Does the fountain of youth exist? The concept of human physical immortality, free of aging, has enticed humanity for centuries. Today, this question remains elu...
Which Organs Are Filters? The filtration of waste products, toxins, and metabolites is an important process within the body. The kidneys and liver are the prima...
Tick-tock, how’s your clock? To be accurate, your clocks (plural), since they are located in almost every tissue and organ of your body! There is also a master...
Metabolic syndrome is a collection of risk factors that significantly increase the likelihood of developing cardiovascular diseases. These factors include abdom...
What Are Cravings? If you have ever experienced the urge to eat certain foods—sweet, salty, fatty foods—or even get excited at the thought of tasting and feelin...
What is Cellular Health? Cellular health is an emerging concept that overall health depends on the wellbeing and functionality of individual cells. Organelles w...
Springtime signals a fresh start. Longer days and renewed motivation mean revisiting New Year’s resolutions and focusing more on health.Let us talk about the mi...
The Role of Cholesterol Cholesterol is a type of fat which can be obtained from food sources and is also produced by the liver. Cholesterol is essential for hea...
Our bodies are constantly changing, and this can be especially noticeable as we age. One of the more common concerns people encounter as they approach their 50s...
“Gluten” has become a buzzword over the past several years, causing some confusion between what eating gluten-free means and who needs to be eating that way. Th...
In Canada today, approximately 8 million people are living with chronic pain.[1] Pain can arise from various conditions and factors including but not limited to...
Most of us have heard that we need to get more fibre, but how many understand what it really is, how it works in our body, and why it’s so important to our heal...
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