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What is Phosphatidylcholine and How Can it Benefit Your Health?
What is phosphatidylcholine and why should you care about this phospholipid? An in-depth breakdown of everything you need to know about PC.
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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.
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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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09.04.2013
Fructose Is an Inflammatory Word
Inflammatory words arouse strong emotion. Related to our physical being, the term “inflammatory” refers to the body’s strong response to invasion by a foreign substance, such as a virus or bacterium, or to direct injury of tissue, both conditions stimulating the body’s attempt at self-protection with the ultimate goal of healing.
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09.02.2013
The Rumors on Rheumatoid Arthritis
Aunt Martha’s mother was the kindest, gentlest soul you’d ever meet. She went out of her way to make you feel at home. Food and drink were hallmarks of her cordial greeting. But she couldn’t open a package, twist open a jar or cut a cake. Her fingers were so badly gnarled that no two pointed in the same direction. Some of the joints formed the letter “Z.”
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09.01.2013
Sports Injuries: Young and Foolish
Before you think of us as overly refined pinky lifters, let it be known that we played rough and tumble when baseballs needed to be covered with friction tape, and the only head protection in the fall was attached to your scalp. B-ball entailed a fruit basket nailed to a telephone pole, dribbling in spite of the traffic, and using a ball borrowed when the high school coach wasn’t looking.
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08.03.2013
Toxins In Baby Wipes
The populace has become so self-assured that it trusts people and products to be what they want them to be, which could genuinely be opposite of their expectations. In the case of personal hygiene products, we are satisfied if they remove the smudge, erase the stain and kill the germ. Few consider the trade-off. Well, folks, it’s about time we did…consider the trade-offs, that is.
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08.02.2013
Hey Cowboy, Is It Roundup Time?
We hope not. Good old Fred Nietzsche said, “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” Since we’re quoting people, check out Will Rogers’ aphorism, “It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble; it's what we know that ain't so.” Truth is really not that elusive…if you know where to look.
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06.06.2013
Sweet And Large
A corned beef special with extra Russian dressing, a side of cole slaw, and a hunk of New York cheese cake for dessert, chased with a Diet Coke. This was pretty common lunchtime fare for a raft of patrons at a local eatery. Were they looking to cut calories? Or was diet soda merely the rage? If these folks were trying to fight the Battle of the Bulge, they chose the losing faction. If marketing diet soft drinks, they joined the pack.
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06.05.2013
Treat Your Asthma Gingerly
If numbers can be trusted (99% of all statistics being made up on the spot), there are almost 25 million cases of asthma in the United States. Out of almost 314 million people in the country, that equates to almost 8% of the population. More than 3,000 Americans die from asthma each year.
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06.04.2013
Fill In The G__P.
There might be one between your teeth. There could be some among wage earners. There definitely are those between generations, and there’s one at your local mall. But there’s one gap that you never think about and probably never heard of—the anion gap (AG). This is a laboratory assessment of the concentration of plasma anions and cations not routinely measured in some screenings.
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06.03.2013
What’s A Nice Bone Like You Doin’ In A Joint Like This? (Part 1)
It hurts. It hurts when I get out of bed. It hurts when I bend down to pick up the laundry basket. Ooh, my knees! Yow, my shoulder! What’s goin’ on? Could it be arthritis, the affliction of the musculoskeletal system that attacks the joints and is the main cause of disability among people over fifty-five years of age? Maybe so.