Populace: Wellness for Every Body

10/27/2024

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01/01/2024

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For Every Body

01/07/2023

Insurance Update:
https://populacewellness.com/2023/01/07/insurance-update/

Hello, patients. It’s been a season of expansion here at Populace Wellness. The business is currently in the process of credentialing with several insurance providers. The goal make care as a…

01/06/2023

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11/07/2022

More hours = more care at Populace Wellness. I’m still building the new modalities into my website and scheduler but in the meantime, you can receive combo therapies with all available modalities (LMT/chiro/herbalism/education). Text me during business hours if you need help with the scheduler. (541) 521-3090

10/19/2022

10/14/2022

2 of the coveted Monday spots just opened on my calendar. Grab them if you want them. They'll only be available/visible on the scheduler through Saturday.

Monday October 17th
9am, 60 min
12:30pm, 60 min

https://populacewellness.as.me/

10/11/2022

Happy Autumn Portland

Populace Wellness is back to full time availability. All those who book with this coupon code: OCTOBER2022 and choose from the available discounted appointment types will receive an immediate 25% discount.

This coupon is available anytime between now and October 31st. You can use the coupon as many times as you want.

Text Populace Wellness during business hours, if you need help with the scheduler. Let’s celebrate this beautiful season with physical care and feeling better.

See you soon,
Erin Rose at Populace Wellness
(541) 521-3090

09/27/2022

It happened. Residency is over and after 4 years I finally have a Doctorate (and Bachelor’s). I’m officially trained as a doctor of manual therapy. Soon I will be dual-licensed in massage therapy and chiropractic. There are all kinds of practitioners. I’ll keep my little corner of the universe where (hopefully) intent listening and tempered depth overlap to help people feel better. Here’s to another leg of my career, and some of the most fulfilling work I have ever done. To longevity 🏔 🥂.

#🙌

08/31/2022

This is a caring and thoughtful piece. She’s absolutely right that starting with a diversity of fresh foods and a strict allergen avoidance can get anyone feeling much better. Fresh air, good food and exercise is it; always has been. There are some cautions I would throw in but, hopefully most people will only start new supplements with guidance.

Please avoid iron unless you need it, as mentioned above. Excess iron in supplement form is quickly harmful to the body.

Also, don’t feel bad if you’re a covid long-hauler (there are so, so many right now) with dys-autonomia and vestibular dysfunction. Then it’s possible that none of these beautiful, gentle herbs will lower your BP or calm you until the underlying problem gets some attention. Your body has different rules right now, so trust yourself most.

If you take chamomile and your heart races or lemon balm and it leads to more anxiety, trust your experience. You can try treating the system manually first, with some external input from a knowledgeable practitioner, before asking your metabolism to function typically. Vagus nerve stimulation and vestibular resets for example, can both be done at home after a lesson in person.

Most of all, I hope anyone needing care will try to find an herbalist, naturopath or doctor who will witness you, work with you, listen and respond. Those are the qualities that I find most helpful in healthcare, with a dis-regulated body.

Happy health and balance everyone.

High blood pressure - it's a symptom, not a disease.
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These days, the most common cause for high blood pressure is metabolic syndrome (hyperinsulinemia, too much insulin in the blood).

This is caused by eating too much simple carbs for too long -> too much insulin -> too little growth hormone -> too much IGF1 (insulin growth factor 1) -> the muscles don't grow, the bones won't regenerate, the fat cells won't accept triglycerides etc.
The only tissue that isn't affected by too much insulin is the skin.

All of those building materials for various cells end up floating in the blood. It's simply too much, so the kidneys compensate by keeping water in. Diuretics won't help.

What to do:
* Ditch the simple carbs. Eat real food (lots of veggies, with suitable amounts of fats and proteins).
* Take missing nutrients (magnesium, chromium, zinc, B, C, D, E, fish oil, protein, fats, iron (if the hemoglobin is low), along with a good multivitamin, to catch all the various co-factors.
* Exercise (to a sweat each day, no need for hours-long marathons).

Do all three at once; your metabolic disease will clear up within days.

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The second most common cause for high blood pressure is a food allergy or sensitivity. You eat something you react to, all the time, you get interesting problems. Including hemorrhoids with varicosities in the back of your left leg.

