The Lipid Membrane: The Unsung Hero of Cellular Health
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The Lipid Membrane: The Unsung Hero of Cellular Health

The cell membrane, a lipid bilayer just a few nanometers thick, plays a critical role in cellular function by regulating nutrient transport, immune signaling, and maintaining overall cell integrity. Essential fatty acids, like omega-3 and omega-6, are crucial for maintaining membrane fluidity and functionality, which supports energy production, cellular communication, and resistance to degenerative disease.

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The Top Brain Exercises to Improve Cognitive Function

In this article, we’ll cover ten enjoyable and effective brain exercises that enhance cognitive function.
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Best Foods for Brain Health: Support Memory, Concentration, & Anti-Aging

A balanced diet filled with antioxidants and healthy fats supplies the brain with the necessary building blocks to operate efficiently.
Environmental Toxins & Their Effects on Health
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Environmental Toxins & Their Effects on Health

On both a personal and environmental level, we can reverse toxicity and restore good health.
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How to Navigate Election Anxiety & Support Your Mental Health Through Election Season

While participating in the democratic process is important, it's equally vital to take care of your mental health.
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Teri Cochrane | 07.09.2021

Calm: A Symphony of Stress-Relieving Ingredients

When consulting clients in my private practice, I look for the lowest common denominator of supplements that their body needs to be optimally healthy, and when selecting those supplements, I look for the least amount of ingredients that will get me that desired outcome. As a rule of thumb, the more ingredients a supplement contains, the more likely it is that there will be a mechanism of action that is counter-productive, that disrupts another process or triggers an unfavorable genetic tendency.
Dr. Thomas Wnorowski | 07.06.2021

Vitamin D and the Sun: What You Need to Know About the “Sunshine Vitamin”

The synthesis of vitamin D is just one reason we need healthy sun exposure on a daily basis, but it is an important one. In this article, we’ll investigate how vitamin D is absorbed from sunlight exposure, how much vitamin D we can actually get from the sun, and other factors affecting vitamin D production from sun exposure.
Effective Spend | 06.18.2021

Cellular Health and Phospholipids with Dr. Kara Fitzgerald and Dr. Bruce Hoffman

We’re bringing you something a bit different today with Dr. Kara Fitzgerald’s New Frontiers in Functional Medicine podcast featuring Dr. Bruce Hoffman. 

The two functional medicine pioneers talk about many subjects near and dear to us at BodyBio: the importance of cell membrane health, phospholipids, lipid therapy, and how our PhosphatidylcholineBalance Oil, and Butyrate supplements can be used in a protocol to treat complex chronic illness.

Dr. Thomas Wnorowski | 06.14.2021

Add Electrolytes to Your Water to Boost Energy and Optimal Hydration

Water alone—the mineral-less water most of us drink today—isn’t enough to hydrate our cells. 

We need electrolytes added to our water to facilitate electrical signaling throughout the body, conduct thousands of chemical reactions, and even support our mood and energy levels.

Dr. Thomas Wnorowski | 05.27.2021

Fatty Liver: Causes, Symptoms, Diet, and More

Fatty liver is one of those conditions that rarely causes problems, until suddenly, it causes big problems. Severe consequences range from heart disease to liver failure.
Dr. Thomas Wnorowski | 05.06.2021

Good Fat vs Bad Fat: How to Choose the Right Dietary Fats

Along with sugar and carbs, fats still seem to be one of the most controversial macronutrients out there, despite our dietary requirement for certain fats. Yep, we need fat in our diet to survive, thrive, and power our brains and cell membranes. But does that mean you should go keto today? And what kinds of fats do you actually need for health?
BodyBio | 04.13.2021

Histamine Intolerance: Allergies, Foods to Avoid, MCAS, and More

Histamine intolerance can manifest a wide range of symptoms, ranging from inconvenient to completely debilitating. Autoimmune Disease and allergic disorders like histamine intolerance and MCAS share key features, including that both are the result of a hypersensitive immune system gone wildIt is a condition that can have people jumping from doctor to doctor for years without getting a clear answer for their symptoms.
BodyBio | 04.01.2021

Fight or Flight: Your Stress Response and Managing the Stress Hormones

Between increasing work hours, financial and debt pressure, climate degradation, some of the most politically and socially challenging times we’ve ever experienced, and now a worldwide pandemic, it’s no wonder the demand for mental health services has increased dramatically. It’s safe to say we live our daily lives under a lot of stress.

But, the key to tackling any problem is first understanding how it works, so today we’ll discuss an overview of the stress response, the stress hormones, common causes and symptoms of stress, and ways to relieve it.

BodyBio | 02.25.2021

Improve Your Bile Function: The Importance of Bile Flow for Optimal Health

Medical theories dating back to the time of Hippocrates have focused on the importance of balancing the “four humors”: blood, phlegm, black bile, and “yellow bile.” When these four fluids fall out of balance, it is said that illness is imminent. Among these four humors, the importance of yellow bile is often neglected. So what is this important “yellow bile”, and where does it come from? It all starts with your liver and gallbladder.