Stress. Sometimes it’s insidious, creeping up on you while you’re sitting in traffic, causing your blood pressure to rise and your jaw to clench. Or it can hit you like a ten-ton truck, such as in the event of a serious illness, knocking you off your feet and leaving you feeling like you may never recover. No matter how it comes, it always comes—stress is part of the human experience.

Certain times of the year matters of the heart are more apparent. Unfortunately for many women February is far from a bed of roses. Instead it merely brings to the forefront their everyday struggles of living with a major hormonal imbalance. Vitex can help.

February is American Heart Month, and while you’ll no doubt see and hear a lot about the heart this month, it is but one piece of the whole picture of cardiovascular health. Of equal importance is the intricate system of arteries, veins, and capillaries—collectively called the blood vessels—that put the vascular in cardiovascular.

A flurry of modern research on the human microbiota—the vast colony of microbes that reside in and on our bodies—has revealed the diverse and essential role these bacteria play in human health. The latest of this research has stirred intense scientific interest: Our gut bacteria can be a major determinant of whether we are thin or overweight.

Avoiding the common pitfalls of a vegetarian or vegan diet

With books and celebrities touting a vegetarian or vegan diet as the path to everything from beauty and weight loss to enlightenment, you might find yourself considering just such a diet. Or maybe you’re a long-time veggie, abstaining from meat since you first read Diet for a Small Planet.

Acne vulgaris. The name sounds as bad as the white heads, black heads and cysts make you feel.

Essential Oils are highly concentrated substances derived from a plant that usually bears the aroma or flavor of that plant.

What a new understanding of cardiovascular health means for your own heart health

Remember when you were young and everything seemed so simple, and was accepted without question? Storks delivered babies, Santa brought the toys, and we all lived happily ever after.

Fifty percent of women and 40 percent of men categorize themselves as having sensitive skin and, if you’re one of these individuals, you know how challenging it can be to find products that aren’t irritating to your skin.¹ People with sensitive skin report frequent feelings of tightness, tingling, burning and/or visible skin changes such as redness, dryness, scaling, peeling, bu

With so much information out there coming from so many sources it can be hard to know, let alone remember, what to take for our health! Bone health is no exception. We all know calcium and vitamin D are important, but did you know that there are other key nutrients required for bone health missing from our diets? Just think of the handy acronym CBS: collagen (calcium, too!), boron, and silica.