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Breastfeeding Supports Infant Gut Health and Lowers Childhood Blood Pressure

What happens in infancy sets the stage for metabolic function, immune balance, and disease risk later in life. One of the most important choices during this stage in your child’s life is whether to breastfeed them or not — and recent research provides more solid evidence that breastfeeding has lasting health consequences. A study found… Read More »

How Better Sleep Helps Balance Blood Sugar and Support Memory

Over time, sleeping less than five hours a night increases your blood sugar swings by 2.87%. That finding — published in JAMA Network Open — underscores just how much your sleep habits impact your metabolic health.1 Glycemic variability — the technical term for those swings — plays a major role in insulin resistance and Type… Read More »

Can Aged Black Garlic Lower Blood Pressure?

A study has found that aged black garlic (ABG) in addition to dietary changes can lower diastolic blood pressure in male participants.1,2 This is not the first study to show that garlic has health benefits. Garlic has been recognized for centuries, including references in Sumerian clay tablets that date 2600 B.C.3 In ancient Egypt, garlic… Read More »