At 46 years old with no health problems or any previous medical history with heart issues, the last thing Nikki expected was to have a heart attack. So, when sneaky symptoms started cropping up, she didn’t think much of them. She even chalked most of them up to perimenopause. Now, from her hospital bed post-heart...
How often do you pee every day? Perhaps this is something you’ve never actually paid attention to. If you are someone who finds themselves often making a trip to the bathroom, you may have asked yourself how often is considered normal? The reality is that how many times you go pee throughout the day is...
The hype around gut health has not gone away, and with good reason: So much of our health and wellbeing is connected to the health of our gut and digestive system. Unfortunately, very few things in our diets and daily habits are supportive of gut health. Thankfully, this is something we can have some control...
If there’s one vitamin that people don’t talk about enough, it’s vitamin K. When they do talk about it, they are often referring to vitamin K1, also known as phylloquinone. Though K1 has plenty of benefits and is important to understand, its lesser-known cousin, Vitamin K2, or menaquinone, is equally as important. What for, exactly?...
Usually, we associate athletes and avid gym goers with health, vitality, and long lives. There is one sport, however, that despite how it may appear to some, is tragically associated with early death. This would be the sport of bodybuilding. Sadly, Jodi Vance, a 20-year-old bodybuilder from Texas, recently passed away due to a heart...
We all know at this point that high-sugar diets are not good for us. They increase our risk of developing cardiovascular disease, diabetes, dementia, Alzheimer’s, and also cancer. New research, however, is showing a somewhat surprising connection between high-sugar diets and one specific type of cancer: Lung cancer. We have associated lung cancer with smoking...
They call the gut the second brain, as the health of our gut, aka our entire digestive system, is strongly connected with our brain and our overall health. Despite this, many of us are operating at sub-optimal GI health. This is largely due to our processed, chemically-laden diets and high-stress lives. The path to a...
Aging is both beautiful and a privilege. Though we often complain about old age and the things that come along with it, the reality is that many of us are not so lucky as to reach an age in which they can complain of these things. That being said, there is a difference between fighting...
Cancer affects everyone: Women, men, children, the elderly, teenagers – it is a disease that can be brutally indiscriminatory. For women, there are certain cancers that we need to be aware of, as they only affect the organs of the female reproductive system. Many of these cancers have signs and symptoms, we just either ignore...
Obesity is a true pandemic, affecting 890 million adults around the world and about 160 million children. It is one of the leading causes of death around the world, as it is a risk factor that contributes to so many dangerous conditions, including heart disease, diabetes, and stroke. For this reason, it is important that...
We all know that sex can have many benefits for our health, as long as that sex is safe, consensual, and non-destructive. While men and women share certain benefits of having regular, healthy sexual relations, the hormonal differences between the sexes do mean that sex has a different impact on health. Research has increasingly shown...
Burnout is one of the number one topics being discussed both online, at home, and in the workplace today. If you’re reading this, chances are you have already experienced it yourself or are wondering if you are. The thing with burnout is that the longer it goes ignored, the harder it is to bounce back...
