When it comes to general health advice, reducing your stress level tends to be right up there with exercising and eating right. Doctors typically want you to keep the stress hormone cortisol under control. That's because elevated cortisol can affect your immune system, memory, and weight, among other things. Relaxing and managing stress is certainly a good idea, but as with most of our hormones, when it comes to cortisol, one extreme may be just as dangerous as another. 

You've probably heard quite a bit lately about the importance of your gut health. Research in this area is exploding, and for good reason. The more we learn about gut bacteria, the more links we find between these microscopic creatures and every other facet of our health. So it's not surprising that one of those links is close to home for the gut. A healthy gut can lead to a healthy colon, reducing the risk of colon cancer.

Did you know that 80% of breast cancers are estrogen-positive cancers? Most people think that “estrogen positive” means that estrogen caused the cancer. But it doesn’t. However, it does mean that estrogen stimulates the growth of the cancer. That’s why oncologists prescribe anti-estrogen drugs for estrogen-positive breast cancer. What most people haven’t heard is that one of my favorite supplements can make these drugs even more effective.