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Essential Health Ct

Our goal is to provide you with simple, common-sense tips to preventing disease and living a fuller, healthier lifestyle.
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TWO LOCATIONS:
• Chiropractic, Massage, Detox, Sauna
at 645 Farmington Ave, Hartford, CT.
• Natural Foods Market at 266 Prospect Ave, Hartford CT
https://linktr.ee/EssentialHealthCT To help you achieve your health goals, we offer the following services:

•Chiropractic Care: Specific, efficient spinal correction to alleviate immediate aches, pains and illness while also relieving symptom-causing irregularities in your spine.
•At-home spinal care exercises to complement your in-clinic correction procedures, so your body can get well faster.
•Natural Foods Market and nutritional recommendations and tips to help you reduce the amount of dangerous toxins you're exposed to on a daily basis.
•Encouraging health talks and workshops to teach you more about society's pressing health issues, so you can stay up-to-date on how to ensure the health and well-being of yourself and your loved ones.
•Supplemental health and well-being resources to help detoxify your body and ingest vital nutrients so your body can perform at its best every day. We strive to offer only the best all-natural care in the world. We know we can help you make a positive difference in your life. Our philosophy is to deliver real, lasting results through simple, easy-to-follow solutions. To find out more, schedule an appointment for your first whole-health consultation.

12/27/2025

Due to snow, our market on Prospect Ave will be opening at 11am today, instead of the usual 10am.

Stay warm!

12/24/2025

We hope you have a wonderful, stress-free holiday season filled with a balance of family time, play time, and relaxation!

⛄️ Dr. Allie's office will be open Saturday Dec. 27 and Jan. 3, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. (see image and below)

⛄ Our Market will be open most days, except Christmas Day and hours vary (see image and below).

Dr. Allie’s Holiday Schedule:
645 Farmington Ave., Hartford
Closed: Dec. 24-26, 28-31, and Jan. 1-2
OPEN SATURDAYS: Dec. 27 & Jan. 3, 9am-12pm
Normal chiropractic schedule resumes Monday, Jan. 5, 2026.

Essential Health Market Holiday Schedule:
266 Prospect Ave., Hartford
Dec. 24, closing at 6pm
Dec. 25, closed
Dec. 31, closing at 6pm
Jan. 1, Open 12-6pm

12/23/2025

🎁 **Day 20 of 20 Days of Gift Ideas**
We’re ending with a small gift that everyone loves — and always needs. 💋❄️

Today’s feature is **clean, nourishing lip balm** made to protect smiles through winter’s driest days:

🐝 **Portland Bee Balm Lip Balm**
Crafted with beeswax and simple, wholesome ingredients that soothe, protect, and keep lips soft without anything unnecessary.

🌿 **Balm of Gilead Manuka Lip Balm**
Ultra-nourishing and deeply restorative, made with **manuka** for extra care when lips are really feeling the cold.

Perfect for stocking stuffers, teacher gifts, purse essentials, coat pockets, and that one friend who’s *always* asking, “Does anyone have lip balm?”

Thanks for following along our **20 Days of Gift Ideas** — we hope it inspired thoughtful, meaningful gifting this season. 💚
Find these final favorites at **Essential Health Market**.

12/22/2025

🎁 Day 19 of 20 Days of Gift Ideas
Today’s gift isn’t for humans… but you’ll definitely get thanked. 🐶🐱✨

We’re featuring dog & cat treats from Winnie Lou – The Canine Co. — because our furry family members deserve the same ingredient standards we expect for ourselves.

🐾 Crisps, jerky, and bite-sized treats
🐾 Bison marrow bones for serious chewing satisfaction
🐾 Human-grade ingredients (yes, really) — but made for pets, not people

These treats are clean, thoughtfully sourced, and wildly loved by dogs… and cautiously approved by cats. 😉

Perfect for stockings, gift baskets, or bribing your pet into thinking you’re their favorite human.

Find them at Essential Health Market — where even pet treats meet our standards. 💚🐾

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🧩 I’m tiny, mighty, and winter-approved—
Day 20 knows my name. What am I?

12/21/2025

🎁 Day 18 of 20 Days of Gift Ideas
Today’s gift is small, thoughtful, and absolutely essential for winter. ❄️🤲

We’re featuring hand creams that actually work — deeply nourishing, clean, and perfect for dry, over-washed hands.

What you’ll find:

🌿 Woolzies Hand Cream Gift Sets
Two beautiful sets, each with 3 hand creams made with shea butter, coconut oil, cocoa butter, and essential oils — rich, comforting, and gift-ready.

✈️ Everyone Travel-Size Lotion
Perfect for purses, pockets, and stocking stuffers — clean ingredients and naturally scented with essential oils.

