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DHEA Roles and Benefits

What is DHEA? -DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) is a hormone produced by your body's adrenal glands. -DHEA is used for slowing or reversing aging, improving thinking skills in older people, and slowing the progress of Alzheimer’s disease. -DHEA functions as a precursor to male and female sex hormones, including testosterone and estrogen. Precursors are substances that are converted by the body into a hormone. -Testosterone and estrogen production also generally declines with age. DHEA supplements can increase the level of these hormones. (more…)

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Diets, Health

Do You Know About Moringa Oleifera?

Though used in many parts of the world for already many decades, the knowledge of this amazing Moringa Oleifera plant that originates in northern areas of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan is just now spreading to the Americas. This almost miracle-like plant's leaves, bark, flowers, fruits, seeds and roots are used to treat many diseases from asthma to thyroid diseases. Read more to learn why maybe looking into having Moringa Oleifera products in your house may be a beneficial step toward optimal health. (more…)

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Acupuncture

Manage Your Glucose with the Foods You Eat

Manage Your Glucose With Foods You Eat Now one of the fastest growing problems in our modern world today, especially with the young people, diabetes is becoming a fast diagnosis across the nation. I am not talking about type one (born with diabetes), but type 2, rather, which is preventable and reversible with the right lifestyle changes. Here is a great article on how acupuncture and Chinese medicine philosophies address how to manage glucose in the body with right food choices. (more…)

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Diets, Health

The Promised Miracle Weight Loss Pill: Garcinia Cambosia

It is all over the internet, including most forms of social media and has superstar medical doctors, such as Dr. Oz endorsing it for its amazing weight loss abilities. People say it is inexpensive, works like no other supplement, safe and accessible. They are all taking about Garcinia Cambosia, a tropical plant which yields a fruit that with its rind, has many medicinal healing properties. It is a completely organic pumpkin-shaped fruit native to Indonesia and has been successfully and scientifically proven to "tear away fat from the body." Yes. It is a miracle. Please keep reading for benefits, warnings and

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Health

Miracle Calm in a Bottle? Magnesium Glycinate

I have heard of magnesium lotion, or what parents refer to as a miracle clam in a bottle (as they proceed to apply it to the bottom of their children's feet to calm and soothe them to sleep. Read about all the wonderful benefits of magnesium glycinate, not just for relaxing children and adults into REM, but its many other health benefits, too! (more…)

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Health, Pregnancy

The Importance of Contact: Hugs, Touch and Massage

Researchers have proven the power of human. Human touch and contact is so fundamental to growth, sense of self, feelings of security and love, that without it, people stop thriving. Literally. From a childcare perspective, touch helps babies stay healthier, grow stronger, have better digestion and sleep better. Premature babies and newborns have a much greater chance of survival and thriving when in constant and immediate skin to skin contact and close proximity to another body.  (more…)

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Diets, Health

Why Diets Seem to Fail

It is an obsession with many Americans and those of the progressive and developed countries. . .  Weight Loss and dieting. It is no surprise that year after year, weight loss remains one of the top 3 new year resolutions on most people's list. Sure, losing weight is one of the top resolutions made each New Year, but only about twenty percent of people are able to achieve weight-loss. Here are some reasons why diets fail: (more…)

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Nutrition

Got Gluten Sensitivities? Move Past “All Purpose Flour”

Got gluten sensitivities? Why don't you try something more than the traditional and overused "All Purpose" flour, which prove not the most purposeful for our different bodies. It's exciting that words like "whole grain", "gluten-free", "whole wheat" and "spouted grain" flours are becoming less and less foreign to the average consumer. Here are a few white flour alternatives that are perfect if you or someone you know have gluten sensitivities (or if you are looking to add more whole grains into your daily diet).  (more…)

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Children, Health, Nutrition

Why Halloween Candy is So “Tricky” and Healthy Treat Alternatives

Yes, Halloween is here and it is the start of the official holiday season. This holiday season beginning will also lead to the inevitable “flu season.” I always wondered if the two were related. I hear many parents argue that Halloween comes only once a year and it is a time to let the children indulge and have all the candy they can possibly collect and carry in a single night, only to eat them for the next few weeks until the next big holiday, and then the next. So what really is so wrong with our celebrating the ghosts,

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Health, Teeth

Bursting Your Bubble. Chewing Gum Dangers

Some experts argue that this is the most toxic substance in the supermarkets today. Most everyone has tried it and many even have an addiction to it. I am referring to chewing gum. And since its commercial sale debut in 1848 by John Curtis in the state of Maine, its popularity has exploded, and with that, the way the chewing gum was manufactured. The ancient Greeks and Mayans chewed resin and sap gums made from trees, which were very natural. Cut to modern day flavors which are made from synthetic materials that are not so great for the mouth, digestive

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