Probiotics: The Unconventional Guide to Healthy Poop

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I've always wondered what I would think of humans if I was a probiotic. How zany would it be if we had these gigantic overlords who grew us in a lab just so we could get flushed through their colon? Talk about bizarre! We clearly have an unusual relationship with these little critters. One deep with contradictions that I'll never have the open-mindedness to understand. ............but here's my best take.

Vitamin B12: Are You Taking It The Right Way?

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B12 might be a useful supplement for a lot of different people. Especially if you're elderly or suffer from an autoimmune condition. If you're one of these people insufficient B12 creeps up on you like a cunning predator, closely following you in the shadows for years until its effects finally rear their ugly head and snatch you from the clutches of sanity. That's right.....inadequate B12 halts your ability to focus and think clearly. So if you want to know more about how to use B12 and prevent the nutties, read on.

Curcumin: The Ultimate Buyer’s Guide

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Curcumin made its way from tandoori to tablet pretty damn fast. It's the best selling herbal supplement in the world. Startling fact: did you know most supplementary curcumin is useless? Special steps have to be taken to make it bioavailable, otherwise you just poop it out. That's where specialized forms of curcumin come in........they take extra steps to make sure it gets out of your tummy. Here's a detailed look at how the five biggest suppliers compare to one another, and what they get right and wrong.

The 7 Nerdiest Places to Learn About Health Supplements

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Do you ever carry the weight of knowing there's something not-quite-mainstream about yourself? I know I do. Spontaneously waking up in a cold sweat and murmuring jibberish about the pharmacodynamics of vitamin K probably just doesn't come off as normal to most people. I even scare myself sometimes. Don't even ask my stuffed animals what they think about it. Well, ya know, if you're convinced you're really weird, it's always reassuring to find someone just a little more off-their-chain than yourself. Enter Charlie. He's a long time reader that's amazed me with his arcane knowledge of herbs and itsy-bitsy-yellow-polka-dot-bikini supplement companies. Today he bares his inner self about where he fiendishly scratches his supplement itch. It's a guided tour of the nichiest, geekiest, most hardcoreist places on the net to research about health supplements. The article's a win-win: you get to read it, and I get to unchain Charlie from my basement dresser, yank the apple out of his mouth and let him back into the wild after 18 days in captivity. (What can I say, I'm a master of persuasion). Let's go!