A woman’s hormones are a beautiful thing… at least they should be, but too often we view our hormones as the enemy. After all, they are the reason some of us go on the warpath each month, causing our partners to run for cover; or they may turn you into an emotional basket case, causing you to breakdown if someone looks at you the wrong way.

Tired? Run down? Burned out? Worn out? Exhausted? One of every four people admits to feeling tired much of the time. And a recent survey, conducted by the Hartman Group, which tracks consumer trends, found that one-third of Americans say they have less energy today compared with a year ago. Not surprisingly, fatigue is the most common complaint physicians hear from their patients.

The purpose of an elimination diet is to discover symptom-triggering foods. Everyone’s body responds to foods differently. If we are sensitive to a food, there are a host of symptoms our body can respond with, such as headaches, skin rashes, joint pains, and digestive problems, just to name a few.

Learn Why This Fabled Berry Is a Flu Virus’s Worst Nightmare

The black elder tree, also called the elderberry tree, has a rich, longstanding history of folklore.

A Power Duo for Urinary Tract Health

If you’ve ever experienced a urinary tract infection (UTI) you know immediately the burning pain, the constant and intense urge (but inability) to urinate, and the uncomfortable ache in your lower abdomen. These infections are uncomfortable at best, and at worst can lead to severe pain and kidney infections.

Cancer is on the rise, particularly sex hormone related varieties, such as breast and prostate. Most of us have been touched in some way by cancer and it is safe to say we all have a desire to avoid developing this devastating disease. Research is surfacing about the power of a natural substance in vegetables that may help lower your sex hormone related cancer risk. Vegetables you ask?

Reduce Your Exposures, Enhance Your Body’s Defenses

We live in a chemical soup, made up of some 80,000 chemicals, most of which did not exist 70 years ago.¹ Many of them end up in our food, our water, our homes, the air we breathe, and ultimately, our bodies.

Coenzyme Q10 may have a perplexing name, but there’s nothing strange about what this vitamin-like nutrient can do. CoQ10, as it is commonly known, has fundamental and far-reaching effects on health. Discovered in 1957, its role in cellular energy production formed the basis of the 1978 Nobel Prize in chemistry. That’s a pedigree that few other nutrients can claim.

The yellows and reds of autumn, as pretty as they may be, presage another change that comes this time each year: a much greater risk of catching the common cold or flu. But the truth is you don’t have to sit idly by waiting to get sick. Your body’s immune system defends against all manner of infections.

Boost IQ, Improve Immunity, Prevent Disease, AND Enhance Focus and Concentration

Why eat food? Food is the best source of nutrients necessary for proper growth, disease prevention, and to achieve our maximum potential. Without adequate amounts of these nutrients, our brains and bodies cannot functional properly, immunity is compromised, and disease becomes more likely.

Colds and flus are a part of growing up. In fact, exposure to infectious agents is one of the ways a child’s immune system matures into a fully functioning adult immune system. So even though frequent minor infections during childhood can be uncomfortable and disruptive, they do serve the important purpose of strengthening a child’s immune system for the long haul.

Celiac disease (CD) is a hereditary autoimmune response to the gluten proteins found in wheat, spelt, kamut, rye, triticale, barley, and perhaps oats. This means that when a person with celiac disease eats a gluten-containing food, the person’s immune system mistakes the gluten proteins as foreign invaders and produces an inflammatory response in the small intestine.