Your blood is overloaded, because the liver can't handle all the gunk coming from the digestion. The kidneys compensate by keeping water in, so diuretics won't work.

Look in the mirror and ask yourself what food you can't live without, then live without, totally and completely.

Or try to figure out which of the most common food allergies has hit you personally (lactose / dairy / gluten / corn), and remove them completely from your diet.

You can react to other food groups too. You usually know which food causes gut pain, pimples, migraines, diarrhoea, constipation etc. (Food allergies are hereditary, to a degree. If most of your family suffers from problems with dairy, and you think you don't, try to do without (completely! no "sq**rt of milk in my morning coffee" or similar). Quite a few of your small inconveniences might just clear up.)

Removing the offending foods usually clears up this type of high blood pressure.

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Other causes include:

Your blood vessels aren't as elastic as they used to be. Eat 100 grammes (4 oz) of berries every day. Don't add sugar.

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If your liver is overworked, it will send metabolic waste on another round through the veins. The blood gets overloaded, the kidneys compensate by keeping water in. Diuretics won't work.
Help the liver by taking yellow dock root or barberry root, or similar.

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If the kidneys aren't up to par, diuretics might work. Help the kidneys by taking goldenrod or corn silk tea, and/or by taking nettle seed or milk thistle seed.

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If the heart is tired, diuretics probably work.
Eat lots of local berries (don't add sugar!), eat fatty fish regularly and take hawthorn and/or garlic.

Also take vitamin C, 4 x 2 grammes a day.

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Stress will raise your blood pressure. For this, I recommend motherwort (it lets you relax about life's minor setbacks), cinquefoils (you stop worrying about what others think, stop trying to please everybody) and various relaxing herbs, like lemon balm, lavender, rose and chamomile.

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So remove the cause. Taking out the symptom without also removing the cause will have the problem pop up elsewhere, as a different symptom.

(Photo: Chocolate haw, Crataegus erythropoda.)

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Henriette
Feel free to share!
Henriette's herbal: http://www.henriettes-herb.com/

The book "Practical herb cards" (with cardboard cards # 1-52 bound into a book with more photos and text and a cardboard box):
http://www.henriettes-herb.com/articles/herbcards.html
"Practical herb cards 2" (with cardboard cards #53-104 and a do-it-yourself cardboard box):
http://www.henriettes-herb.com/articles/herbcards2.html

Two exquisite practical herb books:
http://www.henriettes-herb.com/articles/pract-herbs.html
http://www.henriettes-herb.com/articles/pract-herbs2.html

The same text in Finnish:
https://www.facebook.com/henriette.kress/posts/pfbid04gQLDG5fxZM8KU61uMitWw9euC2GMTdz4tC6RQG7Z8NMLnKK9fgFgm4E1JAL57dZl

08/21/2022

Helping make gardening accessible for all! Here you can see raised garden beds so those with disabilities can garden!! 😁

06/26/2022

06/21/2022

Solstice 2022

(almost) Never being satisfied is a force of biological health,
like the wind and rivers show us,
movement is life.

I hope what you’re moving toward
is what you want.

The bright sun can be urgent.
remember what feels right to you,
remember what feels true.

And let your movement be for your good,
for your people,
for your interconnected communities and health.

Move well, live well, be well

Happy Summer Solstice sunshine

Sincerely, E.R. Winter

06/09/2022

Hi I’m sharing this information for my chiropractic student clinic. I have heard from several CHP patients in Portland about difficulty finding active providers lately. Here’s a good option for you. I highly recommend Dr. Vuky #🙏🏻

05/11/2022

If you have recently been out on Snoqualmie Tribe Ancestral Lands recently, chances are you have seen trillium blooms. Please by not picking the trillium! Trillium can be grown from seed, but it can take up to 2 (!!) years for fresh seed to germinate and another 5 to 7 years for plants to bloom.

02/23/2022

https://youtu.be/mQR6b7CAiqk


This is worth trying. It may not work for everyone but it would be wonderful if it worked for you.

Now available – Overcoming Positional VertigoDr. Carol has written a book to answer the many questions about this. Check it out here: http://bit.ly/2Sz4Og4Vi...

12/23/2021

Never in the landfill #🙌