It can be easy to get caught up in the businesses of life. Working long hours, keeping up with cleaning and maintenance duties around the house, trying to pack in fun activities with friends and family - all these life pursuits can add up and make it hard to get...
Diet and Mental Health: Can What You Eat Affect Your Brain?
Your brain never catches a break. It's always on, always working to keep you alive and functioning the right way. Even when you're asleep, your brain works double time. And all of this work requires some kind of fuel, right? Food is that fuel. And just like with your car,...
Age Management Medicine (AMM): Background, Description, and Definition
The growing population of people aging (thanks to the millions of baby boomers and Generation X’ers following them) have somewhat altered what we used to know as “the golden years”. These generations have no intention of slowing down once they reach the age of 65! Of course, the field of...
Vitamin D and Its Benefits for Sunburn and Other Conditions
We all know that sunlight is an excellent source of vitamin D, and while that’s good, excessive exposure can cause sunburn which can be really painful. Ironically, a new study shows that high doses of Vitamin D can also ease sunburn – reducing redness and inflammation! What did the study...
Natural Ways to Fight Antibiotic Resistance
Prevention is the key to keeping a healthy immune system and avoiding flu and many other diseases. This is especially important with the increasing concern over a growing serious health threat which is antibiotic resistance. A recently published paper in the US showed that friendly microbes in the intestinal tracts...
How Turmeric Can Help You Avoid Hereditary Conditions
Are you worried about cancer, diabetes, or heart disease that runs in your family? Were you told by someone that you cannot avoid these illnesses because they are in your genes? Well, don’t believe it! While it has been believed for so long that your genes dictate your health; your...
Detoxify Your Lymphatic System with Exercise
How much do you know about your lymphatic system? If you are like most people, then your answer would probably be "not much". Your lymphatic system is made up of a network of vessels carrying lymph, which is a clear fluid that carries nutrients to the cells and delivers cellular...
How You Can Teach Your Kids to Eat Healthier
If you are a parent, grandparent, uncle or aunt, then you probably already know how difficult it is to get kids to eat healthy food. The toxic food environment that we have today does not help matters at all. Does that mean you should just give up? Not at all!...
How a Low Fibre Diet Can Cause Irreversible Damage to Gut Bacteria
For many years, humans have thrived on a diet that is made up of plant-based fibre and healthy amounts of protein and fats. However, due to fast-paced industrialization as well as the popularity of fast foods, our consumption of fibre has plummeted. A study from Stanford University School of Medicine...
Why You Should Get More Magnesium
Did you know that magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral found in the body? It also activates more than 250 biochemical processes in the body to keep things going well. Yet most people do not fully appreciate how important this miraculous mineral is. We know that you want to...