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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 ...
Marc Grossman, OD, LAc
Marc Grossman, OD, LAc, is a leading holistic optometrist in practice since 1980. Internationally respected, he has taught many hundreds of practitioners and physicians in his methods. An influential pioneer, practitioner and teacher in natural and integrative eye care, Dr. Grossman is in the forefront of the holistic vision care movement and the mind-body connection. ...
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, ...
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