by Cheryl Kemppainen | Feb 10, 2023 | Wellness with Cheryl
Do you look at your poop? If you don’t, you should probably start. When you are born, your parents are sent home with a poop chart. They are supposed to monitor and keep track of what their baby’s poop looks like, colour, size and frequency. ...
by Cheryl Kemppainen | Feb 1, 2023 | Wellness with Cheryl
Do you know how to Create your Health and Wellness? The thing with health is: there is no one size fits all approach. The same reason that fad diets do not work, is the same reason that chronic illness cannot be managed without taking into account many different...
by Cheryl Kemppainen | Jan 24, 2023 | Wellness with Cheryl
Probiotics and Prebiotics and Gut Health. GUT MICROBES There are trillions of microbes that happily live in our gut. These friendly microbes do more than help us digest foods, make vitamins, and protect us from the not-so-friendly microbes – they have...
by Cheryl Kemppainen | Jan 10, 2023 | Wellness with Cheryl
Odd symptoms of Poor Gut Health. I pulled my hip. Badly. I couldn’t put weight on it for months. A hurt hip is a terrible thing. Over the winter I noticed that I had this odd pain in my tailbone. This pressure was increasing when I sat down. I started sitting...
by Cheryl Kemppainen | Dec 31, 2022 | Wellness with Cheryl
How to create New Years Resolution that work. Too often we start the New Year with the best of intentions but with goals that are too big. We decide that this is the year we will run that marathon. We start off strong and then after one week we start negotiations...
by Cheryl Kemppainen | Dec 12, 2022 | Uncategorized, Wellness with Cheryl
Is it IBS or IBD? Irritable bowel syndrome I cannot count the number of times someone has looked at me and said “Oh I have that too, I just have to remember to take probiotics and it goes away.” I think to myself: Yes, probiotics help me most of the time. But...