Magnesium is a mineral critically important for cellular health. Magnesium soothes our sympathetic nervous system, allowing us deep sleep and rest (not all sleep is restful as you may know.) It is also essential for the production of amino acids which your body uses for every chemical reaction. Restoring vital magnesium to your body should [...]

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Since we are talking about the importance of minerals, do you know the two most deficient minerals in America affecting people’s health and wellness? One of them is iodine, a chemical element that our body does not naturally produce. In fact, the only organ in our body that can store iodine is the thyroid. The [...]

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Minerals are (along with enzymes) very important nutrients you need to stay healthy and happy. Minerals and enzymes actually work together a lot of the time to regulate many of the processes in your body. These processes include all your metabolic processes, the creation and composition of various bodily fluids and and formation of you [...]

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As I wrote in my previous post, enzymes are the building blocks of a healthy lifestyle well into your later years (or even if you are young). Enzymes allow your body to get nutrients. Think about that. No matter how healthy you eat, if your body is not getting the nutrients in these to where [...]

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One of the things that goes along with storing toxins in your body is loss of its ability to extract nutrients from the foods you eat. In the digestive process  nothing is more important than enzymes. Indeed, enzymes play a crucial role in the digestive process. Their job is found in the small intestine where [...]

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I believe that your body already has all the necessary tools to become healthy and stay that way. The holistic paradigm of medicine that I follow decrees that the body is a wonderful, perfectly well designed system that seeks to heal itself all the time. It does by maintaining balance between its components.
One of the [...]

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One of the things that is talked about often in health circles in a person’s metabolic rate or metabolism. You’ll often hear people talk about how lucky someone is to have been born with a strong metabolism as they lament their own low metabolism and blame it for their weight and how they cannot manage [...]

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One of my inspirations for the way I like to think about medicine is Dr. Sidney Baker. Dr. Baker has been a true pioneer in a new wave of medicine that I feel proud to be a part of in my own small way. His theory of medicine is known informally as the “tack rules [...]

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In my previous post, I was talking about the perils of product labels and how they can deceive us as consumers if we are not careful. We do not know if ingredients listed have been grown organically, in what kind of soil, whether pesticides were used or not etc.
This problem is compounded by the fact [...]

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One of the first things they teach children in school about nutrition is to check the product labels to find out what is in the food you are eating. This is a good thing, to be clear, because knowing what you are eating can help you to balance your diet and ensure that you are [...]

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