Nutritional Medicine Blogs

Private: Essential Fatty Acid Supplementation: Why the combination of flaxseed, borage seed and fish oil is the optimal blend for your heart, brain, joints, immune system, skin and cancer prevention

Table of Contents In Brief Recent research studies confirms data findings of previous investigations, indicating that the synergistic action of essential fatty acids, richly supplied by flaxseed oil, borage seeed oil and fish oil, encourage the production of eicosanoids (mini-local hormones) that help defend the body against heart attack, stroke

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New Blood Pressure Lowering Diet surpass Drugs

A large study, published on November 12, 2017, in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, has shown that a new dietary approach to lowering high blood pressure can outperform the blood pressure lowering effects of some high blood pressure medications.  This is not to say that high blood

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How To Perfect Skin In 30 Days?

Table of Contents Introduction In recent years clinical and experimental studies have shown that the health, appearance, and texture of the skin is strongly influenced by nutritional factors, which work from the inside out.  As well, conditions such as eczema, psoriasis, seborrhea, acne, rosacea and poor complexion problems, have been

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Diet for Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

The research review paper I am citing today was published in the journal Frontiers in Nutrition on Nov 8, 2017.  It’s a fabulous review article with concluding recommendations by the researchers that address the role of dietary practices in the management of rheumatoid arthritis.  But the recommendations also apply to

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Nutritional Factors That Enhance Detoxification

Table of Contents Introduction Various studies often emphasized on nutritional factors that enhance detoxification.The role of dietary manipulation and nutritional supplementation has been shown to be of clinical importance in the prevention and treatment of various skin conditions.1,3  For this reason a number of health and allied health professionals have

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Lifestyle Medicine Prevents Progression of Pre-diabetes

In Canada, there are 2 million diabetics and 7 million people who are on the cusp of developing diabetes – pre-diabetes. – almost a third of the population. Pre-diabetes means that your fasting glucose level is between 5.7 and 6.9 mmol/L. These individuals usually have other risk factors, such as

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