Dr Mark Sanders, ND - Trinity Wellness Center

11/21/2025

As you prepare for holiday travel 🧳 🦃, what snacks are you packing while you wait at the airport?
For those who are flying, we wish you a delay-free journey. ✈️
For those who are driving, like us, we wish you a safe trip, with deer remaining on their side of the road, fair weather, and an uneventful drive. 🚘

In TODAY.com's Expert Tip of the Day, cardiologists reveal which airport foods they avoid and which healthy foods to eat instead when your flight is delayed or canceled.

11/19/2025

Have you ever considered that the personal care products you use on your skin and hair are of paramount importance? Did you realize that if these products may contain toxic chemicals, these can be detected in your urine: Phthalates, Parabens, Oxybenzone (BP-3), Bisphenol A (BPA).

Women who selectively purchase personal care products based on their ingredients were successfully able to lower their exposures to several chemicals associated with health risks.

11/19/2025

Conversations regarding menstruation and pregnancy risk rarely take place, leaving many adolescents unprepared and perpetuating fear, shame, and misinformation. There is a need to place greater emphasis on the experience of menarche through comprehensive early puberty education, ensuring that all young adolescents have access to this information.

Conversations about menstruation and pregnancy risk rarely occur, leaving many adolescents unprepared and reinforcing fear, shame, and misinformation.

11/18/2025

Hand drum meditation combines rhythmic percussion with mindfulness. The repetitive, steady beat helps entrain the brain into a relaxed state, making it an effective wellness practice.

🧘‍♂️ Health Benefits
• Stress Reduction
Rhythmic beats can slow heart rate, deepen breathing, and reduce cortisol levels, helping the body exit “fight or flight.”

• Nervous System Regulation
The vibration and rhythm stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system, supporting calm, balance, and emotional stability.

• Improved Focus & Cognitive Function
Repetitive drumming can enhance concentration, mental clarity, and even problem-solving by engaging both hemispheres of the brain.

• Emotional Release & Mood Support
Drumming can help release stored tension and emotions, increasing endorphins and producing a “feel-good” effect.

• Mind-Body Connection
The hands-on nature of drumming encourages presence, coordination, and embodied awareness.

• Breath Regulation
People naturally begin to breathe in time with rhythm, improving oxygen flow and relaxation.

• Community & Connection
Group drumming boosts connection, reduces loneliness, and offers social support—important for overall wellbeing.

Sharing this serene moment with you. A grounding sound meditation to help you release everything that doesn’t serve you anymore. Immerse yourself in the soun...

11/17/2025

🧠✨ Ever notice how your best ideas pop up while folding laundry, washing dishes, or just zoning out? That’s no coincidence! When your body goes on autopilot, your brain starts making fresh connections—solving problems and sparking creativity.

Many of the connections, I’ve made between various symptoms and diagnosis; and bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites have been made washing dishes or waking up at 3 in the morning.

Turns out, boredom isn’t the enemy—it’s a secret weapon. 💡

Discover how spacing out can fuel your imagination with insights from Manoush Zomorodi.

Do you sometimes have your most creative ideas while folding laundry, washing dishes or doing nothing in particular? It's because when your body goes on autopilot, your brain gets busy forming new neural connections that connect ideas and solve problems. Learn to love being bored as Manoush Zomorodi...

11/13/2025

🌍 World Kindness Day 💙
Today, let’s celebrate the healing power of kindness — not just for others, but for ourselves too.
🧠 Kindness boosts mental health
A simple act of compassion can reduce stress, anxiety, and even lower blood pressure.
💪 Kindness strengthens physical health
Helping others releases feel-good hormones like oxytocin, which supports heart health and immune function.
💬 Kindness is contagious
One kind gesture can ripple through communities, creating a culture of care and connection.
✨ Be kind to your body, your mind, and those around you.
Whether it’s a smile, a supportive word, or a moment of self-care — kindness is a prescription we all benefit from.

11/13/2025

Have you ever witnessed or experienced just a large sound bowl? Wow!! Check out this post.

11/12/2025

My name is Mark, and I was proud to be the for my mother-in-law along with my wife. So grateful fo my mother and sister and brother who cared for my Dad.

November is , and I'm celebrating by showing my solidarity as a former✨caregiver✨.

More than 53 million family caregivers provide unpaid care. Being a is perhaps one of the most rewarding jobs someone can have. If you're a , I'm here to tell you that you are not alone, you are loved, and this month we're celebrating you!

Resources below👇

11/12/2025

Kevin Curry, a food influencer is the founder of Fit Men Cook, a fitness and food community that offers meal prepping tips and healthy, budget-friendly recipes. and former SNAP recipient, provides information on where SNAP recipients can access the latest updates on their benefits and how individuals can locate free or affordable food options.

Kevin Curry, a food influencer and a former SNAP recipient, explains where SNAP recipients can get the most up-to-date information on their benefits, and how anyone can find free or affordable food.

11/11/2025

This Veterans Day, we honor not only the visible sacrifices of our service members but also the invisible battles many continue to face. Mental health conditions like PTSD, depression, and anxiety are often unseen but deeply impactful. For countless veterans, these invisible illnesses are part of their daily reality—deserving of compassion, understanding, and support.
Let us stand together in recognizing that healing is not always visible, and strength comes in many forms. By fostering open conversations, reducing stigma, and ensuring access to care, we can help our veterans feel truly seen and supported. Today and every day, we thank them for their service—and we commit to walking beside them in their journey toward wellness.

11/10/2025

My wife just shared with me a notice that was circulating in her department at work.

The FDA and CDC are investigating whether infant botulism cases are connected to ByHeart infant formula.

11/09/2025

🚨 Workplace Reality Check 🚨
A new study from Yale School of Public Health shows that life after the pandemic isn’t quite “business as usual.” Even though the emergency is over, the impact of COVID‑19 on the labor market is still very real.

I had hoped that we had learned to stay home when we are not feeling well but alas…

📊 Some key take-aways:
• Monthly health-related work absences in 2024 averaged ~1.07 million employees—the same level we used to see in peak flu months.
• Across the post-pandemic period, absences were 12.9% higher and job exits were 13.1% higher than pre-pandemic.
• The hardest hit? Workers who can’t work remotely and those whose jobs require close proximity to others. Absences were 8.1% higher for jobs unlikely to be done from home, and 12.5% higher when workers must be physically close to coworkers.

🔍 Why this matters:
This isn’t just about “people staying home sick.” It’s about how lingering COVID-19 effects, workplace exposure, and our work environments are influencing the labor force, and by extension, all of us who rely on it—to show up, deliver, provide services.

💬 Let’s start the conversation:
Employers: How is your workplace adapting to this “new normal”?
Employees: Have you noticed increased absences at your workplace? What’s the culture around sick leave and coming in while under the weather?

👥 Please share if you’re seeing this play out in your workplace or would like to raise awareness.

Well after the United States government declared the pandemic emergency over, COVID-19 continued to cause about the same number of monthly work absences