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Feb. 20, 2023
Nutrients for Your Beating Heart
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Your heart is an organ unlike any other in your body. From day 21 after conception, throughout your entire lifetime, your heart beats a familiar lub-dub. It is in an ongoing state of muscular contraction and relaxation from nerve…
Feb. 16, 2023
Vitamin K: It Helps More Than Just Bones
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Vitamin K2 has an excellent reputation for supporting bone health. While this is often the entire focus of vitamin K2, its capabilities and effects on health goes well beyond bones. Amazing information pertaining to vitam…
Feb. 14, 2023
Loneliness Increases Risk Of Heart Failure By 20% According To A New Study
By Jenny Fant
February 13, 2023If 2020 taught us anything, it was that being too lonely for too long is absolutely heartbreaking. And as recent studies are showing, there's some compelling science to prove that its physical effects are last…
Feb. 10, 2023
Regular exercise protects against fatal covid, a new study shows
By Gretchen Reynolds American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Men and women who worked out at least 30 minutes most days were about four times more likely to survive covid-19 than inactive people, according to an eye-opening study of exercis…
Feb. 5, 2023
Protective Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation on COVID-19-Related Intensive Care Hospitalization.
1Internal Medicine Department iGR, National Relevance Hospital Trust, ARNAS Civico, Di Cristina e Benfratelli, 90127 Palermo, Italy
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic represents one of the world’s most important challenges for global p…
Feb. 2, 2023
Vitamin C Levels in Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients
by Michael Passwater
From the COVID-19 pandemic, we continue to learn about the critical importance of maintaining adequate levels of essential nutrients. When the body is under stress from an illness such as an infection, merely eating an …
Feb. 1, 2023
Zero Deaths From Vitamins, Zero Deaths From Minerals
Written by Andrew W. Saul
The 39th annual report from the American Association of Poison Control Centers shows zero deaths from vitamins
Confirming data is in Table 22B, p 1613-1615, at the very end of the lengthy report published in Clini…
Jan. 30, 2023
Early cardiovascular disease linked to worse brain health in middle age
American Academy of Neurology
People with early cardiovascular disease may be more likely to have memory and thinking problems and worse brain health in middle age, according to new research published in the January 25, 2023, online issue of Neurol…
Jan. 30, 2023
Foggy Memory After Anesthesia? Support Brain Resiliency
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Have you ever had general anesthesia or know someone who has? Did you notice any subtle changes since that time to your long-term memory? Research suggests that general anesthesia use even after one exposure poses long-te…
Jan. 23, 2023
Intermittent Fasting and Meal Timing for Weight Management
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Intermittent fasting and caloric restriction are currently hot topics. The focus is on when to eat and avoidance of excess calories and even using low calorie diets for a time. These strategies for health and longevity date back …
Jan. 23, 2023
Intermittent fasting may reverse type 2 diabetes, according to study
The Endocrine Society
After an intermittent fasting diet intervention, patients achieved complete diabetes remission, defined as an HbA1c (average blood sugar) level of less than 6.5% at least one year after stopping diabetes medication, ac…
Jan. 17, 2023
5 Nutrients That Safely Boost Fat Burning
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Want to lose weight, increase energy, and improve mental clarity? The key is to get your body to burn more fat for fuel. When your metabolism is working properly, your liver will feed your cells a constant supply of s…
Jan. 16, 2023
Hidden Obesogens in Foods, Beverages, and Environment Disrupt Metabolism
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Healthy weight management is often a challenge. Even when you do all the right things with a healthy diet and exercise, you can still struggle with being overweight. If calorie restriction, intermittent fasting, and/or in…
Jan. 4, 2023
Grb10 offers a potential new approach for treating obesity
Baylor College of Medicine
For many people, keeping a healthy body weight can be a challenge. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, among adults 20 years-old and over, the prevalence of obesity is 42% in the U.S. Obes…
Jan. 3, 2023
Does Vitamin C Act as an Antioxidant or Pro-Oxidant?
By Nina Mikirova, Ph.D.
High doses of vitamin C are administered intravenously by complementary and alternative medicine practitioners. Studies, including studies at The Center, demonstrate that high doses of intravenous vitamin C may have …
Dec. 31, 2022
Vitamin C—Nature's Viral Enemy
by Laurie Roth-Donnell | Master Herbalist and Holistic Health Practitioner
Each person’s need for vitamin C differs because of genetics and individual biochemistry. Further, our bodies undergo different stresses and we all eat differe…
Dec. 30, 2022
High-Dose Intravenous Vitamin C as a Successful Treatment of Viral Infections
By Nina Mikirova, Ph.D.
This article was originally published in the February 2014 Health Hunters. It has not been edited or updated since its original publication.
Do you know that injections of vitamin C were successfully used in treatin…
Dec. 30, 2022
MTHFR Gene Defects, Methylation, and Natural Support
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Are your genes your destiny? Yes and no. They determine your eye color, if you can roll your tongue or not, curly or straight hair, and numerous other things about you. Genes also tell you information about your ancestral…
Dec. 19, 2022
Got Ringing in Your Ear?
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Ringing in your ear – it’s a pesky, irritating sound. You may rub or pull on your ear, open your mouth wide, or try other tricks to get the noise to stop. Many things contribute to and affect ringing and other…
Dec. 12, 2022
5 Nutrients to Combat Wintertime Blues
December 12, 2022 | Dr. Linda J. Dobberstein, DC, Board Certified in Clinical Nutrition
Winter is here, and with that, many challenges. Cold temperatures, cloudy skies, and shorter daylight hours often contribute to individuals feeling…
Dec. 5, 2022
Melatonin, Mitochondria, Circadian Rhythms - Are You in Sync?
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One of the most important things that determines your health is the synchronicity of your circadian rhythms and the day/night cycle. These primal rhythms and internal body clocks provide synchronicity and “orchestra…
Nov. 7, 2022
Oregano Oil Shines for GI Health and Immunity
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Oregano provides more than spice to your pasta sauce and pizza! Oregano has also been used for thousands of years in ancient traditional healing practices. Oregano and its oil, oregano oil, have been commonly used for imm…
Nov. 1, 2022
Immune Health and Vitality for All Stages of Life
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Does getting older mean you are more prone to immune challenges? It depends. Immune health evolves and matures throughout your life. Recent research has delved deeper into age-related immune decline and “immune comp…
Oct. 17, 2022
Minerals Essential for Mitochondria and Energy Production
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When you think about minerals and how they are needed by your body, you might think about electrolytes, bones, and muscles. Others may think about minerals for sleep, thyroid and adrenal glands and even red blood cells. M…