Cancer Prevention

8 Hidden Toxins: What’s Lurking in Your Cleaning Products?

We assume they are safe. But in fact, many popular household cleaners are dangerously toxic. Learn about the eight scariest substances hiding under your kitchen sink, and how to replace them with safer, more natural options that really work.

Six Action Steps to Reduce Your Cancer Risk

February is National Cancer Prevention Awareness Month.

Just being aware is not enough. We need to TAKE ACTION!

While there is no certain way to prevent cancer, there are certain risk factors that increase the likelihood. You can TAKE ACTION to lower those risks through healthy lifestyle choices, getting recommended cancer screenings, and vaccinating against certain viruses.

Factors that are known to increase the risk of cancer:

EWG's Healthy Home Checklist

The air inside your home is 2 to 5 times more polluted than the air outside. Chemical pollutants build up in the indoor air you breathe, released from things linke building products, foam furnishings, carpet, and paint.

There are steps you can take to clean up your home environment. Check the label for Green Seal-11 certified, water-based latex, low or no VOC (less than 50g VOCs per liter), no "antifungal" paints, no formaldehyde-releasing preservatives.

4 Ways to Reveal the "Inner Woman" You've Always Wanted

When you think of self-care, do you picture bubble baths and facials? Don’t think external – think internal! Upgrading your body takes more than just an evening of calm solitude. Instead, release your vibrant “inner woman” with “quantum state” nutrition formulas so you can thrive by bolstering your best health now and for a lifetime.  

Want a Natural Way to Fight Off Viral Invaders? Try Quercetin

In order to achieve optimal health, your body must be able to fight off viral invaders, disease, and illness. Keeping your immune system functioning in tip-top shape is vital to experience your best health and wellness.

Pancreatic Cancer Awareness

Overview

Pancreatic cancer begins in the tissues of your pancreas — an organ in your abdomen that lies behind the lower part of your stomach. Your pancreas releases enzymes that aid digestion and produces hormones that help manage your blood sugar.

Several types of growths can occur in the pancreas, including cancerous and noncancerous tumors. The most common type of cancer that forms in the pancreas begins in the cells that line the ducts that carry digestive enzymes out of the pancreas (pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma).

How Your Gut Microbiome Determines Breast Health | Gut-Breast Connection

If you just read the title of this blog post and furrowed your brows, I get it. A gut-breast connection might seem far-fetched. How could seemingly two unrelated parts of your body be so separate, and yet so connected? The breasts are part of the reproductive system, and your gut microbiome is part of the digestive system, right? Why would they be related at all? 

Synthetic chemical in consumer products linked to early death, study finds

Synthetic chemicals called phthalates, found in hundreds of consumer products such as food storage containers, shampoo, makeup, perfume and children's toys, may contribute to some 91,000 to 107,000 premature deaths a year among people ages 55 to 64 in the United States, a new study found.

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