The Mighty, Mighty Pumpkin Seed

Pumpkins are a fall staple that do not often get used to their full potential. Yes, we carve them into jack-o'-lanterns and decorate them for Halloween and even make mouth-watering recipes with them, but what...

The Importance of Sleep for your Overall Health, Hormone Balance, and Stress Reduction

How we feel and function while awake depends a lot on how well we sleep and for how long. Each person is different in how many hours they need to sleep each night. The average...

Stress, Women, and Diabetes

Stress plays a key role in our lives and typically helps us overcome day-to-day challenges. It alerts us, allows us to prioritize and focus on tasks at hand. But stress can also cause health complications...

Your Personalized Spring Health Tune-Up

Although we humans are not computers, we all need to reboot ourselves every now and again. Let’s take a look at a few ways we can do this so that we can be at our...

The Health Benefits of Physical Activity: Weekend Warriors and Sedentary Behavior

Currently physical inactivity has been identified as the fourth leading cause of mortality globally and the CDC report that an estimated 300,000 deaths in the US each year are related to physical inactivity and poor...

Hearing Loss and Cognitive Decline

Globally, hearing loss is the third leading contributor to years of life lived with disability and a major public health issue. Cognitive decline includes a number of progressive factors related to deteriorating cognitive abilities, an individual’s...

Top 5 Drug-Free Ways To Lower Blood Pressure

“You have elevated blood pressure,” your doctor announced. “You need to lower it, but I can’t give you a prescription.” Say what now? Unfortunately, this story is not unique. Almost 900 million people worldwide are...