The cells of our body are often referred to as the ‘’building blocks of life.’’ You have over 200 different types of cells that, when combined together, make up the different areas of your body including your muscles, bones, and organs. They are responsible for taking in and converting nutrients into energy and keeping your body functioning properly. Your body contains close to 37.2 trillion cells – not including the bacteria in our microbiome – and produces 25 million new…
Homemade Elderberry Syrup
March 12, 2020
The perfect immune pick-me-up to keep on hand, give to friends and add to your daily diet! This recipe is strain-free, easy and preservative-free. Makes ~2 Cups Lindsey Young is a registered holistic nutritionist, advocate for intuitive eating, and functional food recipe creator. For more delicious recipes, follow her on Instagram @eatyoungnutrition and visit EatYoungNutrition.com.
Relief For Your Pets’ Allergies
March 5, 2020
Relief and quality of life in three easy steps with or without drugs The rate of skin disease in our pets will continue to rise with the rise in pollution concentration. This is inevitable but the symptoms are not completely out of our control. The cause is the nutritional imbalance wedded to ever-increasing pollution. As much as the pollutants in our environment from our new-age technologies are to blame for these reactions we have some control over that internal inflammatory…
What Can Apple Cider Vinegar Do for You?
March 3, 2020
Apple cider vinegar is having a moment. Suddenly, everyone is trying it — and not just to make their hair shiny and their salad dressing zippy. Why is this ancient, amber liquid so popular? Many people take it daily as a general health tonic.* But if you take Flora’s Apple Cider Vinegar Wellness Tonics, you’ll reap even more benefits — like detoxification, wellness, enhanced digestion, and athletic performance — not to mention great taste.* How to take Before we get…
Cinnamon Bun Granola
February 27, 2020
Remember being a kid and eating sugary cereal? That cereal that turns your milk into this colored and flavored goodness? That’s exactly what this granola does – except without the blood sugar spike, the unhealthy additives, and processed sugar. This granola might take up a good part of your afternoon to make, but it’s so worth it! Lindsey Young is a registered holistic nutritionist, advocate for intuitive eating, and functional food recipe creator. For more delicious recipes, follow her on…
Cell Health and Aging: Leveling up Your Longevity
February 25, 2020
This is the year we deploy some 20/20 vision in order to focus on healthy aging. To do so, we are going to train the microscope of our mind’s eye on that basic unit of life: the cell. A lot of longevity and life extension research and bio-hacks focus on cellular health for good reason: the cell is the building block our tissues and organs are made from and the starting point of all health and disease. Improving cellular health…
The Importance of Lignans for Your Pets
February 20, 2020
We have all been encouraged to spay or neuter our pets. But the unintended consequence of these procedures is a hormonal imbalance which may cause disease and symptoms including: skin and coat issues (dryness, dandruff, itching, etc.) mammary or prostate gland issues (swelling, abnormal shape) incontinence weight gain various forms of cancer For any pet, whether desexed or not, plant compounds that are extremely useful for hormonal balance and immune health, are missing from their daily diet. This group of…
Coconut Yogurt
February 19, 2020
Pink Chia Breakfast Bowl
February 13, 2020
The Health Benefits of Love and Connection Are Available to Everyone
February 11, 2020
Love has powerful human benefits. What is the single greatest way to have a mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually fulfilling life? After an astonishing seventy-nine years of studying this question, the most comprehensive research ever done on human lives concluded that it is to love and let yourself be loved. Love has physical benefits – it’s science Love is a powerful emotion, right up there with feeling free, joyful, grateful, empowered, or appreciative. Our hearts love love. When humans feel…