By Dr. Jamie McManus. When it comes to concerns about your child’s health, helping them to have strong bones may not be at the top of your list, but it should be. Building strong bones by adopting healthy nutritional and lifestyle habits in early childhood is critically important in helping to prevent osteoporosis later in…
By Dr. Jamie McManus. Brain health and cognitive function are top concerns for most adults, especially for those of us who have reached the age of 50. When asked, most people fear losing their intellectual capacity much more than death. Memories of friends and family are a large part of what makes life rich and…
By Dr. Jamie McManus There is no doubt that a diet low in processed foods, sugar, and higher in vegetables is good for you. While all of these changes can be a good thing, many people who try to eat better may actually miss an essential element in their diet. Iodine doesn’t make the news…
Carrageenan is a dietary fiber isolated from several species of seaweed and has been consumed by humans for more than 2,000 years. It is commonly used as a food ingredient due to its thickening and gelling properties. In dietary supplements, it works as a tableting aid and is often used to make sustained-release formulations. Safety…
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…