Body building has become more popular for women.  Women are discovering the secret to losing body fat through body building.  While women tend to get a sense of empowerment from building muscles, they lack muscle building hormones, which make it more difficult to achieve their muscle building goals.  Women tend to turn to supplements to help build muscle.

Unfortunately, aging is not a choice.  Our bodies were meant to grow old.  While we do not have a choice on if we grow old, we do have a choice on how we grow old.  While there are many store brand products available to help us with the aging process, these products contain chemicals that are harmful to our health.

Spring is just around the corner and it is the perfect time to start getting fit.  It is not too hot and people are very anxious to get out of the house after a long time inside from the winter months. There is more time to be outside to exercise and play with your kids (which is an excellent source of exercise). 

Fibromyalgia is a chronic medical condition that consists of widespread pain in the muscles, tendons, ligaments, fatigue and multiple tender points on the body.   The tender points are areas that are painful or tender when pressure is applied, especially in the neck, shoulders, upper back, upper chest, lower backs, elbows, hips and thighs.

Arthritis is a debilitating disease that can affect every part of your life.  Joint inflammation causes pain that takes control of your life by taking away your mobility to move around and have fun with your children or to play a sport you love.

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a scary diagnosis for people.  Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory disease of the Central Nervous System (CNS) – the brain and spinal cord.  MS attacks white matter tissue that is made up of nerve fibers.  Nerve fibers transmit communication signals internally within the CNS and between the CNS and nerves that supply the rest of the body.

What are the symptoms of MS?

While almost half of all tennis players suffer from tennis elbow, only 5 percent of all patients diagnosed with tennis elbow actually play the game.  There are many causes for tennis elbow.  These include:

• Pressure on the elbow

• Stress

• Exertion of the muscles

• Damage to the muscles, tendons and ligaments around the elbow joint

People have come to the realization that going green is now a part of our lives.  It is not something we just talk about for the future.  The time to take action is now.  People all over are paying attention to the cleaners, personal care products and foods they bring into their homes. 

This inflammation of the bladder due to an infection from a bacteria or virus affects 10 to 20 percent of women.  Of this 20 percent, 80 percent have recurrent infections.  If Cystitis is not treated, it can spread up to the kidneys, called an ascending UTI. 

Common symptoms of Cystitis:

A man will generally begin to have tests for the prostate by the age of 50.  This is the age when men will start to have problems with their prostate.  There are three common categories of prostate problems that men can experience.  These are:  prostatitis (an inflammation of the gland), benign prostatic hyperplasia ((BPH) (enlarged prostate that can narrow the urethra) or cancer.