Sow Health - Integrative Naturopathic Clinic

12/16/2025

🛷Sleigh your holidays ✨

Support your energy, lighten the load, and actually enjoy the season—while building momentum for a healthier 2026 🎄💪

🎯 Simple ways to minimize blood sugar spikes & crashes:

🥦 Order of eating matters
Start with veggies + protein. Indulge after you’ve laid the foundation.

🍽️ Don’t arrive hungry
Have a balanced snack before parties—or bring a protein-forward dish you love.

🚶‍♀️ Move after meals
A short walk, light movement, or even a dance party helps muscles use glucose as fuel.

💊Consider digestive enzymes
Taken at the start or during meals, enzymes support digestion, reduce bloating, and help with nutrient absorption & food sensitivities.
Not a free pass to overeat—but a helpful tool for heavier or harder-to-digest meals.

😴 Protect your sleep
Sleep is where your system resets. Prioritizing your sleep window supports digestion, mood, immunity, and steadier blood sugar the next day.

🍷 Be mindful with alcohol
Alcohol close to bedtime disrupts deep sleep. Enjoy earlier, keep it minimal, and let your body fully wind down overnight.

✨ Better sleep = more energy, fewer cravings, steadier glucose, and more joy.

Save this for your next holiday gathering 🎁 Let us know your top holiday tips in the comments!

10/16/2025

📊✨ KNOW your healthcare data ✨📊

👯‍♀️ For those who remember the Excel queens of CCNM class of 2009 … just know, we’re backkk.

We’ve been cooking up something BIG behind the scenes — something that’s going to take your lab tracking game to a whole new level. We’re creating a tool to allow you to see the story your labs are telling in report card form.

If you love clarity, color coding, and turning labs into action → you’re going to LOVE what’s coming. 👀💛

Stay tuned…

Because here’s the thing: your numbers tell a story — and when you own that story, you can finally use it to your advantage 🙌

09/25/2025

GM Insights: What Your Blood Sugar’s Really Saying 👀📉

Wearing a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) is like having a metabolic superpower — you get real-time feedback on how your body responds to your food, movement, stress, and sleep.⁠
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✨ That “healthy” smoothie? 🚨 Spike.
✨ Post-lunch walk? 🙌 Game changer.
✨ Late night snacking? 👎 Metabolic curveball.⁠
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We’re using CGMs with our patients to help decode cravings, energy crashes, and fatigue. It’s not about perfection — it’s about personalization.⁠ When you know how your body responds, you stop guessing and start optimizing — meals, movement, sleep, and stress all start working with you.
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💬 Ever worn a CGM? What surprised you most?

09/15/2025

Behind the Scenes: This Is Where the Magic Happens 💪✨
We’re not just talking about health — we’re living it. ⁠
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Whether it’s early morning runs, strength training between patients, or just moving to clear the mind — muscle is your metabolic BFF.⁠
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Why? Because muscle:
🔥 Improves insulin sensitivity
⚡️ Increases metabolic rate
🛡 Supports hormones, mood & longevity
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Strong bodies. Strong medicine. Strong community. 💯

07/11/2025

📈 A Day in the Life of CGM’ing
Here’s what Sarah’s glucose looked like on July 5th — and it tells a powerful story about fueling, movement, and recovery.
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🍳 Morning? I started with a balanced egg-based breakfast — steady and strong.
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🍪 The first big spike? That was a couple of my homemade oatmeal cookies after a protein-rich lunch — real food, whole grain, still a spike! I am very sensitive to carbohydrates after gestational diabetes (but MUCH better and quicker recovery than I used to have!)
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🏃‍♀️ Then came a long, sweaty run… cue the metabolic zigzags as my body worked hard to fuel endurance. It was a very hot day and I’m using my CGM to guide my fueling (Aliyah & I are training for a half marathon in the fall!)
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🔥 Evening spike? That’s from a hot sauna session — yep, your glucose can rise with heat, stress, or intensity, and that can actually be a sign of resilience.
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👉 This is why we love CGMs. Not every spike is bad. When you understand why it’s happening, you can support your metabolism with confidence instead of fear.

Also knowing where I started and how far I’ve come is really motivating.
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Curious about how your day-to-day is impacting your hormones, hunger, and health?

📥 DM us “BOSS” to learn about our Blood Sugar Boss 💪 Group Treatment Program
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06/24/2025

One of our participants from the last group put her morning smoothie to the test — same person, totally different blood sugar response. This is what our Blood Sugar Program is all about 👇

Using a continuous glucose monitor (CGM), her original smoothie spiked blood sugar to 11.7 mmol/L 😱

So what did she do?
She tweaked the ingredients and ate it in a bowl with a spoon (yep, that small change matters!). The result? Blood sugar stayed super stable — less than 1 mmol/L difference 🔥

📊 Personalized data. Simple swaps. Big wins.

Every body is different, and that’s exactly why our program focuses on your unique responses.

Curious what your smoothie is doing to your blood sugar? Join on of our upcoming Blood Sugar Boss Groups (if you’re in Ontario!) Link in bio.

02/26/2025

Sow Health Updates: Metabolic Health, New products, Services & Fees

09/27/2023

Welcome Becky, our New RMT! We have 3 Fall sessions for our Be a Blood Sugar Boss Program - use your benefits & feel great before the New Year! - https://mailchi.mp/d8d7db17f115/welcome-baby-owen-new-branding-clinic-10374610

07/19/2023

Sow Health Summer Updates & Vacation Notice https://mailchi.mp/6a49600d5660/welcome-baby-owen-new-branding-clinic-10364797

05/11/2023

Sow Health Updates: Be a Blood Sugar Boss & Chiropractor Hours

09/29/2022

Sow Health Updates: Introducing our new Chiropractor & more! -

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