For thousands of years humans have fermented their food. Originally done to preserve foods because there was no refrigeration, traditional cultures intuitively used this process to make food more shelf stable, digestible and nutritious. As a means of long term preservation, properly fermented foods use a process called lacto-fermentation which results in a more nutrient dense and probiotic rich food that is beneficial to our h...

We know that iodine is in our table salt and that we need it for our thyroid glands. That's often as far as we get. But iodine has so many functions in our bodies and can so clearly improve our overall health that it's worth taking a second look at this mineral.

U.S. RDA: Between 1900 and the 1960s, iodine was used by most physicians to treat a variety of ailments. Around the early 1950s, the recommended dietary allowances (RDA...

For thousands of years humans spent their days outside, exposed to natural light. Our regular or circadian rhythm that governs every function in our body relies on this natural light to be healthy. Our eyes take in this light and project the information to different parts of the brain, which then sends signals to almost every cell in our body that help determine the release of hormones, neurotransmitters, and regulates gene ex...