by Carolina Healthspan Institute | Dec 3, 2019 | Health Blogs
One of the first signs of aging is our skin, so what causes our skin to age? Like the protective caps on shoelaces, telomeres keep your DNA from fraying and breaking down. Unfortunately, telomeres get shorter each time a cell copies itself, but the important DNA stays...
by Carolina Healthspan Institute | Dec 1, 2019 | Education For Professionals, Health Blogs
Supplement Of The Month: CollaGEN Members Receive 15% Off! CollaGEN is a supplement to support healthy hair, skin, and nails plus it improves joint cartilage. Features: Type I Collagen and Mucopolysaccharides as TendoActive®, and Collagen Hydrolysate in the form of...
by Carolina Healthspan Institute | Nov 18, 2019 | Education For Professionals
Tired of Making Promises to Yourself That You Never Keep? Make Lifestyle Changes That Finally Stick! Humans are very much creatures of habit with hectic lives and busy schedules, this allows bad habits to form quickly without you even realizing it. Each day is...
by Carolina Healthspan Institute | Nov 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
Did you miss our live Facebook Chat with Lora Solomon that took place on November 6th 2019 at 6:00pm? Lora spoke about “Understanding Root Causes to Your Health Issues.” Catch her live recap video here!
by Carolina Healthspan Institute | Nov 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Functional medicine is a model of medicine that looks at addressing the root cause of imbalances in your health. We do this by looking at all aspects of a patient’s life: lifestyle factors, environmental exposure, even stress and happiness levels, genetics and...
by Carolina Healthspan Institute | Nov 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
What Are Hormones? Each part of your body from your brain to your skin, your heart, your kidneys, and your muscles has a specific job. They take direction from your endocrine system to get the work done. The glands of the endocrine system send out hormones that tell...
by Carolina Healthspan Institute | Oct 18, 2019 | Education For Professionals, Health Blogs
In order to understand what Leaky Gut is, we have to review the anatomy of the digestive tract. The intestinal lining is very thing, with special cells that are held tightly together in order to properly digest food, absorb micronutrients, and filter out toxins and...
by Carolina Healthspan Institute | Oct 9, 2019 | Education For Professionals
Kellogg’s sells several cereals with artificial colors and flavors in America, all of which target young children (take the “Baby Shark” cereal and “Unicorn themed” cereal for example). These cereals have artificial colors and flavors. Millions...
by Carolina Healthspan Institute | Oct 7, 2019 | Health Blogs
With a focus on enhancing, preserving and maintaining health, and preventing illness, a health coach understands the emotional, physical, behavioral, nutritional and lifestyle factors that are needed to enhance overall health and well-being. Other benefits of working...
by Carolina Healthspan Institute | Oct 2, 2019 | Health Blogs
There are thousands of different types of both “good” and “bad” bacteria that populate the microbiome (gut). We need both to exist in balance to help prevent overgrowth of bad bacteria that can harm your health. Gut and gut microbes play an...
