by Sayer Ji Since ancient times, turmeric has been used for remedying oral ailments, among other therapeutic applications too numerous to count.[1] Consider that plants like turmeric were first eaten for thousands of years before our species ever devised the modern day oddity of encapsulated…
By Jonathan Parker Nothing beats being able to reach over to your window and pluck fresh herbs for tea or garnish for a nice meal. Not all of us have a green thumb, so growing plants indoors might seem a little out of our league. Here…
By Jeffrey Green Imagine if there was a food you could eat that would help in the fight against lung cancer. An everyday food that, when eaten raw, could cut the chances of not only lung cancer but bowel cancer and other serious health problems….
by Case Adams, Naturopath Researchers from the University of Oxford have determined that B vitamin supplementation can slow and possibly reverse the progression of Alzheimer’s symptoms along with cognitive impairment. The researchers – from Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences – conducted a clinical trial…
by Joe Martino Wisdom can often be very simple, but at the same time, putting it into practice isn’t always as easy. That’s OK! Have a laugh about it and keep going! For some of us, we live in a fast-paced world, for others we…
By Sayer Ji New research is revealing something remarkable about why the body sweats. Beyond its obvious role in regulating body temperature, sweating has been found to facilitate the elimination of accumulated heavy metals and petrochemicals, indicating that if we want to be healthy we…
By Erin Schumacher Most toothpaste contains sugar, fluoride, artificial colors, and other harmful ingredients that are best avoided. They also contain glycerine which form a protective coating on your teeth. Not so bad, you might think? Think again. The glycerine prevents the beneficial minerals in your…
By Sayer Ji What Is Oil Pulling? Oil pulling is an ancient Indian folk remedy first mentioned in the early Ayurvedic text, the Charaka Samhita, which was believed to have been written approximately 1500 years ago. One oil pulls by simply swishing a tablespoon of…
by Jad T. Jones A lot of us have forgotten where we came from. We came from this. We came from nature. We came from the land. In our day-to-day lives, we are living in boxes, on concrete streets, in air-conditioned rooms, with artificial lights,…
A simple 10-minute-per-day meditation method to achieve your dreams By Jeffrey Green Are you interested in meditation but aren’t sure what to do or how to begin? Since there are countless ways to meditate it can be frustrating to choose which path is best, especially…
By Heather Callaghan Were you surprised to see that 70% of Americans are on prescription drugs? A majority of them are anti-depressants which have dangerous and sometimes deadly results. Anyone who has ever visited SSRIstories.com knows what I’m talking about. Well-meaning doctors don’t often look…
By Robert Bejil By Jonathan Parker Flexibility, the proclaimed “Third Pillar” of fitness. We all try to do a quick calf stretch or two after a workout. But aside from yoga and pilates aficionados, most of us don’t get nearly enough of this excellent exercise. It…
By Jonathan Parker 2013. The year of flying cars and private space travel right? My broken phone that’s lying on the floor next to the chair has more computing power than existed in the whole world 40 years ago We are no longer talking about how…
By Case Adams Clinical and laboratory research from India has proven that an Ayurvedic formula used for liver infections halts the often deadly hepatitis B virus. Indian scientists utilized a formula that has been referred to as HD-03/ES. This is an Ayurvedic herb liver formulation…
By Natasha Longo Unless you’ve experienced a very acute injury requiring life-saving emergency medical attention, most hospital stays are not conducive environments for healing, especially relating to nutritional support. Hospital food is almost unpalatable and from the perspective of nutrient density and optimal nourishment of…
by Dr. Daniel Chong What are the most basic, fundamental recommendations you can think of in terms of how to improve your health and prevent disease? Eat well. Exercise. Get more sleep. Sound familiar? That’s what I learned in school and that’s what I teach…
By Jonathan Parker Five Danish High School girls found themselves in the news after winning a regional science competition. The students’ goal was to devise a project that measured the affect of cell phone radiation on plants. And their results were really quite astounding. There have…
By Jonathan Parker Sometimes our lives take on a velocity of their own. If we aren’t careful, it’s easy to get swept up and let the stress of life dictate how we life, what we do, and how long we do it. Years ago, I decided…
By Dr. Scott Graves Do you take a daily multivitamin? What if that multivitamin you take was actually poison and you didn’t know it? Many people these days seem to understand that we are missing nutritional factors from the food we eat because the quality…
By Dr. Nathan Daley If you’ve heard that life is movement, it’s true. If you’ve heard that just sitting around can kill you, it’s also true. Physical inactivity is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide![1] You may have heard the media reporting recently on several…
