59Can Drinking Cocoa Protect Your Heart When You’re Stressed?
Can Drinking Cocoa Protect Your Heart When You’re Stressed?
Increased consumption of flavanols—a group of molecules occurring naturally in fruit and vegetables—could protect people from mental stress-induced cardiovascular events such as stroke, heart disease and thrombosis, according to new research. Researchers have discovered that blood vessels were able to function better during mental stress when people were given a cocoa drink containing high levels ...
Supplements May Protect Those With Low Vitamin D Levels From Severe COVID-19
Patients with low vitamin D levels who are hospitalized for COVID-19 may have a lower risk of dying or requiring mechanical ventilation if they receive vitamin D supplementation of at least 1,000 units weekly, according to a study presented virtually at ENDO 2021, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting. “Given how common vitamin D deficiency is ...
MUIH Adopts Culturally Responsive Language in Renaming its Acupuncture Programs
Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH) has taken steps to make sure its acupuncture programs are more culturally responsive through the removal of the phrase “Oriental medicine” from its department and program titles. The department, now named Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine, began this work in early 2019 in alignment with similar discussions on the state ...
FDA Warns Selling of Topical CBD Products Violates FD&C Act
On March 22, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stated that it has issued warning letters to two companies for selling topical pain relief products labeled as containing cannabidiol (CBD) in ways that violate the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). Specifically, the warning letters addressed the illegal marketing of unapproved drugs ...
Honoring Diversity: NUHS Offers New Naturopathic Medicine Scholarship
National University of Health Sciences (NUHS, Lombard, IL) has created the Black Naturopathic Opportunity Scholarship to nurture the field of naturopathic medicine, particularly in communities of color, and to increase the representation of Black/African-American physicians in complementary and alternative medicine. “The scholarship has been designed to support naturopathic medicine, as well as National’s commitment to ...
Can Gamification Help Us Better Teach Nutrition?
Digestion is an increasingly important topic in health and wellness. New information is emerging almost daily about the microbiome, our gut-brain connection, and the role of pre and probiotics in systemic inflammation, immune function and mood. Digestion alone, however, is an insufficient topic to address in a patient if the related factors regarding personal food ...
Yamuna Zake, The Ultimate Body Rolling Workout, The Foot Fix
Yamuna Zake is a master teacher of body sustainability dedicated to demystifying the body and providing simple, powerful tools to make lifelong fitness a reality for everyone. She has trained an international network of 800 certified practitioners, from the U.S. and Canada to Europe and Asia, and hosts sellout foot-fitness classes around the world for ...
Ashwagandha Extract for Enhanced Cognition
Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera), a small, woody shrub found growing in Africa, the Mediterranean and India, has been used in ayurvedic medicine1 for more than 3,000 years. It was described by Dioscorides (78 AD) in his book Kitab-ul-Hashaish, as a “Rasayana”—a rejuvenator “that promotes a youthful state of physical and mental health and expands happiness.”2 Ashwagandha ...
The Trifecta for Health
In a world where there are so many influences upon our health, and so many diets to perfect our health, and so many supplements to promise us health, many of our patients and clients really just want to know, “Where should I invest the most time, money or effort?” I understand. The amount of information ...
Erythritol & Other Sugar Alcohols: A Common Ingredient With a Side Effect You Probably Didn’t Know About
Everyone, including the food industry, is looking to cut back on our sugar intake these days.1 You may have noticed that many products now include sugar alcohols, in place of, or in addition to sugar, in order to give sweet taste with fewer calories. There are several different sugar alcohols out there, including mannitol, sorbitol ...
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