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The Role of Magnesium and Mood
Many people struggle with varying degrees of anxiety throughout their lives. Sometimes anxiety is acute, like the feeling you might get if you are running late for an important meeting. This type of anxiety typically resolves itself shortly. Other forms of anxiety can be longer-lasting and chronic, such as when coping with multiple stressors like ...
Cissus quadrangularis for Weight Loss, Heart Health and Metabolic Wellness
Nobody wants to be overweight. Aside from the obvious self-image issues, being overweight and obese is associated with various health issues including heart heath, and increased risk for metabolic syndrome/diabetes. Nevertheless, nearly one in three adults (30.7 percent) are overweight, more than two in five adults (42.4 percent) have obesity, and about one in 11 ...
Lorena Carboni, Scientific Communications Specialist, Gnosis by Lesaffre
With a master’s degree in pharmaceutical chemistry and technology, Lorena Carboni specializes in natural ingredients’ scientific and clinical aspects, focusing on the one-carbon metabolites, including folate (5-MTHF), S-adenosylmethionine and glutathione, at Gnosis by Lesaffre. Over her 20-plus years in the nutraceutical and pharmaceutical industries, she proactively collaborates with universities and academic panels of experts on ...
Protecting Your Skin in the Spring
The warmer air of spring often brings tank tops, shorts and sandals. As you expose your skin that has been hiding under layers for a couple of months, issues can arise, and it can be difficult to take care of your skin. Skin health is important, as our skin is our largest organ and our ...
Do You Know What Else Your Body Is Saying Beyond Weight Concerns?
Losing weight is one of the most frustrating, talked about, marketed, confidence-boosting (when it does happen) concerns, and can bring up an even wider range of emotions both about ourselves and about others. It can affect our relationship with our body, with others, and what we feel like we can achieve in the world, especially ...
The Institute for Natural Medicine Is Going Places, and You Are Invited
Be a part of INM’s content strategy to raise awareness about naturopathic medicine. Can you imagine a day when naturopathic medicine is a household name and naturopathic doctors are accessible to everyone? At the Institute for Natural Medicine (INM), we work daily to help make both of these goals happen. Our mission is to increase ...
Oral Health and Overall Wellness
One of the first books put in my hands when I entered schooling for holistic nutrition at IET (now Bauman College) was Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, written by Weston A. Price, DDS. The concepts he explored and the theories he developed are furthered by modern biological dentistry, which addresses the whole person, the systems of ...
Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz, Earth Medicines
Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz is a curandera (traditional healer), author, indigenous foods activist and natural foods chef whose work is deeply rooted in the healing properties of all earth medicines. Her business name came to be after friends lovingly called her “the kitchen curandera,” as she was often creating healing foods and remedies in her tiny ...
Turmeric Matrix For Rheumatoid Arthritis, Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness & More
Curcuminoids from turmeric are among the most popular nutraceuticals in use today. In fact, the global curcumin market size exceeded $70 million in 2020 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11 percent by 2027.1 The reason for the popularity of curcuminoids is likely due to the fact that ...
Sugar Cravings and How You Can Beat Them
Why Do You Crave It? Sugar is addicting. Traditionally, addiction has been associated only with drugs, such as cocaine and heroin. Today, however, science has shown that people can become addicted to things other than drugs, including sugar. Sugar addiction has the same cycle as drug addiction: craving, binging/tolerance and feelings of withdrawal. Cravings can ...
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