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Top Nutrients To Protect Your Skin From Damage With the Summer season, beach days and outdoor BBQ’s upon us, it is time to talk about how to protect your skin from the sun. Ultraviolet (UV) rays are the #1 cause of skin cancer but lathering up with 100 SPF sunscreens are not exactly the best…

Homocysteine and Your Brain and Heart Homocysteine is an amino acid (protein) that is made in our body. To some degree, it is a by-product of cellular function that can be harmful if it’s too high and not recycled or eliminated out of the body. While most practitioners and doctors don’t routinely measure this on…

5 Natural and Easy Ways to Increase Testosterone For the month of June we are going to focus primarily on men’s health, and what better way to start it off than talk about ways to increase testosterone! As a brief overview, testosterone is a sex hormone, commonly referred to as the “male hormone” (although women…

It’s Heart Health Month! It’s Heart Health Month! Living Health Integrative Medicine is kicking off Heart Health Month with a BANG! The statistics are staggering! More women in the U.S. die of heart attack than ALL CANCERS COMBINED, including breast cancer! Heart Disease is THE NUMBER ONE KILLER of Americans, with similar numbers between men…

Top Tips for Supplementing Your Prescriptions If you take prescription medications, you MUST supplement! We work with patients that have various health conditions for which they are taking prescription medications. Research shows that some very common medications cause specific vitamin and mineral deficiencies that MUST be supplemented for in order to limit the side effects…

8 Ways to Keep Your Heart Healthy Through Nutrition – Part 2 This month we’re recognizing National Heart Month and looking into key nutrients that are heart protective and proven to decrease the risk for cardiovascular disease. In Part 1 of 8 Ways to Keep Your Heart Healthy Through Nutrition, we focused on the heart…

8 Ways to Keep Your Heart Healthy Through Nutrition – Part 1 Welcome to National Heart Month! A month dedicated to heart health, prevention, and protection. With Cardiovascular Disease continuing to be the number once cause of death in the United States and affecting over 26 million Americans, we’re focusing this week on 4 nutritional…

The Top 11 Toxins That You Need To Know About As previously mentioned, the process of detoxification occurs in order to rid the body of potentially harmful products i.e. toxins. With such high exposure everyday, our bodies can only handle so much before problems start to arise. It is key to be aware of where…

Why It’s Essential to Get Off of the Low-fat, No-Fat Band Wagon Why It’s Essential to Get Off of the Low-fat, No-Fat Band Wagon Through out the decades there have been a multitude of fad diets that it can be difficult to navigate what to eat to stay at a healthy weight. One of these…

Why You Should Eat Fat Why You Should Eat Fat Avoiding all fats is not the key to a healthy diet. In fact, when the whole non-fat craze began in the 80’s, the obesity rate in America jumped to 22-25 percent from 12-14 percent prior to the 80’s. Why is that…? The common mistake made…