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Stress, Biological Aging, and Telomeres

Stress: It Doesn't Just Feel Like It’s Killing You How Stress Shortens Telomeres Length and Leads to Early Aging I have written extensively here at our blog about both the importance of reducing stress in achieving a vibrant, healthy, and long life, and also about the complicated role that telomeres have on the human lifespan. In fact, I recently sent out to our Facebook followers a link to an article recently published by Stanford University, where researchers were able to …

Jan 29, 2015 Ryan Wade

Foraging a Deeper Connection

The Micro and Macro, the Self and the Universe Everyone is talking about the "New Year" and a "new you." How about the old you? How about reconnecting with who we really are? Foraging a Deeper Connection

Jan 05, 2015 Ryan Wade

The Fragile Balance: Protecting Our Oceans Through Awareness and Action

What have we done to our Oceans? And what were we thinking? It’s mind-boggling how our survival hinges on water, yet we squander it, dump our waste into it, and treat the oceans as the world's largest toilet and grocery store. A psychoanalyst would likely find our relationship with water highly dysfunctional. Our survival depends—completely and absolutely—on healthy oceans, including the air we breathe.Think about it: the oceans cover over 70% of the Earth's surface and are home to an incre …

Nov 29, 2014 Ryan Wade

Gut Bacteria and the Blood Brain Barrier

The Gut → Brain Health Connection One of the most interesting and telling things about the blood brain barrier is the vast similarity between the cells which make up the blood brain barrier and the cells which line the small intestine, forming a barrier between what is essentially outside the body and what is inside the body. In looking at the histology (the study of cells) of the body, it is no surprise at all that the foods we eat and the health of our gut will have a direct impac …

Nov 22, 2014 Ryan Wade

Comprehensive Nutritional Analysis of Pine Pollen

The Nutrition of Pine Pollen Customers have been asking recently for more information on the nutrition of Pine Pollen. Like most of the research on Pine Pollen, the research done in identifying the nutritional components of Pine Pollen has all been published in Chinese and has yet to be translated. This makes doing research, as an English speaker in the US, difficult. But we did it. Because of the difficulty in locating and understanding the research, we have worked …

Nov 15, 2014 Ryan Wade

Health, Meditation, and the Mind Body Connection

The Necessary Mind Body Connection "It was always obvious to the ancients wisdom traditions that mind and body were interconnected but somewhere along the line we created a dichotomy as if they were different" -- The Connection: Mind Your Body Meditation has been gaining popularity in the west now for several decades, but a unique combination of factors (technology advancements, social advancements, a real need for meditation) has resulted in a real blooming of interest into meditation, t …

Nov 08, 2014 Ryan Wade

Expanded Intended Uses Page

Navigating the Improved Intended Uses Page In an increasing effort to help you find the products that most interest you we have expanded the Intended Uses page at our website. Previously--and unfortunately--this page did not serve our customers as well as we would have liked. But with the launch of our new website we have giving this page a serious reworking. When you visit the Intended Uses page you'll now find six highly easy to navigate categories for helping select whi …

Oct 31, 2014 Ryan Wade

BPA and Store Receipts

Lurking Endocrine Disruptors and Learning to Avoid Them The association between store receipts and Bisphenol A (BPA) grabbed headlines a few years ago (2010-2011), prompting some stores to switch to BPA-free receipts while most others continued to use them. BPA is commonly found in thermal print paper, including the silky-smooth receipts often received with groceries, making it a prevalent endocrine-disrupting environmental contaminant. The debate surrounding the safety of BPA con …

Oct 30, 2014 Ryan Wade

Gut Bacteria (Probiotics) and Alcohol Addiction

Connecting Gut Health, Alcohol Addiction, and Mental/Physical Health Ten or fifteen years ago, when I first began to become interested in probiotics and the relationship between probiotics and health, no one could have imagined how much research would be done in the near future exploring and discovering how influential our microbiome is on our health--including our mental health. Recently a study was released linking alcohol addiction and certain gut bacteria. The study, Intestinal pe …

Oct 29, 2014 Ryan Wade

Welcome to our new Website!

Since you're reading this here we want to welcome you to our new website and adjoining blog. We have been in development of this change for a good while now and we hope that you find the new site much more pleasant to use--I know we do. There are a few changes to note: Returning customers will have to request a new password using the "Forgot Your Password" link on the login page. This is because we have changed the back-end of the website around in addition to the front end. All of you …

Oct 27, 2014 Ryan Wade

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