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Plant-based Protein: Beyond the Vegetables
Right now, the nutrition industry is seeing a shift in trends, with more and more products on the market and in the pipeline that are touting the benefits of plant-based protein. This boom in product development and marketing is due, in part, to the significant amount of research that has come out in recent years ...
French Grape & Wild Blueberry Extracts to Enhance Memory and Learning Capacity
Dietary supplements marketed as cognitive enhancers generally fall into two primary categories: those that enhance memory in aging adults with cognitive decline, and those positioned as nootropics—supplements that improve one or more aspects of cognitive function in healthy people of different age groups, including students. Often, research on nutraceuticals used in either type of supplement ...
A Gut Check on Probiotics and Enzymes
Probiotics and enzymes are versatile, as they address gut health and general wellness. Every person has bacteria in his or her body. Some bacteria are, of course, harmful, but others are helpful. To balance the gut, many people take probiotics, which are live bacteria that are particularly beneficial to the digestive system by improving one’s ...
Cardiovascular Concerns
Heart-related issues are omnipresent, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be treated in practical ways. From its meaning alone, when one hears cardiovascular health, which signifies health surrounding the heart and blood vessels, the impact that it can have on one’s life is implied. The American Heart Association notes that cardiovascular disease (CVD), a disease ...
Defining Healthy Aging
Every patient/client can benefit now—and later—by being coached to take their unique aging concerns into account. Here’s a conundrum: when it comes to healthy aging, what is the more accurate description—slowing down or speeding up? Slowing down infers biological systems becoming sluggish and winking out, while speeding up infers hastening life to its end. So, ...
Lessons From 45 Years: 8 Tips to Thrive as a Healer
I started medical school in 1972. But my time as a healer truly began in 1975, after I came down with postviral CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) and fibromyalgia. This forced me to drop out of medical school and left me homeless, sleeping in parks. It was during this spiritual journey that I learned intimately about ...
Decrease Stress By Aligning Your Life So You Don’t Have to Think as Much
My dad always told me if you love what you do, you’ll never have to work a day in your life. Expand this concept to the people you’re with, hobbies and overall health routines, and we realize we’re only as strong as our weakest link. We only have a finite amount of physical energy throughout ...
Phosphatidylserine: A Nutraceutical for Mental Performance, Mood and Stress
Given the title of this article, it may be your impression that I am positioning phosphatidylserine (PS) as a “brain nutrient.” If so, you are correct. The fact is that this phospholipid is an integral component in the structure of the brain and spinal cord, and is active at cell membranes (including synaptic membranes which ...
Probiotics: What is the Most Effective Way to Incorporate Them Into Your Diet?
Over the past few years, we have been hearing more and more about the benefits of probiotics, with specialists finding that they are essential for good gut health and much more. While there is no doubt that probiotics offer a variety of benefits to our health and wellbeing, it can be confusing to figure out ...
What’s My Age Again?
The secret to healthy aging does not lie in one solution. Rather, it takes a combination of lifestyle changes and natural products to reach that goal. What exactly does a topic like healthy aging encompass? In a nutshell, it includes ways in which one can feel youthful, both internally and externally. According to the National ...
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