Category: Health Tips

(Tom:
Some people still hold the view that vitamins are an expensive way to turn your pee yellow.
Some tell me that you can get all the nutrients you need from the food you eat.
This survey show both of those viewpoints need to be updated in line with  the evidence.
You DO need more than the standard diet provides and it is NOT a waste of money, it is actually a very worth while investmment in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

If, after ready it, you want to improve your prospects of maintaining your functional health, email or call me. My NutriBlast Greens Plus has a proven track record of helping many people lose mental fog and boost energy.

If a powder does not suit, ask me about the Amway Multivitamin/Multiminerals that may better fit your preferences.)

Sarah Otto writes:

Most of the time, when someone suggests you take a daily multivitamin, the reasoning is pretty vague. “It fills in the gaps.” “Can’t hurt.” “Just in case.”

Not exactly compelling.

But a large new study just gave me a much more specific reason to pay attention. And it has nothing to do with preventing a particular disease.

It’s about whether you can still climb the stairs. Get dressed without help. Carry the shopping in from the car. Do the household chores that keep your life yours.

Researchers at Augusta University analysed data from more than 16,000 adults aged 60 and over, all enrolled in a major randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial called COSMOS. Participants were randomly assigned to take either a daily multivitamin, a cocoa extract supplement, both, or neither. Placebos were used across all groups, and nobody knew which they were taking.

After three years, the multivitamin group scored significantly better on measures of what researchers call “functional health.”

Not disease markers. Not blood work. Functional health: how well you can actually manage the physical demands of everyday life.

The most notable improvements showed up in two areas: how much symptoms like fatigue, shortness of breath, and swelling interfered with daily activities, and a combined score reflecting both symptom burden and physical capability.

In practical terms, we’re talking about things like bathing, walking, climbing stairs, doing household chores, and simply getting through the day without being completely wiped out.

It wasn’t asking whether a multivitamin prevents heart disease or cancer or diabetes. It was asking something far more practical: does it help people actually feel and function better in their daily lives?

And in a trial of this size, over three years, the answer appears to be yes.

The researchers suggested the benefits may come from supporting cognitive function, circulation, and physical endurance. All of which contribute to whether you can keep doing the things that make your life independent.

I think there’s something pretty powerful about that. Not a dramatic intervention. Not a breakthrough drug. Just a simple daily habit that, alongside eating well and staying active, may help preserve the everyday abilities most of us take for granted until they start to slip.

Yours for better health, naturally,

Sarah Otto
Nutritionist (Master of Human Nutrition)
Goodness Lover Co-Founder

Scientific Reference:
Bekele, B.B. & Dong, Y. Multivitamin supplementation and functional health in older adults: Analysis from the COSMOS trial. Presented at NUTRITION 2026, American Society for Nutrition Annual Meeting, National Harbor, MD, July 2026.

Although the nutrient combination slowed progression to advanced AMD, it didn’t restore vision that had already been lost.

In the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS), a randomized clinical trial, a specific combination of antioxidant vitamins and zinc lowered the risk of progressing to advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and helped preserve vision in people who already had intermediate disease or advanced disease in one eye, but it did not prevent the condition in healthy eyes.

Your retina contains some of the highest concentrations of zinc in your body — and research indicates this mineral supports cell repair, communication between retinal cells, and the enzymes that help protect eye tissue against everyday damage.

Maintaining the right zinc balance is just as important as getting enough because zinc deficiency impairs retinal function. Laboratory studies indicate that excessive zinc concentrations can also damage retinal cells.

Animal foods such as oysters, grass fed beef, and lamb provide zinc in a form your body absorbs more efficiently than many plant foods, making animal-based whole-food sources an important part of supporting long-term eye health.

If you eat large amounts of whole grains or legumes, remember that they contain natural compounds called phytates that reduce zinc absorption. Eating zinc-rich animal foods as part of a balanced meal helps improve the amount your body actually uses.

