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Increased awareness of the importance of the microbes that live in our gut has spurred a great deal of research on the microbiome and fueled a booming probiotics...

Brand name or store brand? Expensive, middle of the road, or cheap? Does cost make a difference? What all do I REALLY need? Here are a are a few things to look for...

Preparing for Probiotics:  How Ladies Can Benefit from Bacteria You hear it constantly, don’t you? Some form of “Take your vitamins!” or “Eat more vegetables!”...

It seems, every time you turn around there is an article, commercial, or news story about Omega-3 fatty acid and how good it is for you. But did you know why?  Let...

5 Reasons for Taking Whole Food Nutrients 1. Efficient digestion is a tricky terrain to navigate.  Even when you are doing everything right, you can still feel...

Getting Enough Selenium   As a nutritional trace element, Selenium forms an essential part of our diet.  In collaboration with the International Agency of...

Winter brings less sunlight, more time indoors, joint pain, sniffles, coughs, and just basically an energy-draining cycle of blah.  It’s no secret that more people...

Answers to cancers “Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers,” the bold headline read last month from New Scientist magazine. There has been “an unprecedented amount...

‘Protein may be key to gestational diabetes’ read the headline last week of a news story on the first day for American Diabetes Month. My eyes rolled in rhythm...

The Economist POLITICAL revolutionaries turn the world upside down. Scientific ones more often turn it inside out. And that, almost literally, is happening to the...

Venturing Outside Your Kitchen: Maintaining Gut Health While Traveling Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., CNS   You may be thinking, "This health concept is all...

International Business Times By Mary-Ann Russon February 9, 2015 Two separate pieces of research have found that the development of Type 1 diabetes is likely...