Hello, I'm Dr. Leona, founder of Freedom Health Systems and author of A Journey to Healing: 5 Stages to Achieving More Freedom in Your Health and Your Life, and I am dedicated to helping you get your health and your life back.
In the modern age of fast-paced lifestyles and processed foods, a silent epidemic is quietly spreading across the globe: Metabolic Syndrome. Often undiagnosed and misunderstood, metabolic syndrome lurks beneath the surface, affecting millions of lives and increasing the risk of serious chronic conditions. In this post, we’ll dive into the depths of metabolic syndrome, uncovering
Check out my interview, “How Toxins Contribute to Weight Issues” on the podcast ‘Green Living with Tee.’ Tee guides you on how to reduce your exposure to toxicants and carcinogens that can contribute to cancer and other illnesses and helps you create a low-tox home to increase the odds of a long,
In episode 14 of The Heal Deal Podcast with Dr. Leona, we discussed why creating systems in your life can help you achieve success. Systems provide structure and purpose to your everyday activities, so it’s important to understand how they work and what benefits they can offer. We’ll discuss why having a system is important,
Whenever you take on a new journey, there are moments of when you will experience discouragement in the process. There’s overwhelm. There’s fear. There’s disappointment. There’s confusion. There’s moments when you will feel hopeless, and this is when you are ready give up. You become hard on yourself and start to sabotage your progress when
This post will be about how fasting works for healing and weight loss. I want you to have a better understanding of fasting, because from where I’m sitting, I have seen it done more wrong than right. I strongly believe the reason for that, is because many people don’t understand the true purpose of fasting,
Our bodies need to burn fat, not calories, in order to lose weight. If you have experienced the extreme disappointment you felt after following a low calorie diet, you are not alone. And I’ve been there myself. It doesn’t work. With calorie reduction, you are depriving your body of energy your body needs to survive.
For the past 30 years, conventional nutritional wisdom has recommended eating less and exercising more if you want to lose weight. In theory, this makes sense – burn more calories than you eat, and the pounds will come off. I wish it was that simple, but it’s not. To believe that weight is due to calories
Every January, you, along with millions of other Americans have made New Year’s resolutions to lose weight, get in shape, eat less sugar, go plant based, etc. This is the time of the year the internet will be inundated with the latest weight loss fads, gimmicks, and other misleading information. Before you get sucked into
Why do you want to lose weight? In order to make significant changes in our lives, such as losing weight, we need a strong, compelling “why”. Typically, the more intense the pain and suffering, the stronger our desire to change. When you compare two people with different motivations to stay healthy, one being someone that
Creativity helps keep you healthy! As children, we were more curious and inquisitive and that’s a part of learning; Somehow, as we go through life, we end up losing that creativity, and it’s replaced with conformity. We tend to lose that spark, forgetting how we used to color faces blue and the sun purple. It