Herbs are used for many different purposes today including: medicinal, culinary and even spiritual like frankincense and myrrh. We can used them fresh, dried, cold pressed or steam distilled (extracted) into essential oils . Since ancient times, herbs have been used for healing the body and they arrived here often from other countries. Before modern medicine, herbs were used frequently. There is an EXCELLENT video […]
What is the ORAC Scale for Antioxidants?
What is an ORAC scale anyways? ORAC stands for Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity. ORAC is a method once used by the USDA for measuring antioxidant properties in foods such as beans, berries, spices, fruits and vegetables. Antioxidants protect the fluorescent molecule from oxidative degeneration or stress, which is considered to be like rust in the body. In other words, the fewer the […]
The Anti-Cancer Benefits of Sea Cucumbers
Sea cucumbers are marine invertebrates and a distant relative to the starfish and urchins found in deep sea water all over the world. They are not very pretty to look at, but they are considered a delicacy, especially to those in Asia. There is a new increased demand for sea cucumbers as people learn of their health benefits, however, they have long been used for […]
