LAURA HARDY WELLNESS

Lately, ferritin seems to keep finding its way into my conversations. I’m seeing it in practice, I’m paying closer attention to it on labs, and recently I’ve found myself navigating lower ferritin in my own body too. Which, naturally, sent me down a rabbit hole. Because the more I learn about ferritin, the more I realize that low ferritin isn’t necessarily as simple as saying, “You need more iron.” Ferritin gives us a glimpse into the iron the body has stored away in reserve. And when those...

Living on a farm, ticks are simply part of life. I've found them on dogs, goats, horses, my children, and occasionally myself. Most of the time, they're little more than a nuisance. A quick tick check. A pair of tweezers. Back to whatever we were doing. But every now and then, a tiny bite leads to much bigger questions. Questions about Lyme disease. Questions about strange symptoms that seem to appear weeks or months later. Questions about why one person recovers easily while another...

Some remedies appear when life becomes too much. Not because we're falling apart. Because we're holding everything together. For me, Nux vomica is not the remedy of weakness. It is the remedy of over-functioning. The remedy of pushing through exhaustion. Of answering one more email. Of staying up a little later. Of telling yourself you'll rest when things calm down. Except they rarely do. Nux appears in seasons of pressure. The deadlines. The responsibilities. The constant mental activity....