Jan 6, 2020 | Featured, Oxidative Stress, Wellness
Oxidative stress is the condition that occurs when pro-oxidants (a.k.a., oxidants) outnumber antioxidants. Left unresolved, oxidative stress can lead to severe health problems with more familiar names. This complicated cascade of cellular damage has numerous players,...
Nov 7, 2019 | Featured, Vitamins and Nutrients
It depends. Vitamins are a waste of money if you’re doing it wrong. And vitamins are the bargain of a lifetime if you’re doing it right. Keep reading to find out why. Vitamins are a waste of money if you don’t understand what they are and what they do. Vitamins...
Oct 30, 2019 | Featured, Nutrient Deficiency
Oral contraceptives, including birth control pills, interfere with vitamin absorption and activity. Vitamin, mineral, and other nutrient depletion is an effect of taking these drugs that has been documented since the 1960s, leading many researchers and pharmacists to...
Sep 23, 2019 | Featured, Magnesium, Vitamins and Nutrients
With more than half the US population running dangerously low on this mineral, medications that deplete magnesium are only a contributing factor to an epidemic. Refining whole grains to white flour removes around 85% of the grains’ magnesium. Soils are depleted of...
Sep 9, 2019 | Featured, Wellness
Telomeres naturally shorten with age, but there are certain things you can do to slow that shortening or even reverse it. We’ll review scientifically proven telomere lengthening supplements, lifestyle interventions, and diets. Why is it important to lengthen...
May 28, 2019 | Acetyl L-Carnitine, Featured, Vitamins and Nutrients
Your body needs nutrients for energy. One of those nutrients is fat. But, fat can’t just transform into energy by wishing it from your digestive tract. It needs to get to the cells — more specifically to the mitochondria — to transform into energy. And the only way it...
