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Integrative Family Nurse Practitioner

How to Boost Your Immune System

By Renae Blanton, MSN, FNP-C, FAIHM

We are constantly exposed to hundreds of different strains of viruses that are capable of making us sick. These viruses are transmitted hand-to-hand (touching nose and eyes, then touching others or surfaces) and aerosol (coughing and sneezing). Our current fear is COVID-19, and while the information on this is changing daily, what hasn’t changed are […]

Filed Under: Acute and Chronic Illness, Education, Family Medicine Tagged With: auto-immune disorders, boost immune system, colds, disease prevention, fight illness, health, reduce risk of death

How to Succeed at Keeping Your New Year’s Resolutions

By Renae Blanton, MSN, FNP-C, FAIHM

As a family practitioner, I spend many hours coaching and coaxing patients to make changes in their diet, exercise habits, lifestyle, and their levels of stress.  I would be very surprised if any reader out there is unaware that the key to health lies in these habits and behaviors and not so much in the […]

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: disease prevention, exercise, health, healthy eating, reduce risk of death, weight-loss

How to Burn Fat Nine Times Faster and Lose Weight!

By Renae Blanton, MSN, FNP-C, FAIHM

By working out this way, one is able to burn more fat and calories than just going along at the same slow steady pace – the physiologic effects of this type of workout will encourage the body to burn fat for almost 24 hours after the workout.

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: blood pressure, disease prevention, exercise, health, heart disease, reduce risk of death, stroke, weight-loss

Seven-a-day Keeps the Weight Away and Other Ways to Thrive the Holidays

By Renae Blanton, MSN, FNP-C, FAIHM

The good news: Americans only gain, on average, one pound from all the over indulgence during the holiday season. The bad news: We don’t lose it – ouch.

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: disease prevention, exercise, health, healthy eating, holidays, weight-loss

Natural Ways to Treat or Prevent High Blood Pressure: Part I

By Renae Blanton, MSN, FNP-C, FAIHM

What if someone was to tell you that treating your high blood pressure with medication may not necessarily equate to a reduced risk of having a heart attack or stroke?  Yes, I have opened up a Pandora’s Box with that question – but there is mounting evidence that this may be true and I encourage […]

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: anti-aging, blood pressure, disease prevention, exercise, health, healthy eating, heart attack, heart disease, reduce risk of death, weight-loss

Want Help with Health, Relationships, and Prosperity? Try Oxytocin.

By Renae Blanton, MSN, FNP-C, FAIHM

Oxy what?  Oxytocin.  How can a substance produced by your body – in both men and women – help in regards to health, relationships, and prosperity?  Let me explain. As a family medicine practitioner, I knew of oxytocin’s role more in the health of women and those with chronic fatigue, behavioral disorders, and autism.  Oxytocin […]

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: disease prevention, health, oxytocin, prosperity, stress

Twelve Foods to Always Buy Organic and Why To Grow Your Own!

By Renae Blanton, MSN, FNP-C, FAIHM

A few weeks ago, I observed a good friend of mine preparing an area of his very small townhome yard for gardening.  I was pleasantly surprised when he informed me that his intentions were not to grow flowers, but vegetables.  I greatly applauded his efforts and this is why:  By growing his own food source […]

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: buy local, detoxificiation, disease prevention, farmer's market, health, healthy eating, organic, reduce risk of death

Simple Ways to Deal with Seasonal Allergies!

By Renae Blanton, MSN, FNP-C, FAIHM

Did you know that hay fever symptoms result in 14.1 million primary care visits every year?  According to the CDC, 50 million Americans are impacted by allergies, with allergic disease being currently ranked the sixth leading cause of chronic disease.  Those at higher risk of developing allergies includes:  living in highly populated areas, higher socioeconomic […]

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: allergies, disease prevention, health

Want Faster Recovery and Better Endurance Or Just General Good Health? Try the IV!

By Renae Blanton, MSN, FNP-C, FAIHM

As an integrative practitioner of family medicine, in addition to working with chronically ill people using intravenous (IV) nutrition, I have worked with athletes to improve their performance and to speed their recovery. The benefits of IV nutrition are immeasurable and there is very little risk.

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: anti-aging, auto-immune disorders, celiac disease, colds, detoxificiation, disease prevention, exercise, health, heart disease, men's health, natural remedies

Don’t Break Your Heart, Go Honky Tonking!

By Renae Blanton, MSN, FNP-C, FAIHM

I was sitting down at my kitchen table a few Saturdays ago when my phone rings.  It was a friend doing the proverbial trap he is good at.  He says, “What are you doing?”,   “Nothing”, I reply. “Well then, you have no excuse to get down here to the Grange to hear us play!”  Ha! […]

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: anti-aging, dancing, disease prevention, exercise, health, heart disease, reduce risk of death

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