Living in Harmony with Doc Harmony

The MAHA agenda outlines major reforms to improve food quality, strengthen transparency, and modernize national wellness policy — but these changes only become real when Congress acts. This article encourages readers to call or write their representatives and make their support part of the public record.

Taking care of your heart is one of the most important things you can do for your overall health. To promote heart health, it’s essential to practice a healthy lifestyle – eating a balanced diet, exercising regularly and avoiding smoking. Furthermore, managing stress levels, getting enough sleep, using OSI Magnesium Natural Products and Harmony's Essential Oils can also provide added protection for your heart.

Consuming too much sugar regularly has no positive impact on health. It leads to a worsened state of health and triggers other severe conditions such as heart diseases, cancers, and hypertension. People can quickly reduce their sugar intake by prioritizing unprocessed foods. 

Who you are is determined by what you eat. While you don't become what you eat, your nutritional choices certainly impact your overall health. Not only that, but specific foods can help you maintain or increase the health of your brain. Eating proper nutrition to keep your brain healthy will considerably reduce your chances of having neurological problems later in life.

Detox drinks are an easy and effective solution for removing toxins from your body, weight loss, and rejuvenation of the skin. Homemade detox drinks are best for reducing body weight and boosting the immune system. Despite all the benefits of detox drinks, it is not wise to solely depend on this drink for a healthy life.di

Well-balanced, nutritious breakfast can provide you with energy and help you avoid overeating throughout the day. The above are only a few ways you can eat a healthy breakfast. Choose well-balanced options that will enhance your day with nutrients and avoid the typical cereal, bagels, and pastries.

High blood sugar is caused when your body produces insufficient insulin or does not use it efficiently. Insulin is a hormone that adjusts your blo...

Food, water, cosmetics, and every household contain toxins affecting your body on many levels. These toxins accumulate in your body and produce adverse effects like weight gain. No matter how conscious you are about your wellness, these toxins affect you in one way or another.

It is the stigma of today’s society that we have normalized being overweight or underweight rather than maintaining the ideal weight according to our body types. People think it is normal to be out of the ideal weight range. 

Following a healthy lifestyle, use the herbs, vitamins, and minerals discussed in this article to strengthen your immune system. Research has exhaustively demonstrated that these nutrients like vitamin C, vitamin D, elderberry, zinc, vitamin B12, ginger, turmeric, etc., decrease inflammation, relieve oxidative stress, treat upper respiratory tract infections (common colds, flu, etc.), and support your immune system. 

Spring, TX – The Trust Transparency Center revealed February 25, 2019, that the majority of dieticians not only take supplements regularly but are recommending supplements, like Vitamin D, a multivitamin or Tumeric, for example, to their clients.

A lot of people do not realize that there are differences between the types of magnesium, their effects and their absorption rates.

Now, more than ever is the time to keep our bodies strong and healthy for ourselves and loved ones. Building a strong immune system is all about making daily, smart, yet simple lifestyle and food choices.

Our guts are made up of a whole microbiome that plays a significant and amazing role in the body. The gut encompasses a variety of bacteria, fungi and microscopic organisms. These little communities of organisms should be welcomed guests as they form our internal microbiome.

Having optimal immune health is something we all could benefit from right now. However, beyond now, it’s important to keep our bodies strong and healthy year-round, no matter what season it may be.

There are many vital things we need as humans to survive. There’s actually several essential vitamins and minerals needed! I’m sure you’re familiar, generally, with many of them, but maybe you’re hoping to learn more about the benefits each has to offer.

Superfoods are nutrient dense, plant- based foods that provide an incredible amount of essential vitamins and minerals through a very low volume of food. These foods, originating from all over the world, harness an almost endless amount of health benefits! You don’t have to consume a lot to reap the nutrients. The easiest and best way to eat these foods are in their powder form. You can choose from a variety of vegan powders that are uniquely, carefully and ethically harvested and produced with care, delivering you with, inarguably, the most nutrient- dense products on the market.

Sounds good, right? But you’re probably asking, what are these wonderful superfoods?

Did you know that despite everything that you see on TV, in government promotions and glossy magazine, fruit juices contain limited nutrients and tons of sugar. Please know that drinking fruit juice is not the equivalent of eating or juicing whole fruit.

