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With our busy, modern lifestyles it can be difficult to get enough of the right nutrients from our food alone. But our body needs a certain amount of vitamins and minerals to function. We all have a recommended daily amount (RDA) of each of the essential vitamins. It needs vitamin D to absorb calcium and […]

Collagen is quickly becoming the new hot supplement. But, as is the case with many natural health supplements, there is a lot of media scrutiny. It seems that every week, there’s a new article that either supports the use of collagen, or warns us that it’s totally useless. So what’s the deal? Are collagen supplements […]

When you hear the word ‘detox’, a range of ideas may come to mind. Perhaps immediately your thoughts wander to strange herbal concoctions or pungent wheatgrass shots! Maybe you’ve tried a detox program before and found the initial symptoms to be harsh or unpleasant. Or perhaps you have experience with detoxing on a frequent basis […]

Each part of your body from your brain to your skin, your heart, your kidneys, and your muscles has a specific job. They take direction from your endocrine system to get the work done. The glands of the endocrine system send out hormones that tell each part of your body what work to do, when […]

The meditation-and-the-brain research has been rolling in steadily for a number of years now, with new studies coming out just about every week to illustrate some new benefit of meditation. Or, rather, some ancient benefit that is just now being confirmed with fMRI or EEG. The practice appears to have an amazing variety of neurological […]

Humans spend approximately one-third of their life sleeping, unfortunately it’s a lot less than that for insomniacs! Insomnia is a condition that involves being unable to sleep and comes in different forms, including primary and secondary insomnia. Most people have suffered from sleeplessness in their lives, perhaps during illness or times of stress, however insomnia […]

The light-colored, earthy-tasting powder is derived from the leaves and seed pods of Moringa Oleifera, a tree that’s native to India but also grows in Asia, Africa, and South America, and is sometimes referred to as the drumstick tree, miracle tree, horseradish tree, or ben oil tree. The plant contains a number of important compounds, […]