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It’s that feeling of a volcano erupting in your upper abdomen, spilling lava into your chest, sometimes rumbling all the way up into your throat and– yuck– into your mouth. Lava is not too harsh an image to describe gastroesophageal reflux disease, better known by names like GERD, acid reflux, and chronic, really aggravating heartburn. But if you don’t like the lava image, then imagine your stomach as a whale swimming around your belly. Every so often it spouts acid straight up toward your nose. If you have ever been awakened in the middle of the night by the sensation...

You may have heard terms like oxidative stress and free radicals before. You know those words have something to do with your health and why you need certain types of supplements. Now honestly, you don’t need to know a whole lot more than that any more than you need to know why iron rusts to know you shouldn’t leave a brand new Craftsman hammer out in the rain. However, you do need to make good choices about the supplements you take to help your body cope with oxidative stress. Understanding what’s happening to your body can’t hurt.    Oxidative Stress...

Neck pain causes discomfort and disability for millions of Americans each year. Pain in the cervical spine may come from many things like trauma, poor posture, stress and aging. In fact, the pain and disability can be so alarming that you may be tempted to reach for potentially harmful medications to quell your symptoms. Is that the best option? Well according to research, the answer is a resounding NO.

A headache, you’re thinking, has to be an easy problem to fix. You pop a few aspirin or a Tylenol. Your headache dissipates in 20 or 30 minutes. Simple. Not so fast.