Articles by Joy Choquette
Blood Sugar & Metabolic Health: What’s Next?
Lifestyle changes and natural supplements may help improve blood sugar and metabolic health. When thinking of preventing heart disease, many people aren’t automatically considering metabolic health. In fact, most people aren’t aware of what metabolic syndrome even is. This is a cluster of risk factors for cardiovascular disease. According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, the cluster ...
Growing Older Gracefully
How the healthy aging marketplace is faring post-pandemic and what new trends are emerging. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), by 2030, one in six people will be over age 60. This means that the population for this demographic will increase from 1 billion in 2020 to 1.4 billion. And by 2050, said WHO, ...
Strengthening Immune Health
Which products and lifestyle changes may best support a healthy immune system? It starts as a tickle in the throat. Then a few sneezes. Before long, a full-blown cold, flu or another virus has incapacitated an otherwise healthy individual. What gives? Immune health is key to overall health and affects many other systems in the ...
“What’s in That?”
Tips, techniques and products to help your patients/clients navigate the tricky world of food allergies and intolerances. Approximately 20 million people were living in the U.S. with food allergies as of 2021, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA). This number has risen steadily in children over the past 20 years. While ...
Trusting Your Gut: Digestion and the Microbiome
What’s most important to know now? Gas, heartburn and constipation are just a few of the most common digestive problems Americans suffer from today. Historically, understanding digestive issues like irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), leaky gut and Crohn’s disease was paltry. Even the understanding of what caused common issues such as bloating was limited. Today, however, ...
Don’t Wait for Heartbreak: Preventing or Reversing Cardiovascular Disease
How can individuals best protect their hearts now? Wearing your heart on your sleeve. Hard-hearted. A heavy heart. In English, we have a lot of terms to describe the state of our emotional hearts. More importantly, though, is to consider the health of our physical hearts. Then words like palpitations, myocardium and pulmonary valve take ...
Pre-, Pro- and Postbiotics: The Benefits on Health
Beyond digestive health, what do natural practitioners recommend biotics for? Though probiotics have been around since ancient times, they only began to gain popularity approximately 150 years ago. And since the 1990s, these “good bacteria” have garnered increased interest. While much is known about the benefits of pre-, pro- and postbiotics when it comes to ...
Stress and Relaxation: Intersections and Information
What are natural health practitioners and manufacturers seeing now related to stress and relaxation in the U.S.? Stress. The word means many different things to different people. Among its many definitions, stress is defined in Merriam-Webster as, “to cause or experience physical or emotional tension.” That clearly sums up how many around the world are ...
Whole Child Health
Innovation, information and integration for children’s health. Whether the mom or dad of a new baby or seasoned pros of teenagers, parents have a lot of questions about the health of their children. “Is this normal?” and “At what age should my child do this?” are common questions floating around pediatricians’ offices. Natural practitioners want ...
What’s on Your Mind? Options to Improve Cognitive Health
How to prevent and repair cognitive decline in adults. You walk into a room only to forget what you went to get. Immediately, your mind rushes to worst-case scenarios. Is it Alzheimer’s disease? Dementia? Though statistics point out that cognitive decline is on the rise—it affects just over 11 percent of adults in the U.S.—it’s ...
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