Dr. Amy Shah, MD Archives | Wellness Mama®

How Your Phone Is Changing Your Brain

Katie Wells — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 14:00:30 +0000

Technology is an amazing invention (I use it every day to run this blog!). We have practically everything we could ever need to know, imagine, and become curious about at our fingertips. In fact, according to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, we collectively create as much information in two days as has been created from […]

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Healthy Caffeine Free Alternatives to Coffee

Katie Wells — Tue, 29 May 2018 14:13:48 +0000

If you’re looking for an interesting variation on coffee, give coffee kombucha a try (it’s an interesting taste for sure!). But if you’re looking for healthy coffee alternatives, keep reading. Why Not Drink Coffee? You all probably know I love my coffee. (So much so one of my DIY projects was a coffee bar!) Still, […]

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Tips to Naturally Reduce Stress… Starting Now!

Katie Wells — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 20:36:04 +0000

Stress kills. No, really… Even if a person has all the other factors right, high levels of stress can derail health. Unfortunately, just knowing stress is a problem doesn’t fix it. If you’re like me, the need to reduce stress just adds another item on the “to-do” list. Laundry… check. Dishes… check. De-stress… not so […]

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Talking to Yourself With Self-Compassion (& Why It’s Healthy)

Katie Wells — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 18:50:56 +0000

If a doctor told you that there was one simple thing that you could do to lower your risk of illness, reduce your stress, and at the same time increase your ability to eat healthy and exercise, you would probably do it, right? Well, it turns out that researchers have been hard at work investigating this impressive […]

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