“Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.” – Natalie Goldberg

Do you wake up in the morning feeling tired?  Does your boost of energy dwindle as the afternoon approaches; causing you to crave something sugary or even coffee?  Just to function at work or home do you need to be constantly stimulating your body with caffeine, sugar or food?  You may be experiencing what is known as Adrenal Fatigue.

How do we get Adrenal Fatigue?

Adrenal Fatigue is just a name for a long term problem that finally ends in additional stress or overload on the adrenal glands from multiple system failures. Simply stated: our body needs energy to function and also healthy organs and nervous system to manage everything.  Glucose is the first level of energy mostly regulated by the liver.  Thyroid function is also critical to maintaining good energy, repair and overall metabolism.

Foods that are stimulatory like caffeine and sugar...

Weight loss. one of the most talked about topics when it comes to women’s health.  Let’s face it, in today’s media driven society, we are putting ourselves on display more than ever and are even comparing ourselves to other women our ages all the time.  The weight may have creeped up over the years and now you feel stuck.  Or, your typical workout routines just aren’t enough anymore.  Women sometimes go to great lengths to try and discover the perfect weight loss product or program on the market.  And let’s be honest, there are way too many to choose from.  From fasting, to yo-yo dieting and detoxing, many of the weight loss programs out there now are too hard and too fast for the body to handle and, without proper guidance from a professional, you could end up causing more harm than good or even end up in the hospital!  Crash dieting has been known to cause heart palpitations, a drop in blood pressure, and even...

In preparation to write this newsletter, for your educational pleasure, I went to pubmed.com and simply typed into the search bar: B vitamins brain.  In less than 5 seconds I had 458 different research studies to peruse.

B vitamins in the vast majority of the forms help our bodies think properly, regulate mood, fight off neural degeneration and assist in stress modulation among many other less heralded functions.  Many of us that spend time reading and researching vitamin therapy probably already have heard that these common uses for B vitamins exist.  One use for B12 in particular that you may not have heard about is for protection against “air pollution”.

A small-scale human trial¹ found B vitamins may help protect against air pollution^2,3.

At high doses, which I will give you later, B vitamins were able to completely “offset” damage delivered by fine particulate matter.

According to a World Health Organization study released in 2016,...

“Let Food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food” – Hippocrates

What is a Paleo Diet?

The Paleo Diet is one of the latest and hottest lifestyle trends to date. Celebrities endorse it some and restaurants are starting to serve Paleo style foods to keep their customers satisfied.

The Term “Paleo” is short for Paleolithic, an era that occurred at least 2.6 million years ago, and generally refers to the “caveman” lifestyle in regards to the popular diet. It is a nutritional approach that focuses only on foods that were available to humans during that period. Typically, these foods are high in nutrients, unprocessed and without artificial colors or additives.

The purpose of this lifestyle is to return our eating habits to a prehistoric state as it is hypothesized that our ancestors were unaffected by medical conditions experienced today. The foods they ate actually supplied the body with the right nutrients and allowed it to properly adapt to...

Your baby finally has arrived and it is a time of pure bliss. The snuggles, the coos, the bonding…it has all become so real. But there is something inside of you that just isn’t right. You are emotionally and physically drained from the hours of labor. The sleep deprivation starts to kick in because your little one can’t tell the difference between night and day. If you are breastfeeding, the nipple pain you are experiencing hurts so bad that you may even shed some tears. The feedings and diaper changes are around the clock. Becoming a new mother can be hard at first. As many as 1 in 5 new mothers will suffer from severe depression or anxiety after giving birth, and a woman is significantly more likely to suffer from one of these conditions during her first year as a mother than at any other time in her life.¹

The Hormones

There are many factors that can contribute towards postpartum depression. First, the hormonal roller coaster after giving birth is one that no...

