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B-vitamins are always active, always helping, swarming with energy and vibrant life!

Would you rather eat an earwax omelet or a pizza covered in a thick layer of a stranger’s dandruff?

Quercetin is the highly functional, forever-friendly flavonol found in food!

When my kids were little, we were learning math together—I was re-learning it, and they were learning it for the first time, and there was a frequent, almost daily, always annoying phrase I had to use. The kids would look at the math problem, copy the math problem...

A Nun, a government regulator, and a doctor all walk into a dive bar —“Bar 1984”— during a pandemic. The Nun holds up a wheel of cheese and says, “I have a solution to this problem!”The doctor begins to speak…The regulator puts duct tape and masks over their mouths,...

Vitamin A is confusing. Is it in plants? or animal products? If it’s good for you, why can’t pregnant moms take it? Does it cause cancer and birth defects? or prevent cancer and birth defects? Why does this have to be so complicated!!? What is Vitamin-A ? Vitamin A is...

Wandering around aimlessly seems an easy thing to do, at least for me, even still. A 21 year old college boy with no aspirations, literally not a thought toward the future, and no clue about which path to take, just enjoying life at Baylor University! The epiphany...

“Take your vitamins,” is a statement heard by thousands of American children on a daily basis, and one that I heard almost every day of my teen life. I wonder a lot about vitamins…. why they seem to be concentrated in the toilet rather than in my body, where i want...

Let’s face it, who doesn’t need a superhero in their life!? When it comes to nutrients, there’s one that has some serious superpowers— Vitamin D! Power-packed with many benefits, this nutrient can help save the day for just about everyone. Quickly scan the bullet...

What is it? An essential trace mineral.It's not really stored in the body—it leaves.Unlike many essential nutrients, leafy greens don't contain much of it....so leaves are "without a trace" of this important mineral (is that trying too hard to make it memorable?) Our...

Oranges, lemons and limes have been known for centuries as disease-fighting foods—helping to prevent life-threatening scurvy in sailors and to get over the common cold in the rest of us due to their rich content of this nutrient. However, Vitamin C is a workhorse...

Zachary Bidques was an accomplished French sailor, an adventurer who often tempted fate by sailing the largest of oceans in the smallest of boats using only the stars and his wits to stay alive. Zack set sail in the early morning on a Sunday in 1977, sailed for 33...

“There’s so much to worry about…..” — Worried Walrus from the Sweet Pickles Classic Microbiology is a wonderful thing. Literally, it is full of wonder. If we could see, in glorious detail, the quadrillions of microscopic organisms that exist EVERYWHERE and in...