Shaklee Health Sciences Mothers are the world’s best jugglers: arranging family schedules from soccer to band practice to doctor’s appointments, planning meals, and dealing with money issues, childcare and work — they seem to do it all. There is a price to pay, however—the evidence is mounting that women today are experiencing more stress at…
Shaklee Health Sciences November is American Diabetes Month® and we’re asking the question – why should you care about diabetes? Because it is the leading cause of kidney disease, blindness, and amputations, yet nearly 25% of people who have it don’t even know it. In the United States 24 million people have been diagnosed with…
Shaklee Health Sciences Do you know which nutrient is created in your skin when exposed to adequate sunlight, facilitates calcium absorption and is so important to humans that it is considered to be both a vitamin and a hormone? Many of you may have guessed vitamin D and you would be correct! Vitamin D has…
The worldwide rise in obesity has become the public health issue of our day—and for good reason. The data paints a dismal picture of our current state, but suggest an even more foreboding future. As waistlines expand, so do cardiometabolic diseases (including diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and coronary heart disease), along with stroke, apnea, and osteoarthritis.…
It’s essential to the growth, repair, and maintenance of all body tissues. It’s also required for making enzymes – catalysts essential to all life processes, and hormones powerful chemical messengers that circulate through your bloodstream to specific target cells, where they generate a wide range of biological responses. It also helps your body maintain fluid…
In the past decade, inflammation has become one of the hottest topics in medical research because it is emerging as a possible cause of many of the chronic diseases that threaten the quality and the length of life. . If that’s true, then addressing inflammation could be a singular approach to targeting multiple health conditions…
In a meta-analysis of eight randomly controlled trials (N=1176), supplementing with lutein/zeaxanthin was associated with significant improvements in visual acuity and contrast sensitivity for patients with established age-related macular degeneration. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2014 Dec 16;56(1):252-8. PMID: 25515572.
In a review of nine studies (N=726) on the use of peppermint oil for irritable bowel syndrome, peppermint oils was found to be significantly superior to placebo for reducing both symptoms and abdominal pain. J Clin Gastroenterol. 2014 Jul;48(6):505-12. PMID: 24100754.
Zinc is well known as an insulin mimetic, as well as a regulator of oxidative stress, inflammation, apoptosis, and insulin secretion. Zinc has shown modest improvements in many areas of blood sugar control, including reducing fasting glucose and HbA1c (glycated hemoglobin) levels. This review highlights the importance of further, longer studies. Food Nutr Bull. 2013…
Ninety men and women with idiopathic chronic fatigue (ICF) were enrolled in a 4 week randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of ethanoic extract of Panax ginseng to assess ginseng’s efficacy for reduction of fatigue. Significant improvements in fatigue were noted (on mental numeric and visual analog scales) for participants consuming 2 grams of the extract a…