Welcome to Denver Naturopathic Clinic!

by Kelsey Asplin, ND in Denver Naturopathic Community, natural news, naturopathic medicine, real talk November 11, 2019

Hello and welcome to the Denver Naturopathic Clinic – where we believe in the potential of people. Outside of the day-to-day contact with our patients, we will be occasionally posting here about current healthcare trends, those aspects of wellness we’re personally focusing on, new (or new-ish, or not so new-ish but still good or at […]

Emotional Resilience: Staying Flexible When Life Doesn’t Go According to Plan

by Kelsey Asplin, ND in brain health, mental health October 27, 2026

Resilience Is Not the Same Thing as Being Unaffected I have mixed feelings about the word resilience. I love what it is supposed to represent: our remarkable human capacity to adapt when circumstances change, recover after difficulty, learn from experience, and continue moving forward when life looks nothing like the version we had planned. Somewhere […]

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The Tornado and the Garden: Nervous System Regulation in Cancer Care

by Dr. Michael Hummel in Cancer, mental health, stress October 20, 2026

There is a particular silence that follows a cancer diagnosis. It carries the weight of a life reorganized around a word that used to belong to someone else. The phone call, the biopsy, the “we’ll have results soon.” The weeks after. I have referred to this in the past as the tornado that accompanies initial […]

When Rest Stops Being Enough: Sleep, Burnout, and the Biology of Recovery

by Kelsey Asplin, ND in brain health, mental health, sleep health October 20, 2026

Sleep Is Not Just Time When You’re Not Doing Anything There is a particular kind of exhaustion that sleep fixes. You stay up too late, the baby wakes up six times, you travel across several time zones, or you have one of those nights when your brain decides that 2:13 a.m. would be an excellent […]

Nervous System Regulation: What It Actually Means to Feel Safe, Flexible, and Resilient

by Kelsey Asplin, ND in mental health October 13, 2026

Your Nervous System Was Never Supposed to Be Calm All the Time If you’ve spent any time in the wellness world lately, there is a reasonable chance someone has told you that you need to “regulate your nervous system.” Perhaps you’ve been encouraged to stimulate your vagus nerve, increase your heart rate variability, shake out […]

Mental Health, Anxiety, and the Nervous System: When the Brain That Drives You Also Wears You Out

by Kelsey Asplin, ND in mental health October 6, 2026

There are certain things about yourself that you don’t necessarily recognize as unusual until you’re old enough to realize that not everyone else’s brain works the same way. For me, one of those things has always been perfectionism. I was the student who wanted the assignment done correctly, but “correctly” wasn’t really enough. I wanted […]

Helping Your Brain Do What It Was Designed to Do

by Kelsey Asplin, ND in brain health September 22, 2026

As we wrap up this month’s conversation about brain health, I keep coming back to something I find myself saying to patients almost every day, although I don’t know that I’ve ever actually said it in quite these words. Your brain isn’t asking you to be perfect. It’s asking you to care for it. Those […]

When the Conversation Changes: What Brain Fog, Anxiety, Poor Focus, and Low Mood May Be Trying to Tell You

by Kelsey Asplin, ND in brain health, gut health September 15, 2026

Over the past two weeks we’ve spent quite a bit of time talking about communication. First, we explored the remarkable conversation taking place between the gut and the brain, and then we looked at the language that allows billions of neurons to exchange information every second of every day. We followed electrical impulses as they […]

The Brain’s Language: How Neurons, Neurotransmitters, and Your Biology Work Together

by Kelsey Asplin, ND in brain health, gut health September 8, 2026

Last week we introduced the idea that your gut and brain are in constant conversation, and we spent quite a bit of time talking about the gut-brain axis, the vagus nerve, the microbiome, and the many different pathways that allow organs sitting on opposite ends of the body to exchange information all day long. If […]

The Conversation You Never Knew Was Happening: How Your Gut and Brain Shape One Another

by Kelsey Asplin, ND in brain health, gut health September 1, 2026

If you followed along with us through August, you probably noticed that I kept bringing up the brain, even though we were supposedly talking about the gut. At the time, I may have seemed a little distracted, like someone who keeps wandering off topic halfway through a story. I promise there was a reason for […]

Building a Resilient Gut: Why Lasting Health Is About More Than Digestion

by Kelsey Asplin, ND in gut health August 25, 2026

Over the past month, we’ve taken a journey through one of the most remarkable systems in the human body. We began by exploring the digestive tract as the place where the outside world meets the inside of the body. Every meal, every sip of water, every medication, and every microorganism first encounters the lining of […]