Discover essential nutrition concepts from Vitamin A to Zinc in this comprehensive A to Z guide. Learn the benefits, sources, and impact on overall well-being for each term. Whether it's understanding the significance of a balanced diet, the role of vitamin C in immune health, or the impact of water on joints, this guide provides a foundation for making informed dietary choices and improving wholistic health.

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Understanding Electrolytes

Keri Barron, PhD (4 min read)

Electrolytes are critical to many fundamental bodily processes, including fluid balance and nerve impulse transmission. Obtaining electrolytes from healthy foods and herbs can help optimize these processes and ensure proper hydration.

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Whole Food Support for Thyroid Health

Keri Barron, PhD (4 min read)

The thyroid gland is involved in nearly every process in the body through the actions of thyroid hormones. Iodine is required for the production of thyroid hormones, and when iodine is deficient, thyroid dysfunction can occur. Consuming whole-food sources of iodine and antioxidants like kelp and alfalfa can support thyroid health and function.

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Top Chronic Conditions in the United States

Keri Barron, PhD (2 min read)

Chronic conditions are common among American adults and can have a large impact on quality of life. Consuming a healthy diet, rich in fiber, omega-3 fatty acids, B vitamins, and medicinal herbs, can significantly reduce the risk of developing many chronic conditions.

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What's in a Name? Alternative, Complementary, and Integrative Health

WholisticMatters (2 min read)

Most Americans are familiar with conventional medicine, but there are other approaches to health, including alternative, complementary, and integrative medicine. These three fields have important distinctions that can help support health when conventional medicine falls short.

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What is WholisticMatters?

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WholisticMatters provides a wide range of balanced, credible, and reliable nutrition education across so many platforms. See what all WholisticMatters has to offer and how you can access it wherever you are in your day. WholisticMatters is dedicated to advancing the latest insights and information available in nutrition therapy and clinical nutrition and to presenting only the most balanced, credible, and reliable clinical nutrition and science available.

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Best Wishes, Warmest "Regourds"

Kara Credle, MA (3 min read)

It’s time to celebrate the nutritional content of some of the season’s favorite plant foods also known as a gourd. Often, a “gourd” is used synonymously with “squash,” but both can be more officially categorized as belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae. Plus, technically gourds are fruits – defined as such because they contain seeds and grow from the ovaries of flowering plants. In fact, cucumbers, summer and winter squashes, and melons are all from the family Cucurbitaceae – among nearly one thousand other species. Gourds are typically low in calories and high in water content, but they are not without their unique nutrient and phytonutrient profiles and subsequent beneficial health properties.