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Sleep Better Tonight with CBD
Do you struggle to fall asleep at night, tossing and turning well into the early morning hours? Do you find yourself frequently waking in the middle of the night, unable to fall back asleep? If you answered yes to either of these questions, you are not alone....
For Natural Anxiety Relief, Try CBD!
Anxiety has reached epic proportions in the United States, with nearly 40 million adults struggling with a diagnosed anxiety disorder.1 Pharmaceutical anti-anxiety drugs, while sometimes useful in the short-term, come with a slew of side effects ranging from weight...
Is Curcumin All It’s Cracked Up to Be?
Curcumin, a brilliant yellow substance found in turmeric root, has been used for thousands of years in traditional Chinese and Indian medicine for its potent anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. In recent years, scientific research has validated the...
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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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Sleep Better Tonight with CBD
Do you struggle to fall asleep at night, tossing and turning well into the early morning hours? Do you find yourself frequently waking in the middle of the night, unable to fall back asleep? If you answered yes to either of these questions, you are not alone....
For Natural Anxiety Relief, Try CBD!
Anxiety has reached epic proportions in the United States, with nearly 40 million adults struggling with a diagnosed anxiety disorder.1 Pharmaceutical anti-anxiety drugs, while sometimes useful in the short-term, come with a slew of side effects ranging from weight...
Is Curcumin All It’s Cracked Up to Be?
Curcumin, a brilliant yellow substance found in turmeric root, has been used for thousands of years in traditional Chinese and Indian medicine for its potent anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. In recent years, scientific research has validated the...
Myths and Truths About Multivitamins
According to the Council for Responsible Nutrition, a leading trade association for the dietary supplement industry, 76 percent of U.S. adults take nutritional supplements. Of these individuals, 73 percent take a multivitamin.1 In recent years, media outlets have...
7 Ways to Support Detoxification on a Ketogenic Diet
The internet and social media are abuzz with ketogenic diet success stories, with adherents reporting benefits such as dramatic weight loss, enhanced energy, and better brain function. However, the initial success many people experience on the diet is often followed...
5 Ways to Dramatically Increase Your Productivity at Work
Do you find yourself struggling to focus at work? Are you easily distracted by the ping of a new email landing in your inbox or the siren call of your social media apps on your phone? Is work stress impairing your ability to perform your best? If you answered yes to...
Six Biohacks for Healthy Travel
Statistics indicate that the average business traveler travels 12 times per year for work, while the average American takes four leisure trips per year. Together, this amounts to a whole lot of travel!1,2 The dirty air on airplanes, long days spent sitting in a car...
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...