Progressive Medical Center offers a unique gut biome test that harnesses the latest technology. Thanks to the cutting-edge techniques, you can see a more accurate picture of your gut health. The results are precise and detailed, and they allow you to make key changes to your diet and lifestyle.
The thyroid gland is responsible for energy and metabolism in the body. It produces and regulates hormones that are important for growth development, mood, and sexual function. Thyroid hormones impact metabolism, cognitive function, mood, emotions, concentration, memory, and attention. Better thyroid function helps our immune system, energy levels, and reproductive function.
Genetic testing allows one to unzip their genes and get a sneak peek at our biological destiny. Our DNA is made up of 3 billion base pairs, with myriad possible sequences of the four chemicals that form the “instruction book” for a human being.
Go to almost any home in America. Open the medicine cabinet. What’s the first thing you see? I’ll bet, that 9 times out 10, it’s probably some pain reliever—Tylenol, Advil, Motrin, or any generic ibuprofen.
Supplements are not regulated in the same way foods are and consequently are a “buyer beware” market. Tonight’s show will help walk you through the maze of supplements and explain what you can do to make sure you are getting a high-quality product free of contamination.
With conflicted media, it is easy to wonder if vitamins matter. Often studies are conflicted because the wrong type of vitamin is used or not enough. Learn more about 1,000s of studies that demonstrate your health is improved when you increase your nutrition.
Every week we hear some new information with the latest insight into our health. There is so much information out there is hard to sort through what is right for you! Everyone wants to eat properly and do the right exercises, but it can still all get a bit overwhelming with the supplement fads and diet trends that seem to come and go with each season.
We can all picture Santa Clause with his rosy cheeks and his belly that shook when he laughed like a bowl full of jelly. However, those red cheeks could be inflammation that is occurring from the obesity and gluten sensitivity of one too many cookies.
Part of the problem of medicine today is that we sit around and wait for that dreaded day of a diagnosis. Instead of sitting around and waiting, there are basic processes that can be evaluated to prevent day one of that diagnosis from even occurring. Long before we are sick there are warning signs on the road to disease.
Do not feel that you are merely a victim of your gut. Gut health is a battle we can win and is largely responsive to changes we ourselves can make. Gut health is global health, and there are simple steps that can help you to reclaim the health that is yours.
Fats have a myriad of beneficial roles. The risk for sudden cardiac death is reduced by up to 90% in individuals with the highest HS-Omega-3 Index, or those who have healthy fats, and there is growing evidence for an association between omega-3 biostatus and other conditions such as cellular aging, dry eye, macular degeneration, dementia, depression, joint health, etc.
Our modern nutrition has led us to believe that fat is bad. However, the brain is made of fat as is every nerve in our body and the membrane of every cell.
