Joint pain, low energy, and muscle loss are often treated as three separate problems, each with its own explanation and its own fix. Research on aging suggests they share the …
Three Generations, One Habit: Supporting the Whole Household Through Back-to-School Season
The school-year routine touches more than one generation. A grandparent picking up carpool duty a few mornings a week, a parent packing lunches and managing homework schedules, and a child …
The Quiet Workhorse: How Glutamine Keeps Your Gut and Body Running
Every system in the body has a preferred fuel. The brain runs on glucose. The heart favors fatty acids. The gut, one of the body’s most metabolically active tissues relative …
Ascorbates (Vitamins C) and the C Cleanse
The story of vitamin C goes back to the 18th century to a time when people aboard ships were at sea for periods of time longer than vegetables and fruits …
More than a third of American adults don’t get enough sleep
If you feel like you aren’t getting enough sleep at night just know that you are not alone. Whether it’s stress from work, raising a family, problems at home, medical …
Get the Lead Out…Safely & Naturally
Lead is a heavy, toxic mineral. After decades of documenting how harmful lead can be even in tiny amounts, there is renewed interest in what to do to avoid such …
Magnesium- The Wonder Mineral
Magnesium may be our most important and most necessary nutrient. The World Health Organization says, “Low magnesium status has been implicated in hypertension, coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus and …
Foods do affect body chemistry
Evidence presented here confirms that foods that we eat impact our body’s pH balance, also known as the acid/alkaline status or acid/base state. Click here to download a PDF of …
Bitter Sweet Chocolate!
Toxic metals like lead and cadmium have no place in foods yet we see plenty published research showing high levels of these and other toxic metals in what we eat. …
Heart Health Month
According to the Heart Foundation, nearly 80 million Americans currently suffer from some type of cardiovascular disease. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women …