Quercetin deserves a place in your nutritional toolbox! Its dynamic benefits range from helping your immune health to mitochondria support, and even helping zinc absorption.

What you eat and how you treat your gut health directly impacts your mood and brain! Are you making choices to support both?

The New England Journal of Medicine has reported that the popular antibiotic azithromycin, often given as a five-day treatment regimen known as the Z-Pak, increases the risk of sudden cardiac death in adults by 250 percent or any cause of death by 200 percent. In 2011 U.S. doctors wrote 55. 3 million prescriptions for this antibiotic, with sales of...

There has been a shift in depression research and treatment. Research is now focused on the line of communication between the gut and the brain as a way of reducing inflammation in the brain.

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that insulin helps play a protective role against the toxicity of bacterial infection. This new angle on insulin function suggests that many people with insulin resistance may have elevated insulin due, at least in part, to fighting low-grade bacterial infections in their digestive tract or mouth. In...

Feeding mice butyric acid improved their ability to burn fat on a high fat diet. The butyric acid improved their muscle function, health of brown adipose tissue, and various gene signals involved with fatty acid metabolism. Butyric acid also prevented insulin resistance from happening in these over-fed mice.