During the winter season, we have all heard the stories of a neighbor, family member or friend that goes out to shovel snow and BOOM, heart attack! What really just happened? Read on, to see where leading experts are now evolving their thoughts to understand how heart attacks happen and what to do before they strike YOU. Also, what you can do to fend off this issue before it takes root in your body and wreaks havoc on one of your most vital organs.

All along the conventional “wisdom” has been to think that cholesterol and other forms of arterial plaques are the real reason behind both heart attack and stroke. According to Dr. Thomas Cowan, MD this theory has been disproven time after time but has yet to become fully accepted throughout expert communities worldwide.

Understanding how heart attacks truly happen has been a crucial and critical pursuit over the last five decades. The steadfast belief in the coronary artery theory has cost our nation billions of dollars in...

Vitamin A is a fat soluble vitamin that serves as an aid to vision, immune system and cell growth.

Vitamin A is available in the human diet in two forms: a preformed vitamin A which includes retinol and a provitamin A carotenoid ⁽¹⁾.  Typically preformed vitamin A is found in animal products which include dairy and meat.  Provitamin A is derived from beta-carotene, which is a part of the carotenoid family and is responsible for the red, orange or yellow color of fruit, oil, grains and vegetables ⁽³⁾.  Both forms of vitamin A must be converted to retinal and retinoic acid in order to support the body’s biological functions ^(1-2).

Are you at Risk for Vitamin A Deficiency?

Vitamin A deficiency is more common in developing countries then in the United States. One of the first signs of Vitamin A deficiency is night blindness.  There are four kinds of photopigments located in the eye that store vitamin A. One is called, Rhodopsin, which is...

The children are back to school and flu season is right around the corner. Although your household may be a clean environment, the germs children are exposed to at school, daycare, and other public places are unavoidable. The average American child has six to 10 colds a year. In fact, children’s colds cause more doctor visits and missed school days than any other illness¹. Although most childhood infections happen only once, the protection due to antibody production lasts much longer than any potential protection stimulated by a vaccine. What’s interesting is that a mother can pass along antibodies through breastmilk to protect her infant when she was infected 30 years ago. However, a mother who avoided a certain childhood infections does not produce the antibodies that could be transferred to her child.

The immune system we are born with

Our innate immune system, the one we are born with, changes into an adaptive immune system after we are born and is exposed to...

History and Initial Applications:

In 1957, Professor Frederick Crane and colleagues discovered CoQ10 from beef heart mitochondria at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Enzyme Institute.¹⁵ R.A. Morton, from the United Kingdom, isolated the compound in rat liver just after Dr. Crane’s discovery. It was Morton who named the compound ubiquinone, meaning ubiquitous quinone or one that “exists everywhere.” ^3,6 Scientists at Merck synthesized CoQ10 in 1958. In 1962, Peter D. Mitchell, PhD from University of Edinburgh determined how CoQ10 produces energy at the cellular level and in 1978 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry based on his discovery.⁶

Are there established safe intake levels?

The safety of escalated doses of CoQ10 has been evaluated in a randomized, placebo-controlled trials in patients with early Parkinson’s disease.⁹ A total of 80 patients received doses of 300 mg to 1200 mg per day of CoQ10 for up to 16 months, and...

Vitamin B12 is a water soluble vitamin that serves as an aid to the nervous system and plays a vital role in red blood cell formation and DNA synthesis. Ultimately it is responsible for normal neurological functions and beneficial for overall health.
Vitamin B12 is considered a unique vitamin based off of its structure and absorption into the body. It’s structure is unique because it’s the only vitamin that contains a metal- cobalt part. This is why cobalamin is the term used to express B12 activity. The most common type of cobalamin is found in most dietary supplements of B12, cyanocobalamin, and is quickly transformed into an active form of B12 in the body ⁽⁸⁾.

The other unique trait to vitamin B12 is its multi-step process needed for absorption into the body. B12 is found in animal protein. After consuming the animal protein with B12 bound to it, it heads down towards the stomach where hydrochloric acid is needed to release B12 from the protein. Once B12 is...