Nutrient Density - Cellementals

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…

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…

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…

I’m on to you, you’re not good for me; it’s over!

I’m on to you; you’re not good for me; it’s over! Despite the claims, I’m left unfulfilled–good riddance. It happens all day, everyday; the sacrificing of food quality and nutrient density in favor of foods that are misrepresented by company marketing. Enticed by misleading advertising and then hooked by a food’s hyperpalitability and convenience, unsuspecting…

Ingredient Spotlight: Grassfed Liver

Get ready to unlock nature’s supreme offering of nutrient-density with grassfed bovine LIVER—traditionally consumed, but missing in most modern diets! This top-tier superfood deLIVERs: Bioactive zinc, glutathione, vitamin A, Bs, C, and D support proper immune response.  Bioavailable CoQ10, alpha-lipoic acid, and B vitamins for healthy energy production. Heme iron’s bioavailability helps maintain efficient…