Articles by Lisa Schofield
Study Shows Sleep Patterns Impact Blood Sugar and Heart Health
Whether you are an early bird or a night owl, these sleep patterns may affect blood sugar levels and heart health. According to Sciencedaily.com, our activity patterns and sleep cycles could influence our risk of diseases, such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease. New research published in Experimental Physiology found wake/sleep cycles cause metabolic ...
Achieving Critical Balance: Supporting Healthy Blood Sugar Levels
A category not well-understood by consumers, here’s how to help them navigate their lives to achieve and sustain healthy blood sugar levels for the long-term. When a parent or other family member is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, it is often a wake-up call for the “diagnosee,” but also for healthy family members. But that ...
Using Your Own Skills to Boost Mood
Results of a new study shed light on an easy way to boost mood—using either cognitive or mindfulness skills, whichever one is stronger. In the study, the researchers found that people who were in a sad mood improved more quickly when they used a mood-improving method that they were told was their strongest skill. These ...
The Bright Side
Mood waxes and wanes—help your customers stay positive. We feel it every day and often it can dictate what we do, how much we do, and what we don’t do. Mood. “Mood is something that is internally felt, and its vibration can affect us to our core, dictating our behaviors and physical actions and, of ...
New Study Shows How Wily Omicron Evades the Immune System
The current wave of COVID-19 highlights a particularly high risk of reinfection by the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2. And a team of researchers from the Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases of the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and of the Geneva University Hospital (HUG) wanted to find out why. They analyzed the antibody neutralization capacity of ...
Immune Season 2022-23: BA.5 is Back for More
COVID-19 mutation BA.5 is on the rise, and will impact the immune support category in a dramatic way. It’s like the oft-repeated line from “The Godfather”: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” Just when we thought we could leave COVID behind, its latest incarnation, BA.5, is pulling us back ...
Essential Fatty Acids Trends 2022
Panelists: Elana Natker, Director of Consumer and Health Practitioner, Communications, GOED, Salt Lake City, UT, www.goedomega3.com Stephen T. Sinatra, MD, FACC, FACN, CNS, CBT, Healthy Directions, Bethesda, MD, www.healthydirections.com Jolie Root, Senior Nutritionist and Educator, Carlson Labs, Arlington Heights, IL, www.carlsonlabs.com Vanessa Pavey, ND, Education Scientist, Life Extension, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, www.lifeextension.com EFAs (essential fatty ...
New Meta-Analysis Confirms EPA & DHA Value for Heart Health
When talking to your customers about the research validating benefits of a supplement, citing a systematic review/meta-analysis carries a lot of weight. A study of studies boils down the essence by pooling data to strengthen and clarify conclusive benefits. A new meta-analysis of omega 3 EFAs and cardiovascular support adds to the considerable body of ...
Mindful Breathing May Help Reduce Pain, Says Study
Meditative mindful breathing has long been known to provide many well-being benefits, including helping people to better manage pain. Recently, researchers at the University of Michigan compared two types of meditative breathing —traditional mindful breathing and virtual reality, 3D-guided mindful breathing—to reduce pain in volunteers. They found that each lessened pain by modulating the somatosensory ...
Relief for Pain
Discomfort and the inflammation that often accompanies it can be addressed through natural products—and summertime tends to bring its share of ouches. Pain can ruin a moment. Chronic or acute, aching or sharp, pulsing or in waves, physical discomfort is the common experience all humans share. During the summer, most people are more active, increasing ...
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