Lifestyle

Keeping your gut in check is important for overall health and wellness. The gut microbiome, also known as gut flora, controls the digestion of food, your immune system, central nervous system and other bodily processes. There’s a common saying that goes, “when your gut is happy, you’re happy.”

Vitamin B12 is one of the more popular vitamin supplements, and for good reason. The vitamin appears to have potential benefits for preventing dementia, improving mood, increasing energy and helping reduce pain. Dr. Scott Buesing, ND has a great deal of knoledge about, and has done a lot of research on, B12.

Do you sometimes indulge in chocolate and feel guilty immediately afterwards? Now you can rest easy after consuming a few pieces of chocolate occasionally, especially dark chocolate!

Coconut Oil has gained wide acceptance as a healthy fat over the past 10 years. This is in sharp contrast to the smear campaign it underwent in the '80s. During the 1980s there was a huge backlash against "tropical oils". This included Palm and Coconut Oil. The campaign targeted saturated fats. The blanket claim is saturated fats are bad for you because they raise cholesterol, which can lead to heart disease and stroke (Read more here). In reality, the campaign against "tropical oils" had to do more with politics than health. The claims were later deemed misleading. It was only in February 2015 that researchers from the UK and US concluded that there is no correlation between high cholesterol levels and incidences of cardiovascular disease or all-cause mortality. They concluded that “Dietary recommendations were introduced for 220 million U.S. and 56 million U.K. citizens by 1983, in the absence of supporting evidence from randomized controlled trials.” (Read the full study here).

We often get swept up in the hustle and bustle of Christmas time and sometimes we put our health on the back burner. During this busy season, it's important to take time for yourself. Be mindful of the following tips to help you feel your best while you're shopping for gifts, enjoying good food and perhaps indulging slightly more than usual.

Tap water isn’t exactly “clean.” It has journeyed through miles of pipeline and has likely picked up contaminants and runoff along the way.

When traveling to another town or city, you may have noticed the difference in taste in tap water.

In this article we talk about the alternatives.