Your Healthy Life Concierge

Take control of your health by eating more clean, whole foods and taking high-quality supplements. Learn more about how to effectively use supplements to complement your diet.

Many consumers believe that supplements and vitamins fall into a single category of efficiency. After all, if you go to the local store and look at two bottles of the same supplement they probably have the same ingredients listed on them. What more could be involved?

In April 2019 NuMedica introduced four new professional supplement kits optimized for Immune, Adipose, Cardiovascular, and Glycemic support.

"Mom do you remember" my son would say and then go on to describe some past event. I had to say no to most of the events. That really bothered me ...

It's the holiday season! In this time of joy and cheer, relatives are coming to town, rooms need to be cleaned, and tables need to be filled. The children make their wish lists for Santa and eagerly anticipate Christmas morning for their well-deserved gifts. However, for the parents, more dreaded than coal may be a sudden cold or flu in the household.

Think back to the time of your great-grandparents. What types of food did people eat back then? For the most part they ate what they could grow on their land or what they got locally from a Farmer's market or some other community-based food supply. So what happened to our food? Why are so many of us sick, overweight and tired?

Many factors are involved in how efficiently a supplement gets absorbed into the body where it is intended to go. Scientific research has shown that many tablet, capsule and liquid vitamins and supplements have an average bio-availability and absorption rate of only 5-20%. Liposomes are purported to increase the bioavailability and absorption rate by up to 80% in some cases.

Learn more about NuMedica's new line of advanced liposomal professional-grade supplements.

Time to get physical! Your body needs to move, even if it's just a little bit! Learn more in part seven of this blog series entitled Seven Tips For Balanced Living.

Sleep is a biological requirement. Take some time to get to bed on time this week! Learn more in part six of this blog series entitled Seven Tips For Balanced Living.

Here's one simple step that will help you feel better after eating! Learn more in part five of this blog series entitled Seven Tips For Balanced Living.

One of the best ways to exercise is through breathing! Learn more in part four of this blog series entitled Seven Tips For Balanced Living.

Manage your eating habits. Learn more in part three of this blog series entitled Seven Tips For Balanced Living.

Think about the definition of Supplements. It means that they supplement for a lack of something. Learn more in part two of this blog series entitled Seven Tips For Balanced Living.

Learn how to track your eating and find the best foods for yourself in this blog series entitled Seven Tips To Balanced Living.

Struggling with bad foods? Here's how to beat the temptation!

Do you have a weight loss goal? How are you planning for it? Without a plan, you will almost certainly fail.

This week I had the opportunity to share a bit of my story in the online magazine Mom Colored Glasses¹. It's what I've learned in a nutshell through overcoming chronic illness over the last 5 years or so. The Magazine has lots of great and interesting topics that I'm sure many of my readers will enjoy and I highly recommend it to all of you.

Did you know one of the best ways you can overcome sleep issues is by changing your evening habits?

Stress is the ultimate diet killer and can make us hold onto the weight.

What role does inflammation play in difficulty with weight loss? This second post of a three-part blog series examines the three main reasons "dieting" fails.