Healing Explored: Nurturing Your Recovery + Wellness

Frozen Shoulder – One Woman’s Experience

Frozen Shoulder, also known as adhesive capsulitis is a condition that often begins with stiffness, pain, and then at some point; stiffens or freezes resulting in complete loss of mobility in the affected joint. 

Foods to Eat and Avoid with Arthritis

Arthritis is an inflammation of the joints. Around 23% (54 million) of all adults in the United States have arthritis. More than 1 in 4 adults with arthritis experience severe joint pain and about half of the adults with arthritis report they are limited in their activities due to their arthritis.

Muscle Science: How to Work with Your Body to Repair Muscles

Skeletal muscle is one of the most commonly injured tissues of both athletes and non-athletes alike. [1] Although it can be debilitating and limit our daily activities, there is much that we can do to help our bodies recover from these injuries. 

Glutamine— Essential to Your Recovery

Glutamine (GLN) is one of twenty amino acids the human body uses for a variety of purposes. Unlike most amino acids, and other nutrients, glutamine’s importance in our diet fluctuates. Likewise, our nutritional goals should reflect this fluctuating need. Which is why glutamine has become a popular dietary supplement, so it can be added to a healthy diet when our bodies require more of it.

Protein and Arthritis

More studies are needed to understand how protein impacts joint health, and whether supplementation with specific types of amino acids can lead to improvements in arthritis symptoms. However, those with arthritis should focus on getting enough protein from a variety of sources.

Jerusalem Artichoke: What is It and What are the Benefits?

The Jerusalem artichoke is actually not an artichoke at all, but a variety of sunflower with an edible tuber, similar to a potato. The root vegetable, also called a sunchoke, resembles a ginger root with a nutty, sweet and crunchy taste.

Minimize Bruising and Scarring After Surgery

Muscle Atrophy and How to Prevent It

Muscle atrophy can occur for various reasons, but it always has the same result—a smaller, weaker muscle. In fact, each muscle cell will shrink individually making for a collectively weaker muscle. 

How Your Diet Can Impact Inflammation and Healing

Controlling the level of inflammation in your body is the key to improving and shortening your recovery. There is a reason you constantly hear about inflammation; it is involved in so much of what happens in our bodies.

Malnutrition: The Risks, Symptoms, and Treatment

Malnutrition happens when your diet does not contain the right amount of nutrients for optimal health. “It is a state of nourishment in which a deficiency, excess or imbalance of nutrients causes adverse effects on body form and physiology, function, and clinical outcome.” Even though malnutrition also includes overnutrition, this article will focus on undernutrition; not getting enough nutrients.

Can Physicians Recommend Supplements?

We get this question from time to time as we work with physicians to make our clinical nutrition products available to patients. “Am I allowed to offer this to my patients and make money from it?” “Is it a violation of Stark Law?” We have studied the law and in this article, we answer these questions and aim to bring some clarity and simplicity so that medical professionals can have peace of mind knowing that they are fully compliant to the laws when choosing to implement a nutrition program.

Feeling Down? How Fueling Your Body Can Lead to Happiness

Maintaining neurotransmitter balance is essential for mood and emotional health. Chemical imbalances can increase the risk of mood disorders including anxiety and depression.