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Keeping Your Brain Healthy As the world emerges from what was for many a prolonged period of inactivity and stress, it’s not just our bodies that have become soft - our brains are inevitably affected too. Just as Dr. James Levine coined the term “sitting is the new smoking” to describe the increase in heart disease and diabetes that accompanies too much inactivity, 2018 research from the University of California has found that sedentary behavior is also linked to thinning in regions of the brain that are critical to memory formation. Our Brain is Arguably our Most Valuable Organ A healthy brai

A Natural Approach to Lowering High Blood Pressure Did you know your blood pressure could be out of control without you even knowing? High blood pressure is a major contributor to heart disease, and the months of stress, uncertainty, poor diet and immobility we have all been going through are not helping matters. When the way your blood flows through your body is affected by your habits, vital nutrients and oxygen can’t get to where they are needed in the body. And as the pressure continues to mount, we start to see physical damage in the arteries and organs that can lead to heart disease and

Hmmm. If you’re diabetic you know that’s a big additional risk factor for death in this uhhhh current environment. Finally someone tells us why — hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) causes massive oxidative stress which in turns depletes your

Could the cause of hair loss be something more? There are so many reasons as to why hair could be thinning. It could be genetically predisposed, diet, shampoo use, stress, hormones, pregnancy or even vitamin deficiencies! There is always a

Aloha, Spring is here and the weather is warming up! People are getting outside and enjoying the beautiful sunshine. Personally, the warmer weather motivates me to exercise more and shake off my winter’s hibernation. But as I exercise more, I experience more aches, pains, and tight muscles. I constantly need to stretch in order to keep my body mobile, flexible, and injury-free. I find yoga and stretching help significantly with my aches and pains from a bulging lumbar and neuropathy in my feet and legs. Yoga can help in more ways than you can imagine ranging from relieving stress to protecting

Stress, sleep, nipple stimulation, medications, pregnancy, and macroprolactin matter.

How you sit or lie down for the sample, and stress during collection, can affect this result. Use the cutoff from the lab that ran your test.

…because of nutritional deficiencies, genetics, or oxidative stress—homocysteine begins to accumulate . Traditionally, the focus was on lowering the number itself. The Purser Model suggests something more important is happening. The Real Pro…

…s soluble-receptor trans-signaling, homocysteine, oxidative stress, and diffuse pain. Glutathione, superoxide dismutase, and catalase have different antioxidant roles and do not act as the same kind of intervention as a prescribed IL-6 rece…

…e immune cells that can release cytokines when they receive stress or danger signals. Follow the pathway Dr. Purser discusses reactive oxygen species, NF-κB, NLRP3, and the cytokines IL-8/CXCL8 and CCL2/MCP-1. His antioxidant teaching pair…

…s the relationship between cytokine signaling and oxidative stress. He distinguishes targeted therapies that act on a specific immune pathway from glutathione, superoxide dismutase, and catalase, which have different antioxidant functions. …

… fibroblasts, TGF-beta, inflammatory signals, and oxidative stress with scar formation. He discusses the difference between reducing inflammation and treating a fibrotic process; antioxidant mechanisms do not prove reversal of established l…