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Beat the Heat with Optimal Hydration
While summer is coming to an end, record-breaking heat waves continue to strike across the United States, putting countless people at risk for dehydration. Dehydration, an excessive loss of body water, impairs both physical and mental function and is especially...
Back to Basics: Metals Detoxification
In Parts One and Two of our Back to Basics blog series, we discussed heavy metals toxicity and testing. In this third and final installment in the series, we’ll cover how to safely and effectively detoxify heavy metals from your body so that you can get one step...
Slow Aging with Optimal Hydration, Minerals, and Antioxidants
As we age, our appearance changes in several distinctive ways: Our skin thins and wrinkles, our hair gradually fades to gray or white, bones weaken, and our muscles visibly atrophy. While these external changes are what grab our attention in the mirror, they are...
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BitterX Bigger Better
Detoxification: The Importance of Moving Bile with a Bigger Bitter Bile. It doesn’t have the best reputation. You know it as that bitter fluid you burp up on occasion. It’s also a synonym for spite and malice. As an adjective—bilious—it means spiteful and...
Humble but Powerful: Cruciferous Vegetables Detoxify via a Potent Molecule Called DIM
Wherever you are on your health crusade, you will want to know about a potent, health-promoting compound called diindolylmethane, commonly known as DIM. You are undoubtedly familiar with the vegetable family known as the cruciferous, and its many satisfying, crunchy,...
Stress Support 101: GABA and L-Theanine: The Fast Acting Stress and Anxiety Antidote
In this 3-part blog series (Stress Support 101, 102, and 103), the Quicksilver Staff addresses a multipronged approach to supporting the body under stress. Stay tuned for each essential tidbit! These days, we often view stress as a badge of honor—proof that our hectic...
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Beat the Heat with Optimal Hydration
While summer is coming to an end, record-breaking heat waves continue to strike across the United States, putting countless people at risk for dehydration. Dehydration, an excessive loss of body water, impairs both physical and mental function and is especially...
Back to Basics: Metals Detoxification
In Parts One and Two of our Back to Basics blog series, we discussed heavy metals toxicity and testing. In this third and final installment in the series, we’ll cover how to safely and effectively detoxify heavy metals from your body so that you can get one step...
Slow Aging with Optimal Hydration, Minerals, and Antioxidants
As we age, our appearance changes in several distinctive ways: Our skin thins and wrinkles, our hair gradually fades to gray or white, bones weaken, and our muscles visibly atrophy. While these external changes are what grab our attention in the mirror, they are...
Back to Basics: Metals Testing
In Part 1 of our Back to Basics blog series, we discussed the causes and consequences of heavy metals toxicity. Here, in Part 2, we will cover the basics of metals testing and why our Mercury Tri-Test and Blood Metals panels are superior to traditional "challenge...
What You Need to Know About Lyme Disease
In 2018, an estimated 1 million people in the U.S. were infected with Lyme disease and, by 2050, this number may rise to a shocking 55.7 million people!1 In fact, the incidence of Lyme disease has increased so dramatically that the scientific community has called for...
Back to Basics: Metals Toxicity
Heavy metals are ubiquitous in our modern-day environment, with arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury comprising the bulk of our exposure. These metals have long been known to have adverse health effects, and a growing body of research indicates that they contribute to...
All About Autophagy
In 2016, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his pioneering work elucidating the mechanisms behind autophagy.1 Before this event, few people outside the medical and scientific communities had ever heard the term "autophagy,"...
How to Stay Hydrated During Your Summer Workouts
Summer is in full swing, and for many of us, that means ditching the gym and fitting workouts in outdoors! Whatever your preferred form of outdoor exercise, it is crucial that you keep yourself well-hydrated because dehydration not only impairs exercise performance...
6 Biohacks for Managing Work Stress and Boosting Focus
The U.S. workforce is currently facing dual epidemics of work-related stress and decreased productivity. According to survey data collected by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), a shocking 40 percent of U.S. employees report that their...
Keto Protocols for Keto Diet Drawbacks
While the ketogenic diet offers abundant health benefits, it can initially cause several uncomfortable side effects, including flu-like symptoms, fatigue, constipation, and muscle cramps. There are also a couple long-term effects to consider, such as reduced thyroid...
Benefits of CBD
In 2017, retail sales of hemp-derived CBD products reached an astounding $350 million; by 2020, CBD is projected to be a billion-dollar market.[1],[2] What exactly is CBD, and why has it taken the wellness world by storm? Read on to learn about the evidence-based...
Full Spectrum or Broad Spectrum—How Do You Prefer Your Hemp Extract?
How to Decide Between a Hemp Extract With THC, or One WithoutIt seems as if cannabis, a plant regarded as a universal healer as far back as ancient Egypt[1], was made to order for our challenging 21st century. Cannabis has been used therapeutically for thousands of...
Why Your Allergy Symptoms Are Getting Worse — And What You Can You Do About It
An All-Natural Approach to Quenching Seasonal Allergies For GoodIt was early April when photographer and storm-chaser Jeremy Gilchrist sent his drone skyward to capture a thick, choking, yellow-green haze over North Carolina — a “pollmageddon” of spring pollens. He...
Can You Benefit From A Fast, Flexible Keto Diet?
Part Two of the Keto on Demand Blog, go here for Part 1There’s hardly a diet on the planet that doesn’t tempt one to cheat sometimes—whether at home alone, a party, a business lunch, on vacation, or just whenever the overwhelming urge to eat something delicious and...
Can You Reap the Rewards of Keto Without the Downsides?
Pros and Cons of a Ketogenic Diet and How to Achieve Fast, Flexible KetosisA Two-Part BlogYou know a new dietary era has dawned when Weight Watchers—once the most popular food plan ever created, the one that ranks first as the Best Weight-Loss Diet, Best Commercial...