Blog - June 2023

As with most well-developed nations, Canada has a complicated relationship with healthy weight management. While, as a population, we pride ourselves in being an active country with a bounty of outdoor recreation at our front doors, we are not without problems in the body mass indexes department.  Prior to the global health crisis of 2020, nearly 27% of Canadian adults (about 7.3 million of us)…

Review the front label of Douglas Labs TMC (aka Tri-Metabolic Control) and you’ll find the following succession of words; “Provides antioxidants that help protect cells against the oxidative damage caused by free radicals.” This sounds fantastic, especially if you know that oxidative damage can contribute to aging and the development of health conditions including cancer and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. However, you’ve been hearing…

The Canadian Digestive Health Foundation reports that over 20 million Canadians each year struggle with digestive disorders and compromised gut health. That’s more than half of the entire population! If that doesn’t serve as a collective call to action, we don’t know what can.  Moreover, research shows that digestive disorders cost Canadians $18 billion annually in health care and lost productivity. It seems households can’t…