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The one thing about blood pressure that stacks stroke risk

Post author By Dr. Adria Schmedthorst
Post date September 2, 2024

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Strokes are incredibly traumatic. And while they may seem to strike without warning, there are danger flares sent up by your body that can indicate a future stroke. High blood pressure is the obvious culprit, but depending on how long you’ve lived with it, your stroke risk is climbing…

Tags Blood clot, Blood Pressure Support, Stroke

Bladder Health Fitness & Exercise Men’s Health Women’s Health

The bladder exercise better than confounding Kegels

Post author By Margaret Cantwell
Post date September 25, 2024

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If you’re dealing with a leaky, overactive bladder, you’re not alone. But you may think your choices are limited to adult diapers, questionable drugs that impact the brain or “practically impossible to master” Kegel exercises. You’d be wrong. Here’s a new easier way to cut the restroom leash…

Tags Health News, Overactive bladder, Phytoestrogens, Pumpkin, Urinary incontinence

Healthy Aging Healthy Diet Longevity

Accelerated aging: the downside of sugar you can slow

Post author By Joyce Hollman
Post date August 5, 2024

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Over the years I’ve shared sugar’s unsweet impact, from heart disease to aggressive tumors. The fact it cuts life short is no surprise. But the discovery that it can undermine our healthiest efforts makes understanding how it hurts us all the more compelling…

Tags Longevity, Premature Aging, Sugar

Diabetes

Diabetes ‘kryptonite’ reduces threat 35%

Post author By Jenny Smiechowski
Post date April 13, 2017

A healthy diet can prevent or even reverse diabetes. But besides the usual advice to avoid sweets and refined carbohydrates, you may be wondering if there are any potent, diabetes-fighting foods with a powerful impact…

Tags Blood sugar

Anti-Aging Healthy Aging Healthy Living

4 ways to fight the 9 hallmarks of aging

Post author By Jedha Dening
Post date February 8, 2017

A mixed race senior couple is kayaking down a river together. The image's focus is on the elderly woman smiling in the foreground. She is Pacific Islander and has graying hair. Her husband is seen in a kayak in the background. In the distance behind the couple you can see the shoreline and a bridge. The happy couple are wearing casual clothing. It is warm outside.

A few years ago, a landmark breakthrough discovered there were nine key hallmarks of aging. Among them were telomere length, stem cell exhaustion and mitochondrial dysfunction. While these all sound very scientific, they have one overriding commonality that’s within your power…

Tags Antioxidants, DIY Health, Longevity, Nutrition, Prebiotics, Probiotics

Healthy Diet

Food synergy: The best ‘no diet’ diet

Post author By Jedha Dening
Post date February 10, 2017

It’s easy to get obsessed over one food, thinking it’s the “cure-all” ingredient, and that’s where things can falter… Because foods and ingredients never exist alone in our diet. Foods work in synergy to create a greater overall effect.

Tags Organic

Healthy Diet Healthy Living

If clean eating won’t save you from glyphosate, what will?

Post author By Dr. Isaac Eliaz
Post date January 31, 2017

Glyphosate is the world’s most common herbicide. Recently, it was classified as a probable carcinogen, in addition to being linked to other serious health conditions. And it accumulates in your body…

Tags GMOs

Bone Health Healthy Diet

Non-dairy calcium-rich foods for super strong bones

Post author By Jedha Dening
Post date February 15, 2017

We’ve all been told to drink milk and eat dairy products to ensure strong healthy bones… But what do you do if you’re lactose intolerant, follow a vegan diet or simply don’t care too much for dairy? Turn to dietary sources of non-dairy calcium…

Tags Organic

Healthy Diet Healthy Living

Gluten-free done wrong may be poisoning you

Post author By Margaret Cantwell
Post date February 25, 2017

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If you’re following a gluten-free diet, your exposure to arsenic and mercury could be higher than most people’s. At high enough concentrations, these elements can lead to cardiovascular disease, neurological problems and cancer. You need to fully understand how gluten-free diets can cause this problem in the first place…

Tags Digestive Support, Gluten

Diabetes

The dangerous trifecta: Diabetes, sleep loss and toxins

Post author By Dr. Isaac Eliaz
Post date March 14, 2017

While what we eat, and how much, certainly affects our weight and susceptibility to diabetes and metabolic syndrome, this oversimplified equation ignores the body’s ability to process these calories, especially when a growing body of evidence points to the effect of toxins on our intricate metabolic mechanisms.

Tags Blood sugar

Healthy Diet Heart Health

5 Foods that fight for your heart

Post author By Jedha Dening
Post date July 14, 2017

By focusing your attention to heart-healthy food sources, you can greatly reduce your risk of heart disease. But it’s not just about eating healthy — it’s about eating foods with nutrients and compounds that fight for your heart health.

Tags Superfoods

Healthy Living

9 diseases that can indicate mineral toxicity

Post author By Dr. Michael Cutler
Post date May 8, 2017

Sometimes illness is the first sign of mineral toxicity. In fact, exposure to aluminum, antimony, arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury are linked to many disease states. Some of these include…

Tags Heavy Metals, Toxins