4: Dr. Cheryl Burdette: Measuring Oxidative Stress and How to Lower It

09/05/14 • -1 min

The paradox: We spend a lot of money and time on increasing our antioxidant intake through foods and supplements. Yet most of us never know if this effort is making any impact on our health. Should we be checking our oxidative stress levels as often as we check our cholesterol? Not a day goes past that we don't hear about oxidative stress in the news and interwebs, and how it is shortening our lifespan or causing diseases like heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Unless you’ve been living under a HUGE rock, you also know that antioxidants protect us from oxidative ...

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3: Dr. Terry Wahls: Linking Mitochondrial Health to Autoimmune and Chronic Disease

Are your autoimmune and chronic health issues driven by mitochondrial damage? Could nutritional and other simple approaches targeting improved mitochondrial function provide the answer to many of our modern day ailments? When we think about health risk, and reducing it, most of us are thinking about cancer, heart disease and strokes. Autoimmune and other chronic health conditions aren't top of mind, because they don't tend to get the same attention in the media - and have much smaller research budgets currently. But if you look at the numbers you are statistically much more likely to face autoimmune problems in your lifetime ...

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5: Dr. Ben Lynch: Optimizing Methylation

Today's episode takes a look at Methylation, it's role and importance for many body functions, how it can enhance our quality of life and performance when running properly, or expose us to greater health risks like heart disease or cancer when it doesn’t. Addressing methylation SNPs (genetic mutations that we all have some of to varying degrees) and related biochemical imbalances personally made a very big impact to the quality of my life, eliminating issues like migraine headaches, improving sleep, and enhancing my quality of life and productivity by smoothing out "mood dips and bumps”, and helping heal my ...