Balance digestive flora The main benefit of probiotics is in keeping the population of good bacterias in balance so that the bad bacterias and yeasts don’t take over. Your levels of good flora can be decreased because of antibiotics, stress, antibacterial soaps or hand washes, chlorinated drinking water, foods treated with pesticides and herbicides, colonoscopies or colonics (colon hydrotherapy), or having surgery, radiation or chemotherapy. Those are times when it’s important to take a probiotic supplement to repopulate your digestive tract with the good bacteria that keep you healthy. Help relieve infectious diarrhea If you find yourself with a sudden onset of diarrhea (any time it’s brought on by a virus, bacteria or parasite), get...
Sleep deprivation can have a serious negative impact on your health. New research found when healthy men in their 20s got only 5 hours of sleep per night, the way their bodies metabolized fat shifted.Rather than evaporating triglyceride-rich lipoproteins that have been linked to the formation of clogging and dangerous fatty plaques in the arteries, their bodies began storing them.Additional research has found the number of people who aren’t getting a healthy amount of sleep each night continues to rise.Sleep deprivation over a period of time has been linked to several serious health conditions including hypertension, obesity, diabetes, and a suppressed immune system.We’re not getting enough sleep — and that’s having a significant impact on our day-to-day and long-term...
12 Ways To Eliminate Stress At Work by Jenna Goudreau The average business professional has 30 to 100 projects on their plate. Modern workers are interrupted seven times an hour and distracted up to 2.1 hours a day. And four out of 10 people working at large companies are experiencing a major corporate restructuring, and therefore facing uncertainly about their futures. This may be why more than 40% of adults say they lie awake at night plagued by the stressful events of the day. "People are asking me for answers," says Sharon Melnick, Ph.D., a business psychologist and author of just released Success Under Stress. "Everyone feels overwhelmed and overly busy." Is there a way to maintain steady...
We all feel tired and achy sometimes, but what if those feelings weren’t just the result of a long day, but actually linked to a major magnesium deficiency? Fewer than 60 percent of American adults meet the Adequate Intake values for magnesium, according to the World Health Organization. Dr. Jennie Ann Freiman calls magnesium deficiency “a silent epidemic” in the United States. And no matter how many kale salads with walnuts you eat, you might still not be getting enough, which is why many are turning to magnesium oil to get the magnesium they need, either with store-bought magnesium oil or a simple make-at-home recipe. Click on image above Why Do You Need Magnesium Oil? Most of us...
Probiotic supplements may enhance weight loss and improve the metabolic health of obese children following a diet and exercise plan, according to research presented today at the 58th Annual European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology Meeting. The findings of this small trial suggest that probiotic supplements may help obese children lose bodyweight and also reduce their risk of future metabolic conditions, including type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Obesity in childhood and adolescence represents a major, growing, health problem worldwide, which can lead to the development of expensive, serious and debilitating complications, including heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Probiotics are live microorganisms thought to have health benefits through improving or restoring the diversity of our gut bacteria, also known...
