Detoxification, Drive!, Thyroid Health, Thyroid Support Formula

Thyroid facts: how to boost your thyroid health

For many of us, the thyroid is one of those parts of the body we’re aware exists but don’t tend to think about. So long as it’s working away in the background; it’s not in our thoughts – out of sight, out of mind. So much so, in fact, that many of us probably couldn’t say where it is in our body, what it looks like or even what it actually does. Now, that may be all very well, but the problem arises when something goes wrong.

The thyroid is a gland; it’s bow-tie-shaped and sits at the front of the throat. More importantly, though, it’s a critical component in the endocrine system, which is responsible for the running of the body’s glands, ensuring they generate, distribute and control effectively all the hormones that float about the body and help maintain our wellbeing. In fact, so critical to the endocrine system is the thyroid that it’s sometimes referred to as its ‘leader’, which means that if and when it’s harmed by dangerous toxins – specifically those known as ‘endocrine disruptors’, it can cause serious problems. All the more reason then, not just to be aware of the thyroid, but what thyroid health tips you can follow to look after this most significant of glands.

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General Health & Nutrition, MicroCell Lipotone Intensive, Weight Management

Fighting the flab: 7 ways to achieve effective weight loss

It’s a reality faced by many of us at some point in our lives – the desire (or necessity) to lose weight. The trouble is, of course, it’s easier said than done. For some, it proves a very difficult thing to achieve; a good number of people not only find it difficult to get started but also to keep up a successful regime so they keep the weight off. Other struggle to find something that works for them at all; they may be confused and irritated that what works for one person (probably someone they know) simply doesn’t work for them. Yet, the fact is that everyone – and everyone’s body – is different. By definition, what works for one dieter, one faster, one improved eater or one patient undergoing treatment won’t work for another.

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Hair & Nail Complex, Hair Health, Mega EPA 1000, MSM Powder

Hair-raising supplements: can boosting your nutrient intake reduce hair loss?

Your first reaction may be to scoff at the idea, but you shouldn’t; evidence suggests that taking the correct, targeted nutritional supplements may help with hair loss. Not to mention the fact that we’ve received strong, positive anecdotal evidence as to their efficacy in this area – especially from women customers.

But just how could boosting your nutritional intake prevent or reduce you losing those much-coveted curls up on top? Well, it all comes down to how our bodies, practically every part of them (from the individual systems to the skin, the brain to the heart and so on), require a regular, high level of vitamins and minerals to function well and remain healthy. It naturally follows then, when you think about it, that supplying your body with these natural well being boosters – or, if you prefer, nutrient deficiency products – should be great for preserving your hair and keeping it healthy and lustrous.

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Crystal Energy, Green Magma, Heavy Metal Reduction, OREA

Toxic fix: protection from and cleansing yourself of heavy metals

When it comes to the danger of being contaminated by toxic (or ‘heavy’) metals, it’s easy to sound like a doom-monger; frankly, though, that’s a risk worth taking – because blithely exposing yourself to such dangerous substances most definitely isn’t.

The truth is, whether we like it or not, many everyday items contain toxic metal at low levels. They can be found in what we eat and drink, as well as the air we breathe (thus, they enter the body through consuming food and drinks, inhaling air and via skin and eye contact). It’s true that our bodies actually require a very small amount of ‘trace metals’ (iron and copper, for instance), but it’s very easy to consume and absorb too much; it’s all too easy because we require so very little.

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Colon cleansing, Mag 07 Oxygen colon Cleanse, Oxy-Powder, Oxygen Colon Cleansers, Oxygen Products

The big O: a lowdown on oxygen – and why you might try oxygen cleansing

Don’t doubt it; oxygen is an absolutely critical substance for humans. The odourless, colourless gas that accounts for a fifth of the air all around us (and is the third most abundant in space beyond the Earth), it’s absolutely critical to our wellbeing, given that, along with hydrogen it makes up water – the basis for all life – and is the single most common chemical element in the human body; accounting for a whopping 65% of the body’s overall mass3. To that end then, its functions and benefits in the body are many and plentiful – and what can go wrong when the body’s deprived of it are serious, indeed.

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Aloe Gold Natural, Children’s Health, Fivelac, Renaltrex, Women’s health

The Truth About Urinary Tract Infections – And The Supplements To Treat Them

All of us experience it at some time or another; that need to pee that just grows and grows until, finally, we’re able to relieve ourselves. Usually that’s all it is – the necessity to empty our bladder – but sometimes it’s more. Sometimes it feels like you need to pee all the time and can even experience a regular burning pain when you do relieve yourself. And it can be joined by other very unpleasant symptoms; lower back pain, nausea, vomiting and dizziness.