🥑 Attitude Oatmeal & Avocado Oil Hand Cream
Soothing, gentle, and especially loved by sensitive skin — a winter staple.

Perfect for teachers, coworkers, nurses, parents, or anyone whose hands are feeling the season.

Because soft hands are a little act of self-care you feel all day long.
Find them at Essential Health Market. 💚✨

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🧩 I’m eaten in seconds, judged immediately,
and followed by intense staring.
What am I on Day 19?

12/20/2025

🎁 Day 17 of 20 Days of Gift Ideas
Today’s gift glows softly, smells lovely, and makes any space feel instantly cozier. 🕯️✨

All of our candles are made from pure beeswax — clean-burning, naturally beautiful, and perfect for winter nights.

You’ll find two enchanting styles:

🌲🐦🦊🐸🐰 Molded Beeswax Candles
Handcrafted into sweet shapes like trees, birds, foxes, frogs, and bunnies — charming enough to display, lovely enough to gift.

🌿 Beeswax Candles in Glass Jars
Gently scented with essential oils, creating a warm, calming glow without synthetic fragrances.

Perfect for teachers, hosts, nature lovers, or anyone who loves a little light on dark winter evenings.

Light one, slow down, and let the room soften.
Find them at Essential Health Market. 💚✨

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🧩 Day 18 saves hands from winter’s bite—
Softens, soothes, and feels just right.
What am I?

12/19/2025

🎁 Day 16 of 20 Days of Gift Ideas
Today’s gift comes straight from the trees — slow, golden, and worth savoring. 🍁✨

We’re featuring pure maple goodness in all its best forms:

🍁 Local Connecticut Maple Syrup from Wilkinson Farm
Rich, smooth, and made close to home — a true pantry staple and a beautiful way to support local producers.

🫐🥃 Crown Maple Flavored Syrups
• Blueberry — bright, fruity, and perfect for pancakes or yogurt
• Bourbon Barrel Aged — deep, warm, and quietly luxurious

🍬 Maple Candy Packs
Sweet little bites of maple perfection — ideal for stocking stuffers, teacher gifts, or tucking into a holiday basket.

Drizzle it, stir it, gift it, or hide it for yourself — this is the kind of sweetness that feels cozy, nostalgic, and just right for the season.

Find them all at Essential Health Market before they tap out. 💚🍁

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🧩 Day 17 glows without the sun—
I warm the room and calm everyone.
What am I?

12/18/2025

🎁 Day 15 of 20 Days of Gift Ideas
Today’s gift starts in a cacao pod… and ends in pure joy. 🍫✨

We’ve curated chocolate that’s as thoughtful as it is delicious — made with real ingredients, intentional sweeteners, and none of the junk you’ll find in typical candy bars.

On our shelves today:

🍫 Rawmio Chocolate Barks & Mini Truffle Cake
Decadent, beautiful, and crafted for true chocolate lovers — rich flavors with a clean ingredient list.

🌱 Spring & Mulberry Chocolate Bars
Sweetened naturally with dates, topped with nuts and fruit, and tested for heavy metals — a favorite for those who want transparency with their treats.

🌿 Elements Chocolates
Ayurvedic-inspired blends sweetened with honey, thoughtfully crafted to nourish body and spirit while satisfying a chocolate craving.

Perfect for stocking stuffers, host gifts, or the person who says “I don’t really eat sugar” (but still wants chocolate).

Find your favorite bar — or a few — at Essential Health Market and give chocolate that actually loves you back. 💚🍫✨

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🧩 I come from a tree but never have leaves.
Day 16 is sticky in the best way.
What am I?

12/17/2025

🎁 Day 14 of 20 Days of Gift Ideas
Tonight’s gift isn’t something you wrap — it’s something you share. 🎬❄️

Our Movie Night Basket is made for snowy evenings, cozy couches, and choosing to stay in together.

Inside you’ll find:
🍿 Lesser Evil Popcorn — light, crunchy, and clean
🍫 Unreal Chocolate Gems & Coconut Bar — kid-approved, parent-approved
🍫 Hu Dark Chocolate Bites — rich, simple, and delicious
🍨 Ice Cream for Bears Hot Fudge — because every movie night deserves ice cream

Perfect for families, couples, or kids-at-heart, this basket is a reminder that the best gifts aren’t things… they’re moments.

Gift it to someone you love, or keep it for yourselves and give the gift of presence — a movie, some snacks, and nowhere else to be while the snow falls outside. 💚✨

Available at Essential Health Market.

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🧩 Day 15 starts in a tropical tree,
But ends as a treat you unwrap with glee.
What am I?

