Your Health Blog. But Clearer.
You deserve to feel better. You have important things to do with your life.
You shouldn’t have to limit yourself because of how you feel.
Your Health Blog. But Clearer.
You deserve to feel better.
You have important things to do with your life.
You shouldn’t have to limit yourself because of how you feel.
You can’t lose weight if you’re not full.
The secret to weight loss isn’t about what you don’t eat; it’s about what you do eat. After studying 4 different types of diets over 3 months at McMaster University, the research was very clear: the...
Treating Acne with Green Tea
Patients often approach an ND for support with their acne when it trails into adulthood, defies conventional over the counter treatment, or when they are looking for a more natural (less drying)...
Recurrent Miscarriage and Thyroid Antibodies. Get Tested.
It’s not uncommon for women to experience 2-3 miscarriages before they are offered diagnostic testing to determine the cause. Although there are multiple considerations to be made, such as low...
Therapeutic Diets in Brain Cancer
Using diet in conjunction with conventional cancer care is often to support weight management (gain or loss), or to improve side effects of chemotherapy (constipation or diarrhea) or to prevent...
If your teen has menstrual cramps, you need to read this.
Menstrual cramps is the most common gynecological problem in young adolescent girls, with some studies reporting anywhere from 16 to 91 percent of girls (1) experiencing cramps that cause missed...
Is IV Vitamin C safe with Chemotherapy?
One of the most common questions we get asked about IV therapy is whether or not it "conflicts" with regular oncology care. We spent 12 weeks researching this topic at McMaster University with a...
Want to have the healthiest baby?
If you're an expectant parent, your goals are simple: have the healthiest baby possible! Research suggests that there are specific nutrients that are required in pregnancy to help reduce the risk of...
Can patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease be helped by supplements?
Through her work at McMaster University, Dr. Robertson has had the unique opportunity to work with research teams, exploring the best evidence available for treating medical conditions with...
Lost your cycle? You should be tested.
Women are lucky they have a period. (Seriously!) The menstrual cycle is a window into many avenues of a woman’s health and gives a woman feedback on how she’s doing on a monthly basis. Assessing the...
Do some patients eat too much fat?
The high-fat fad can be just as concerning as the low-fat fad. No diet should be a fad. A diet should be a prescription that seeks the highest health for the person across our desk, not something...
Top 5 Questions we get asked about Hormone Health and BHRT
The Naturopathic Doctors in our office all hold a prescribing license for bio-identical hormone therapy in Ontario. We see hundreds of women a year looking for help with PMS, depression, hot...
If you’ve had skin cancer, your thyroid might be a problem
Much of our role as Naturopathic Doctors is focusing on the prevention of recurrence of cancer in patients who have been treated successfully through conventional means. Patients who have been...
Antioxidants for Endometriosis and Painful Periods
Women with endometriosis have a complex immune, hormonal and inflammatory situation in their pelvic cavity, which promotes the growth, implantation and progression of endometriosis cysts and...
Adult Acne? Test your Testosterone
Acne is a complex condition in the skin resulting from hormonal and bacterial shifts that set the skin up for inflammation, immune system recruitment and acne development. Adults with acne are...
Treating your PMS could help your weight loss
When looking at the success of any diet plan for weight loss, the results are clear: it doesn’t always matter which diet you pick, it’s the one you stick to that produces long term results. The...
Breast pain? You need a custom diet.
Cyclical breast pain, “mastalgia”, affects the majority of women over the course of her menstrual, peri-menopausal or menopausal lives (so basically, any woman at any time!)(1). It can be caused by...
Endometriosis: Working with McMaster Hospital Team
Endometriosis is an inflammatory, hormonal and immune driven condition that affects many women. Symptoms often go undiagnosed for years, but present as severe menstrual cramps, pain during...
Progesterone for Hot Flashes
Naturopathic Doctors have as part of their tools for treatment access to Bio-identical Hormone Therapy (BHRT) through specialty compounding pharmacies. This prescription access allows NDs to...