Embracing summer’s many simple and sweet characteristics, means enjoying those block party barbeques, pool parties, gardening, farmer’s market outings and long afternoon sails. With the longer days and amazing sunsets, I know many of us wish it would never end.

Many of us probably don’t think about our brain health too often. Before we were born, our brains were in control. Every single thought, every movement, every word spoken, etc. is channeled through the brain. They are our powerhouses, centers to our beings.

The role of vitamins and minerals in our diet is often overlooked with a main focus on adequate macronutrients intake such as fats, proteins and carbohydrates. However, just as we need certain macronutrients, we need our vitamins and minerals to be provided through our diets. Specifically, magnesium is a major player in the body and its importance is something might want to consider if we are looking to become the healthiest versions of ourselves.  Magnesium deficiency affects a lot of our body systems.

Our body’s magnesium levels may reach levels of more than 25 mg. These reserves are stored in the bones, tissues, the blood and the intercellular fluid.

You may read about the body’s magnesium requirements in many places. To prevent magnesium deficiency, the recommended amount of daily magnesium intake for women is 310 to 360 mg, while for pregnant women it is 360-450 mg, and for men it is 400-480 mg.

Exercise. You need to exercise! This is what our society tells us, often leading us to feel guilty if we don’t. Yes, while keeping our bodies healthy and active is very important, we don’t have to force ourselves to the gym for endless hours or start training for marathons which could ultimately be more detrimental than beneficial if we don’t do our research before training. However, for many people they enjoy going to the gym and running. That’s wonderful and I encourage you to keep it up!

While gluten free may be a hot topic in the world of diets and health, there lies much confusion about gluten itself and what it means to have a gluten allergy vs intolerance vs celiac disease. Should we really be following a gluten-free diet if we don’t have celiac? Is wheat even good for you? SO much confusion and controversy! Ask one health expert what their opinion is and most times, they will have a completely opposite view of another “expert”.

Just recently, I fell down a flight of stairs and injured myself (no broken hips, thankfully). However, what I did not realize was how much the fall and the injuries were affecting my stress levels and my blood pressure!

As the cooler months approach, it's essential to keep our skin healthy including our lips! Dry skin? No thank you! For many of us it's a reoccurring nuance during the cold winter months. Good news! There are plenty of ways we can start to protect our skin and lips right now before the true cold hits.

Oh, what a year, especially when it comes to health! At some point this year, we have all had to take a moment to think about our health, whether we wanted to or not. Some of us may question what health even means anymore. If you’re reading this, most likely you care deeply not only about your health, but your family’s, too.

Lub-Dubb, Lub-Dubb, Lub-Dubb…..hear that? Your small, but mighty heart is beating to keep you alive, carrying oxygen throughout the body, beating at a rhythm and speed unique to you. If one small functioning of this vital organ goes wrong, our lives could be in incredible danger, which is why it’s important to keep our incredible organs as healthy as possible.

Just as we talk about keeping our bodies healthy, we shouldn’t forget about natural remedies for keeping our mouths healthy, too! We may not think about it, but our mouths are used each and every day. I mean think of their role in keeping us alive by chewing and ingesting the food we need to keep us alive! Check out these natural health products for your mouth.

The topic of health has been a big one this year! I’m sure we can all agree. Many times we fear being unhealthy which means reaching optimal health is something we are striving for.

I encourage you to take a few minutes to think about what health means to you.

So, in reflecting on this, what can we do to ensure we are living the healthiest life we can?

A few years back, organic food was uniquely available in health food stores, and only a few people could afford it.

Today, organic food has become widely available in every supermarket out there, with substantially lower prices.

These foods provide your body with a myriad of health benefits that involve every organ system.

Well this isn’t an easy topic to address or digest, at least for most of us. Both men and women struggle with really loving ourselves fully. Maybe we do like or admire a few things about ourselves, even if it’s just the shape of your lips or toes! For others, it may be painful to find anything at all we like. Either way, I encourage you to keep reading.

Over the past few years, many people took a great interest in elderberry benefits and how it helps with a variety of conditions.

It is a superfood that promotes the immune system to help with infections, diseases, and other ailments.

Inflammation is a natural process that aids your body fight off infections and heal after injuries. It is crucial for our survival.

However, when it becomes chronic, your body undergoes several changes that could potentially lead to debilitating diseases.