Nutritional Supplementation Can Improve Your Mood & Relieve Your Stress

Nutritional supplementation or dietary supplements are intended to supplement the diet to provide nutrients to the body. Examples include vitamins, minerals, herbs, fiber, fatty acids and amino acids. The use of medicinal supplementation dates back to the origins of civilization when herbs and animal glands were used. In the US, dietary supplementation has a shorter history dating back to the American Indians and the early European settlers. For a while, Americans preferred synthetic drugs to natural remedies because of the fast and easy way it appeared you could resolve your problems. However, now more than ever patients are turning to dietary and nutritional supplementation. Read more...

Nutraceuticals- Nutritional Supplements for the 21st Century

Hippocrates said, “Let food be thy medicine.” Over the past several decades, nutritional supplementation has developed as a new and exciting part of the health industry. Even though modern nutraceuticals began to develop in the 1980’s, nutraceuticals have been around for thousands of years. Such cultures as Indian, Egyptian, Chinese, Sumerian and Ayurvedic suggest that foods can be used as medicine to prevent and treat disease.  Nutraceuticals have been become an $86 billion industry that is constantly growing. About 2/3 of Americans take at least 1 type of nutraceutical. With the increase in our populations focus on health and wellness, the focus has shifted from pharmaceuticals to nutraceuticals. Americans actually prefer nutraceuticals because they are effective without the extensive side effects that pharmaceutical drugs provide. Read more...