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How many nights have you crawled into bed utterly exhausted, slept a full eight or nine hours, and woken up the next morning still feeling sluggish and fatigued? (Don’t worry, we’ve all been there.) Sure, you slept through a full REM cycle, however, there are other kinds of rest that your body might still be craving. In today’s post we’re going over the 7 types of rest (and why you need them all!) where we’ll get to the bottom of why we’re all so sleepy all the time.
We make it our mission to educate and keep you informed of overall wellness deterrents, but we never want to make you panic! Please consider the following information as a gentle nudge vs. a full-on shove toward being more mindful of EMFs and why you should be.
The dry eyes, itchy throat, runny nose, and lingering headache need to GO. Keep reading for the Functional Medicine take on why we get allergies and how to fight them.
Today we’re checking in with our R+R Co-founder, Tayor Dukes for all the scoop on her faves! She’s also live on our IG Stories kicking off our #RRtakeover series here. If you’ve ever wanted a peek inside the life of a wellness guru, now’s your chance!
If you’re in need of some guidelines to help you start loving mornings again, we’ve go you covered. From wake time to exercise recommendations (psst they’re not intense, we promise!) and everything in between, keep reading for 9 ways to start your day on the right foot. We promise you can still have your coffee.
R+R Co-founders Dabney and Taylor’s passion for what they do excites them so much, it radiates from every flicker of their eyes and every beam of their kind smiles. These Renaissance women know their stuff, they mean business, and they fight fiercely for what they believe to be the best possible care for their patients and clients. And they each wear the battle scars to prove why they do it. Because of these scars, the full story of R+R simply cannot be told without first honoring the stories of individual struggles and triumphs of both Dabney and Taylor.
Each tiny cell (of which your body has about 30 trillion) generates .07 volts of energy. We’re talking almost 30 trillion volts of energy in a single body. For perspective: a bolt of lightning creates about 1 billion volts. Amazing, high-voltage YOU has the capability to clean house in the best way possible if given the right tools Keep reading for 9 ways to cleanse the body.
What is Functional Medicine? Whether you struggle with stubborn weight gain, digestive issues, persistent allergies, multiple unexplained symptoms or perhaps you simply want optimize your health and prevent conditions in the future, no matter where you are in life, functional medicine is for you.
Does pizza wreck your stomach? Does eating pasta make your joints ache? Does your kiddo have an eternally dry patch on the back of their arms? Do some lunch choices leave you feeling foggy when you get back to your desk? These issues, and more, could very well stem from a food sensitvity.
The beautiful thing about our bodies is they’re able to heal when we let them. Through dietary, lifestyle and supplemental adjustments, adrenal fatigue does not have to stick around for long. At R+R, we offer several healing modalities to support your adrenal system and the healing process!
The more we push, push, push past whatever the issue(s) might be on the front-end, the more we compound the work on the backend to unwind what’s broken in order to fully heal. Most often, a chronic health issue didn’t pop up overnight so the amount of time to heal likely won’t either. We encourage you to be patient with yourself. Like an onion, our bodies are layered and our healing is too.
Our libidos can fluctuate (read: plummet) for a litany of reasons, and it doesn’t just happen for those more senior in their years on earth. In keeping with our Functional Medicine pillar of root-cause therapy, our goal is to help you figure out why your libido is a low-bido.
Chronic inflammation can manifest itself in many ways: swollen joints and fingers, fatigue, stomach pain, mouth sores and rashes. Further, autoimmune conditions, arthritis and cardiovascular conditions are all inflammatory in nature. While you might not experience all or some of these symptoms, if you're human and indulge here and there, we're willing to bet you've got some unwanted inflammation lurking.