Heads Up: Brief Downtime for Updates
Hello! This is Danielle with a quick update: I’ll be performing general maintenance on our phones, email, and website starting Thursday, October 2nd through Friday, October 3rd. Everything is scheduled to be back to normal on Monday, October 6th. ✨ Good news: Your browsing and user experience on the website will not be affected during this time. ⚠️ What will be impacted: Orders placed will be held and ship on October 6th. Phones will...
Beyond Calcium: The Essential Nutrient Women Can’t Ignore
If you’re a woman, especially over age 40, and you’ve been to a doctor anytime in the recent past, you’ve undoubtedly been urged to increase your calcium (with supplements and/or dairy products) for bone health and osteoporosis prevention. Now of course, there’s nothing wrong with recommending calcium! Your bones do need it, after all. But what IS wrong is the fact that many women are led to believe that calcium is ALL that matters...
5 Simple Lifestyle Tweaks to Support Healthy Blood Pressure
According to the CDC, currently about 119 million Americans have high blood pressure—that’s about half of US adults! And that number is particularly startling when you consider that back in 2017 (just 8 years ago) “only” 75 million Americans had hypertension. That’s an increase of nearly 60 percent. Now, during that time period the BP ranges for what is considered “high blood pressure” were lowered which instantly reclassified people who had formerly been considered...
What Happens When You Take a Multivitamin?
I can’t tell you the number of times I have heard or read about a health practitioner saying things like: You don’t need a multivitamin—it’s just a waste of money. You get all the nutrients you need from your food. It won’t make any difference in your health. All of these statements could not be more untrue and here’s why: You don’t need it First of all, unless someone has gone through extensive nutrient...
Score Big on Sunday with This Winning Recipe
If you’ve been a reader of mine for a while, you probably remember that I love NFL football. Especially my Green Bay Packers! Being from Upstate New York, that may surprise some people, but rest assured, the Buffalo Bills are also near and dear to my heart. Football season is a great time to get together with family and friends to watch a game and cheer on your favorite team, but these gatherings and/or...
Tiny Little Gland, BIG Health Impact Hidden Within
If I were to ask what you think plays the biggest role in your level of health from head to toe, what would you say? Your diet? Your gut microbiome? How much you exercise? Those are all great answers, but arguably, the factor that packs the biggest punch in terms of your overall health is a little butterfly-shaped gland that is comfortably nestled in the base of your neck. Your THYROID. Here’s what I...