While stress commonly feels very physical, i.e. headaches, nervousness, fatigue, etc., these stress responses are commonly the result of stimulation of the central nervous system originating in the brain. The brain has a safety mechanism that prevents it from ‘overloading the circuits’ with too much stimulation. Various nutrients and substances act as inhibitory neurotransmitters. Learn about two of the most important nutrients in the battle to calm stress in this latest article from the Nutrikon Wellness Center.

As we get older, the mitochondria in our cells have a tendency to become weaker, inefficient and fewer. You don’t have to have a PhD in biochemistry to imagine what can happen to a body that has a more difficult time producing energy. It gets slower, more tired, things don’t work properly; more menial tasks become stressful and complicated. Most of us call this aging, but new research tells us that aging is actually the deterioration of mitochondrial function. Can this degredation be reveresed? Find out in this article from the Nutrikon Wellness Center. 

CoQ10 is a biological nutrient that has a well-deserved reputation for helping to prevent heart disease, but the truth is that this nutrient might hold the key to powerful anti-aging and energy producing chemistry. Learn about some of the recent exciting research in this latest article from the Nutrikon Wellness Center.

The pursuit of happiness is, probably, the chief priority that governs the actions of our lives. We each have our individual definitions of happiness, but we focus all of our energies on attaining it. It goes without saying that some people have harder or easier obstacles in their chosen path towards happiness, and some of those barriers could be your own body.

While nearly every person over the age of eighteen has probably heard of antioxidants, a surprising few actually know what they are, why they are important, and even more rarely, how they actually work. The goal of this article is to, hopefully, answer those questions for you. I am quite confident that by the end of this article, you could win a bet or two, not to mention feel a little more ‘in the know.’