Your Heart Health

natural health researchers at the Institute for vibrant living (IVL) investigated the natural ways you can improve heart health. Here is his report:

Having a healthy heart is the responsibility of everyone, but especially ours. Your doctor can help you, but you have to help too. Here are some ways you can work together to keep your body healthy.

What about doctors? Health professionals are trying to stay healthy. However, as good as the information available to them. And, who knows more about your body and your life than you?

Many of us just listen to the doctor and do[...] Read more

How Much Curcumin Should You Use For Heart Health?

The question of how much curcumin should you use for heart health, may be a little difficult to answer. The reason is this. The compound, which is the active substance in turmeric, has low bioavailability.

As it passes through the stomach it is degraded and changed, becoming inactive. Studies have shown that a person would need to consume 10,000mg of turmeric in order to increase blood serum levels of curcumin. In other words, it is a highly unstable substance, greatly affected by stomach acid and other digestive acids that cause it to link to other substances. The linkage prevent[...] Read more

Improve Veteran Mental Health

Improve Veteran Mental Health

“Increasing numbers of Veterans are being diagnosed with mental health conditions, often coexisting with other medical problems.  More than 1.5 million of the 5.5 million Veterans seen last year had a mental health diagnosis.  This concept paper identifies how to address the following three areas:

Identify and test new comprehensive approaches to improve mental health through prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
Identify specific measures to track their effectiveness so we can allocate resources more efficiently.
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