Imagine walking down the grocery store aisle, reaching for your favorite snack or convenience meal. Now, picture the same scene, but with an unexpected twist: the masterminds behind those tempting, perfectly engineered flavors aren't food...

Dairy products are superfoods! They provide an array of essential vitamins, minerals and other health promoting compounds including Calcium, Vitamin K2, B Vitamins, Protein, gut-supporting probiotics, and healthy fats, including the odd-chain...

For years, you've probably heard that a daily low-dose aspirin can help prevent heart attacks and strokes. Now, suddenly, health authorities are backpedaling on this advice.1 Why the change? They claim it's about bleeding risks, but there's more to...

Headaches are a common complaint, suffered by 45 million Americans each year, or nearly 17% of the population. They also are the most common medical complaints accounting for 8 million doctor visits each year.1 Less severe, but not less...

There's no doubt that exercise is one of the best ways to keep yourself in top shape. Research1 has shown that it provides an array of benefits, such as helping boost immune function, diversifying the gut microbiome, increasing lifespan and...

The organic food industry has grown tremendously over the past few decades, but concerns remain about the integrity of organic labeling and certification. In my eye-opening interview with organic industry watchdog Mark Kastel, he discusses the...

Many people are concerned that stevia is dangerous because it’s associated with infertility. This is misinformation. Stevia is a natural sweetener derived from the leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana plant, native to South America. Also known as sweet...

There are plenty of medical practitioners who will repeat that eating "too much salt" will increase your likelihood of developing high blood pressure. There's a lot of information on that from a growing number of scientists, and it's a salty...

The artificial sweetener aspartame is primarily made up of aspartic acid and phenylalanine. The phenylalanine has been synthetically modified to carry a methyl group, which provides most of the sweetness. That phenylalanine methyl bond, called a...