Your Hormone Checklist
Usually when people think about their health they think about numbers. Weight, body fat percentage, number of servings of veggies, and cholesterol are all numbers that can be tracked and used to...
Can Men be Estrogen Dominant?
By: Dr. Jordan Robertson ND We have all heard, until blue in the face, that a woman’s hormones change and deplete as she ages, causing significant reduction in quality of life, and a whole range of...
Estrogen Deficiency and Vaginal Atrophy
By: Dr. Jordan Robertson ND It’s estimated that 10-40% of menopausal women experience vaginal atrophy, dryness and pain during intercourse(1). These signs of estrogen deficiency can be easily...
Why Cancer Patients Lose Weight.
If you're a Cancer patient and you've never heard the word "cachexia", it's time to add another practitioner to the conversation. Dramatic weight loss is one of the most memorable...
Flip your burgers, save your prostate.
By: Dr. Jordan Robertson ND We publish a bi-monthly cancer magazine that focuses on various issues in cancer care. Here is one of our most inquired about articles, looking at dietary carginogens and...
Why you should add a Naturopath to your Cancer Team
Naturopathic Cancer Care is a collaborative effort between you, your conventional Medical team and your Naturopathic Doctor. Naturopathic Doctors offer a unique approach to Cancer Care, with...
If Your Dad Had Prostate Cancer
By Dr. Jordan Robertson ND We know that certain cancers seem to fall in families. Breast cancer has identifiable genes that women can be tested for, endometrial and colon cancer appear to have a...
Crestor and Lipitor are Not the Same
Dr. Jordan Robertson BHSc. ND RAc Naturopathic Doctors with a prescribing licence in Ontario have spent considerable time examining the use of primary care drugs that treat most medical conditions....
Multiple Sclerosis. The Role of Salt.
Diet and MS reveals some not so surprising, and some very surprising literature that may affect not only your risk of developing MS in the first place, but may affect disease progression long term....
Can’t Sleep? The Cortisol Connection
Cortisol levels of sleepers (purple) and insomniacs (black) demonstrating more peaks during sleeping hours in patients with short sleep duration. Adapted from...
Antibiotics versus Flax? You lose.
By Dr. Jordan Robertson BHSc. ND RAc In the complex world of hormones, it's not uncommon for women to experience periods of 'better' or 'worse' coverage of their symptoms with the treatments...
Avoiding Flax with Breast Cancer? Don’t be confused.
Women who are at risk for breast cancer, or who have already been diagnosed can easily feel confused and overwhelmed by the various recommendations made to them regarding their diet and supplements....
Radiation Induced Digestive Symptoms
By Dr. Jordan Robertson BHSc. ND RAc Radiation therapy takes prisoners in it's path. Although the technology and development of radiation has improved dramatically in the last decade (lower amounts...
How Probiotics Manage Ulcerative Colitis
By Dr. Jordan Robertson ND In the recent years, we have come to recognize some unique characteristics about Ulcerative Colitis that separates this autoimmune condition from others. Like other...
Can Drinking Green Tea Prevent Breast Cancer?
By: Dr. Jordan Robertson BHSc. ND RAc The topic of green tea and breast cancer stemmed form observations that cultural groups of regular green tea drinkers appeared to have a reduced risk of breast...
More Migraine Free Days
Dr. Jordan Robertson BHSc. ND RAc My introduction to Naturopathic Medicine was for treatment for my migraines. I could never identify my triggers, with headaches happening multiple times per month....
Childhood Cancer Survivors Need a Plan
By: Dr. Jordan Robertson ND We are now watching an entire cohort of childhood cancer survivors grow up, well past the ages we saw just a generation ago. Treatment for childhood cancers have greatly...
Ovarian Cancer: Reducing Toxicity and Improving Survival
By: Dr. Jordan Robertson ND Ovarian Cancer often presents with a poor prognosis simply based on the delay in diagnosis from a lack noticeable symptoms in women with the disease. This delay in...