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What do sardines, lamb, and yogurt all have in common? They are all excellent sources of the essential vitamin B12. This vitamin is necessary for all human and animal life. In humans, our bodies require vitamin B12 for:

The production of DNA The maintenance of brain and nervous system health And the formulation of red blood cells.[1]

Vitamin B12 is a water soluble vitamin and the only vitamin that contains a metal (cobalt). There is no known toxic …

When author Isak Dinesen poetically wrote, “The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea,” her statement was more accurate than she may have realized—especially when it comes to sweat.

With ads peddling the embarrassment and undesirability of sweaty armpits, Americans spent $2.9 billion dollars to benefit from deodorants and antiperspirants in 2012. Ironically, while we were working so hard to prevent and hide our sweat, this underrated bodily function was operating efficiently to keep us …

Danica Collins – Managing Editor, Underground Health Reporter ™

Time to shine the spotlight on burdock root. Burdock root is an age-old herb used for centuries in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Folk medicine has also used it to treat sore throats, colds, and digestive ailments.

Burdock root has the power to:

Purify the blood of toxins. Cure chronic skin conditions such as acne, eczema, and psoriasis. Help treat life-threatening diseases like cancer, diabetes, and AIDS.

Herbalists swear it can …

We live in a toxic world filled with hormone-altering chemicals. How do they adversely affect health? Let us count the ways. They increase or decrease the production of certain hormones as well as imitate or transform others. In addition, they make cells die prematurely and compete with essential nutrients. Exposure to these chemicals leads to cancer and brain damage along with high blood pressure, infertility and many other maladies.

The Environmental Working Group recently released its dirty dozen …

by Jessica Sanders Alkaline Foods: The Good, The Iffy and the Great

You may remember from high school chemistry that acids have a low pH number and an alkaline value is a high pH, while a neutral pH is 7.0. Have you given any thought to the value of potential hydrogen (pH) since then? Probably not!  But n terms of your everyday health, pH is very important.  The pH balance of our bodily fluids is considered a measurement of …