The Cornerstone Blog
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Skin. The largest organ in and on your body, among the most important, and often the least appreciated! Not only does your skin act as guardian to your muscles and bones, it also regulates body...
Adjusted summer hours
It’s finally happening. After a particularly long and cold Nova Scotia winter, the sun has emerged on the East Coast and with it comes warmth, green, and a much broader catalogue of activities to...
You Don’t Need A Multivitamin; But You Might Need This Instead
Vitamins, the essentials of health, and the basis of a multi-million dollar industry. The increasing debate around whether supplemental vitamins are essential to health is heated. One side attests...
Cornerstone and Dr. Ben Connolly at the Atlantic Leadership Forum!
If you haven’t already heard the news, we’re excited to announce that Dr. Ben will be speaking at the 2017 Atlantic Leadership Forum on June 10th! The Atlantic Leadership Forum is hosted by Fusion...
7 Tips for Parenting Challenging Children
When I had my first child she was perfect. She travelled well, was open to new things and could sleep through beer tent music. We dragged her everywhere, patted ourselves on the back and decided...
Marijuana Edibles: Improving Quality of Life
More and more medical doctors recognise the benefit of cannabis for patients and are prescribing it as a therapy to their patients. The broad therapeutic range of cannabis means that patients often...
7 Conditions that Medical Marijuana can Help
Marijuana is an effective herbal medicine for many conditions. More and more it is being prescribed by doctors to help patients cope with disabling conditions. Unfortunately cannabis has been...
No Energy? 10 Things That Can Take You From Dreary to Dynamic!
Are you feeling tired? Do you find yourself dragging through your day? Do you need a boost but aren’t sure where to start? Here are some simple fixes that are easy to fit into your daily routine....
Four Tips to Manage Your Mental Health
We’re looking to talk about mental health and how the long, dark, cold winters of Nova Scotia impact it. Chances are, if you already deal with anxiety, stress, mental illness or depression during...
Detoxification: 6 Ways to Feel Lighter and Build Energy
Have you overindulged during the holidays? Feeling sluggish? Gained a little weight? Kickstarting the year with a detoxification protocol can help you feel better, drop a few extra pounds and...
Green Smoothies: Salad in a Cup
A few days ago a patient returned a book to Dr. Ben. Green for Life, a book by Victoria Boutenko, talks about how her family began to drink green smoothies as a way to increase their health. As...
Surgical incision wounds, and how to heal them
A surgical incision, when executed by an expert surgeon, is a precise and calculated maneuver designed to empower those involved in a procedure with access to critical components of the body....
