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- A Useful Book I Hope You Never Need
- Acetaminophen (Tylenol) and Your Liver
- Acidophilus
- Acne
- Acne and Diet
- Activated Charcoal
- Acupressure
- Acupuncture
- Adenosine Monophosphate (AMP)
- Adrenal Complex
- Aging
- Agrimony
- Alcoholism
- Alexander Technique
- Allergies
- Allergy Elimination Diet
- Allium Compounds
- Aloe Vera
- Alpha-Linolenic Acid
- Alpha-Lipoic Acid
- Alternative Approach...
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Amino Acids
- Anemia
- Anger
- Anger, Part 2
- Angina
- Anthocyanins
- Anti-Aging Industry
- Anti-Aging Medicine
- Anti-Aging Supplements
- Antioxidants
- Antioxidants and Exercise
- Anxiety and Panic
- Apitherapy
- Applied Kinesiology
- Arginine
- Arnica
- Aromatherapy
- Aromatherapy and Menstrual Cramps
- Arrhythmias
- Art Therapy
- Arthritis in Your Knees
- Artichoke Leaf
- Ashwagandha
- Asparagus Root
- Aston Patterning
- Astragalus
- Athlete’s Foot
- Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
- Ayurveda
- Bromelain and Arthritis
- Do I Really Need My Antidepressants?
- Fibromyalgia and Acupuncture
- Healing Affirmations
- Hot Flashes and Acupuncture
- It’s Allergy Season…
- Less Stress: Aromatherapy
- Low Dosage Aspirin: ...
- Muscle Aches and Pains
- Q&A: Alcohol and Breast Cancer
- Q&A: Bromelain ...
- Q&A: Citicholine and the Aging Brain
- Q&A: How do Con...
- Q&A: Supplement...
- SAMe for Depression and Arthritis
- Solving Adrenal Imbalance
- Stress Less: Acupuncture
- Supplements I Take: Acetyl-L-Carnitine
- Testing Your Adrenal Glands
- The Key to Anti-Aging?
- Vitamin A
- Will Alzheimer’s Skyrocket?
- Women and ADD: Part 1
- Women and ADD: Part 2
- Women in the Asylum
- Women, ADD, and the Drugs That Help
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- A Natural Bladder Product
- Bach Flower Therapy
- Bad Breath: Eight Ways to Sweeten
- Baking Soda
- Basic Foods for Cupb...
- Bedbugs! (and a PS on Ticks)
- Bee Products
- Beta-Carotene
- Beta-Sitosterol
- Bifidobacteria
- Big Pharma, Bad Medicine
- Bilberry
- Biofeedback
- Bioidentical Hormones
- Biotin
- Black Cohosh
- Blackberry
- Bone-Building Formula
- Borage Oil
- Boron
- Boswellia
- Brain-Boosting Suppl...
- Breaking the Fast with Breakfast
- Breast Thermogram
- Breathing Out Stress
- Bromelain
- Bromelain and Arthritis
- Bromelain/Quercetin
- Bronchitis
- Buckthorn Bark
- Burns
- Butcher’s Broom
- Butterbur
- Fibrocystic Breast Changes
- Flower Essence Thera...
- High Blood Pressure
- High Blood Pressure
- Hopping for Strong Bones
- Hypnotized by Big Pharma
- Keeping Your Smarts as You Age
- Keeping Your Smarts, Part 2
- Less Stress: Flower Essence Therapy
- Let the Sun Shine: P...
- Low Thyroid and Taki...
- Menopause and Bioidentical Hormones
- Pantothenic Acid (B5)
- Q&A: Alcohol and Breast Cancer
- Q&A: Brain-Healthy Diet
- Q&A: Bromelain ...
- Q&A: Chiropractor for Son’s Back Pain
- Q&A: Exercise and a Healthy Brain
- Q&A: Low Blood Sugar
- Q&A: Supplements for Better Breathing
- Saccharomyces boulardii
- Something New About Birth Control Pills
- Soy Foods and Breast Cancer
- Stress and Brain Fog...
