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3 amazing benefits of summer’s best heart-healthy vegetable

Post author By Virginia Tims-Lawson
Post date June 21, 2024

A tourist wearing a hat at the Farmers Market in the Madeira city of Funchal. Portugal

If you didn’t know, there’s a vegetable you need to take advantage of right now on your next visit to the farmer’s market. It’s the one that provides huge amounts of 8 important nutrients, a compound that lowers blood pressure and one that fights disease-causing inflammation…

Tags Beets, Blood Pressure Support, Nitric Oxide, Nutritional Supplements

Healthy Diet

Going gluten free? Necessity for some, risky for others

Post author By Joyce Hollman
Post date October 23, 2019

Have you jumped on the gluten-free bandwagon yet? It seems everywhere you turn these days, people, including some big-name celebrities, are going gluten-free, claiming it’s helped them with weight loss, energy and their health in general. But there are a few things you should be aware of before jumping on board.

Tags Gluten

Healthy Diet

What we’ve learned about coffee in the last 20 years

Post author By Joyce Hollman
Post date October 29, 2019

There’s a lot of research claiming to prove the health benefits of coffee. Some of those health claims have a good deal of solid research behind them, while others warrant further investigation. But after more than 20 years of research into coffee, there is one thing we know for sure that can keep you drinking, worry-free…

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Healthy Diet

7 more reasons you need cacao in your life

Post author By Dr. Michael Cutler
Post date December 16, 2019

Wow, the response to my post last week on cacao, the superfood to beat statins, was amazing! But I’m not really surprised… Now that you know what cacao can do for cholesterol, let me share other benefits that will have you adding cacao to your coffee like I did this morning…

Tags Superfoods

Alternative Medicine Health Supplements Heart Health

The kidney disease research that could save hearts

Post author By Margaret Cantwell
Post date February 8, 2020

For far too long, saving our hearts has focused on one thing: cholesterol. But heart research into another growing health problem may intersect this blind spot of cardiovascular research to provide an answer for two very serious health conditions that both lead to vascular calcification… and hearts that give out.

Tags Chelation, Kidney Health

Healthy Aging Healthy Diet

The diet that improves aging (even in nursing home residents!)

Post author By Jenny Smiechowski
Post date December 16, 2022

Middle age couple cooking mediterranean food at home smiling happy doing ok sign with hand on eye looking through fingers

As you age, your body starts breaking down and becomes more inflamed. This leads to frailty… or what’s commonly thought of as “getting old.” You walk slower, feel creakier and just don’t have as much physical or mental spunk as you once did. But here’s something you may not know… the right diet can turn that around!

Tags Frailty, Inflammation, Mediterranean diet, Microbiome

Healthy Diet Heart Health Inflammation

The snack habit that lowers cholesterol and heart disease risk

Post author By Jenny Smiechowski
Post date June 22, 2020

Almonds

When you’re craving a snack, you have two choices. You can reach for something salty, crunchy and processed (like potato chips) that won’t do your heart health any favors. Or you can reach for something that’s just as satisfying that significantly improves your cholesterol, blood vessel health and cardiovascular disease risk…

Tags Almonds, Cholesterol

Heart Health

For better blood pressure and a healthy gut, optimize your salt intake

Post author By Jenny Smiechowski
Post date June 29, 2020

Salt

If you get diagnosed with high blood pressure, your doctor will advise you to reduce your salt intake. At one point, several large-scale studies conclusively linked high-salt diets to high blood pressure, but we’ve learned that the connection between salt and blood pressure isn’t so cut and dry… and it includes your gut.

Tags Blood Pressure Support

Breast Cancer Healthy Diet

Should you avoid soy — or not?

Post author By Dr. Elizabeth Klodas MD, FACC
Post date July 8, 2020

tofu

Patients and readers often ask me about the risks of soy: Is there a connection to cancer? Can it help hot flashes? And as a cardiologist, I’m probably asked most often… Is soy really beneficial for heart health? Recently, the evidence really swung in soy’s favor…

Tags Cardio Support, Organic

Health Conditions

Natural help for passing and preventing kidney stones

Post author By Dr. Adria Schmedthorst
Post date July 14, 2020

kidney stones

Kidney stones may be one of the most painful things you’ll ever experience… many people compare it to giving birth. Arming yourself with ways to dissolve small stones and preventing new stones from forming is so important. Here are the natural options you can use at home…

Tags Calcium, Kidney Health, Kidney stones, pH Balance

Healthy Diet

The simplest way to supersize the cancer-fighting power of green tea

Post author By Jenny Smiechowski
Post date January 23, 2019

For years, green tea was the darling of the hot beverage circle, until coffee’s (and even black tea’s) health benefits became better known. But green tea still reigns as king of one potent cancer-fighting compound. Use this trick to supersize it…

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Eye Health Healthy Diet

How to squeeze the most cataract-fighting lutein from spinach

Post author By Jenny Smiechowski
Post date February 28, 2022

Lutein is a super healthy carotenoid. It reduces the risk of macular degeneration and cataracts, as well as coronary heart disease, stroke and metabolic syndrome. It may even improve your cognitive health. Here’s how to get the most of it from a great source…

Tags Antioxidants, Vision support