Nutritional Solutions for Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia, which affects an estimated 10 million Americans, with 75 to 90 percent being women, commonly frustrates patients and physicians alike.

The World Health Organization defines probiotics as “live microorganisms which, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host.”

The Key to Boosting Your Body’s Natural Anti-Inflammatories…

Inflammation is essential for maintaining health—it helps our bodies fight infections and also stimulates the healing process after we’ve been injured. But the tenderness and pain of chronic inflammation indicates that something in our bodies has gone awry.

Strolling down the oil aisle can be daunting, confusing at best. Media attention, and a dizzying array of choices, has blurred our understanding of which oils are best—one day an oil is good, the next day it’s bad!

Adopting a healthy diet and taking certain supplements can help preserve your eyesight

A woman’s hormones are a beautiful thing… at least they should be, but too often we view our hormones as the enemy. After all, they are the reason some of us go on the warpath each month, causing our partners to run for cover; or they may turn you into an emotional basket case, causing you to breakdown if someone looks at you the wrong way.

Tired? Run down? Burned out? Worn out? Exhausted? One of every four people admits to feeling tired much of the time. And a recent survey, conducted by the Hartman Group, which tracks consumer trends, found that one-third of Americans say they have less energy today compared with a year ago. Not surprisingly, fatigue is the most common complaint physicians hear from their patients.

The purpose of an elimination diet is to discover symptom-triggering foods. Everyone’s body responds to foods differently. If we are sensitive to a food, there are a host of symptoms our body can respond with, such as headaches, skin rashes, joint pains, and digestive problems, just to name a few.

Learn Why This Fabled Berry Is a Flu Virus’s Worst Nightmare

The black elder tree, also called the elderberry tree, has a rich, longstanding history of folklore.

A Power Duo for Urinary Tract Health

If you’ve ever experienced a urinary tract infection (UTI) you know immediately the burning pain, the constant and intense urge (but inability) to urinate, and the uncomfortable ache in your lower abdomen. These infections are uncomfortable at best, and at worst can lead to severe pain and kidney infections.

Cancer is on the rise, particularly sex hormone related varieties, such as breast and prostate. Most of us have been touched in some way by cancer and it is safe to say we all have a desire to avoid developing this devastating disease. Research is surfacing about the power of a natural substance in vegetables that may help lower your sex hormone related cancer risk. Vegetables you ask?

Reduce Your Exposures, Enhance Your Body’s Defenses

We live in a chemical soup, made up of some 80,000 chemicals, most of which did not exist 70 years ago.¹ Many of them end up in our food, our water, our homes, the air we breathe, and ultimately, our bodies.