Potassium is an essential mineral that often works with sodium to help the transport of nutrients across the cell membrane and into the cell. It’s essential for good heart, muscle and nerve function.
Sodium chloride is the chemical name for common table salt. Despite being told we eat to much, sodium chloride is essential for our bodies, and is involved in the transport of nutrients into cells.
When juicing for weight loss, it is often a good idea to take some supplements to make sure that you can stick with your program and get the nutrients you need for your body to function. In addition, some nutrients help turn your fat cell around, so that instead of usually taking fat into them, they release fat to be used for energy and other metabolic processes.
Enzymes such as serropeptase and nattokinase (two naturally occuring enzymes) can help to clear up acne. In this article we’ll look at how staph bacteria cause acne, and how the ezymes can help.
Vitamin C is a powerful anti-inflammatory that can help take the anger out oof spots and pimples. Citrus juicing is therefore a good way to help reduce inflammation caused by acne.
Probiotics are helpful bacteria found in yoghurt that live in our intestines and help break up fiber and recycle hormones as well as create vitamin K. They are also important in the control of acne.
Adolescents often have two “nightmares” at the same time. Weight and acne! In this article, we’ll look at how juicing can help with both.
Juicing at home is becoming more and more popular as people realize that juicing is great for your health, giving you an easy way to boost your vitamin and mineral intake. In this article, we’ll look at why freshly made juice offers more than supermarket juices and is a lot safer too.
Iron is essential to our health as an oxygen (and carbon dioxide) carrier in the blood cell protein hemoglobin. Iron is one of those substances that can be dangerous if too much, or if too little.
Lutein and Zeaxanthin are two nutrients that are important for good eye health. Since the eyes “collect” light, there is a lot og UV radiation entering the eyes, and lutein and zeaxanthin help to mop up the free radicals that result.
A specific type of licorice needs to be used to treat peptic ulcers. In this article we’ll take a look at the licorice and how it works to fix the problem.
Seven simple ways to help prevent gout and aid with gout recovery.
Potassium magnesium citrate can help fight kidney stones in a few different ways.
Vitamin K helps regulate the transport of calcium into bones, thereby keeping it out of urine where it can cause kidney stones if oxalates are present.
Inositol nicotinate is similar in structure to vitamin B3 and is used in Europe to help treat kidney stones.
Found in green tea and other plants, vitamin P is not actually a vitamin but a group of compounds called flavanoids. These chemicals are thought to help protect against radiation damage.
Alpha carotene is found in carrots, peppers and other plants. Alpha Carotene may be important in the prevention of cervical cancer but it is also a source of vitamin A, since it can be converted by our body.
Antivitamins is simply the term given to substances which can counter-act or nullify the vitamins we eat in our food and supplements. This article looks at some of the most common “antivitamins”.
Colonic irrigation is not something many of us want to go through, so if juicing can help avoid this procedure, it’s certainly worth a try. In this article we’ll look at both.
Ischemic colitis can be fatal. The name means poor blood flow in the lining of the colon, and when this happens, tissue in the colon can die and is removed by our immune system (causing inflammation).
