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If zinc hasn’t been on your radar before, then it likely is now because its significant immune-supportive benefits* have been in the news a lot lately. Articles on how to supplement with zinc and h...
June 26, 2020 • Kathi Head, ND
In an ideal world, we would all eat a perfectly nutritious diet, consuming all the nutrients we need from our food. Yet in reality we live in a fast-paced, overly busy, stressed society that makes ...
January 13, 2024 • Jennifer Greer, ND, MEd
When it comes to supporting immune function, most individuals turn to the big players – vitamin C, vitamin D, and certain plant extracts, such as echinacea, mushrooms, and olive leaf.* But what abo...
April 25, 2020 • Jacob Terranova
Zinc basics Zinc, the second-most abundant trace mineral in the body (after iron), is involved in more than 200 enzymatic reactions and plays a key role in genetic expression, cell division, and gr...
February 19, 2025 • Kathi Head, ND
On Take 5 Daily, we’ve discussed the prevalence of low intake of dietary magnesium in the United States and some of the pitfalls associated with a low magnesium level. Now let’s see what we can do ...
May 23, 2024 • Kathi Head, ND
A shortage of iron in the body is a more serious and widespread problem than many people realize. In fact, iron deficiency anemia is the most common nutritional deficiency in the world and a major ...
August 13, 2018 • Thorne
It's not enough just to take a mineral supplement. Your body needs to absorb it, and that's not as easy as it sounds because minerals like calcium, magnesium, iron, and zinc are not well-absorbed b...
December 14, 2017 • Thorne
How prevalent is a magnesium deficiency? Despite magnesium’s importance to human health, many of us have less than an optimal level. According to World Health Organization statistics, as many as th...
November 22, 2019 • Kathi Head, ND
Do you wish you could slow down the clock on aging? Research shows that a specific form of exercise – called high intensity interval training (HIIT) – will do just that.1 HIIT involves short bursts...
December 30, 2019 • Brent Bauer, M.D., Mayo Clinic