Native tribe with the healthiest hearts

“While heart disease kills hundreds of thousands of Americans every year and costs nearly a billion dollars a day, the Tsimane remind us that wealth doesn’t necessarily buy health and that simple solutions surround us, if we just take the time to...

Managing High Homocysteine Levels

You have probably heard of amino acids, the building blocks of protein. There are 20 amino acids, 9 of which are essential and obtained from the food we eat. The remaining 11 are nonessential and manufactured by our bodies. Homocysteine is a nonessential amino acid...

How to Identify and Avoid Job Burnout

Job burnout is a phenomenon that can characterize any job in any field. It affects both men and women alike and occurs in about 23% of full-time employees (of 7,500 employees who took part in a Gallup poll). Unreasonable workloads and deadlines contribute to the...