On Thursday, June, 13th, 2019 in Healthy Lifestyle
We’ve come a long way from the days when you attached a step-counter to your belt loop! Most everyone in the gym seems to be checking the wearable computer on their wrist. Your great aunt is texting you about the number of steps she got in today, according to her Fitbit. There are heart rate […]
On Thursday, May, 23rd, 2019 in Supplements & Remedies
No doubt, you’ve heard plenty about the wonders of probiotics. Maybe you’re taking them yourself. After all, they’re well-known to diversify the gut’s microbiome, able to help create a healthy balance of bacteria – a state of affairs that brings its own benefits, from relieving IBS symptoms to improving mental health to preventing certain infections. […]
On Thursday, May, 9th, 2019 in Anti-aging
Maybe you were up late working. Or binge watching a show. Or scrolling incessantly through your social media feeds. Or maybe you just couldn’t sleep, getting two, three hours in at the most. You know what that next morning is like. You lose your car keys. You forget that 3pm appointment you made a few […]
On Thursday, April, 25th, 2019 in Anti-aging, Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy
Have you noticed as you’ve grown older that your energy has dipped and waistline has expanded? That you’re up at all hours of the night, struggling to get some Zs? You may want to consider bioidentical hormone therapy – BHRT for short. As you age, you lose hormones. This, in turn, can make you feel […]
On Thursday, April, 11th, 2019 in Anti-aging, Weight loss
Whether you’re looking to lose weight for health or appearance, one tool worth considering is the HCG diet. It’s not new by any means, having been developed in the early 1950s by Dr. ATW Simeons, who published the theory behind it in The Lancet in 1954. So you may have heard something of it before […]
On Thursday, March, 28th, 2019 in Anti-aging
Over the past few years, we’ve been hearing more about the quest for immortality among Silicon Valley types in particular. Some are even so bold to predict that we’ll soon conquer death entirely. Yet the dream of living forever has been around…well, seemingly forever. In Greek mythology, we get the story of Eos, goddess of […]
On Thursday, March, 14th, 2019 in Chelation Therapy
When you get an MRI, a contrasting agent may be used to improve the clarity of the imaging. The downside, however, is that those dyes usually contain gadolinium, a toxic heavy metal. It was once thought that this was a risk mainly for people with impaired kidney function, but as a 2018 literature review noted, […]
On Thursday, February, 28th, 2019 in IV Drip Therapy
So, yes, the whole diet is vitally important. But with respect to nutrition, there are times when even that alone might not be enough. Is your body getting all the nutrients you give it? As we noted last time, many factors can affect nutrient absorption. For instance, some genetic variants can cause issues. MTHFR mutations, […]
On Thursday, February, 14th, 2019 in Diet & nutrition
As we were saying, your body needs real food. Can we take that a step further and see food as medicine? You’ve probably heard the saying “Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food” – an idea that’s usually attributed to Hippocrates. In truth, though, the phrase doesn’t seem to turn up in […]
On Thursday, January, 31st, 2019 in Diet & nutrition
No sooner had we hit “publish” on our last post, we ran across a new study on another type of additive that may be contributing to modern health woes: emulsifiers. Emulsifiers are used in a wide variety of hyperprocessed food products to change their texture, extend their shelf life, and keep ingredients from separating. You […]
