Nutrition and Anxiety

In addition to following healthy guidelines such as eating a balanced diet, drinking enough water to stay hydrated, and limiting or avoiding alcohol and caffeine, there are many other dietary considerations that can help relieve anxiety. For example, complex carbohydrates are metabolized more slowly and therefore help maintain a more even blood sugar level, which [...]

Magnesium and Alcohol

April is Alcohol Awareness Month. Alcohol breaks down into acetaldehyde. Acetaldehyde is a particularly potent toxin that can damage all the tissues in the body including the brain. It is produced when you drink alcohol, breathe the exhaust from cars and smoke cigarettes. With regards to alcohol and pregnancy, alcohol can cause birth defects, including [...]

Menopause and Blood Sugar – Christiane Northrup, MD

Many women entering menopause accept the fact that they’ll gain weight….kind of an inevitable result of their “metabolism” slowing down. Well, it turns out that these metabolic changes, though real enough, are NOT necessarily the result of menopause. Instead, these changes are the natural progression of a process that begins much earlier: Glycemic Stress, from [...]

Natural Therapies for Atrial Fibrillation

One of the most common statements that I hear from patients is “I don’t want to take drugs, what are my alternatives? Are there any ways to treat atrial fibrillation naturally?” I do live in a state where there is a tremendous interest in natural therapies. Numerous herbal and nonherbal supplement companies are based in [...]

Cholesterol Myths – Interview With Carolyn Dean, MD, ND

#1. Is cholesterol bad? HDL Cholesterol is good. It’s the building block for all our hormones, Vitamin D and bile acids. It coats all the cells in the body with a fatty membrane, which is especially important for the fatty coating of neurons in the brain. It transports fat soluble vitamins A,D,E,K. LDL cholesterol is [...]

Magnesium and Wellness – Sujata Kelkar Shetty, PhD

The symptoms of magnesium deficiency include muscle spasms and cramps, seizures, anxiety and irregular heart rhythms. Low levels of magnesium in the body also play a role in migraine headaches, insomnia, depression and chronic fatigue. In the last 60 years, fruits and vegetables in the US have lost 20-30% of their magnesium content because of [...]

Anti-Stress Foods

Chocolate milk is not the antidote for stress. The sugar and fat in chocolate releases feel-good hormones that send instant relief to our brain and make us feel better. But the truth is, the relief doesn’t last long because once the sugar crash comes we’re in a whirlwind of ups and downs until things level [...]

Magnesium and Your Health

As is the case with vitamin D, if you don’t have enough magnesium, your body simply cannot function optimally, and insufficient cellular magnesium levels set the stage for deterioration of metabolic function that can snowball into more serious health problems. For starters, magnesium is critical for the optimization of your mitochondria, which have enormous potential [...]

Magnesium and Cognitive Health

Carolyn Dean, MD, ND. One of the top eight nutrients for protecting aging brains suggested by the Institute of Food Technologists and highlighted in its magazine, Food Technology is “magnesium”. Unfortunately, most of the U.S. population is magnesium deficient and is not getting their Recommended Daily Allowance of this important mineral. This leaves many Americans [...]

Magnesium – Key To Strength and Energy

Of all of the minerals, magnesium plays the greatest overall role in the energy systems. Magnesium participates in the high-energy phosphate transfer reactions. Magnesium and magnesium chelates act as cofactors in the regulation of the majority of the enzymes involved in glycolysis, the process of turning glucose into adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Phosphorus is essential to [...]