Time to Nip Your Springtime Allergies in the Bud
While medications are readily available and generally affordable to fight allergies, there is a big price to pay for their convenience. Synthetic medications come with a number of side effects that can negatively affect your health – some of which can be as bad or worse than the allergy symptoms themselves. Among the long list of potential side effects...
Baking Soda: 23 Uses for Your Health and Home
It sits in my cupboard, probably much like yours — a cheap box of what is better known as the go-to fridge and freezer deodorizer. Yes, you might also cook with it, but I bet you didn't know there are a gazillion ways to put sodium bicarbonate to work in your home. It seems that I find new uses...
Essential Oils For Every Type of Headache
Headaches are all too common. Nearly all of us experience them at some point, and many suffer from repetitive headache disorders. Up to one in 20 adults lives with a headache daily. The National Headache Foundation estimates that over 45 million Americans deal with chronic, recurring headaches. Headaches can be caused many different ways, with over 150 diagnostic categories established....
Flavored E-Cigarettes the New and Deadly “Candy”
The results of the 2014 National Youth Tobacco Survey provided some startling statistics about the smoking habits of today's youth. It was revealed that 2.5 million U.S. middle and high school students are using e-cigarettes or vaping, as it is also called. Vaping on the Rise According to the data compiled from 20,000 schoolchildren in the CDC's annual youth tobacco survey,...
Science Shows That Men Lose Their Memory Before Women
While decline in memory function is something that happens to everyone with age, it has been shown that it happens earlier to men. At the Mayo Clinic and Foundation in Minnesota, a recent study was conducted on a group of 1,246 participants between the ages of 30 and 95. The purpose of the study was to reach a better...
A Noninvasive Way to Control Prosthetics with the Power of Your Mind
Scientists at the University of Houston developed a wearable "thinking cap" that can externally monitor brain activity from outside the scalp. The thinking cap is essentially an electroencephalogram (EEG) brain monitoring machine. This brain-machine interface (BMI) analyzes and interprets brain waves and converts them into mechanical movement through the prosthetic limbs. For example, if a patient is thinking about a...
Lowe’s Nixes Neonicotinoids: The Significance of this Decision
There has recently been an announcement of good news for our environment, which may end up being quite far-reaching: The large home improvement chain, Lowe's, has announced it will phase out the sale of neonicotinoid pesticides, including those plants and products treated with them, by 2019. Lowe's decision to put an end to its sale of these products follows Home...
Soybean Oil vs Coconut Oil: And the Winner Is?
If you're still eating processed foods — or using vegetable oil — you're likely getting a considerable dose of soybean oil in your diet. In fact, up to 80 percent of the oil in the American diet is comprised of soy. So, what's the problem? Well, sadly, there are many. Soybean oil, and unfermented soybeans in general, have been linked...
The Secret Causes of Chapped Lips (It’s Not Lip Balm Deficiency!)
Most of us reach for lip balm or chapstick when we have dry lips without a second thought. But is your body actually trying to tell you something with chronic chapped lips? There could be an unknown nutrient deficiency, allergy or health condition causing dry lips. Nutrient deficiencies or excesses If you take more than 25,000 IU of vitamin A per day,...
Podcast Episode #3: Beating the Fear of Death, Meditation, Yoga, Butter & Coffee, The Worst Sunscreen
People are plagued by fears every single day. Some are low level fears, and some actually cause us to go into panic attacks and have us operating on high levels of anxiety. Jake shares how he literally beat his high level fear of death with Kelee Meditation. Yoga is a great mind & body tool that can not only relax...