- Stress Less: Flower ...
- The Night Shift and Breast Cancer
- Thiamin (B1)
- Three Foods for Easy Breathing
- Two Improtant Studie...
- Using Soy to Prevent Breast Cancer
- Vitamin B Complex
- Vitamin B12
- Vitamin B6
- What’s Happening to My Brain
- You! Off Your Duff and On Your Bike!
- Your Bones Need More Than Calcium
- Your Brain: Could It...
- Your Brain: Could Pr...
- Your Brain: Is Low Thyroid a Factor?
- Your Brain: It Could Be Low Serotonin
- Your Brain: Maybe It...
- Your Brain: Maybe Your Depressed
- Your Brain: Yes, It ...
- Your Sex Drive, the FDA, and Big Pharma
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- “You Are Corn”
- Activated Charcoal
- Calcium
- Calcium/Magnesium
- Calendula
- Can You Lower Choles...
- Cancer
- Cancer and Vitamin D
- Cancer Prevention
- Cancer Prevention Clip ‘n Save
- Candida Overgrowth Syndrome
- Canker Sores
- Caprylic Acid
- Carnitine
- Carotenoids
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Cascara Sagrada
- CASE STUDY: C’est Moi
- Cat’s Claw
- Cataracts
- Catechins
- Cayenne
- Celery Extract
- Chamomile
- Chasteberry
- Chelation Therapy
- Cherry Fruit Extract
- Chiropractic
- Chitosan
- Chondroitin
- Chromium
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Chronic Pain
- Circles of Light
- Coenzyme Q10
- Cold Sores
- Colds
- Colloidal Oatmeal
- Colon Therapy
- Color Therapy
- Coltsfoot
- Complex Carbohydrates
- Congestive Heart Failure
- Conjugated Linoleic Acid
- Constipation
- Copper
- Coriander Seed
- Cough
- Cranberry
- Cranial Electrostimulation
- Craniosacral Therapy
- Creatine
- Crestor: To Take or Not To Take
- Crohn’s Disease
- Crystal and Gem Therapy
- Cuts and Scrapes
- Fast Food Favorites: Chickpeas
- High Cholesterol
- Is Vitamin C Worthwhile?
- Lecithin and Choline
- Liquid C
- Melatonin for Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Nutritional Counseli...
- Preventing Cancer with One Good Choice
- Pumpkin (cucurbita) Seed
- Q&A: Alcohol and Breast Cancer
- Q&A: Chiropractor for Son’s Back Pain
- Q&A: Citicholine and the Aging Brain
- Q&A: Complex Carbohydrates
- Red Grapefruit and Cholesterol
- Reducing Your Risk of Ovarian Cancer
- Soy Foods and Breast Cancer
- Supplements I Take: Acetyl-L-Carnitine
- The Night Shift and Breast Cancer
- Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin C and Flavinoids
- Why I Dislike Drug Companies
- Your Bones Need More Than Calcium
- Your Colonoscopy
- Zinc/Copper
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- 48,328 Diet Books
- Acne and Diet
- Cancer and Vitamin D
- D-ribose: New Supplement of Note
- Dance Therapy
- Dandelion
- De-Cluttering Your Life
- Death By Medicine
- Depression
- Detoxification Therapy
- Devil’s Claw
- DHEA
- Diabetes
- Diarrhea
- Diet Drugs
- Diets
- Digestive Enzymes
- Digestive Enzymes
- Diindolylmethance (DIM)
- DLPA (D, L Phenylalanine)
- DMAE (Dimethylaminoethanol)
- Don’t Shoot the Messenger
- Dong Quai (angelica)
- Drug-Free Hormone Balancing
- Eight Ways to Eat the Triple Whammy Way
- Herbal Decongestant
- Herbal Digestive Formula
- I Went to the Doctor...
- Important Depression Update
- Let the Sun Shine: P...
