Health Tips

Mental Sharpness? Yes Please!

I’d like to introduce my good pal, Craig Tostenson, pharmacist/owner of the Glenmore Pharmasave and organizer of our Friday Morning Hockey League of Distinguished Gentlemen. Craig is a pretty sharp guy: sharp wit, sharp intellect, and his hockey skills….well, that’s another story! He told me about a brand new supplement which helps improve cognitive performance.…

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PRP for Hair Loss

You have heard by now that Platelet-Rich Plasma is very helpful for injured joints, tendons, and ligaments, but did you know that it will also help you grow hair? That’s right: new research shows that PRP can also generate hair from areas that are balding! Researchers studied 11 male patients between the ages of 20…

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Osteoporosis — Not Just a Woman’s Disease

Because so much of the focus surrounding osteoporosis tends to focus on women, it’s easy to forget that men get this condition too. Osteoporosis is more common in women—affecting an estimated 30 percent of postmenopausal women. But one in five men over the age of 50 will at some point suffer a bone fracture as…

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Here's an easy way to improve your mental health

Frontiers publishes systematic review on the effects of yoga on major psychiatric disorders Yoga on our minds: The 5,000-year-old Indian practice may have positive effects on major psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia, ADHD and sleep complaints Yoga has positive effects on mild depression and sleep complaints, even in the absence of drug treatments, and improves…

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Obesity – A Worldwide Threat

It wasn’t that long ago that global hunger was one of the biggest health crises affecting our planet. In fact, it was just 30 years ago that nations across the globe banded together to help relieve hunger, marked by the iconic song “We Are the World.” Needless to say, times have certainly changed. While hunger…

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New study says multivitamins just don't cut it when it comes to preventing heart disease

In the landmark Physician’s Health Study II, authors concluded that taking a multivitamin for over a decade did nothing to prevent cardiovascular events such as myocardial infarction or stroke. The study monitored 14,641 male doctors for over eleven years who took either a daily multivitamin or placebo and no differences in cardiovascular events or mortality…

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Live to be 100

Here’s some great straightforward advice on how you can live to be 100. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 1) Active lifestyles. Whether you get your exercise through physical work, sport, or play, doing something physical every day is good for you, and…

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Pagdin’s Pick Number Ten: Tryptophan & Melatonin

Yes, that’s right: the final instalment of Pagdin’s Picks for 2016 contains not one but two supplement suggestions! That’s in part because I could never stress enough the importance of a good night’s sleep. It should come as no surprise that sleep forms one of the “Four Pillars of Health” that you have read about…

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What Are Phytochemicals?

Phytochemicals … polyphenols … antioxidants … what do all of these terms mean? The term phytochemicals is a broad name for a wide variety of compounds produced by plants. They’re found in fruits, vegetables, beans, grains, and other plants. Each phytochemical comes from a variety of different plant sources and has different proposed effects on,…

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