12/16/2025

🎁 Day 13 of 20 Days of Gift Ideas
Today’s gift is warm, rich, and made for snowy nights, fuzzy socks, and slowing down. ☕❄️

We’re featuring our clean hot chocolate favorites — comforting, nourishing, and far better than the sugar-loaded packets from the grocery store:

🍫 Wildly Organic Hot Chocolate — rich, simple, and deeply chocolatey
🍫 Bare Life Hot Chocolate — smooth, creamy, and made with clean ingredients
🍫 Om Mushroom Hot Chocolate — a cozy blend with functional mushrooms for balance and feel-good indulgence

Stir it into warm milk, curl up by the window, and let the day soften a little.

Perfect for kids-at-heart, cozy-night lovers, and anyone who believes hot chocolate should feel as good as it tastes.

Find your favorite cup of comfort at Essential Health Market. 💚✨

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🧩 No tickets needed, no lines to stand—
Just snacks, a couch, and something on demand.
What am I?

12/15/2025

🎁 Day 12 of 20 Days of Gift Ideas
Today’s gift smells like comfort, morning rituals, and “just one more cup.” ☕✨

Our shelves are stocked with organic coffees for every kind of coffee lover:

🤎 Organic Sacred Grounds Coffee (CT)
• Chocolate Bomb — rich, smooth, and deeply satisfying
• Ethiopia Yirgacheffe — bright, floral, and beautifully complex

🍄 Good Time Health Coffee
• Light & Medium Roasts infused with Lion’s Mane, Reishi & Cordyceps — for focus, balance, and steady energy without the jitters

🌙 No Stranger Coffee
• A bold Dark Roast blended with Lion’s Mane & Reishi — grounding, smooth, and perfect for slow mornings or long conversations

Whether you’re gifting the early riser, the mushroom-curious, or the person who takes their coffee very seriously, there’s something here they’ll love.

Wrap a bag, add a mug, and give the gift of better mornings.
Find them all at Essential Health Market. 💚☕

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🧩 I’m stirred, not shaken,
Loved on cold days and snowy nights.
Who am I on Day 13?

12/14/2025

🎁 Day 11 of 20 Days of Gift Ideas
Today’s gift is pure, golden sweetness — made by bees, loved by everyone. 🍯✨

Our shelves are stocked with beautiful honeys for every kind of honey lover:

🐝 Local Connecticut Honey — raw, seasonal, and perfect for supporting local bees
🍯 Raw Vermont Honey — rich, unfiltered, and just as nature intended
🌿 Manuka Honey — prized for its potency and loved for its unique benefits

Drizzle it into tea, spread it on warm toast, stir it into yogurt, or gift it to someone who appreciates the simple things done well.

This is the kind of gift that feels thoughtful, nourishing, and a little indulgent — without trying too hard.

Find your favorite jar (or two) at Essential Health Market and bring a little sweetness into the season. 💚✨

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🧩 Day 12 arrives rich, warm, and strong—
A little ritual you’ve loved all along.
What is it?

Address

266 Prospect Avenue
Hartford, CT
06106

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 8pm
Tuesday	10am - 8pm
Wednesday	10am - 8pm
Thursday	10am - 8pm
Friday	10am - 8pm
Saturday	9am - 5pm
Sunday	12pm - 4pm

Telephone

+18602693228

Website

https://essentialhealthct.com/

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Essential Health is a unique destination located in West Hartford, CT offering chiropractic care by Dr. Allie Mendelson and Dr. Matthew Roberts. The doctor’s practices are co-located with our Natural Foods Store offering only the most nutritious foods that include a Paleo/AIP/Keto emphasis, along with all natural supplements, vitamins, and cleaning supplies. We offer a Signature Grass Fed Meats and Dairy, Therapeutic Massage, FIR Sauna, and Monthly community workshops.

Our goal is to provide people of all ages with comprehensive Chiropractic care, lifestyle and nutritional counseling, natural foods for an optimum diet and supportive services to achieve healing and lasting recovery, natural pain management, immune support, reduction of reliance on medications, and relief from symptoms of chronic disease.

We provide: • Specific, efficient spinal correction to alleviate immediate aches, pains and illness while also relieving symptom-causing irregularities in your spine. • At-home spinal care exercises to complement your in-clinic correction procedures, so your body can get well faster. • Nutritional recommendations and tips to help you reduce the amount of dangerous toxins you're exposed to on a daily basis. These tips can help you balance your body's hormones and overcome resistance to weight loss. • Encouraging health talks and workshops to teach you more about society's pressing health issues, so you can stay up-to-date on how to ensure the health and well-being of yourself and your loved ones. • Supplemental health and well-being services and products including our unique Natural Foods Market, Therapeutic Massage, plant based health products featuring Essential oils and FIR Sauna

To find out more, schedule an appointment for your first whole-health consultation Please call Andrea at 860-269-3228