- On Their Knees: Doct...
- Pre-diabetes Prescription Drugs
- Q&A: Brain-Healthy Diet
- Q&A: Tanning Be...
- Q&A: Vitamin D
- SAMe for Depression and Arthritis
- St. John’s Wor...
- Vitamin D
- Vitamin D – Again
- Vitamin D and Fibromyalgia
- Vitamin D and Pain Control
- Vitamin D and Your Heart
- Vitamin D, Part 2
- Why Doctors Avoid Prescription Drugs
- Why I Dislike Drug Companies
- You! Off Your Duff and On Your Bike!
- Your Brain: Maybe Your Depressed
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- Allergy Elimination Diet
- An Easier Way to Ove...
- Antioxidants and Exercise
- Astonishingly Unhealthful Eating
- Digestive Enzymes
- Earache
- Eat Food as Nouns, Not Adjectives
- Echinacea
- Echinacea: My Doubts...
- Eczema
- Elderberry and Elderflower
- Endometriosis
- Energy Psychology
- Ephedra (Ma huang)
- Epilepsy
- Escaping Routine
- Eucalyptus
- Europe’s Healthcare System
- Evening Primrose Oil
- Exercise and Weight Loss
- Fatigue
- Natural Healing from Trauma
- Nutritional Health for Your Eyes
- Q&A: Exercise and a Healthy Brain
- Q&A: Increasing Your Energy
- Q&A: Vitamin E and Heart Attacks
- Slippery Elm
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- Farmers Markets: The Way to Eat
- A Must Read for Those with Fibromyalgia
- Add Some Fat to Your Veggies
- Advances in Fibromyalgia
- Advances in Fibromyalgia: Part 2
- Advances in Fibromyalgia: Part 3
- Bach Flower Therapy
- Basic Foods for Cupb...
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- False Unicorn Root
- Fast Food Favorites: Chickpeas
- Fast Food Favorites: Salmon in a Pouch
- Fast Food Favorites: Spinach
- Fasting
- Fatigue
- Fear Factor
- Feldenkrais Method
- Fennel
- Fertility: Six Natur...
- Feverfew
- Fiber, insoluble
- Fiber, soluble
- Fibrocystic Breast Changes
- Fibromyalgia
- Fibromyalgia and Acupuncture
- Fibromyalgia Explained: Part 1
- Fibromyalgia Explained: Why the Pain?
- Fibromyalgia: An Almost Natural Approach
- Fibromyalgia: Conventional Treatment
- Fibromyalgia: Gender...
- Fibromyalgia: The Fatigue Part
- First Line Therapy
- Fish Oil and Your Child’s Brain
- Fish Oil Now by Prescription
- Fish Oils
- Five Steps to Exiting the Rut
- Flatulence
- Flavinoids
- Flaxseed Oil
- Flower Essence Thera...
- Flu
- Flu Shot: Do I Need One?
- Folic Acid
- Forskolin
- FOS (Fructo-oligosaccharides)
- Functional Medicine
- Help! I’m Getting the Flu
- Less Stress: Flower Essence Therapy
- More on Lyrica, the Fibromyalgia Drug
- Name-That-Food Quiz
- Preventing and Treating the Flu
- Preventing Flu
- Q&A: Can Food Help Mood?
- Q&A: Flu Shot
- Q&A: Tamiflu
- Should I get the Swine Flu Vaccine?
- Still More Benefits of Fish Oil
- Still More on the Flu
- Stress Less: Flower ...
- Swine Flu
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- Are You Reluctant to Get Well?
- Crystal and Gem Therapy
- GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
- Gallstones
- Gamma-Oryzanol
- Garcinia Cambogia
- Garlic
- Gelatin
- Ginger
- Ginkgo Biloba
- Ginkgo Biloba
- Ginkgo Biloba
- Ginseng (Panax)
- Glandular Therapies
- Glucosamine
- Glutamine
- Glutathione
- Gluten Sensitivity
- Goldenseal
- Gota Kola
- Gout
- Grape Seed Extract
- Grapefruit Seed Extract
- Gratitude
- Gratitude
- Green Tea
- Green Tea and Ovarian Cancer
- Gugulipid
- Gum Disease
- Gymnema Sylvestre
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- “My hormones are out of whack!”
