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Amazing Benefits of Sleeping on Your Left Side

Have you ever wondered to what extent the two sides of your body mirror each other? It is very common for me to have a patient tell me that they have all their issues on just one side of the body. A...

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Discover Your Personal Weight Loss Plan

Average Reading Time: 7 minutes and 55 seconds Autumn is in full-swing and just around the corner are the holidays. And with the holidays and the cooler weather moving in, many of us find ourselves...

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Why Your Uric Acid Levels Matter

Average Reading Time: 5 minutes and 41 seconds Once upon a time, about 16 million years ago, a few brave apes left East Africa and wandered north across land bridges into Eurasia – Turkey, to be exact....

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How Much Meat Is Right For You?

Average Reading Time: 3 minutes and 55 seconds Likely as a result of the popularity of the high-protein diet, the Atkins diet and Paleo, America has shifted its consumption of protein and meat to...

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What You Don’t Know About Cholesterol

Average Reading Time: 4 minutes and 12 seconds Cholesterol has been under much media scrutiny of late as the medical establishment continues to argue over this issue. The still unresolved issue is...

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Two Superfruits for the Intestinal Skin, Lymph & Heart

Average Reading Time: 4 minutes and 31 seconds In this article, I’d like to share with you two amazing fruits that have the ability to support digestion, lymphatic drainage, healthy arterial walls, and...

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How the Sugar Industry Conspiracy Destroyed our Health

Average Reading Time: 3 minutes and 13 seconds In a powerful exposé published in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers from the University of California dug up old sugar industry documents that revealed...

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How Boswellia Fights the 5-LOX Aging Enzyme

Average Reading Time: 3 minutes Sadly, aging has become nearly synonymous with a handful of age-related concerns. But what if these concerns all had a common denominator – something that, if nipped in...

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“Zero Trans Fats”– Don’t Be Fooled

Average Reading Time: 6 minutes and 12 seconds Trans fats and processed vegetable oils are found in almost every packaged food and are linked to compromised digestive systems, and the epidemics of...

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Bad Attitude Doubles Risk of Dying from Heart Disease

Average Reading Time: 1 minute and 57 seconds Heart disease is still the leading cause of death for men and women in industrialized countries around the world. For decades, researchers have been...

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40% Have A Vitamin B12 Deficiency. Do You?

Average Reading Time: 4 minutes and 55 seconds If there ever was a heart-mind vitamin, then B12 is it. Synthesizing neurotransmitters that govern mood, energy, sleep, appetite, and motivation all the...

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Superfoods For Your Body Type: Spring Edition

Average Reading Time: 6 minutes and 28 seconds Choosing the right foods to eat has become extremely complex, controversial and confusing for most people. With promises coming from every angle of the...

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Why You Should Eat Cherries In The Summer

The bright, hot days of summer are upon us, and what better way to beat the heat than with nature’s bounty: cherries! I think of cherries as half berry and half fruit – the last berry of the spring and...

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Coconut Oil: Medicine or Menace?

The American Heart Association recently released a statement advising against the use of coconut oil, and the internet went bonkers. And for good reason, I suppose… After an exhaustive meta-analysis of...

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Not All High-Fat Diets Are Created Equal

High-fat diets, such as the ketogenic diet, are receiving a great deal of attention in the health and fitness world. Keto has been given the “celeb-favorite” seal and, no doubt, all of the hype...

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Prevent Arterial Plaque and Strengthen Bones with Vitamin K2 (Vegetarians at...

Most of us are aware that we need calcium for healthy bones, teeth, as a buffer for acidity, muscular contractions, heart rhythm and much more. What many people don’t know is that if not delivered and...

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Detox Your Brain & Gut With This Surprising Lymph Cleanser

For decades, heart health has been the claim to fame for omega-3 fish oil supplementation, but mounting research is suggesting the effect may extend life as well. The newest research showed that those...

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Omega-3 Linked to Longevity and Vitality

The Framingham Heart Study, which launched in 1948, is an ongoing, large-scale study on the residents of Framingham, Massachusetts. Over the past 70 years, the project has provided substantial insight...

