Health & Nutrition
Learn how nutrition can help with a wide range of disorders, improve energy and focus, and much more within.
Alzheimer's
Huperzia Serrata: Not Just for Alzheimer’s
The mossy, spindly extensions of Huperzia serrata may not look like much to the casual observer, but the compounds therein can improve memory and other cognitive functions for Alzheimer’s patients to potentially great effect.
The Seafood-Opposed Dieter’s Guide to Omega Fatty Acids
Even if your seafood aversion requires a generous shellacking of tartar sauce every time you can’t avoid eating fish, we can’t emphasize enough how important it is to have fish at least a few times a month.
Anxiety & Depression
L-Lysine Benefits: From Anxiety to Muscle Growth
L-lysine helps build proteins, but research is continuing to uncover and confirm more benefits, including anxiety management and inflammation control.
The 3 Best Mushrooms for Anxiety
Medicinal mushrooms are becoming an increasingly popular way to support health—including reducing anxiety or stress.
Top 10 Herbs for Happiness
Research in recent years has pinpointed several adaptogenic herbs that can help us feel happier, less stressed, and more excited about our lives.
L-Theanine for Anxiety: How Much L-Theanine to Take and When
L-theanine functions similar to anti-anxiety drugs without the serious side effects and addictive qualities.
Onnit New Mood Review
Featuring a conscientious blend of easily absorbable nutrients, extracts, and vital serotonin precursors, Onnit New Mood mounts a targeted attempt to improve mood and fight general stress.
Can Food Affect Mood?
It doesn’t take a team of scientists to figure out that the prospect of a delicious meal has a way of perking up one’s mood.
Meet the Probiotics A-Team
One of several casualties of the single-minded assault on germs sponsored jointly by cleaning product commercials and modern healthcare providers is the collective misunderstanding of probiotics.
Nutrition Psychiatry: How Food Impacts Mental Health
Food is for physical wellness, and pharmaceutical products are for mental health conditions—that’s where most of us land when it comes to nutrition psychiatry.
What’s Valerian Root, and How Does It Improve Sleep?
The majority of herbal sleep aids under objective scrutiny have been proven safe and non-addictive; that’s not the hard part when it comes to making it through the vetting process and into common use.
Stress-Eat the Proper Way with Ashwagandha
Ashwagandha is a small, bushy plant native to India, the Middle East, and some regions of Africa.
How Does Magnesium Help with Stress?
Everyone knows what carbs and fats do—at least on the surface—but the mention of trace minerals like magnesium tends to elicit a less confident reply.
Herbal Remedies for Sleep, Not Sedation
Virtually any problem that even subtly shifts your body out of its natural balance, i.e., homeostasis, has the potential to keep you awake at night.
Cancer
Fisetin Benefits: Dosages and How to Take It
The fisetin benefits we know about today (e.g., anti-aging) are from relatively recent research. We dive into said research, including dosing and more.
Nutrition and Cancer: An Introductory Guide
Chemotherapy and surgery may currently preside as the most effective treatments for cancer, but they can’t do what nutrition therapy can—they can’t (reasonably) prevent the cancer from forming in the first place.
Foods to Eat (and Avoid) While Undergoing Chemotherapy
In the chemotherapy patient’s personal war against cancer, every ounce of control they can wrestle away from the disease is a victory that can contribute to brighter outcomes—especially when it means they can eat foods they enjoy again.
The Carcinogenic Foods Master List
Fear has a way of dimming the details, but it’s in the details that health-conscious people looking to reduce their cancer risk can find success.
Does High-Temperature Cooking Increase Cancer Risk?
“X thing you love causes cancer” is quickly entering The Boy Who Cried Wolf territory—we’ve all heard it so many times that we are becoming jaded.
When Good Fats Go Rogue: The Omega-6 Conundrum
Fat gets a bad rap, mainly because it’s oversimplified.
Diabetes
What to Know About the New Over-the-Counter CGMs (Continuous Glucose Monitor)
Learn about CMGs and how the lastest model by Dexcom can help you monitor pre-diabetes symptoms.
What Is Dextrose, How Is It Used, and Is It Healthy?
What exactly is dextrose, and where does it come from? Let’s take a closer look at what dextrose is, how athletes and people with diabetes use it, and whether dextrose is healthy or not.
The Best Snacks for Diabetes: 15 Easy, Healthy Snacks to Manage Blood Sugar
Instead of binging on snacks like chips or pretzels that can cause a blood sugar spike, consider adding higher-protein, lower-carb snacks to your daily routine—like these 15 options, which are some of the best snacks for diabetes you can make in just minutes.
Burdock Root Benefits and Side Effects
It may look like a simple weed from the ground up, but a firm yank on the green stalks of burdock root (check for burrs first!) reveals a surprise.
What Is Low-Glycemic Eating?
Both newspaper and lighter fluid are flammable, but throw each one onto a campfire, and you’ll get two noticeably different results.
Fiber: An Epidemic-Level Deficiency
In an era of TV remotes with built-in bottle openers and self-twirling pasta forks, it’s no surprise that we’ve become too lazy to chew.
How Diabetes Raises Heart Disease Risk
While it may be convenient to put each health concern in a box, focusing on one treatment at a time, the diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) connection provides an important lesson: the human body doesn’t work that way.
Abdominal Weight and Insulin Resistance
Recognizing the connection between weight status and insulin resistance is a start, but understanding the actual mechanics involved provides a crucial defense against diabetes.
Safe Sweets for Diabetics
For diabetics, the knee-jerk reaction of swearing off sweets altogether can be problematic for a number of reasons.
Yes, These Foods Contain Added Sugars
Normally, we’re content to bounce around new and/or controversial theories on nutritional concepts all day, but every so often, we have the luxury of seeing in black and white.
The Science of Craving
Junk food and fast food companies have become so adept at milking our prehistorically rooted cravings for fat, salt, and simple carbs that they don’t even need to hide their tricks anymore.
How to Stay Focused Without the Jitters
Energy drinks and sugary snacks may be louder, sweeter, and faster-acting than natural sources of sugar, but rarely are those benefits conferred without some form of reckoning down the road.
Pain
Serrapeptase: Benefits, Dosage, and Side Effects
The benefits of serrapeptase, which range from pain relief to clearing mucus, have made this enzyme a viable dietary supplement.
How Does Glucosamine Relieve Joint Pain?
Sure, gravity wins in the end, but that doesn’t mean we can’t use everything at our disposal to keep our weight-bearing joints from breaking down prematurely.
Traumatic Injury
Nutrition’s Role in Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery
Nutrition is understandably not priority one in the chaotic moments immediately following a traumatic brain injury (TBI), but as soon as the patient is stable, nutrition therapy shares center stage with other key tenets of TBI rehabilitation.