If you’ve been looking out the window only to see a dark night sky at 5 PM, you’re not alone. Canadian winters often come with early sunsets and chilly temperatures, keeping us indoors more than usual and leaving us with lower vitamin D levels. You may also notice that things [...]
Did you know that an average person sweats between 0.8 and 1.4 litres of fluid per hour of exercise? While many understand the importance of replacing lost fluids, fewer realize that sweating also leads to the loss of essential vitamins and nutrients – not just water and salt. Regardless of [...]
Are you looking for a natural way to enhance your energy levels, antioxidant intake and immune response? It’s time to meet cordyceps, a mushroom that’s most commonly found in the Himalayas as well as in dense forests in Europe and North America. Let’s learn more about cordyceps and how it [...]
Feeling under the weather during the winter? Besides the heavy snow shovelling and trying to escape cold and flu, there is a scientific reason why you might be feeling blue during the colder seasons. You may be having trouble concentrating and finding motivation to get work done, and the only [...]
From sipping on a glass of orange juice to snacking on juicy strawberries throughout the day, vitamin C is a familiar friend that we rely on to bring health and vitality to our daily routines. Vitamin C is a nutrient powerhouse that plays an important role in supporting our immune [...]
How often do you find yourself struggling to get out of bed? Do you constantly feel like you’re running on fumes day in and day out? Feeling tired all the time can be a challenging and frustrating experience. However, you’re not alone. Research indicates that at least 60% of Canadians [...]
With rising trends in meat-free diets and the growing diversity of dietary choices, the pescatarian diet has been gaining momentum. This diet prioritizes foods that provide an abundance of health-boosting omega-3 fatty acids and essential vitamins and minerals that all work in harmony to protect your heart, reduce inflammation, assist [...]
Are you taking your vitamin D? Also known as the sunshine vitamin, vitamin D is responsible for hundreds of functions in the body. While this vitamin may appear easy to obtain from sun and diet alone, vitamin D deficiency runs rampant. This is especially true for those of us living [...]
Maintaining good health is often boiled down to eating a healthy diet, getting regular exercise and staying hydrated. But where does zinc fit in? Zinc is an essential nutrient - this means that the human body does not produce it, but it's vital to our overall health. This mighty trace [...]
Vegan diets have seen a rapid surge in popularity, due to the purported health benefits, environmental implications, and a wave of documentaries encouraging an animal-free approach to food. While vegetarian diets eschew meat products, veganism removes all animal by-products from the equation, including milk, eggs, and honey. With the elimination [...]
The B vitamins are a family that often appear naturally combined in the foods we eat. They're commonly known as the B family, or B complex. They work in conjunction with one another for critical metabolic functions, acting as assistant coenzymes to catalyze many chemical reactions involved with nutrient breakdown, [...]
Why take a multivitamin? Chances are, if you're interested in health and wellness, you've asked yourself that question. There's lot of conflicting information out there, but one thing is certain: nutritional deficiencies are more common than we think. Read on for a handy guide on what multivitamins are, how they [...]
Antioxidants come top of mind for many health-conscious folks, but is everything you've heard about antioxidants factually correct? Read on for a refresher on antioxidant myths and truths. 1) Myth or truth: Are antioxidants really important? Truth. Antioxidants are essential substances for health. We generate antioxidants at the cellular level [...]
Ever wondered what antioxidants really are and what they do in the body? Read on for everything you need to know about antioxidants, free radicals, the ORAC scale, and antioxidant-rich foods and supplements. What is an antioxidant? Simply put, an antioxidant is a substance that works hard to protect your [...]
Taking simple steps today can help better our health for tomorrow. Here are some additional back-to-the-basics immunity tips for a preventative care routine: Nutrition Boost Eating a wide variety of fruits and vegetables lays a strong foundation of quality antioxidants in your diet. Phytonutrient-rich foods Fill up on phytonutrients! These [...]
In Nutrient Spotlight: The Science Behind Vitamin K2, we covered the discovery of the Vitamin K family, its overall function in the body, and brief differences between MK-4 and MK-7. Now, let's dive deeper into how vitamin K1 differs from K2, why deficiency is hard to detect, and why this nutrient [...]
Ever wonder why vitamins go from A, B, C, D and E straight to vitamin K? Well, there is a good explanation. Vitamin K was first discovered as a blood clotting agent in chicken and was named “koagulation”, Danish for coagulation. Doesn't sound too exciting, does it? Well, clotting is just [...]
From digesting food to impacting your immunity, cognitive health, and beyond, your gut has a say in it all. Learn about the trillions of bacteria and other microbes that live inside of you and how balancing your gut microbiome can help you achieve better health.