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Michael Edson, MS, LAc
Michael Edson, MS, LAc is a co-founder and president of Natural Eye Care, Inc. He is co-author of Natural Eye Care: A Comprehensive Manual for Practitioners of Oriental Medicine and Natural Eye Care: Your Guide to Healthy Vision and Healing. His latest book is Natural Parkinson’s Support: Your Guide to Preventing & Managing Parkinson’s. His ...
Xylooligosaccharides: The Low-dose Prebiotic
Dietary prebiotics are typically fiber compounds that human beings cannot digest. However, prebiotics can be digested by the friendly probiotic bacteria that reside in our gut, nourishing them, stimulating their growth or activity and helping them to colonize the large intestine.1 In the world of dietary supplements, there are several prebiotics from which to choose—perhaps ...
Silver: Detailing the Health Benefits and the Science Behind It
When the average person thinks of silver, it is not likely that the first thing that comes to mind is that it may be good for your health. Silver has been used for centuries for its medicinal properties, dating back to the ancient Romans, Greeks, Egyptians and Phoenicians. Silver is an element that is found ...
Ovaries and Intestines Have Taste Receptors?
Truth can be stranger than fiction. This is one of those moments. Everyone knows that we have taste “buds” in our mouths. These are actual taste receptor proteins, and though discovered in the early 2000s, we now also know that they exist outside of the oral cavity. Here is where it gets weird. We have ...
Pushing Mindful Limits
Improved cognitive abilities are more sought after now than ever. Here’s how to ensure clients/patients protect their mindful abilities. In the 2011 film “Limitless,” the main character finds out what it is like to use 100 percent of his brain capacity by taking an unapproved new drug dubbed NZT. Instantly, he goes from down-and-out struggling ...
Envision Eye Health
Digital devices may cause damage to the eyes, but the latest natural products and supplements can help practitioners ease their patients’ worries. As one of the five senses, the gift of sight is often chosen in polls as the sense that people would least likely want to give up. Unfortunately for some, they aren’t given ...
Settling Your Stomach
Digestive health can be achieved through dietary changes and supplements. Digestive disorders encompass a wide range of both chronic and acute conditions, but one common factor unites all of them: when a digestive issue strikes, that is a recipe for misery, as it can impact one’s daily life. Digestive complaints account for 8 million visits ...
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