Jacksonville IL Wellness

11/16/2025

Today November 10th marks a historic day in midlife womens health!

11/16/2025

11/14/2025

Bone broth isn’t just a warm, comforting drink , it’s a powerful source of nutrients that support your body from the inside out. Studies show that bone broth provides up to 92% of the amino acids your body needs to produce collagen, a protein essential for healthy skin, joints, and the digestive system.

Collagen plays a vital role in maintaining the strength and flexibility of the gut lining. When the gut lining is damaged or inflamed, it can lead to issues like leaky gut, digestive discomfort, and reduced nutrient absorption. Amino acids from bone broth, including glycine, proline, and glutamine, help repair and rebuild these tissues, restoring balance and promoting long-term digestive health.

Regular consumption of bone broth can also support joint health, improve skin elasticity, and even boost immunity. It’s a natural way to supply the body with the building blocks it needs for repair and resilience.
Including bone broth in your diet , whether as a warm drink, soup base, or cooking ingredient , is a simple yet effective way to nourish your gut and strengthen your body naturally.

11/10/2025

Have you ever tried a new food just for the sake of mixing things up or does your grocery cart look pretty similar each week?

Here’s something the diet industry rarely tells us: long-term health isn’t built on perfection, willpower, or restriction. It’s built on quality and variety, yes, dietary diversity!

Research shows that higher dietary diversity is linked to lower risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and even early death. The more unique foods you regularly eat, across all food families, the stronger your protection.

And it’s not your fault if your plate has gotten less diverse over time. Convenience foods, busy schedules, food marketing, and decades of confusing diet advice all work against variety. But every new whole food you add makes a difference. One large study found that every extra 10 unique whole foods per year cut all-cause mortality by 10%.

Adding a new type of fish, leafy green, grain, nut, or spice to your rotation is actively lowering your risk for the most common chronic diseases.

11/09/2025

11/09/2025

Cruciferous vegetables appear to reduce inflammation, which might explain why eating more than two cups of broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, or other crucifers a day is associated with a 20 percent reduced risk of dying, compared to eating a daily third of a cup (or less).

Cruciferous veggies may prevent DNA damage and the spreading of metastatic cancer, activate defenses against pathogens and pollutants, help to prevent lymphoma, boost our liver detox enzymes, target breast cancer stem cells, and reduce the risk of prostate cancer progression. The component responsible for these benefits is thought to be sulforaphane, which is formed almost exclusively in cruciferous vegetables.

We should strive to eat at least half a cup of cruciferous veggies every day.

To learn more, see “Which Foods Are Anti-Inflammatory?” at https://see.nf/plantshift, “Best Food to Counter the Effects of Air Pollution” at https://see.nf/pollutiondetox, and our Cruciferous Vegetables topic page at https://bit.ly/3OcfWz8.

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11/08/2025

More than a dozen randomized controlled trials have been published on zinc lozenges for the common cold, and, overall, researchers have found that oral zinc, when taken within the first 24 hours of symptom onset, may be beneficial in reducing both duration and severity of the common cold. Zinc lozenges appear to shorten colds by about three days and significantly reduce nasal discharge, congestion, hoarseness, and cough.

What’s the best way to take zinc for the common cold? Lozenges containing around 10 to 15 milligrams of zinc taken every two waking hours for a few days, starting immediately upon symptom onset, as either zinc acetate or zinc gluconate without binders (such as citric acid, tartaric acid, glycine, sorbitol, or mannitol) may work best.

Supplementing with zinc long-term doesn't appear to reduce getting sick in the first place, though. We should instead focus on including healthy whole-food sources of zinc in our diet by eating foods such as legumes, nuts, and seeds.

Watch the video “Would Zinc Lozenges Help with COVID-19?” at see.nf/zinc to learn more.

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