The tissues, cells, and proteins of the immune system work to fight pathogens (the viruses, bacteria and foreign agents that cause disease). When your body encounters a pathogen, it launches an immune response to destroy the threat. A healthy immune system can help you get sick less often, and spend less time under the weather… Continue reading 10 Best Foods To Boost Immunity
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Vitamin K: 5 Great Benefits of This Little-Known Essential Vitamin
Vitamin K is gaining popularity as a ‘super-micronutrient’ for its capacity to support healthy bones, heart health, and brain health. Perhaps best known for its role in blood clotting, vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin with an essential role in multiple physical processes ranging from bone formation to neuron proliferation. True vitamin K deficiency is… Continue reading Vitamin K: 5 Great Benefits of This Little-Known Essential Vitamin
Clean Supplements: 5 Keys To Better Health
There are supplements, and then there are supplements.Ten years ago, you could fill your e-commerce shopping cart with a payload of health and wellness formulations and a few fancy-sounding nootropics, and feel that you were on the righteous path to a better, healthier body and a sharper, keener mind. The downside to this simplistic and… Continue reading Clean Supplements: 5 Keys To Better Health
Learning, Researching and asking the “Why” Is Key to Gaining Natural Supplement Expertise
There might not be a more daunting task than researching the best natural supplements to help support your immune system. For starters, so much factors in, including lifestyle, diet and medical history. Beyond that, there’s the problem of searching for answers on the internet. In addition to competing information about what works, what doesn’t and… Continue reading Learning, Researching and asking the “Why” Is Key to Gaining Natural Supplement Expertise
Beating That Mid-Afternoon Slump
This scene is sadly familiar to anyone who works an 8-to-5 day shift in an American office: It’s 2 p.m., the day has gone pretty well so far, and then – BAM! – you’re struggling just to keep your eyes open. There’s a project due before the end of the workday, but staying focused enough… Continue reading Beating That Mid-Afternoon Slump
Green tea offers powerful health benefits
While green tea is one of the most popular beverages worldwide, black tea is more common in the West – but that may be changing. An increasing amount of scientific research on the health benefits of green tea is raising awareness of its medicinal uses, especially given the growing prevalence of lifestyle-related illnesses, and… Continue reading Green tea offers powerful health benefits