The cardiovascular system provides essential oxygen and nutrients to all organs of the body. Cardiovascular disorders are conditions of the heart and blood vessels which included heart, stroke and vascular diseases. Contributing factors include: unhealthy lifestyles, our fast food culture, weight gain, stress, and lack of activity. Specifically, nutrient poor diets and various medications can leach essential nutrients from your body that you need to stay health. Research clearly supports how a healthy diet, proper exercise, and proper supplementation can offer tremendous benefits in healing and reversing cardiovascular disease.
When you were a kid, your mother may have told you, “You are what you eat.” As cliché as it may have been, there is a lot of truth to the saying. Healthy foods have profound healing powers, while unhealthy foods wreak havoc on our bodies. It all seems simple enough, right? Despite what we know through modern science about nutrition, though, many of us... Read More
Having high cholesterol doesn’t usually come with any symptoms, yet it is one of the leading causes of heart attacks and strokes. People with high cholesterol have at least twice the risk of a heart attack than those who don’t. Most people assume their cholesterol levels are fine but, if they’re wrong, they may have dangerously clogged arteries that can reduce blood flow and lead... Read More
You may remember from science class that magnesium is a gray mineral that is the ninth most-abundant element in the universe. It is also the fourth most-abundant mineral in the body, in which about 60% of it is found in bone. A lack of magnesium has little effect on our stature, but it affects so much of our body’s functions. Most Americans are not aware... Read More
Omega-3 fish oil supplements are among the most popular supplements in the United States. Look through any health magazine and you are bound to find an ad for a fish oil product that touts various benefits, such as “Good For the Heart”, or “Better Brain Health”, or “Boosts Immune System” but does the science support claims like these or are they mostly hype? Fortunately for... Read More
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