The Best Probiotic and Prebiotic Supplements for 2024

The Best Probiotic and Prebiotic Supplements for 2024

For millions of years, our ancestors ingested the best probiotic and prebiotic supplements through hunting and gathering, including fresh unwashed food from the ground and trees. It is only under a microscope that we have become aware of the billions of microorganisms that also occupy these foods and then our ...
The Best Fish Oil, Algae Oil, Cod Liver Oil and Salmon Oil 2024

The Best Fish Oil, Algae Oil, Cod Liver Oil and Salmon Oil 2024

Omega-3 fatty acids have been in the headlines numerous times in recent years, with fish oil being one of the most discussed and debated supplements in the world. These headlines have touted the health benefits of omega-3s as well as the cautions related to fish oil information, purity, rancidity, and ...
Best Prenatal Vitamins for 2024

Best Prenatal Vitamins for 2024

The Best and Worst Prenatal Vitamin article has been the most requested article that I have written so far. I didn't want to disappoint with this article, so I put extensive time and research to outline everything needed for healthy development, the optimal amounts of every nutrient based on research, ...
Best and Worst Multivitamins for Seniors 2024

Best and Worst Multivitamins for Seniors 2024

After writing my first article on multivitamins titled The Best and Worst Multivitamins, I received requests for both an article on multivitamins for seniors and for prenatal vitamins. Neither of these are an easy feat because it is impossible to get everything you need in one pill. But I am also ...
The Best and Worst Multivitamins of 2024

The Best and Worst Multivitamins of 2024

Whether you are eating a poor diet and trying to fill in the gaps with a multivitamin, or eating a balanced diet and taking a multivitamin for insurance against deficiency, dietary supplements in the form of a multivitamin are a part of more than 30 percent of an American's diet ...
Best Electrolyte Drinks for Chemotherapy 2023

Best Electrolyte Drinks for Chemotherapy 2023

In the article, the Best Nutrition During Chemotherapy, I went into detail about how chemotherapy affects both cancer cells and healthy cells, and how nutrition can help protect the healthy cells. Having worked with many cancer patients in my past nutrition practice and genetic nutrition testing through Nutrition Genome, electrolyte ...
Best and Worst Electrolyte Drinks for 2023

Best and Worst Electrolyte Drinks for 2023

Electrolytes are charged metallic “ions” that help balance fluid pressure inside our cells and control the pH of our blood. Normal nerve, heart and muscle function rely on adequate amounts of these minerals, and deficiencies can hamper performance dramatically. Water is consumed per kilogram of body weight more than any ...
Best Electrolyte Drinks for Diabetes 2023

Best Electrolyte Drinks for Diabetes 2023

If you have diabetes and you are looking to stay hydrated with an electrolyte drink, you know it can be difficult to find one that isn't too high in sugar and carbohydrates. The best electrolyte drinks for diabetes will not include cane sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, aspartame, sucralose, or acesulfame ...
The Best Supplements for Concussions 2023

The Best Supplements for Concussions 2023

Taking Concussions More Seriously  While at the gym in 2014, I caught a small part of the World Cup game between Uruguay and England. Within a few minutes, I witnessed Alavaro Pereira take a knee to the face and was knocked out cold. Did they rush him to get medical ...
The Best Children's Multivitamins for 2024

The Best Children’s Multivitamins for 2024

I believe that we have the knowledge to make our children the healthiest in history. I know, quite an ambitious claim when are all the statistics are pointing to the contrary. The educational tools are available for parents to implement, and we need to increase access to healthy food, water, ...
The Best Vitamin K2 Sources of MK-4 and MK-7

The Best Vitamin K2 Sources of MK-4 and MK-7

What is Vitamin K2? Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin, along with vitamins A, D, and E. Vitamin K's main claim to fame is coagulation homeostasis and calcium homeostasis. The letter “K” is used because it is derived from the K in the Germanic word Koagulation, meaning the ability to ...
The Best Calcium, Magnesium, Vitamin D and K2 Supplements

The Best Calcium, Magnesium, Vitamin D and K2 Supplements

How Much Calcium and Magnesium Should You Take? There appears to be a lot of conflicting information regarding the optimal amounts of calcium, vitamin D and magnesium. Recommendations for calcium intake varies across the world, with the United States having one of the highest recommendations and yet also one of ...
Best and Worst Whey Protein Powders for 2023

Best and Worst Whey Protein Powders for 2023

Have you found it difficult and confusing to choose a whey protein powder? You're not alone because choosing a whey protein powder now requires the skill of a wine connoisseur. The taste, types of cows used, grass-fed vs. grain-fed, heavy metal testing, artificial colors or sweeteners, cold processed vs. high ...
Best Plant-Based Protein Powders for 2022

Best Plant-Based Protein Powders for 2022

Finding the best plant-based protein powder in a sea of options can be frustrating. How do you know what ingredients it should and shouldn't have? Here at The Health Beat, we like to empower our readers with the knowledge to confidently pick out the best products. The Top 3 Ways ...
Best Electrolyte Drinks for the Keto Diet 2023

Best Electrolyte Drinks for the Keto Diet 2023

The Ketogenic diet is a high-fat, low-carb and low/moderate-protein diet with the goal of achieving nutritional ketosis. Ketosis is when the body begins producing ketone bodies out of fat and utilizes these ketones as fuel instead of glucose from sugar and carbohydrates. Nutritional ketosis is a is characterized by serum ...
Best Supplements for Colds and the Flu 2023

Best Supplements for Colds and the Flu 2023

As we head into each new cold and flu season, people are justifiably nervous for catching anything now. Nutrition Genome has outlined numerous strategies for COVID-19, including a hypothesis in March 2020 that COVID-19 is using the NF-kB pathway for the inflammatory response and should be the target of vitamins, ...
The Best Alternatives to Coffee

The Best Alternatives to Coffee

"I can give up anything, but don't ask me to give up coffee." The quote above is one I have heard hundreds of times. Very few things will incite such a passionate objection as to the fact that coffee may be masking causes of current health complaints. The problem is ...