Arcanum Wholistic Clinic

August Newsletter

Healthy Fats for Healthy Fertility

Are you getting enough healthy fats? They’re essential for fertility, and for your health in general. And don’t forget – good fats are not what make you fat. Sugar and carbs do.

Healthy fats are essential for regulating fertility hormones, menstruation, and the timing of ovulation. They increase cervical mucus which helps mobilize sperm when it’s time to meet the egg.

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Trauma Bonded In Canada: Healing Beyond the Margins (Short Stories)

Allyson McQuinn, DMH, JAOH has done it again! This is book number twenty five! Writing in a completely different genre in literature, McQuinn furnishes the reader with short story vignettes of the traumas she experienced in Canada. The first story begins in a school yard marred by violence just outside Montreal, Quebec, all the way up to being a practitioner of natural medicine in Ontario and being forced out of the province if she didn’t comply with the government condoned College of Homeopaths...



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Dear ,

This month, we’re talking about FAT.  Fat on one’s body, how to use fat to become more metabolically sound, and what healthy fats are best to make a baby. The vegans should probably dodge reading this one entirely.

Ally tells a story about how she suffered under the weight of the past, for many years, and how she finally took off 43 lbs of fat while eating organ meat, salmon, tallow, butter, and eggs only. She even ditched all fruit and vegetables for several months as her glycemic index kept getting unwanted jolts from these seemingly innocuous and healthy foods.

The 2nd article is about conception and how fats play a super key role in being able to conceive a healthy baby.  Which fats should you increase?  Jeff will tell you in his article titled, Healthy Fats for Healthy Fertility.

We hope you have a wonderful end of summer at the cottage or camping, or whatever brings you and your family pleasure, as the light and warmth of summer starts to ebb.  We will be in Canada for a few months visiting our families and Ally will be whooping it up for her 60th birthday in early August.  

She gifted herself with presents she chose from local and further away artist friends/patients to celebrate this milestone.  Her hope is that there will be a lobster party with friends and family as she knows that Diane is editing this Newsletter and might have a hand in orchestrating such a gig!  Sneaky huh?!

Love,

Ally and Jeff

Fat, And Not So Happy

Last Saturday night, Jeff and I went to see a piano concert at one of the local museums we often frequent. As we walked in, a couple of our expat acquaintances greeted us from their seats. After the pleasantries were over, the woman proceeded to state just how great Jeff and I were looking. At first, I didn’t really know what she was referring to until she went on, “You two have lost so much weight. You have to tell me how you did it as no matter what I do, I just seem to gain.” I let her know that it wasn’t easy, but that I went on a strict keto diet under the guidance of a local expat, Mary Beauchamp, who resides here in Guanajuato, Mexico.  

The woman went on to exclaim, “Oh, that would never work for us, we don’t ever eat meat.” I let go of that conversation and looked over at the man sitting beside her, who I’ve met countless times, at a variety of other venues. 



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