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A new Swedish study recently published in the Journal of Internal Medicine followed 30,000 women over a period of 20 years, having recorded detailed information about their sun habits at the start of the study. The Karolinska Institute researchers found that, among those who avoided sun exposure, twice as many women died from all causes over the period compared with those having the highest sun exposure.

I’m in Tokyo today and while checking in with ionized water affionados on the web, decided to look at whether a famous brewery (Kirin) here in Japan is selling ionized water. Heere’s the result.

[iframe src=”http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/2826881/height/100/width/480/thumbnail/no/theme/standard” height=”45″ width=”480″ scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] This part 2 titled Filtration is from a three part series on hydration, filtration, and ionization. This was recorded Monday March 10th, 2014 the day after the Natural Products Expo in Anaheim, CA March 7th through the 9th where we had a booth in the Next […]

[iframe style=”border:none” src=”http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/2826876/height/100/width/480/thumbnail/no/theme/standard” height=”45″ width=”480″ scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] This part 3 titled Ionization is from a three part series on hydration, filtration, and ionization. This was recorded Monday March 10th, 2014 the day after the Natural Products Expo in Anaheim, CA March 7th through the 9th where we had a booth in the […]

A chemical found in deodorants, face creams and food products has been discovered in the tumours of ALL breast cancer patients.  The study, published in the Journal of Applied Toxicology, took 160 tumour samples from mastectomy patients and 99% of them were found to contain at least one paraben. Hmmm…what the most alarming thing here? The fact that there […]

When your business is on the web there’s often a strange ‘disconnect’ that happens. You pump info into ‘the machine’ and if you’re lucky, something comes out the other end. All very ‘inhuman’. Most of the time you feel like you’re cloud punching – lots of effort but never really touching anyone. I began my […]

If you’re familiar with the importance that hormones play in our day to day lives, you are probably quite familiar with Oxytocin. It is well known for being an integral part of feelings of romantic and social bonding. It is also an extremely important thing for new mothers as it plays a key role in […]

I’m plugged into a lot of news sites so I learn some very interesting things along the way. One that came to my attention yesterday was this article on the high cost incurred by the habit of dropping kitchen ‘wipes’ down the toilet. Here’s the article.

Hooray! John Biethan, our man on the ground in USA also happens to be an accomplished health podcaster. These first 3 podcasts are the first of many and were done in a  noisy Anaheim restaurant with myself and Graham, our GM. Click on the image to have a listen.  

When your business is on the web there’s often a strange ‘disconnect’ that happens. You pump info into ‘the machine’ and if you’re lucky, something comes out the other end. All very ‘inhuman’. Most of the time you feel like you’re cloud punching – lots of effort but never really touching anyone. I began my […]