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Your Food May be Giving You Alzheimer’s
Fructose is a sugar naturally found in fruit. When consumed in whole foods, the amount of fructose is relatively small and fiber in the food slows down how quickly the fructose is absorbed into the body and bloodstream. But in the last several decades, fructose has become a ubiquitous, inexpensive sugar used to sweeten packaged foods. A new study links fructose consumption and Alzheimer’s disease.
Top Heart Attack Symptoms in Women
Someone in the US dies from heart disease about every 37 seconds, making it the number one killer of adults. Unfortunately, women are often at a disadvantage compared to men when it comes to getting the proper evaluation and treatment. One challenge is that the unique symptoms experienced by women aren’t recognized as heart-related. Women also tend to wait longer than men to get medical attention.
But that’s only part of the story. Even when women report their symptoms to their healthcare provider, more than half the time their concerns are dismissed as not related to their heart. As a result, women are less likely than men to get a proper workup. Knowing the symptoms, insisting your concerns are taken seriously, and getting a cardiac evaluation can save your life.
How to Take Vitamin C To Bowel Tolerance
The amount of oral vitamin C someone can tolerate depends on the person and their health. Studies indicate that when someone gets an infection, their ability to absorb vitamin C increases. This is because the body uses up a lot more vitamin C when it’s under stress and is an example of how your physiology adapts to meet your body’s needs. This phenomenon of increased vitamin C absorption is often called “to bowel tolerance.” It’s a technique I shared with many of my patients. This blog teaches you how you can use it to improve your health too.
Top Six Benefits of Vitamin C
Vitamin C is one of the body’s most important antioxidants. You need it to create collagen and for healthy bones, joints, skin, blood sugar regulation, and immunity. Vitamin C also supports cardiovascular, kidney, and liver health. But too many people aren’t getting enough. It’s fourth on the list of top micronutrient deficiencies in the United States. Learn how vitamin C helps and how much to take.
Top 10 Non-Dairy Sources of Calcium
Despite the fact that calcium is required for healthy bones, most Americans aren’t getting enough for their diet. One reason is that most people are surprised that what they think are great sources of calcium really aren’t or should be avoided because of their health risks. To help you increase how much calcium you’re getting in your diet, make sure to eat of variety of the following foods each week.
How to Use Your Two Brains to Get What You Want
One of the saddest things I can think of would be to look back on my life and lament the person I could have been. That level of unfathomable regret is something I hope none of us ever experience. Most people do the hokey pokey with their health. They commit for a while and then go back to old ways and old habits. As they get older, they become more and more out of shape, more tired, and heavier. And they get sick. Learn how to leverage your brain’s natural tendencies to create life-changing habits.
How Omega-3s Affect Your Brain
Your brain is made up of about 60% fat, and the composition of that fat impacts how healthy your brain is and how well it works. The standard American diet is high in omega-6 fatty acids and low in omega-3 fats. Improving the amount of omega-3 fats people get promotes a healthier central nervous system, better cognition, executive function, mood, and even healthier tear production.
How Much Omega-3 You Need for Cardiovascular Health
For overall health, we need a balance of omega-3s and omega-6s. Unfortunately, most people eat too much omega-6 fatty acids and not enough omega-3s. In fact, the typical Western diet contains up to 30 times more omega-6 fat than omega-3 fat. The health benefits from these fats come primarily from EPA and DHA, but most people aren’t getting enough. Learn how much you should get and the best sources.
How Much Vitamin D Do You Need?
Beyond bone health and vitamin D’s effects on calcium and phosphorous, some surprising benefits of Vitamin D include supporting healthy muscle mass and strength, balance, a strong immune system, skin health, brain health, cellular health, intestinal health, lung health, heart health, and neurological health. Vitamin D is an incredibly popular dietary supplement, and many people know they should take it. But how much should you take and does genetics play a role?
Six Surprising Benefits of Vitamin D
Vitamin D does a whole lot more than support healthy bones. Vitamin D supports brain health, muscle size and strength, heart health, mood, pancreas health and insulin balance. This blog discusses six surprising benefits of vitamin D and six more reasons to make sure you get enough of this powerful nutrient.
4 Simple Steps to Fix ADHD
Article at-a-glance: Approximately two million children in the US have ADHD, and many are taking medications. ADHD medications cancause decrease appetite and growth and cause insomnia, but they've also caused fatal heart attacks in children and adults. When you...
How to Boost Oxytocin
Oxytocin is your bonding and safety hormone. It’s what helps you feel connected with others and builds social trust and alliances. When you feel supported in a relationship, oxytocin is flowing. Beyond helping you feel good, research suggests that living your life in ways that promote healthy levels of oxytocin may help you live longer. Learn how to boost oxytocin to improve your health and enjoy your life more.
How to Boost Your Dopamine
Your cells are constantly bathed in hormones that turn genes on and off and affect how you think, feel and behave. While we produce about 50 different hormones, only four primary hormones —dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin and cortisol—control your motivation, mood, how connected you feel to people and your level of trust, safety and pain.
Understanding how can increase levels of your feel-good hormones will help you create lasting change in all areas of your life. This blog focuses on how you can boost dopamine. Future blogs will discuss your other happy chemicals.
Vitamin K for Bone, Brain, Immune and Liver Health
MK4 is a specific form of vitamin K2. And while MK4 is best known for bone health, it’s an important nutrient used throughout your body. Among all the forms of vitamin K2, only MK4 has been shown to maintain strong bones; support brain, liver, and immune health; and promote healthy bone marrow and blood cell production.
How to Use Food as Medicine
A whole food, unprocessed diet that emphasizes healthy protein and fats, vegetables, fruits, whole grains and legumes and lean meats or fish, is consistently linked to better health. These foods contain the many nutrients and micronutrients needed for the optimal functioning of our body and brain. In addition, the soluble and insoluble fiber in these diets helps support healthy gut flora, which has been linked to both mental and physical well-being. But, you may be wondering, how specifically do healthy foods work their magic? Read on for just a few fascinating examples of the power of food to function as medicine.
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