Choosing a Supplement Brand

   As someone who follows a holistic nutrition approach, I try to educate, support and guide people through the confusing world of nutrition and holistic health.  When I feel a nutritional supplement is required to support an issue, I recommend products that are pure, potent, safe, in harmony with nature and scientifically proven to do…

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Confused About Supplements?

A vitamin is a vitamin.  Isn’t it? A lot of people believe all vitamin and/or dietary supplements are about the same.  So why not just buy the cheapest ones?  Let’s take vitamin C for example.  You would think that vitamin C is vitamin C, so how can the different brands be so different from each…

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Do You Need To Take Supplements?

     If you don’t want to take supplements, that’s fine, as long as you . . . *Drink 6-8 cups of purified water every day, *Eat enough high-quality protein with all 8 essential amino acids every day, *Eat a minimum of 8-10 servings of fresh fruits and vegetables every day, *Eat at least 50% of…

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The War in Your Body

   The specific immune response differs from the inflammatory response we talked about earlier because it is the body’s response to specific antigens.  An antigen is anything foreign to our immune system, like bacteria, viruses, and allergic substances.  This defense system uses antibodies specifically designed to target and attack one particular invader.  It uses white…

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Cleaning and Maintaining Your Body

   Do you wash your clothes, clean your house, clean the lint out of your dryer, replace furnace filters, and replace broken roof shingles?  Why?  We invest a lot of money in our homes, appliances, and furniture.  We want them to look good and perform for a long time, therefore, we take care of them.…

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More Poop!

So, with all the poop we talked about yesterday, you might be wondering about your own poop.  For example, we talked about it taking 12 to 18 hours for food to go all the way through your system.  How do you know how long it takes YOUR digestive tract to process food?  Here is a…

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