- A Natural Heartburn Treatment
- Bioidentical Hormones
- Can I Quit My Heartburn Drug?
- Congestive Heart Failure
- Drug-Free Hormone Balancing
- Hair Loss
- Hair Problems
- Hawthorn
- Healing Touch: A Bal...
- Health Care Reform and You (and Me)
- Health Care Reform: ...
- Health Insurance: Food for Thought
- Healthcare PTSD
- Healthy Living is the Best Revenge
- Heart Disease Prevention
- Heartburn
- Hellerwork
- Hemorrhoids
- Hepatitis
- Herbal Decongestant
- Herbal Digestive Formula
- High Blood Pressure
- High Blood Pressure
- High Cholesterol
- Holiday Cheer
- Holiday Food…and More Food
- Holiday Stress Rx: Part 2
- Holiday Stress Rx: Part 3
- Holiday Stress Rx: Ten Tips
- Homeopathy
- Homocysteine and Your Health
- Hopping for Strong Bones
- Horehound
- Horse Chestnut
- Hot Flashes and Acupuncture
- Huperzine A
- Hydrotherapy
- Hypnotherapy
- I’m Losing My Hair!
- Prescribing Happiness
- Q&A: Brain-Healthy Diet
- Q&A: Vitamin E and Heart Attacks
- RESPeRATE for High Blood Pressure
- Saving a Bundle on Healthcare, Part 2
- Saving A Bundle on Your Health Care
- Saving A Bundle on Y...
- Symptoms of Hormone Imbalance
- The Fine Art of Asking for Help
- This is Your Moment ...
- Vitamin D and Your Heart
- Your Brain: Yes, It ...
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- Another Idea Sixpack
- Idea Sixpack
- Impotence
- Infertility, Female
- Infertility, Male
- Insomnia
- Iodine
- Iodine and You
- Ipriflavone
- Iridology
- Iron
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Ivy Leaf
- More on Infertility
- Q&A: Interactio...
- Q&A: Muscle Str...
- Q&A: Sleep and Your Immune System
- Soy Isoflavones
- Thoughts on Infertility, Part 1
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- K
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- Acetaminophen (Tylenol) and Your Liver
- Bedbugs! (and a PS on Ticks)
- Conjugated Linoleic Acid
- Laugh Your Troubles Away
- Lavender
- Leaky Gut: Diagnosis and Repair
- Lecithin and Choline
- Less Stress: Flower Essence Therapy
- Less Stress: Guided Imagery
- Licorice
- Light Therapy
- Lipotrophic Combination
- Living Longer, Living Healthier
- Lupus
- Lycopene
- Lyme Disease Attacks Local Physician (!)
- Lysine
- More on Lyrica, the Fibromyalgia Drug
- Q&A: Low Blood Sugar
- Understanding Leaky Gut Syndrome
- Why You Don’t Need Lipitor
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- A Modest Medical Proposal
- Aromatherapy and Menstrual Cramps
- Better Memory Tricks, Part 1
- Calcium/Magnesium
- Death By Medicine
- Does Meditation Work?
