What is in your Olive Oil?
Everyone agrees olive oil is good for you. But can you use if it you’re trying to lower your Omega-6 intake? We put a popular olive oil to test. In the last post, How to Reduce Omega-6, I suggested...
View ArticleFish Oil Supplements and Fishy Burps
Sometimes even so-called ‘Burp-free’ fish oil pills cause burping. This is usually caused by low stomach acid. ‘Your product said BURP-FREE! Yet I keep burping fish! You’re a bunch of liars!’ Fishy...
View ArticleTwo head-slapping events involving fish oil
Twelve million Americans, mostly young women and middle-aged men, stopped taking fish oil supplements last year due to the alarming headlines linking fish oil and prostate cancer. Good news: even...
View ArticleIs Paleo diet right for you? Part 1: What Cardiologists Say
Eggs are one of the most nutrient-dense foods. Along with liver, they’re nature’s multivitamin. Yet, most cardiologists are nervous about yolks. Paleo is all the rage. Should you join the bandwagon?...
View ArticleIs Paleo diet right for you? Part 2: 3 Ways Ancestral Diets Can Make You Healthy
Restaurante Botin in Madrid is the oldest restaurant in the world, established in 1725. The menu seems to have changed little since, offering mostly fish, vegetables and meats. Ancestral European...
View ArticleIs Paleo diet right for you? Part 3: Gut-friendly starches – a secret weapon
There is a misperception that the Paleo diet is about gorging on meat. And avoiding all carbs. There is nothing wrong with eating a little meat, especially organ meats. As we saw in Part 2, animal...
View ArticleKrill Oil Misinformation
Krill oil supplements are supposed to be protected from rancidity by the natural antioxidant astaxanthin…but astaxanthin is very sensitive and quickly degrades to almost nothing. This leaves krill oil...
View ArticleHow to choose the right Vitamin K2 supplement
We posted a couple of blogs about Vitamin K2 two years ago. A lot’s happened in our understanding of Vitamin K2 since then. This is an update. In that blog, we struggled to find a good product to...
View ArticleWhy I Don’t Take Multivitamins
Multis are gateway supplements. They’re often the first step in people’s health enlightenment. Along with a gym membership, maybe. Or a Fitbit. But there are a lot of people for whom a multivitamin is...
View ArticleNEW! OmegaVia DHA 600
Prenatal supplement…or brain health supplement? Yes. OmegaVia DHA 600 is our newest product. You kept bugging us. Now here it is. What is it? It’s an ultra-pure DHA-only supplement made from Anchovy,...
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