With COVID-19 on everyone’s mind, it’s crucial to maintain a healthy immune system. There are many things you can do to boost your immune system or to keep it from falling behind. Lifestyle changes such as diet and exercise can be incredibly powerful in maintaining the strength of the immune system. Today, let’s focus on […]
With the coronavirus on everyone’s mind these days, the slightest sniffle, sneeze, and cough can be alarming. In today’s article, we aren’t going to dive into the science of viral infections. Instead, let’s take a look at another source for runny noses, scratchy throats, and red eyes…histamines! What is Histamine? Histamine is a molecule […]
If you’re a follower of health trends, you’ve probably noticed words like gut flora, microbiota, microbiome, prebiotics, and probiotics used frequently on TV, social media, book covers, and in the supplement aisles of your grocery store. In today’s post, we’re going to take a look at how prebiotics and probiotics work. To do that, we’ll need to understand a […]