Holiday Health: Five Natural Therapies to Lower Your Blood Pressure
The holiday season is here! The days are filled with hustle and bustle to get organized, presents purchased, house cleaned, food prepped, attend social gatherings and orchestrate who will host dinner on Christmas Day. You might not feel your blood pressure rising during all of the hustle and bustle -- [...]
How to Imbibe More Healthfully & Prevent a Hangover this Holiday Season
As we head into the holiday season, we will be faced with many, many opportunities to overindulge, undoubtedly including a few extra cocktails! Because alcohol has become such a big part of our social culture, it naturally trickles in a bit more this time of year. While taking an extra [...]
Meet Joseph Cheung – Your Health Is Your Wealth
Here at CanPrev, we are all about our community. Because without a platform to connect with individuals – we cannot learn, grow, educate, motivate or inspire. That’s where our ambassadors come in. These individuals are dedicated to living life to the fullest! They are continually learning and growing, sharing their [...]
Food and Supplements For Joint Health
If you suffer from joint pain, then you know from experience just how painful and immobilizing it can be. However, by eating the rights foods and taking the correct supplements, you can prevent joint pain from arising and help manage inflammation that can make joint conditions worse. This preventative approach [...]
Magnesium, Enzymes and Cellular Energy
There is a host of scientific studies linking magnesium to many different health conditions, but reviewing these effects one by one is overwhelming and confusing. Instead, it’s more helpful to look at magnesium’s underlying physiological mechanisms. Understanding what magnesium does fundamentally will let us better understand how insufficient magnesium levels might [...]
Magnesium and Cardiovascular Conditions
Blood clotting (intravascular thrombosis, heart attacks and strokes) Clotting is a normal response to blood vessel damage. When a blood vessel wall is damaged, tiny blood cells called platelets activate. These platelets adhere to a damaged surface and release sealing agents like fibrin. Magnesium regulates the activation of these platelets [...]
Meet Jill Bunny – Finding My Best Health
“When you’re the strongest and fittest you’ve ever been, the last thing you think you are is unhealthy and the last words you expect to hear are, you have cancer" -- Jill Bunny The “C” word Being told you have cancer is something you don’t ever expect to hear at [...]
Dietary Magnesium – What You Need to Know
Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) developed by the Food and Nutrition Board at the Institute of Medicine of The National Academies, recommend that males and females ages 19-30 take in 400 mg and 310 mg of magnesium a day respectively. Males 31 and older should up their intake to 420 mg [...]
