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Stress can lead to weight gainCortisol and DHEA are two hormones closely associated with health, sickness and weight gain. Whether eating to fill an emotional need or grabbing fast food simply because there’s no time to prepare something healthy, a stressed-out lifestyle is rarely a healthy one. ...
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Grapefruit seed extractMy father used to run squeezin’s through these hills during Prohibition. I guess many people had some of this set aside for medicinal use as a base for herbal remedies and, of course, uncut lightning. Back in those days, people got by in the best way they could. Times change and some things stay the same. A non-alcoholic squeezin’ that you should know about that helps with just about anything that ails you (at least the infectious bugs) is grapefruit seed extract liquid (GSE)...
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Beneficial bugsProbiotics, our friends, the bugs. Not the ones that go scattering when you turn the light on at home but the ones who have real estate inside your gastrointestinal tract. Good ones, like good neighbors, add health and well-being to our lives. Others can cause us bellyaches, ulcers and much more...
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SeleniumUnlike many well-proven supplements, selenium has crossed into the realm of acceptance by the conservative establishment. It is such a non-assuming mineral that I suppose it poses no threat to anyone. Selenium has been on the market shelves for decades and has been a potent yet quiet healer...