Dr. Amita Sachdev ND

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Dr. Amita Sachdev ND

Dr. Sachdev ND provides Family Health and Cancer Support using Naturopathic Medicine in Vaughan at N

12/02/2025

Your body doesn’t follow the holiday calendar.

It doesn’t wait for Dry January.

It simply responds to the love, food, and movement you give it - daily.

Eat well, lift, repeat.

11/11/2025

✨ Clean Scents, Clear Conscience ✨

That cozy scented candle or plug-in fragrance might smell amazing… but most are filled with synthetic chemicals that release toxins like phthalates and formaldehyde—linked to hormone disruption, headaches, poor air quality, and more.

🌿 Try this instead:

Diffuse pure essential oils or simmer herbs like rosemary, lavender, cinnamon, or citrus peel. They cleanse the air, lift your mood, and support your health—naturally.

Your home should smell good and do good.

Your lungs and hormones will thank you for breathing cleaner air. 💚

09/17/2025

🌿 Why the Mediterranean Diet Stands Out 🌿

The Mediterranean diet isn’t just a “trend” — it’s one of the most researched and consistently supported eating patterns in modern medicine. Rooted in traditional foods from countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea, it emphasizes:

✅ Vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, and nuts
✅ Olive oil as the main source of fat
✅ Moderate intake of fish and poultry
✅ Limited red meat and processed foods

📊 Evidence-Based Benefits
Decades of high-quality research, including large clinical trials and meta-analyses, show that the Mediterranean diet can:

• Heart Health: Reduce risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, and heart attacks (PREDIMED trial, NEJM 2013).
• Metabolic Health: Improve insulin sensitivity, lower HbA1c, and support weight management in those with type 2 diabetes.
• Brain Health: Protect against cognitive decline and lower the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
• Liver Support: Associated with reduced risk of fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
• Longevity: Linked with lower all-cause mortality in long-term population studies.

⚖️ Why It Works
The Mediterranean diet is not restrictive — it’s balanced, nutrient-dense, anti-inflammatory, and sustainable for the long term. The synergy of its foods supports healthy cholesterol levels, blood sugar balance, gut microbiome diversity, and overall vitality.

🌎 Bottom Line
When it comes to an evidence-based approach to nutrition, the Mediterranean diet continues to be one of the most reliable and protective patterns — not only for chronic disease prevention but also for overall quality of life.

08/22/2025

As summer comes to an end, another school year begins. Filled with new dreams, possibilities, and opportunities for students, moms and dads.

For some it means a jump into the bustle of drops offs, pick ups, extracurricular activities, and helping with homework. For others it means saying goodbye to your grown up kids as they head off to become the best versions of themselves through higher education.

Since I fall into the latter, that means more time for me to do the things I love and more time to dedicate to my practice.

That’s why I’m excited to be at NatCan Weight Loss & Skin Clinic as well as NatCan Integrative Medical & Wellness Centre.

Here to meet all of your health care needs Monday through Saturday.

Hope to meet you here. ❤️

07/25/2025

It’s all rainbows and unicorns 💘

06/29/2025

Feeling on top of the world tonight 🥰

06/24/2025

😋 Can you just taste this mouth watering Mediterranean chickpea salad? 🥗

06/07/2025

Celebrating this beautiful woman inside and out, through thick and thin! 😘
Happy Birthday and “Stin Eya Sou”! 🥂

05/23/2025

There’s a trend I find deeply disturbing: serious, adult stories told by AI babies — trauma turned into a punchline, abuse wrapped in cuteness, injustice made “adorable.” It may seem harmless or even funny, but it’s not.

🧸 Infantilizing real narratives doesn’t heal them — it hides them.

🎭 It dulls our empathy. It rewrites pain as parody.

🧼 It sanitizes discomfort so we can scroll without feeling too much.

Real pain is being softened, filtered, and dressed in diapers so it’s easier for others to digest — and dismiss.

We are being taught to laugh at what should stop us in our tracks.

We are being desensitized, one reel at a time.

📉 What happens when pain no longer registers as pain?

When real issues or abuse sounds like a bedtime story, when dysfunction is served with giggles, we risk:

Minimizing the depth of real experiences

Teaching victims that their pain needs to be palatable to be believed

Creating emotional numbness for the sake of “engagement”

🧠

And this goes deeper…

In relationships, this same mindset plays out in another disturbing way: infantilizing women.

When men treat their partners like delicate little girls — not full, equal adults — it’s not care, it’s control in disguise.

🎭 Infantilization says:

“Let me handle that, you’re too emotional.”

“You’re too cute when you try to be serious.”

“You don’t really understand how things work.”

It creates power imbalances that look like love but feel like dismissal.

It erodes trust, silences voices, and reinforces control disguised as protection.

👩🏻‍🏫

But, I’m not a baby.

My story — your story — deserves to be heard in a voice that doesn’t need to be softened to be believed.

Let’s stop wrapping wounds in cuteness.

Let’s stop making oppression “aesthetic.”

Let’s stop teaching the world to laugh at what should make us pause.

Let’s speak plainly — and let that be enough.

It’s not funny. It’s not harmless.

It’s dangerous.

04/30/2025

April never ceases to be filled with magical blooms ✨

04/20/2025

Happy Easter! 🐣

03/08/2025

Happy International Women’s Day! ✨

To all the women who are our bright shining light 🌟

Address

NatCan Integrative Medical & Wellness Centre/IV Lounge
Vaughan, ON
L4H4J9

Website

http://www.DrSachdevND.com/

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