Finish reading:  https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2026/10/04/zinc-antioxidants-age-related-macular-degeneration.aspx

Some interesting stretching and flexibility exercises here.

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To a Mason jar add:
A head of garlic
The juice of half a lemon
Tablespoon of honey
Teaspoon Pink Himalayan Salt
Fill the rest with warm water.

Drink 1-2 spoonfuls every morning on an empty stomach.

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And an additional 10 years of life.

Do These 3 Thing to Reduce Your Cancer Risk by 61%

And an additional 10 years of life.

2,000 IU D3 + K2>
2 grams of Marine Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Strength Training

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When you hear “PFAS,” you probably think of nonstick cookware, waterproof jackets, or contaminated drinking water. You probably don’t think of the prescription sitting in your medicine cabinet. Yet fluorinated compounds classified as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are built into a surprisingly wide range of approved pharmaceuticals, often not because they’re essential to how those medicines treat disease, but because they make the drug easier to formulate.

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2026/09/21/pfas-containing-medicines-alternatives.aspx

A visionary Chinese-American immunologist, Dr. Qing Li, dedicated his entire career to unlocking a profound biochemical truth hidden within the forest canopy: trees are medicine. Long dismissed by conventional Western medicine as mere scenic backdrops, Dr. Li’s pioneering research proved that trees actively release airborne organic compounds called phytoncides. When inhaled, these invisible chemical messengers enter your bloodstream and spark an immediate internal revolution. They act as biological hunters, systematically tracking down and neutralizing toxic stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline while radically multiplying your body’s “Natural Killer” (NK) immune cells. Dr. Li’s life’s work demonstrated that a simple walk in the woods triggers an automated, cellular defense network—healing the human body from the inside out in ways no synthetic prescription has ever matched.

This groundbreaking science transforms the ancient concept of “forest bathing” from a poetic escape into a clinical necessity. Dr. Li’s data revealed that the immune boost from just a single, immersive weekend in the forest isn’t fleeting; it leaves an elevated blueprint in your blood that shields your nervous system and reinforces your immune defense up to 30 days. In a modern world build for chronic noise, digital saturation, and perpetual survival-mode, his research delivers a dramatic wake-up call to modern medicine. The ultimate antidote to our modern epidemic of anxiety and physiological burnout cannot by synthesized in a laboratory. It is an elemental, evolutionary technology already waiting for us right outside our doors, free for the taking and perfectly engineered to protect our peace.

That label on the container was never a health promise. It is a heat test, nothing more.

Microwave safe is a manufacturing term, not a medical one. It means the plastic will not warp, melt, or leach above the limits the FDA sets during its own testing, and that testing is the whole of the promise. It says nothing at all about what breaks loose from the surface when you run that container at full power with hot, wet, fatty food pressed against the walls for minutes at a time.

Engineers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln measured exactly that and published the numbers in Environmental Science and Technology in 2023. They filled polypropylene baby food containers and reusable pouches with water and with dairy, ran them for three minutes at full power, and then counted what had come off the plastic. The worst case reached 4.2 million microplastic particles and 2.1 billion nanoplastic particles per square centimeter of container surface, which is a patch about the size of a fingernail. Storing those same containers cold in the fridge for six months released particles too, but three minutes of microwave heat did far more damage than half a year of cold storage.

The team then dripped the released particles onto human embryonic kidney cells growing in a dish and watched what happened over the next 48 hours. At the highest concentration, 77 percent of those cells were dead within two days, which is a far steeper drop than the researchers expected going in. That is a lab dish and not a human stomach, so nobody can hand you an honest risk number yet, and the researchers were careful to say as much themselves.

The swap costs nothing, which is the whole argument here. Move the food into a glass or ceramic dish before it goes anywhere near the microwave, keep plastic wrap from resting against the surface of hot food, and never reheat in a takeout clamshell, a yogurt tub, or an old margarine container. Those were built to hold cold food one single time and then get thrown away, and nobody ever tested them for three minutes at full power with your dinner sitting inside.