Patients often ask which types of vitamins should not be taken together and which should be taken together for maximum effect. Answer: How you take a supplement can be just as important as which product you take — both may impact how much of a nutrient your body actually gets. A few rules of thumb: If you take a large dose of a mineral, it will compete with other minerals to reduce their absorption. The
Autoimmune diseases are one of the leading causes of suffering in the world.The good news is that there is a lot you can do today to take action for your health.Research suggests that genetics account for only about one-third of autoimmune disease factors. Environmental triggers, diet and lifestyle might be what’s largely responsible — which means you can help balance your immune system, dampen the inflammatory attacks and attempt to put the autoimmune response
These days, we’re struggling with an undeniable epidemic of brain problems.Anxiety, brain fog, fatigue, depression, ADD, autism, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Multiple Sclerosis — the long list of conditions affects nearly everyone in some way.And with more people than ever before battling these brain issues, we have to ask ourselves: why? While there are many complex reasons for the decline in brain health in the modern world, let’s talk about what I feel is one
Go to the mall. See a movie. Look around next time you’re in an airport. What you’ll see is the confirmation of all the statistics that we’re hearing so much about these days related to the ever-increasing prevalence of obesity. It’s everywhere and it’s affecting most of us. Books, online information, infomercials, daytime T.V., and even nightly news programs are constantly hammering us with the scary news that relates increasing abdominal girth to just about
by Anna Mitsios It’s easy to overlook our gut as the source of skin troubles. But if the well-being of our internal organs and energy levels are determined by what we put in our mouths, why shouldn’t the same be true for our skin?Here’s what an unhealthy gut do to your skin: It disrupts the flora in the skin as it creates inflammation, affecting the integrity and protective function of the skin. Research shows