Realistic Wellness by Shauna
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Tiny Health Gut Test Experience, Akkermansia, & Healing My Rosacea
If you have been around for a while, you know I started this blog talking about my experience developing rosacea, and acid reflux after I got covid in 2022. The progression was slow, but essentially after I got covid in 2022, I started having gut issues. It started with a full WEEK of bloating, no…
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Eating for Injury Recovery: Nutrition Tips for Nerves, Muscles, and Bones
Learn how to eat for injury recovery with anti-inflammatory foods, protein, and key vitamins. Support nerve, muscle, and bone healing with fish-free, rosacea-friendly nutrition strategies.
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Creatine and Sensitive Systems: What to Know if You Have Reflux, Rosacea, or Cold Sores
Creatine is buzzing all around the internet right now, from every direction. I swear I can’t go online and not see someone pushing creatine on consumers and trying to sell you their brand of “the best creatine on the market”. But is creatine necessary and useful for everyone? What about those with sensitive guts, leaky…
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How I Prevent Cold Sores Naturally: My Top Tips That Actually Work
Hey everyone! Welcome back! Or welcome if you are new. My name is Shauna and Im studying to be a naturopath and barre instructor. I am passionate about holistic health and using nutrition to heal my reflux and rosacea so if you like learning about realistic wellness, I am glad you are here! Today’s topic…
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My Fave Healthy Products
One of my passions in life is to research and seek out the healthiest food and health products to share them with others. I have developed my own standards of what healthy means since starting my journey into wellness in 2012 and have found many amazing brands! I know it can be hard to know…
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Relief in sight! Rosacea healing update
This one’s a bit long, so grab a snack. This has been a long and strenuous process…but I have FINALLY found some relief and some progress in my rosacea healing journey! It started a little over a month ago, when I came across some YouTube videos (while I was endlessly googling ways to heal my…
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Levels plant protein: Their best kept secret
Recently, I have started using a new protein powder from a brand that I found while in a deep google search for CLEAN ingredient plant protein. It was a task, let me tell you! There are SO MANY protein brands out there. A lot have the exact same ingredients, but wayyyyy different price tags. Not…
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GERD is the Word- My new life with acid reflux
If you have surfin’ bird stuck in your head after reading that… my work here is done! I had GERD thrust apon me back in December of 2023. Around thanksgiving last year I randomly got heartburn and I just took an antacid and it went away. I thought maybe it was from drinking too much…
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Best online trainers that are not just a copy of everyone else
I was dead asleep when the idea to write this popped into my head. The words were literally filling my brain and lucky for me my alarm went off, so I had to get up and write it down. I’m what you might call a connoisseur of online workouts. I get bored of the same…
