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Your joints are arguably the most underappreciated aspect of your body. Without joints, we’d be unable to move and do normal things. Nevertheless, people don’t tend to focus on things like joint he...

Vitamin D helps maintain our body’s levels of calcium and phosphate. Calcium is responsible for healthy bones and teeth, muscle and nerve functions, blood clotting and heart health, while phosphate...

Magnesium is an essential element that performs several important tasks within your body. Because of this, maintaining good levels of magnesium is essential to your health. Magnesium is used by you...

By Chris D. Meletis, N.D. Magnesium is a critical mineral involved in many aspects of health. It was once thought to be a cofactor for about 300 regulatory enzymes in the body, but current data lis...

Alexander G. Schauss, Ph.D AIBR Life Sciences DivisionTacoma, WA The word selenium comes from the Greek word, “selene”, which literally means “moon.” The wisdom of naming this element after the Gre...

By Alexander G. Schauss, Ph.D AIBR Life Sciences DivisionTacoma, WA Is chromium deficiency associated with atherosclerosis? Tissues of humans who have died of heart issues have been found to have l...

Alexander G. Schauss, PhD AIBR Life Sciences DivisionTacoma, WA The word “manganese” comes from the Latin word, “magnes”, meaning magnet. For many years manganese fueled the industrial revolution b...

Alexander G. Schauss, PhD AIBR Life Sciences DivisionTacoma, WA Boron is a light trace element that is turning out to be essential to human health and behavior. The word boron has its origin in the...

Sara Parent, N.D. Research Associate Kathleen Jade, N.D. Research Associate Alexander G. Schauss, PhD, FACN Senior Director of Research Electrolytes are the charged substances that result when a sa...