If you experience all these things together then it may be you have a urinary tract infection (UTI). Women, young children and teenagers tend to be prone to them and they can recur, primarily targeting the bladder and kidneys. That said, there are a few misconceptions about UTIs – among undoubtable truths about them too – that it’s as well to be aware of. The following are some of the most important.

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Co-Enzyme Q10, True Maxi Q10, Vitamins & Minerals

Why is Co-Enzyme Q10 a crucial nutrient – and should you boost its levels in your body?

It’s a regrettable fact of life… we all age and our bodies simply don’t perform when we’re older quite like they did when we were younger. Now, many of this accept this; many of us believe there’s no fountain of youth (newsflash: there isn’t) and no way to reverse the ageing process. Well, while that may be essentially true, it’s actually false that there isn’t anything we can do about it.

Take for instance, if you’re getting older, boosting your body’s levels of Co-Enzyme Q10. Your what, you may ask? Co-Enzyme Q10 (or simply CoQ10, as it’s often referred to) is a naturally-occurring nutrient in the human body; although neither a vitamin nor a mineral, the important role it plays in ensuring your body remains healthy and functions as it should often means it’s mentioned in the same breath as them. Primarily, it’s recognised as a major contributor to helping cells generate energy and a critical fighter against highly disruptive molecules known as free radicals that, in order to ‘complete themselves’, greatly damage cells and DNA.

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Kidney Health, Liposomal Vitamin C, True Food Vitamin C, Vitamin C, Vitamins & Minerals

The orange Juice Nutrient: How to Avoid and Beat Vitamin C Deficiency

Forever associated with orange juice, Vitamin C is perhaps the most easily recalled of all the family of vitamins whose consumption is crucial for our bodies to function exactly as they should. For, should you peel back the surface and break up the segments – yes, as would with an orange – of what Vitamin C does for us, you quickly find it’s impossible not to come to the conclusion it’s essential for healthy human life.

A natural antioxidant that also goes by the scientific name L-ascorbic acid, Vitamin C can actually be found in many fruit and vegetables, certainly not just oranges1. Among all the great things it does inside out bodies, it helps ensure growth and development take place as they should, especially as it aids in the repairing of damaged internal tissue2, 3 and, in helping produce the protein collagen, it plays a pivotal role in keeping the skin, tendons, ligaments, cartilage and blood vessels in good health4.

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Banderol, Lyme Disease, Magnesium Citrate, Samento

Lyme Disease – What is it and How to Treat it?

There aren’t many people who, at one point or another, haven’t enjoyed time in the countryside; maybe a ramble across a moor, a pleasant stroll through green pastures or possibly a long walk in the woods. Few would credit the idea, though, that should you not live in the country, a visit could leave you ill, with exaggerated symptoms of fatigue; those similar to flu and even arthritic-like symptoms. How can this be so? Two words: Lyme disease.

To be clear, it’s pretty unlikely you’ll contract this illness via just a visit to the countryside; you’d be very unlucky to do so, but it is possible. Indeed, between 2,000 and 3,000 cases of Lyme disease occur in England and Wales every year1. So what is it? Well, Lyme borreliosis – to give its official name – is what happens following a bite from a tick, a creature (a bit like a miniscule spider) whose habitat tends to be woodland and heaths; it’s their bites that transfer the Lyme disease bacteria to an unlucky human victim.

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Vein health, Vein support supplements

In the Right Vein: How to look After your Arteries and Veins

Of all the parts of the body, our arteries and veins may be one of those we take most for granted. There they are under our skin, sometimes visible, other times not, transporting the blood (and, in it, all the oxygen, vitamins, minerals, nutrients and more we need to survive and stay healthy, as well as the harmful entities like carbon dioxide so they can be expelled from the body). Yes, they’re just doing their job, while we get on with our lives and, for the most part, ignore them.

But should we take them for granted; let alone ignore them? Well, usually, as long as we’re in good health, looking after ourselves in general via a decent, balanced diet and getting regular exercise, we shouldn’t have too much trouble on the vein front. Yet, occasionally, it’s sensible to think about the welfare of the vascular system; about how important it is to maintain artery and vein integrity. After all, it’s the arteries and veins that are the highways of our bodies; like motorways, should they become clogged up or damaged, things begin to grind to a halt. And we can end up getting ill – potentially seriously.

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