- Easing Cramps
- Importance of Magnesium
- Longer Life for the Man in Your Life
- Maca
- Macrobiotics
- Macular Degeneration
- Magnesium
- Magnet Therapy
- Mammogram Controversy
- Marshmellow
- Massage Therapy
- Mayo Clinic Sells Its Soul
- Measuring Hormone Levels
- Meditation
- Meet Elaine
- Melatonin
- Melatonin and Perimenopause
- Melatonin for Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Melissa
- Memory Loss/Impairment
- Menopause
- Menopause and Bioidentical Hormones
- Menopause Herbal Combination
- Menopause Transition Rx
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Methionine
- Migraine
- Milk Thistle
- Mistletoe
- Modify Risk Factors
- More Better Memory Tricks
- MSM
- Muira Puama
- Mullein
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Muscle Aches and Pains
- Mushrooms
- Music Therapy
- Myers’ Cocktail
- Myotherapy
- Myrtle
- Organic Milk
- Pre-Menopause Anxiety
- Q&A: Can Food Help Mood?
- Q&A: Men and the Triple Whammy
- Q&A: Muscle Str...
- Q&A: Red Meat
- Stress Less: Meditation
- The Most Important Supplement
- Toxic Metals and Disease
- Trace Minerals
- Your Brain: Could an...
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- A Solid Thumbs-Up on...
- Can You Trust the NYT?
- Learning to Say No
- NAC (N-acetylcysteine)
- NADH (Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide)
- Naringin
- Native American Medicine
- Natural Progesterone Cream
- Naturopathy
- Nettle
- Niacin
- Nutritional Bad News
- Nutritional Counseli...
- Nutritional Medicine News
- Nutritional Research: Busy Month
- Our Missing Nutrients
- Q&A: New Year’s Resolution
- Q&A: Nutritional Medicine
- R&R for 2008
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- Colloidal Oatmeal
- Green Tea and Ovarian Cancer
- Health Risks of the Oil Gusher
- Oak Bark
- Oat Straw
- Obesity by Infection
- Omega-3 Fatty Acids
- Omega-6 Fatty Acids
- Oprah: Poster Child ...
- Oregano
- Organic Milk
- Organics
- Osteopathy
- Osteoporosis
- Reducing Your Risk of Ovarian Cancer
- Second Opinions
- Thinking Out of the Box
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- Case Study: Melanie’s PMS Hell
- An Easier Way to Ove...
- Anxiety and Panic
- Before Filling Your ...
- Chronic Pain
- Cure PMS The Natural...
- Energy Psychology
- Four Easy Steps to S...
- Melatonin and Perimenopause
- Muscle Aches and Pains
- Natural Healing from Trauma
- Natural Progesterone Cream
- On Their Knees: Doct...
- PABA (para-aminobenzoic acid)
- Pantothenic Acid (B5)
- Parsley
- Pau d’arco
- Pelargonium sidoides (African geranium)
- Peppermint
- Perimenopause
- Phosphatidylserine (PS)
- Phyllanthus/Ayurvedi...
- PMS
- PMS Rx
- Poisoned by an Antibiotic
- Polarity Therapy
- Policosanol
- Potassium
- Prayer
- Pre-diabetes Prescription Drugs
- Pre-Menopause Anxiety
- Preventing Flu
- Preventive Tests You Need
- Prickly Pear
- Prostate Problems
- Psoriasis
- Psyllium
- Pumpkin (cucurbita) Seed
- Push Up, Trim Down
- Pycnogenol: Are You a Frequent Flyer?
- Pygeum Africanum
- Pyruvate
- Q&A: Herbs Control PMS Palpitations
- The Dark Side of Prescription Drugs
- Vitamin D and Pain Control
- Why Doctors Avoid Prescription Drugs
- Your Brain: Could Pr...
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- Bromelain/Quercetin
- Coenzyme Q10
- Name-That-Food Quiz
- Q&A: A Question About SICKO
- Q&A: Can Food Help Mood?
- Q&A: Citicholine and the Aging Brain
- Q&A: Complex Carbohydrates
- Q&A: Exercise and a Healthy Brain
- Q&A: Flu Shot
- Q&A: How Much Water?
- Q&A: Increasing Your Energy
- Q&A: Interactio...
- Q&A: Men and the Triple Whammy
- Q&A: SAMe or St. John’s Wort?
- Q&A: Tamiflu
- Q&A: Tanning Be...
