Top 5 Supplements For Overall Health

Useful Supplements for Maintaining Good Health Supplements can be a useful way to boost your health and help you reach your goals. However, there are many different supplements out there, so choosing the right ones can be confusing. Here are my top 5 overall health supplements that I recommend to people looking for an easy way to improve their health: L-Theanine L-Theanine L-Theanine is an amino acid derived from green tea and has been shown to produce soothing effects. Studies show that taking 250mg of L-Theanine in the afternoon can help you sleep better at night, so if you’re struggling

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Improve Your Mood With Food

Let’s unpack some of the exciting (and preliminary) new research about the link between gut health, mood, and stress. This week we’ll talk about your friendly resident gut microbes, probiotic foods, and supplements, as well as offer some simple recipes to keep your gut and taste buds happy. GUT MICROBES There are trillions of microbes that happily live in our gut. These friendly microbes do more than help us digest foods, make vitamins, and protect us from the not-so-friendly microbes – they have mood-boosting and stress-busting functions too!It’s a hotbed of research right now and we’re finding out more about their

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Mood Matters…The Holistic Approach

One in 10 Americans now take an antidepressant medication; among women in their 40’s and 50’s, the figure is approximately 1 in 4. That’s roughly 11% of all Americans, over the age of twelve, taking pharmaceuticals for depression or mental health issues, according to the Harvard Medical Journal. Staggering figures, especially since more people are being diagnosed with psychological conditions, than ever before. Individuals diagnosed with mental health conditions who are currently on prescribed medications, don’t wish to go the pharmaceutical route, or are just considering their options; may wish to consider alternative means of treatment. “Alternative” or natural medicine

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Living With Chronic Pain

Have you ever felt bad? I mean really bad, ached all over, had dull throbbing pain, or sharp stabbing pain all over? It’s exhausting! There is nothing you can do about it. It’s with you day and night, chronic pain, always reminding you of your limitations, those things that you can no longer enjoy, because of pain. Maybe you were born with a condition that keeps you in pain, perhaps you had an injury or were diagnosed with a disorder that creates pain and discomfort daily. Unless someone has experienced it for themselves, they truly don’t understand the mental and

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