Announcement: Empower Health & Numinus Wellness Inc. Join Forces
We’re extremely excited to announce a big change to our beloved Empower community! Empower Health will be evolving into a new entity - Numinus Wellness Inc. Numinus is an innovative new company with a bold mission of making transformational health therapies more accessible, to catalyze positive global change. They have partnered with leaders in healthcare and integrative medicine as they ...
Community Partner: Plant Medicine Shop
The Plant Medicine Shop is owned by Janis Young, otherwise known as SilverOwl. It is run by Youngatheart Inc., a company totally aimed at healing from all aspects of ourselves, be it physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, sexual -- the only Plant Spirit Medicine distributor to connect the dots and maintain a healing path. Starting out in 2001, she connected quickly ...
Body Work Treatments for the Queer and Transgender Community
Many transgender and queer folks share that they have unique challenges when seeking open-minded healthcare professionals. These gender non-conforming individuals often have unique multilayered healthcare needs as a result of having a complex history. People who have been marginalized the way many transgender folks arrive in the treatment room with much more than their history of physical symptoms. This population ...
Oxygen Debt: How Medical Ozone Can Rejuvenate You
Why Do We Breathe Oxygen? The main goal is to produce energy so your body can perform the millions of functions it does every day and you can stay alive. Specifically, in your body, oxygen and sugar are used to make energy (ATP), carbon dioxide (CO2), and water. There are many steps to this process. The crucial part of this ...
Ever Wondered Why You’re So Tired?
Feeling tired all the time? The stressors in your everyday life do not necessarily help you constantly feel vitalized. However, there is more to just not getting enough sleep, nutrition, and stress that makes you feel tired. In this post, we are going to uncover some of the physical reasons as to why you might be feeling fatigued. Here are ...
Our Community Partner: Advance Concussion Clinic
Where did the idea of the business come from and when? The business was founded in 2013 by Dr. Cirelle Rosenblatt, the Clinic’s Founder and Clinical Director. It was based on a growing recognition of the need for British Columbia to mobilize and act on the silent epidemic of concussion. What kind of things do you do to further your ...