How Nutrition Can Help with Sports Injury Recovery
An injury can be frustrating, especially when it keeps you from doing what you love. Whether you’re a competitive athlete or just someone who enjoys staying active, proper recovery is essential to getting back to peak performance. While rest and rehabilitation are key, what you eat plays a crucial role in how quickly and effectively […]
Find the Root Causes of Your Thyroid Issues
Are You Struggling with Thyroid Issues? You’re Not Alone. Thyroid issues are more common than you might think, but they’re often misunderstood. Fatigue, weight fluctuations, mood swings, and brain fog—these symptoms can disrupt your life, leaving you frustrated and searching for answers. But here’s the truth: treating thyroid issues isn’t just about taking medication and […]
First Off, What Is Stress?
We hear the word all the time, but what is stress? On a foundational level, stress is the body’s natural defense against real or perceived threats, or change. It causes the body to produce hormones that prepare many systems to evade or confront the stressor or perceived danger. People commonly refer to this as the […]
The Diabetes And Kidney Disease Connection
Two (unfortunately) quite common conditions, but two that are preventable through good lifestyle habits. However, one is more easily reversible, while the other more commonly leads to permanent damage that is not. The connection here is that diabetes is the most common cause of kidney failure, accounting for nearly 44% of new cases. Even when diabetes […]
What the Foot?!
Struggling with foot pain? A common cause of foot pain is due to what is known as plantar fasciitis. But don’t worry! It’s very common and I have a simple routine that will help alleviate your foot pain. If you’re wondering why you’re feeling pain, it’s most likely due to tight muscles, over-use, being overweight, […]
The Best Kidney Defense Is Protection
Not monitoring yourself, only to one day find out you have kidney disease, and then trying to minimize the damage is not a good approach. It is important to look after the kidneys and get regular check-ups done, particularly if you are at risk of kidney diseases. That way, if there are any early signs of […]
Critical Basic Functions Of The Kidneys
You may not think about them much, but your kidneys are like workhorses in your body. They perform several important functions in the body to help keep it up and running. Sadly though, almost a third of the adults in the United States are at risk of developing kidney diseases. People who have been taking […]
High Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein (hsCRP) – Your Warning Alarm For Heart Disease
When it comes to heart disease, waiting until you get a symptom to know that you have an issue is too late. Prevention is the key to avoid potential irreversible damage to the heart or brain, or even worse, early death. Much more reliable than how we feel, lab tests will give us the inside […]
The Health Highs And Lows Of Magnesium
Magnesium is one of the major minerals of the human body. In relation to health, many have used it on the superficial level to help prevent muscle cramps and assist with bowel regularity. But magnesium’s benefits go much deeper than that as it also serves as a reliable predictor of all aspects of heart disease. […]
How Does Your Heart Score?
We seem to put a lot of importance on scores. There are tons of sports scores to follow every day, we just got past election scores, and some people even hold on to remembering their SAT scores from high school. But what about your health scores? You may know your cholesterol level and other conventional […]