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The Top 2 Most Common Mineral Deficiencies in Modern Humans

If you were to compare the dietary differences between modern humans and our hunter-gatherer ancestors, you’d find that, for the most part, modern humans are getting pretty close to an ancestral diet...

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The Potent Power of Potassium for Heart Health

From 1972 to 1992, a landmark study on heart disease was performed in Finland. The study reduced sodium or salt consumption while increasing potassium consumption. The results were literally heard...

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Eat Plant-Based Fats with Carbs to Balance Blood Sugar

When you eat a meal of made up of mostly carbohydrates, you are putting yourself at risk for dangerous blood sugar spikes after the meal. Today, I’ll let you in on a little-known secret about...

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Cheese: The Good, The Bad, and The Ayurvedic Perspective

When we think of cheese, we may imagine cows roaming freely in the Swiss Alps or Europeans picnicking with wine and baguettes. We probably don’t immediately think of Ayurveda. In fact, in general,...

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The Ayurvedic Magic of Sesame Oil

Sesame seeds and sesame oil have been used as medicine for thousands of years. According to Ayurveda, there is no better or more therapeutic oil than sesame. It has been documented as a food and...

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Alcohol, Ayurvedic Herbs & Your Liver

Are you curious what healthy and unhealthy drinking looks like and some natural ways to provide your body with harm reduction? Alcohol is a serious issue: it is the third leading preventable cause of...

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Round 2: Eat Wheat vs Grain Brain | Finding Common Ground with Dr. David...

Have you heard of the #1 New York Times bestseller Grain Brain? In it, Dr. David Perlmutter argues that wheat, carbs, and sugar are the brain’s “silent killers.” He recommends going completely...

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The New Super Ghee: 500% More Potent

You’ve probably heard that grass-fed is better than grain-fed when it comes to meat and dairy products. Well, the differences might amaze you! Cows grazing in grass pastures with no supplemental feed...

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Circadian Science on Daylight Savings Time

Most Americans have turned their clocks back every fall and ahead every spring since 1966 with little pushback . . . until recently. Mounting evidence suggests that changing clocks to accommodate...

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Death by Sugar

You’ve probably heard sugar is bad for you. But, how bad is it, really? Let’s start with the addictive nature of sugar . . . it’s more addictive than cocaine! In one study, animals were offered a...

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Vitamin D Benefits for Your Heart + More

My very first patient when I was studying Ayurvedic medicine in India in 1986 was a middle-aged woman with crippling pain all over her body, compounded by obesity, lethargy, and cardiovascular issues....

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How to Balance Blood Sugar: Become a Blood Sugar Detective

What is blood sugar? How do I balance my blood sugar naturally? In this article, we dive into the history of rising blood sugar levels and what you can do about it. Healthy Fat, Replaced by Sugar We...

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Benefits of One-Minute Meditation with Bhastrika Pranayama (Bellows Breathing)

One-Minute Meditation with Bhastrika Yoga, including asana, pranayama (breathing), and meditation, became popular in the US in the 1960s and 70s when yogis from India were shown to be able to control...

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Astonishing Mind-Body Benefits of Vitamin D

Seasonal Vitamin D Do you know how to optimize your vitamin D levels for every season? A growing body of knowledge shows that, at optimized levels, vitamin D functions as a hormone rather than a...

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Red Flags for a Shrinking Brain + Low Vitamin B12

New research reveals vitamin B12 deficiency causes the brain to shrink! Loss of brain size has been linked to decreased brain function, less energy, cognitive decline, and mood-related issues.1...

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Vitamin D: Top 12 Foods + Science

Sun exposure is the most efficient way to get vitamin D3, but few of us get enough sunlight or expose enough skin on a regular basis to get UVB rays to convert to active vitamin D. In a study of Middle...

