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5 Habits Affecting Your Gut Health (are you one of these people?)

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A healthy microbiome is key to living a healthy life. When it comes to gut health and the 5 lbs of bacteria that reside in your body, researchers continue to make discoveries about its connection to a variety of diseases and conditions, from anxiety and mood to obesity and IBS.

We tapped our friends at Onegevity to collaborate and weigh in on the matter. Continue reading →

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5 Simple Steps to Reducing Sugar In Your Diet — and Why You Need To

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Sugar is heavily scrutinized, from documentaries like Fed Up to books like Eve Shaub’s “Year of No Sugar: A Memoir,” because of its link to many potential health problems. Continue reading →

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Traveling? 10 Tips to Boost Immunity and Avoid Getting Sick

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While you might try to protect your immunity against the cold that’s going around in the home or office, it’s less common to have such protection during travel, which can be even more hazardous to  your immune system.

You are changing your environment, which means you are adjusting your daily healthy routines and eating habits, while in physical contact with far more objects that many others have touched.

Even though traveling during the upcoming cold and flu season might make getting sick feel inevitable, falling ill have to be your fate.

By initiating a few best practices and precautions, you might be able to dodge illness.

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Think You’re Done with Cold & Flu Season? Not so fast

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While you are more susceptible to getting a cold or flu during the peak months (December – March), a weakened immune system can and does happen year round. Common causes of catching a cold or flu include:

  • Through your mouth, eyes or nose, since the virus can spread through droplets in the air when someone who is sick coughs, sneezes or talks.
  • Hand-to-hand contact with someone who has a cold
  • Sharing contaminated objects, such as phones, utensils, towels, or toys
  • Touching your eyes, nose or mouth after such contact or exposure

Don’t let prevention be put on the back burner simply because you’re not sick. When you are sick you do everything you can to try to get better, but the easiest way to get better is not get sick!

For many their prevention plan consists of any or all of:
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The posts on this blog are for information only, and are not intended to substitute for a doctor-patient or other healthcare professional-patient relationship nor do they constitute medical or healthcare advice of any kind. Any information in these posts should not be acted upon without consideration of primary source material and professional input from one's own healthcare professionals.

Health or Hype: Why is Everyone Drinking Bone Broth?

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The Paleo community swears by it , Kobe Bryant reportedly drinks it to keep him on top of his game, and your grandmother was probably making it 70+ years ago.

It’s soup. Beef stock? Chicken stock? Yes.

While bone broth is not new, the trend of it as a nourishing, cure all, superfood is.

Broth drinkers claim endless benefits – that it boosts immunity, aids digestion, promotes healthier bones and joints, and even better looking skin and hair. The explosion in popularity has it being sipped by the mug, or used as a base for other dishes. Continue reading →

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Simple Wellness Steps: How to Supplement For Immunity

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We’ve been sharing tips for wellness that are actionable and easy to bring into your everyday life, in an effort to help you be your best self. We believe that incorporating small, feasible changes over shorter periods of change can help you experience the motivation and confidence that comes from seeing your personal goals fulfilled.

This week’s topic: Supplementing for your immunity Continue reading →

The posts on this blog are for information only, and are not intended to substitute for a doctor-patient or other healthcare professional-patient relationship nor do they constitute medical or healthcare advice of any kind. Any information in these posts should not be acted upon without consideration of primary source material and professional input from one's own healthcare professionals.