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Learn Your Liver

The liver is the heaviest organ in your body, weighing in at 3½ pounds. It is the second largest organ next to your skin. Reddish brown when healthy, it is located in the upper right hand side of your abdomen under the cover and protection

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The Skeletal System: Structural Support

The skeletal system is your body’s framework, its structure. Composed originally of 270 bones at birth, you likely have 206 bones in total. The skeletal system is divided into two parts: the axial skeleton and the appendicular skeleton. Axial Skeleton Consisting of 80 bones along

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Anti-Aging: Wear Gloves

Readers of these posts will recognise MEANS, my acronym for the keys to anti-aging: M            Mindset E              Exercise A             Avoidance N             Nutrition S              Sleep Sometimes incorporating strategies to promote anti-aging is simple and inexpensive. Like

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CoQ10: One Powerful Nutrient

There a many claims made about different nutrients being THE ONE — the secret ingredient to anti-aging. While I don’t believe anything will really ever fit that claim — your body is too complex to be miraculously saved by a single substance — Coenzyme Q10 is one powerful nutrient. Called

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Keep ‘Em Dumb, Keep ‘Em Sick

One of America’s greatest institutions (sic), the National Cancer Institute [NCI] is living up to its reputation put forth in yesterday’s post. It recently published a study in its Journal of the National Cancer Institute that omega-3 fatty acids may significantly increase the risk of