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NAD Therapy Boosts Energy in Brain Cells
- NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) is a naturally occurring molecule that is essential for the metabolism of every cell in the body. More specifically, NAD reacts with oxygen in the mitochondria in each cell to produce...
Neurofeedback: A Natural Approach for Brain Health and Wellness
- Neurofeedback is a safe, drugless, noninvasive approach to helping your brain regulate better. While neurofeedback isn’t necessarily a treatment for any condition, a few of the issues we have helped children and adults with include memory...
Adequate Levels Have Multiple Benefits
- Vitamin D is essential to human health. The benefits of adequate vitamin D levels in the body can include a strengthened immune system, colon health, improved mood, strong bones and teeth, heart function and...
The science tells us it’s never too early but it can be too late:
Brain Health May be the Key to Warding off Alzheimer's and Dementia
Edward Shehab is on the front lines of the fight against Alzheimer’s and dementia. He’s the managing partner for Memory Health, a company whose product, also called Memory Health, is a patented all-natural brain enhancer developed following...
Related Health Issues and Common Solutions
- Life consists of countless biochemical processes. Breathing, digesting food, and even swallowing each requires specific chemical reactions. Enzymes allow all these chemical reactions to happen. Quite literally, enzymes make life...
Yoga Contributes to Whole-Person Healing
- It’s remarkable how many people go through life running on autopilot, not even thinking about breathing–an absolute necessity to...
Side effects Could Include Headaches, Asthmatic Reactions, Nausea andIirritability
- Those fragrant whiffs coming from your (or your neighbor's) dryer vent may not be good for your mental health. These fumes may contain toxins with...
A Natural Approach to Gut Health
- Colostrum is a natural product with a high percentage of growth factors that help with cellular repair, regrowth and healing leaky gut. It also has a high percentage of immunoglobulins which are natural...
Nutritional Testing Program at Bence Chiropractic Wellness Center
- Balanced Health nutritional testing is now available at Bence Chiropractic Wellness Center in Macomb and Sterling Heights. Through the test, Dr. Sibyl Bence, can use a saliva sample, hair sample and questionnaire to assess how stressed the body’s...
Alternative Approaches to Common Medications that May be Causing Digestive Issues
- Below are some general informational guidelines for alternative approaches to common medications that may be causing digestive issues. Since every person is different, with potentially different issues, always seek...
Live Longer and Improve Your Mood
- Many of us read about "diet" and don’t really understand the connection between what we are eating and the impact it has on our digestive health. A ketogenic (keto) diet for instance is a ...
Ayurvedic Thai Massage Balances the Body
- In these times, many are struggling with all the outside stressors pulling people in every direction. Not only is this exhausting, but it can also take a toll on physical health. It is difficult to...
The real problem and solution can be found internally.
- Rosacea (roe-ZAY-she-uh) is a common skin condition that causes redness and visible blood vessels in the face. It may also produce small, red, pus-filled bumps. Often it can appear as...
Recognizing and treating sleep disordered breathing issues
- “You snore!” she said. “No, I don’t”, he replied. Sound familiar? You may have adjusted your bedroom lighting, turned off electronics and used many other ideas but still do not wake refreshed. Change the pronouns and the story is still the same. Your answer may be found at...
Solution-focused Technique for Stress and Anxiety Reduction
- yes can be vital to mental health, as demonstrated by the effects of Integral Eye Movement Technique (IEMT). Integral Eye Movement Technique (IEMT) developed from Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) and psychotherapy models after the observation of numerous neurological phenomena that occur during...
The spine, specifically the upper cervical spine, could be seen as the backbone of the immune system.
- he spine, specifically the upper cervical spine, could be seen as the backbone of the immune system. Upper cervical care is a unique branch of healthcare within the chiropractic profession that focuses on proper alignment of the upper vertebrae in the neck. The importance of these vertebrae...
Help for Anxiety and Depression Caused by Health Issues
- According to the National Institute of Mental Health, over 40 million adults in the U.S. have some form of anxiety disorder. In addition, the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) found that depression affects roughly 10% of U.S. adults. Mental health issues of...
