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Wellness Special Report: The Dangers of Vitamin D Deficiency
According to the -National Institutes of Health-, approximately 41.6% of the US population has a vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D deficiencies can be linked to lower energy levels, and immune system function as well as a number of diseases, including multiple sclerosis, IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) and cancer. Are you getting enough vitamin D for optimal health? - How the Body Makes and Uses Vitamin...
June 6, 2019
Public Health--15 Irrefutable Certainties (Part 1 of 3)
In spite of the fact that we collectively know more about health issues than at any other time in history, it can also be said that most people today are more confused about what constitutes definitive/conclusive health knowledge than at other times in history. To put it more bluntly, the huge number of discoveries, epiphanies and accomplishments of modern times, far from necessarily making people...
May 12, 2015
Doctor, Should I Take Vitamins?
"Doctor, should I take vitamins?" In the past the answer to this question was often strained when a physician's oversimplified view of the subject often collided with a patient's high expectations of the answer. Today the gap between vitamin facts and fiction has diminished, and conversations with doctors have generally become lest testy and more informative. In an effort to continue along the road...
February 25, 2015
Are You Sure You're Getting Your Essential Nutrients?
Wellness Tip:- With today's hurried lifestyles, people often fail to eat enough real nutrient-dense food. The reality is that most of us are living with micronutrient deficiencies and imbalances which lead to a myriad of health issues. Even if you do eat reasonably well, you can still struggle to get the nutrients you need from anything grown in modern day nutrient-depleted soils. Taking supplements...
January 21, 2015
Folate - The Wonder Vitamin
Wellness Tip:- Folate's been called “the wonder vitamin" with good reason. Folate is a B vitamin and folic acid is its synthetic form. It protects both women and men by reducing homocysteine, an amino acid linked to heart attack risk. Folate may guard against colon and cervical cancers, and it is used to treat depression. Women of childbearing age should take 400 micrograms of folic acid daily (but...
October 27, 2014
Alpha Carotene
Alpha-carotene is part of the carotenoid family. Your body converts alpha and beta-carotene into vitamin A. Vitamin A is important for the maintenance of healthy skin and bones, good vision, and a strong immune system. Alpha-carotene is called a precursor to vitamin A. Alpha-carotene is only about half as effective as another well-known carotenoid called beta-carotene. However, alpha-carotene may be...
January 24, 2011
Why Take Nutritional Supplements, When You Already Have a Powerful Inner Pharmacy?
Which chemicals your inner pharmacy produces, as well as the quantity of those chemicals, is highly influenced by the raw materials available in your body. In other words, the building blocks that you provide to your inner pharmacy through your diet and nutritional supplements greatly determines what chemicals can be created within your body that govern your physical and mental state. Want to produce...
October 5, 2007