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Activating Collagen

Like other nutrients in the body, collagen does not act alone. Crucial for maintaining the structure of our skin, bones, tendons, and other connective tissues, it relies on a variety of biomolecules to support its production and function in the body. Collagen is the most abundant protein in a complex network called the Extracellular Matrix…

Health without the hack

Trendy, novel, and with the potential to leverage how we look, feel, and function, health hacks are attention grabbers. But, as the old adage goes, when a price tag is attached, “buyer beware!”, as it’s easy to get reeled-in by savvy sales marketing. Like being enticed to buy an expensive kitchen gadget to peel an…

The mountain fell away – localizing your donation

The night Helene arrived, sleep never came. The heavy sound of whipping wind and dumping sheets of rain came instead and in frightening squalls. Squall-by-squall, I felt each was worse than the one before and I hoped each would be the last. Paltry, in comparison, to the terror of those who lost their homes, and…

What I will not be eating for breakfast

While putting away the food I brought to eat during my vacation, I came across something, already in the fridge, that I would not be eating for breakfast (or any other time). Going against the very nature of why we eat, I knew that consuming this breakfast food, engineered for convenience, would not bode well…

Food First Nutraceutical

Food First Nutraceutical may sound like an oxymoron, but it’s not! With the purpose of providing nutritional value and health benefit, nutraceuticals can be a food or a supplement. Straddling both, Cellemental Complete is a whole food derived (a.k.a. Food First) nutraceutical delivered in the convenience of a capsule which may also be opened and…

Worst health informing best health

When I worked as a direct care RN on a critical care pediatric unit, what gave me the most peace of mind was not planning for best outcomes, but for worst ones and then thinking how to prevent them. This way of inverted thinking has broad application including the leveraging of personal health. Instead…

Ingredient spotlight: Sea cucumber

Did you know that sea cucumbers are marine invertebrates in the same phylum (share evolutionary similarity) as starfish and sea urchins? Despite being consumed as a food and health tonic by many cultures, today and traditionally, sea cucumbers are still considered quite the oddity with their peculiar characteristics and unique composition. A case in point…

Ingredient spotlight: Sea buckthorn

Did you know that the sea buckthorn berry–plump, orange, grows on thorny bushes, thrives in the artic–possesses a plethora of amazing attributes? Having to withstand extreme conditions, sea buckthorn is well-provisioned with unique properties that impart an impressive robustness. This, along with its history of use and beauty, gave us plenty of reason to pick…

Where it is vs. where we want it to be

The body’s ability to recover from injury, disease, and other assaults to its well-being is paramount. As the crisis created by these insults often takes precedence over less pressing bodily needs, it’s in the body’s best interest to respond appropriately for timely restoration of health As the restoration of health is physiologic, it is most…

Where we all want to live

We’re all familiar with the typical paradigms of quantifying health (e.g. vital signs, lab work), where treatment (e.g. medications, procedures) is dictated by where we fall within standard parameters. Less familiar is the qualifying of health, something unique to us and that we are the best assessors of. No one knows us better than…