Safeguard Brain Development
- A mother’s coffee drinking during pregnancy can change important pathways in an infant’s developing brain, raising the risk of behavioral issues, attention difficulty and...
Soothe Your Nervous System with Healing Touch
by Donna Pascaretta
- May is the month we celebrate mothers and mothers to be! Being a woman in the 21st century is not an easy task. Women face challenges daily that are now being compounded with COVID issues. Women manage...
Updated 2020-2025 Guidelines
- In updated 2020-2025 dietary guidelines, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have endorsed the specific use of certain supplements, noting that under-consumption of some...
Sleepless Nights May Trigger Rise In Anxiety Levels
- A natural, non-pharmaceutical remedy for anxiety disorders that affect 40 million Americans is as close as our beds, say University of California at Berkeley researchers. In Nature Human Behaviour, they reported that...
Store-Bought Baby Food May Pose Hidden Dangers
- As convenient as store-bought baby food is, it can pose hidden dangers for infant brains, say U.S. congressional investigators. A report issued by the House of Representatives on February 4 found...
Study Showed Improvements In Blood Bessel Health, Exercise Performance Levels and Muscle Mass
- Non-alcoholic beer is booming, with U.S. sales up by 39 percent last year, and it now poses a health benefit as a study-proven dietary supplement for people with cirrhosis of the liver. Many nutritional supplements don’t work for such patients because...
Natural Immune System Support Eases Airborne and Food Allergies
by Lee Rossano
- No matter what allergens, whether food, environmental/chemical or airborne pollens, trigger an individual’s spring allergies, all allergies have this in common: they perpetuate themselves by aggravating the immune system. Allergies are a sign of a tired immune system. Constant sinus infection and rounds of antibiotics deplete the immune system as well as create...
Study Shows Beetroot Juice Relaxes and Widens Blood Vessels
- Hypertension is a global disease that particularly affects people in low-income communities, but a new study by the UK University of Nottingham suggests that beetroot juice may be a practical solution for people with high blood pressure that have little access to...
Study Shows Both Types Improved Cholesterol, Triglyceride and LDL-C Levels
- Iranian researchers tested 90 patients undergoing elective heart angioplasty, giving one group 500 milligrams (mg) curcumin, the second group 80 mg nano-curcumin, and the third a placebo. After...
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Propolis and Vitamins A, E and D
- Two new studies offer hope for dealing with the winter’s respiratory woes. Propolis, the resin-like substance made by bees from plants to build their hives, has been used for centuries to...
Use Humates for Rich Soil and a Healthy Body
- A healthy home starts with the ground underneath it, and healthy ground starts with humates. Also called humic acid, humates add trace minerals to and remove toxins from soil. They can even supplement drinking...
Spring Cleaning for the Body
By Jason Eagle
- A clean sponge is needed for spring cleaning, and the body is like a sponge that needs to be cleaned—by detoxifying it. The first level of detox (classic detox) includes cleaning up one’s diet, by taking specific detoxifying herbs and products or...
How Environmental Factors Influence Our Health and Behavior
- "Human adipose (fat) tissue from U.S. residents has revealed 700+ chemical contaminants that have not been chemically identified while more than 80,000+ chemicals and toxicants have been developed, distributed and discarded into...
Tips for Controlling Our Indoor Environment
- We contribute to outdoor air pollution in hundreds of subtle ways. While ultimately outdoor air pollution must be reduced as a matter of public policy, individuals still make a difference. Limiting the use of chemicals and making energy-efficient choices will reduce your personal contribution. We each have so much...
Platelet-Rich Fibrin and Laser Therapies Enhance Healing
- Regenerative dentistry may be the appropriate approach for patients whose damaged jaw and oral tissues increase the risk of conventional surgical procedures. The regenerative modalities of...
Have a Healthy, Strong Heart
- It is said that a good, strong heart is like music...steady and on the beat. This means, for example, that if a heart is beating 60 times per minute, each beat would be...
Relieve Unpleasant Symptoms with BioIdentical Hormones
- Menopause is the time when a woman says good-bye to her reproductive years and ushers in a time of hormone imbalances. Many experience unpleasant symptoms such as...