Natural Support Healthy Hair, Skin, and Nails
Radiant, vibrant, and healthy looking hair, skin, and nails have long been associated with good health. While most people try and improve the appearance of these tissues from the outside alone, the real key to healthy skin, beautiful hair, and strong nails is building...
Prenatal Nutrition:Optimal Nutrition Support During Pregnancy
Pregnancy obviously results in an increased need for vitamins and minerals. Deficiency or excess of any of a number of nutrients can lead to birth defects and/or complications during pregnancy for the mother. What is a mother-to-be to do? Here are some key...
OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS: Pharmaceutical Grade Marine Lipids
While most Americans eat way too much of the omega-6 oils found in meats and most vegetable oils, they suffer a relative deficiency of the omega-3 oils — a situation that is associated with an increase risk for heart disease and about 60 other conditions including...
Enzymes: Key to Powerful Anti-Inflammatory & Immune Support
Enzyme preparations are one of the most useful nutritional supplements available. Enzymes are molecules that speed up chemical reactions – they either help build new molecules or they split the bonds that join molecules together to break them into smaller units.In the...
The Healing Power of Proteolytic Enzymes
Proteolytic enzymes (or proteases) refer to the various enzymes that digest (break down into smaller units) protein. These enzymes include the pancreatic proteases chymotrypsin and trypsin, bromelain (pineapple enzyme), papain (papaya enzyme), fungal proteases, and...
Black Cohosh – Is There Really A Concern?
Black cohosh (Cimicifuga racemosa) is without question the most popular natural approach to menopausal symptoms. Its popularity has been increasing in part because of all of the negative press on Hormone Replacement Therapy. Specifically, last year the National...
New Guidlines for Hypertension?
What is behind the new guidelines for treatment of high blood pressure? In case you missed it, last week new classifications of high blood pressure and guidelines for treatment were released by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). When I read the...
Saw Palmetto Extract: Nature’s Answer to Prostate Enlargement
The prostate is a single, doughnut-shaped gland about the size of walnut that lies below the bladder and surrounds the urethra. The prostate secretes a thin, milky, alkaline fluid which lubricates the urethra to prevent infection and increases sperm motility. Prostate...
Allergies and Hay Fever
What are Allergies and Hay Fever? Allergies refer to an abnormal immune response that can produce a wide range of symptoms (e.g., hives, asthma, anaphylactic shock and death). The most common allergic condition is hay fever (seasonal allergic rhinitis), which is an...
Hypothyroidism
What is hypothyroidism? The thyroid gland is located in the front of the neck below the voice box. It is just about the same size and shape - and is in the same location - as a small bow tie. The thyroid secretes two hormones that are crucial for regulating...