- Qigong
- Quercetin
- Take the Triple Whammy Quiz
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- 2008: Time for Mini-Resolutions
- A Quick and Easy Ref...
- All Your Vegetables Soup
- Are You Reluctant to Get Well?
- D-ribose: New Supplement of Note
- Modifying Risk Factors
- Q&A: New Year’s Resolution
- Q&A: Red Meat
- R&R for 2008
- Raspberry Leaf (rubus idaeus)
- Raynaud’s Disease
- Recipes: Asparagus G...
- Recipes: Heather’s Hot and Hearty Chili
- Recipes: Josephina&#...
- Recipes: Lemony Lent...
- Recipes: Spicy Cabbage Soup
- Red Rice Yeast
- Reflexology
- Reiki
- Resistance, Sigmund ...
- RESPeRATE for High Blood Pressure
- Resveratrol
- Rhodiola rosea
- Riboflavin (vitamin B2)
- Rolfing
- Rosacea
- Rosemary
- Stress Less: Reflexology
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- How Stress Shortens ...
- Walking Away From Ch...
- A SAD (Seasonal Affe...
- Better Sleep
- Brain-Boosting Suppl...
- Breathe Out Stress
- Breathing Out Stress
- Cuts and Scrapes
- December Stress
- Don’t Forget Your Selenium
- Fast Food Favorites: Salmon in a Pouch
- Fast Food Favorites: Spinach
- Flu Shot: Do I Need One?
- Getting Off the Seas...
- Help for Your Fading Sex Drive
- Holiday Stress Rx: Part 2
- Holiday Stress Rx: Part 3
- Holiday Stress Rx: Ten Tips
- Idea Sixpack
- Keeping Your Smarts as You Age
- Keeping Your Smarts, Part 2
- Kidney Stones
- Learning to Say No
- More Travel Snacks
- My Annual Smoking Rant
- Nature’s Apoth...
- Our Governor the Sociopath
- Q&A: A Question About SICKO
- Q&A: SAMe or St. John’s Wort?
- Q&A: Sleep and Your Immune System
- Q&A: Stiff Neck
- Q&A: Supplements and the Triple Whammy
- Q&A: Tanning Be...
- Saccharomyces boulardii
- SAMe (S-adenosylmethionine)
- SAMe for Depression and Arthritis
- Saw Palmetto
- Second Opinion
- Second Opinions
- Selenium
- Shark Liver Oil
- Shiatsu
- Shingles
- Should I get the Swine Flu Vaccine?
- Siberian Ginseng
- SICKO Part Five: Fixing the System
- SICKO Part Four
- SICKO Part One
- SiCKO Part Three: Mo...
- SICKO Part Two
- Sinus Infections
- Sinusitis
- Slippery Elm
- Sore Throat
- Soy Foods and Breast Cancer
- Soy Isoflavones
- Spirilina and Kelp
- Sprains and Strains
- St. John’s Wort
- St. John’s Wor...
- Stay Skeptical
- Staying Smart
- Still Smoke?
- Stress
- Stress and Brain Fog...
- Stress Less: Acupuncture
- Stress Less: Meditation
- Stress Less: T’ai Chi
- Stroke
- Sugar
- Summertime’s Natural Serotonin Boosters
- Sunburn
- Swine Flu
- The Most Important Supplement
- The Sadness of Happy Meals
- The Upside of Low Serotonin
- Tips for Better Sleep
- Travel Snacks
- Using Soy to Prevent Breast Cancer
- Wintertime Blues: 10...
- Women, Baseball Bats, Men, and Serotonin
- Worry and Stress
- Your Brain: It Could Be Low Serotonin
- Your Sex Drive, the FDA, and Big Pharma
- Zzzzz: You’re ...
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- Acetaminophen (Tylenol) and Your Liver
- Eight Ways to Eat the Triple Whammy Way
- If You Take Thyroid Hormones
- Low Thyroid and Taki...
