Are We Cleansing?

Everywhere you turn you will see products, diets and therapies that are all designed to cleanse your body from the inside out which sounds amazing. The negative side to this is that it encourages us to force-cleanse our bodies all the time, every day. We are brainwashed into believing our body doesn't do this on its own when actually it is happening just about every night for a period of time ... gently, easily and effectively. It's what my grandmother used to say about cleaning the house ... do a little every day and it will never build up.

Detox SolutionsKaren ClicknerJuly 20, 2025

Cellular Senescence

The secret to slowing your aging process is something your cells understand all too well. It’s called cellular senescence and it’s now the most sought-after natural process available. It’s the fastest-growing solution for chronic symptoms and illness that our clinic has seen since we opened in 1997.

A New View of Detoxification

Why do the effects of a cleanse never last? We may feel better, especially while doing it, but then when we stop our cleanse and return to our “normal” life, our symptoms return over time. This is because we have forgotten just how toxicity accumulates and how our bodies get rid of it.

Detox Solutions, Living A Balanced LifeKaren ClicknerSeptember 1, 2024

Is There Nothing Left That Doesn't Use a Battery?

Over the past couple of years I have been spending more time with my friend's children. It reminds me of my grandfather's stories about walking 400 miles to school each day through the snow in the same pair of shoes for 18 years. What brings up those reminiscences are the sheer tsunami-size flood of toys that require batteries.

A Drop of the Creature

Many years ago I had the most wonderful old salty client. His name was Tom and he was a grizzly old Irish guy from Southie. He used to swear that a drop of the creature (a bit of imbibing) was the cure for every ill.

Are We Filtering Ourselves to Death?

Recently I was having a discussion with my brother in law, who is quite a brain may I say, and he pointed out to me that in preparing his recent documentary film on traffic congestion in cities, he had realized that the more we have filtered the exhaust from cars, the more insidious and widespread allergies and other breathing disorders have become. Now I have to say that my immediate thought was "Are you crazy!", but then I got thinking and you know what, he's right.

Change the Oil

So I was on Nantucket visiting my friend Karen and she was telling me how she and her husband had developed a mad craving for mangoes and were able to get some luscious ones, leading to the consumption of three cases of these delectable fruits. Then came the rash that looked exactly like poison ivy.

Do You Really Believe That You Can Heal?

We all have a history - a place from where our bodies have come along with our hearts and our soul. Little do we realize how much that history carries forward with us into our future, how much our future is determined by the way in which we have emerged from our past.

Detox Solutions, Healthy Short Subjects, The History of HealingKaren ClicknerMarch 8, 2010

The Herbal Advisor Magazine is the research and information by Certified Clinical Herbalist Karen S. Clickner, with 35 years of experience through her clinical history in Massachusetts.