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How I Saved My Joints in Just 7 Days — And Gave My Skin a Boost Too!
By Bill Sardi, Medical Researcher
This article contains information from one of our trusted sponsors. If you’re like me — and millions of other Americans — when you hit your 50s, your joints let you know it. Aches and stiffness, less mobility……read more
Categories:Joint Health Supplements
Leyla Weighs In: Risk factors and locus of control
On an almost daily basis, we are bombarded with frightening health reports. Claims such as, “50,000 people will die of colon cancer this year,” or “prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men,”…read more
Categories:General Medicine
“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper”—REALLY?
A big new study in the British Medical Journal concludes that the hoary advice, oft-repeated by health professionals and the media, that “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day,” is not applicable to the majority of people….read more
Categories:General Nutrition Nutrition and Weight
Leyla Weighs In: Essential Detox: The importance of a healthy liver
Your liver is an organ essential to life. As the body’s filter, everything you swallow or absorb passes through it. The liver is the major organ of elimination and the manager of detoxification processes in the body….read more
Categories:Liver disease
Quiz: How well do you know your heart?
February is Heart Health month, and today is Valentine’s Day, so there’s no better time to check up on how well you know your heart! Answer the questions below to find out if you’re a heart health…read more
Categories:Heart Health
Beyond vitamins: Botanicals for immunity
This article contains content from one of our trusted sponsors, Protocol for Life Balance. People often think about immunity only when their own immune systems are challenged. They consider remedies and other reactive strategies, rather than focusing on…read more
Categories:Immunity Supplements
Nutrition community to Lancet: EAT this!
Last month, 37 eminent scientists from around the world released a consensus paper for The Lancet—the EAT-Lancet report—that recommends draconian restriction of animal protein with a dual agenda of promoting human health and saving the planet from environmental…read more
Categories:Nutrition Controversies
Real vs. fake detox
For every good phenomenon, there’s commercial exploitation and co-optation. So it’s been with the low-carb diet, the Paleo diet, and lately, the Keto diet—so much so that the unwholesome and inauthentic products that are promoted betray the original…read more
Categories:Nutrition Controversies
Leyla Weighs In: Insulin vs. Glucagon: Manipulate your metabolism
Last week I talked about the various hormones involved in metabolism and weight loss. Let’s take a deep dive into two of those important hormones: Insulin and glucagon. You can actually manipulate your metabolism by changing what…read more
Categories:Nutrition and Weight
Chill out–it may be healthy for you!
Temperatures plummeted across much of the U.S. this week, leaving many of us shivering. I got out my long underwear that had been lying fallow for several recent mild Northeast winters. To make matters worse, weather forecasters…read more
Categories:Environmental Health
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Though we think of declining estrogen as the hallmark of menopause, it's actually common for…
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Up to 12 percent of Americans have ulcers at some point in life. Peptic ulcers…
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Gallbladder disease is a modern illness. An estimated 20 million Americans have gallbladder disease. The…
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Q: My mother is otherwise healthy, takes no medications and walks daily for exercise, but she…
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More mask misdirection (and some possible clarity): I’m finally getting a handle on this mask…
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We are living in unprecedented and unpredictable times. It seems every day brings new recommendations…