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Ayurveda Explains Rise in Heart Disease among Middle-Aged in Healthiest Cities

Apparently, heart disease is on the rise!  The Wall Street Journal analyzed rising rates of heart disease among middle-aged Americans (between 45 and 64), finding some of the healthiest places, like...

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Meat: the Good, the Bad + the Ayurvedic Perspective

Is Meat Really Back on the Menu? We’ve all heard we should stop eating meat, and also that we should eat more meat! What are we to believe? A controversial study suggesting new dietary guidelines...

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The Ayurvedic Diet for Cardiovascular Health + Longevity

What Should We Eat? Diet wars keep raging as we humans try to solve one of our most controversial issues: what should we eat? In a recent study, a diet strikingly similar to what is suggested in...

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Unlock Your Potential with Functional Breathing: The Significance of Nasal...

Are You Breathing Wrong? You enter the world with a gasp of air, and take an estimated 500 million breaths in your lifetime.1 Breathing is the first and most fundamental motor pattern,2 a primary...

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Spring Diet Tips: Ayurvedic Calorie Restriction

Calorie Restriction is Natural Each Spring Every spring, our ancestors would be challenged to feed their families as Mother Nature delivers us from an abundance of food in the fall to an austere diet...

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Anxious Teens? Melatonin Balances the Circadian Clock

Melatonin Fights Rise of Occasional Teen Anxiety  Do you think teenagers are becoming increasingly anxious?  Teenagers between 13 and 18 have seen a sharp 20% rise in occasional anxiety between 2007...

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The Dangers of a Gluten-Free Diet

Gluten-Free Diet: Fad or Fix? In recent years, the gluten-free diet has become incredibly fashionable. However, 98% of the population is NOT diagnosed with gluten sensitivity, celiac disease, or wheat...

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97% of Americans are Low In Vitamin K2

Are You at Risk? Are you deficient in vitamin K2? In a recent study evaluating 452 healthy adults, 438 out of 452 (or a whopping 97%) were found to be vitamin K2 deficient or insufficient.  Inadequate...

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Breathe Away Occasional Heartburn Ayurvedically

The Mystery of the Diaphragm Did you know the diaphragm is arguably the most important muscle of the body? Sadly, few understand its function; most simply think of it as the breathing muscle. Read on...

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Olive Oil Health Benefits with Scientist Dr. Mary Flynn

Olive Oil: The Heart’s Best Friend Extra virgin olive oil is arguably the healthiest oil in the world. You would be hard pressed to find a study linking it to any health risks. In fact, one study aimed...

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Ayurvedic Benefits of Lemon Water

Do you like lemons?  Here’s some lemon history: according to DNA evidence, the first lemon trees appeared about eight million years ago in the southeast foothills of the Himalayas.1 According to the...

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The 10-Second Breath: Ujjayi Pranayama for Lungs, Nervous System + More

Benefits of Breathing Slowly  It is said that some great yogis could breathe so slowly through the nose during yoga that even the finest hairs inside the nose would not The post The 10-Second Breath:...

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Lifestyle of a Healthy Heart: Lower Your Apolipoprotein B

The Lifestyle of a Healthy Heart  What do you do to protect your heart? In this article, I will cover diet, supplements, and lifestyle techniques that your heart will love, The post Lifestyle of a...

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Boost Nitric Oxide + Support Heart Health with Vitamin D

Protect Your Heart with Vitamin D  Do you get enough vitamin D? A deficiency in vitamin D3 has been linked to a host of health concerns, including sadness, fatigue, obesity, blood The post Boost Nitric...

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The Fish Oil with 300% Greater Absorption

Not All Fish Oils Are Created Equal  As a result of overwhelming evidence that fish oils support healthy triglyceride levels, essential for heart health,1,2 many pharmaceutical companies have jumped...

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Bergamot + Amalaki: Ayurvedic Wisdom for Heart + Blood Sugar Support

Bergamot + Amalaki Magic For Your Heart: Weight, Blood Sugar + Triglycerides  Are you happy with your weight, blood sugar, and triglyceride levels?  Triglyceride and blood sugar levels are two major...

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