- Milk Thistle
- More Travel Snacks
- Natural Healing from Trauma
- Oprah: Poster Child ...
- Q&A: Men and the Triple Whammy
- Q&A: Supplements and the Triple Whammy
- Sore Throat
- Stress Less: T’ai Chi
- T’ai Chi: Getting Started
- Tai Chi
- Take the Triple Whammy Quiz
- Taurine
- Tea Tree Oil
- The Upside of Low Serotonin
- Therapeutic Touch
- Thiamin (B1)
- Thyroid Disease
- Townsend Letter
- Toxic Food Syndrome
- Toxic Food Syndrome, Part 2
- Toxic Metals and Disease
- Trace Minerals
- Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Trager Approach
- Travel Snacks
- Trimming the Tummy Fat
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- All Your Vegetables Soup
- Another Reason You Need Vitamins
- Cancer and Vitamin D
- Flu Shot: Do I Need One?
- Is Vitamin C Worthwhile?
- Let the Sun Shine: P...
- Liquid C
- Nature’s Apoth...
- Pantothenic Acid (B5)
- Q&A: Tanning Be...
- Q&A: Vitamin D
- Q&A: Vitamin E and Heart Attacks
- Should I get the Swine Flu Vaccine?
- Valerian
- Varicose Veins
- Vinpocetine
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin B Complex
- Vitamin B12
- Vitamin B6
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin C and Flavinoids
- Vitamin D
- Vitamin D – Again
- Vitamin D and Fibromyalgia
- Vitamin D and Pain Control
- Vitamin D and Your Heart
- Vitamin D, Part 2
- Vitamin E
- Vitamin Graveyard
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- Sturm and Drang at Whole Foods
- Are You Drinking Enough Water?
- Benefits of a Whole Food Diet
- Case History Part 2:...
- Case History: Resistance to Getting Well
- Exercise and Weight Loss
- Q&A: How Much Water?
- Resistance, Sigmund ...
- Something New for Weight Loss
- The Launch of Our Updated Website
- Walnut Leaf
- Warts
- Weight Loss
- Where You Live Matters
- White Willow Bark
- Wild Yam
- Wintertime Blues: 10...
- Women + Certain Carbs = Early Death
- Women and ADD: Part 1
- Women and Weight: Do...
- Women’s Herbal Combination
- Women, ADD, and the Drugs That Help
- Women, Baseball Bats, Men, and Serotonin
- Worry and Stress
- Writing Therapy
- X
- Y
- “You Are Corn”
- Red Rice Yeast
- Stress Less: Yoga
- Wild Yam
- Yeast Infections (Vaginal)
- Yoga
- Yoga: Getting Started
- Yogurt 101: Become a Label-Reader
- Yohimbe
- Your Brain: Could Pr...
- Your Brain: Is Low Thyroid a Factor?
- Your Brain: It Could Be Low Serotonin
- Your Brain: Maybe It...
- Your Brain: Maybe Your Depressed
- Your Brain: Yes, It ...
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Alpha-Linolenic Acid
What Is It?
Alpha-linolenic acid is an essential fatty acid and the major omega-3 fatty acid found in food. Essential fatty acids are not produced by the body and must be present in the diet to maintain health. The unique biochemical structure of alpha-linolenic acid is important and helps to make it a key player in immunity, vision, cell membranes, and the production of hormonelike compounds.
Health Benefits
Essential fatty acids, such as alpha-linolenic acid, are extremely important for healing and maintaining good health. Compounds made from alpha-linolenic acid have been shown to decrease blood clotting and decrease inflammatory processes in the body. Study results from international clinical trials demonstrate that people who eat two servings of fish per week run a lower risk for heart attacks, compared with people who eat very little fish. The probable mechanism is reduced blood clotting because of fish oils, which results in a cardiovascular benefit.
Some signs of alpha-linolenic acid deficiency include loss of motor coordination, tingling in the extremities, vision impairment, and behavioral changes.
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