“If at 85 years young, you call me to see if it’s a good idea to go skydiving, then I’ve been the kind of doctor we both needed me to be,” exclaims Dr. Pamela Svendsen, founder and medical director of The Wellness Center at Navarre. She offers her patients an individualized program using both traditional and non-traditional medicine.

A wellness assessment can provide a valuable inventory of the state of your well-being and provide information on where to start in the New Year. Take our quiz and learn dimensions might need the most change and the motivation to change in each dimension.

Jordan Rubin fulfilled a lifelong dream in 2009 with the founding of Beyond Organic, a vertically integrated organic food and beverage company, farming more than 8,000 organic acres in Missouri and Georgia. The passion Rubin has for organic animal farming started with Rubin’s illness as a teenager, when he was evaluated or treated by more than 69 medical experts, yet remained deathly ill.

Beyond the connection felt with inclusion in family life and socializing with friends, research shows that seniors that feel a sense of purpose and learn new things are healthier, both physically and mentally.

This is the time of the year that we often overeat and feel bloated and miserable. However, many people feel bad after eating even small amounts of certain foods.

Many people believe that we are moving toward a new frontier of consciousness that will allow us to rediscover and redefine who we are and just what we are capable of achieving.

Life satisfaction is a crucial component of health. People often seek a nutritional formula to make them slim, have less pain, better sleep and improve their mood, but they are surprised to find that many areas of their life influence the path to optimal health.

The reasons why people experience fatigue is a long list that includes thyroid issues, metabolic disturbances, sugar imbalance, depression, hormonal issues and sleep apnea.

Natural fertility treatments are becoming more popular, with several natural methods now thought to enhance successful conception.