Category: General Health

To Carb or Not To Carb: Five Blood Tests to Perfect Your Metabolism

Posted on June 5, 2016 by Dr. Richard Maurer
Category: General Health, Special Diets

Certain blood tests indicate whether your path toward or away from metabolic illness, including cancer and heart disease. Yet some of these tests are not typically run by your physician, generally because of insurance reimbursement issues. Fortunately, you can get tests done directly and inexpensively and learn from the results yourself.
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Depression and the Brain-Gut Connection

Posted on May 3, 2016
Category: General Health, Mental Health, Nutrition

Depression is an affliction that far too many of us has experienced, or will experience, first-hand. Women are twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with depression.1 Whether it’s a chronic condition or a temporary situation the pain it instills is real and relief is often just out of reach. Quite likely, if you... Read more »
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Essential Oils

Posted on February 15, 2016 by Maureen Petone
Category: General Health

Essential means essence of the plant, and essential oils are essential to life. Essential oils positively influence the mind and body, enhancing your emotional and physical well-being. We carry pure essential oils at CPW.
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Product Spotlight: CPW Grassfed Whey

Posted on July 2, 2015
Category: General Health, Nutrition

New Product! CPW Grassfed Whey Protein Working to add more protein to your daily diet? Whey protein is a high quality, low carbohydrate protein that makes a fluffy, light shake. Whey is a component of milk. In the cheese making process “curds and whey” are separated. The whey protein fraction retains the beneficial immune-supporting microproteins... Read more »
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Lyme: Testing & Antibiotic Therapy

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Dr. Masina Wright
Category: General Health

As more adults and children in Maine become diagnosed with Lyme disease, the need for Lyme literate practitioners and reliable Lyme treatment strategies increases. This condition has increased dramatically in Maine over the past 2 decades, from 225 confirmed cases in 2004 to 1127 confirmed cases in 2013. Lyme is much more than a tick... Read more »
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Product Spotlight: ABx Support

Posted on June 17, 2015
Category: General Health, Nutrition, Supplements

Sir Alexander Fleming, on his chance discovery of penicillin in 1928 once said, “One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.” He was granted the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his discovery that revolutionized medicine.1. Eighty-seven years later, our understanding of infectious disease and treatment has advanced beyond measure as well as... Read more »
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Maine Lyme Disease Prevention

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Paula Jackson Jones and Angele Rice
Category: General Health

Written by Paula Jackson Jones and Angele Rice, co-founders of Midcoast Lyme Disease Support & Education (MLDSE), a nonprofit organization. May is recognized statewide, by proclamation of the Governor, as Lyme Disease Awareness Month, because of the increased risk when immature ticks emerge in the springtime. While many people know something about Lyme, there are... Read more »
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Medicinal Raw Honey

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Melissa Brodeur
Category: General Health, Nutrition

Honey has been used for its medicinal purposes dating all the way back to the ancient Egyptians so it only makes sense to have some high-quality honey options here at CPW like Ariel’s Honey Infusions. All of Ariel’s Honey Infusions are made in small batches by Ariel using raw honey from VT and infused with... Read more »
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Product Spotlight: L-Carnitine

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Dr. Masina Wright
Category: General Health, Supplements

L-carnitine is an important amino acid that helps the body to utilize fats as fuel. Technically, L-carnitine is the amino acid that ferries fatty acids to the mitochondria of the cell, where they can be made into ATP (cell fuel.)It is derived in the body from L-lysine, and methylated with the help of L-methionine (SAMe)... Read more »
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Nutrition Tips from Our Wellness Specialists

Posted on March 5, 2015
Category: General Health, Nutrition

March is National Nutrition Month – a fitting time of year in New England as the snow finally starts to melt and signs of life return and our winter bodies come out of hibernation. We thought we would ask our Wellness Specialists for their top nutrition tips for inspiration on improving health and wellness through... Read more »
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