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Many jokes are made about going to the bathroom, but for many people it’s no laughing matter. It’s a well-known fact that your health can be determined by the type and number of bowel movements you regularly have in a day. Bowel related diseases such as constipation, colitis, diverticulitis, IBS, and colon cancer are on the rise, accounting for 2.5 million physician...

There's been a lot of talk about the new supplement beta-alanine that has hit the Sports Nutrition market. Beta-alanine is a precursor to carnosine, which is made in the body from two Amino Acids: histidine and beta-alanine. Carnosine is found in high concentrations in skeletal muscle of athletes that are fast-twitch muscle dominant, typically found in sprinters, football players, and bodybuilders. Supplementation with beta-alanine has...

While most expectant mothers wouldn’t think of harming their child with smoking or drinking, how many actually consider what their emotional state may be doing to their unborn child? The connection between mind and body may have been controversial in the orthodox scientific realm once, but more and more evidence is confirming what most individuals instinctively knew all along, that the mind and...

Hardly a day goes by without someone coming in asking for advice on how to manage his or her cholesterol levels. The advice given by so many health care professionals has reached the state of a religious mantra that rarely gets questioned, lower your cholesterol levels or else. Despite the ever-mounting data discrediting the entire premise on which the cholesterol theory is...

Beyond Echinacea And Vitamin C: If you've had your fill of taking your child to the doctor's office for upper respiratory tract infections or ear infections, you might want to see if it's a lack of exercise, poor diet or too much body fat. Echinacea, Vitamin C and a course of antibiotics are the cure. Albeit, these compounds have their place, but to really...

How do you know if you have histadelia? Histadelia is characterized by insomnia, gastric pain, nausea, and persistent headaches. There's a tendency towards depression, a state of chronic inner tension, and an obsessive-compulsive-like mood with a short temper and even phobias. If you’re lying in bed at night hoping for sleep, but your brain won't stop, this can be the chatter of...