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Gut & Digestive Health

Balance the Feast: Festive Digestion and Liver Tips

The holiday season is synonymous with lavish meals, festive drinks, and more than a few rounds of dessert. From carnivals, seasonal markets, and fe...

Brain & Cognition

What are the Health Benefits of Resveratrol?

Dementia and memory problems are becoming increasingly prevalent as baby-boomers age, and there are a great many natural products coming on to the ...

Immune Support

How to Protect Both Your Lungs & Immunity at the Same Time

Life on earth started with bacteria, which were, and are fully dependent on always having an external source of food energy [1] (If the food runs o...

Bone Health

A Game-Changing Supplement for University Students, Teachers & Healthcare Workers

Are you a post-secondary student or an individual whose job requires frequent interaction with the public, and want to keep your immune response st...

Inspirational

Clear Actionable Steps You Can Take to Help NHPs!

In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Ministry of Truth was actually serving the opposite purpose. Given the extent to which Health Canada...

Allergies

Congested Liver? Low Thyroid? How Xenoestrogens Affect Us All

Last week we talked about how seasonal allergies can put a load on the liver, and in turn how a congested liver can worsen allergies, particularly ...

Allergies

How to Tolerate Smoke + Pollens + Seasonal Allergies

This month I have been talking and writing about allergies and hormonal imbalance, and how the two can overlap and aggravate one another. Because o...

Heart Health

The 8 forms of Vitamin E: Are Tocotrienols Superior to Tocopherols?

As the value of antioxidants gained headlines in the 1980's, vitamin E was the star for a long time. particularly for cancer prevention and cardiov...

Detoxification

The Journey of a Toxin

Every day, your body makes waste while it is doing its job of living. We are also now exposed to an absolute barrage of toxins that didn't exist un...

Detoxification

Do You Need to Protect Your Liver While Cleansing?

As Spring arrives, many people like to do a cleanse for their liver. What this presumably means is to get the liver to spit out toxins it's been st...

Gut & Digestive Health

Better Digestion Through Gut-Liver Hygiene

There are many benefits from good liver function, including smooth, vibrant skin and more energy, but did you know that supporting your liver can a...

Allergies

Health Canada authorizes claims for DDS-1 Probiotic strain found in Opti-Elite Probiotics

Probiotics are beginning to be implicated in virtually all aspects of health, including having an impact on blood sugar, insulin, and blood lipid p...