial muscles and skin in order to gently create a lift and stimulate collagen formation to fill wrinkles naturally. The entire process is individualized to your concerns and overall health picture.

Interested but unsure if this is right for you? Book your free phone consultation with Dr. Alisa Murli, ND now! Link in bio