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Resilience: Magnesium May Be Your Superpower
The past twenty-two months have profoundly affected all of us. Worries about Covid-19 and its impact on our health and jobs, social distancing and masking can all be overwhelming and stress, anxiety, depression and insomnia have become epidemic. So, what strategies can we put into place to benefit our mental health and resilience? Resilience is…
Citrus and Rheumatoid Arthritis…Can An Orange a Day Keep the Pain Away?
Do oranges and other citrus fruits trigger rheumatoid arthritis (RA) flares? The citric acid in these winter fruits has been anecdotally identified as an RA trigger, however, there’s no reliable evidence that eliminating oranges from your menu will improve your RA symptoms. Doing so will only deprive you of vitamin C, which is necessary for…
Rheumatoid Arthritis: Dietary Triggers
Beverages: You Are What You Drink! Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a whole-body inflammatory syndrome that targets the lining of synovial joints. It can affect multiple organ systems, and by the time we diagnose the joint swelling and pain as rheumatoid arthritis, we have identified the end-organ damage of an immunological process that may have started…
Fermented Foods: Good for your Gut
More than 2000 years ago, Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, quipped that all disease begins in the gut. Recent studies suggest that many chronic disorders including obesity, depression, metabolic syndrome, and rheumatoid arthritis may be triggered by unfavorable changes to the gut microbiome. So…it sounds like he was right! We Are Not Alone… A…
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