Selenium is a trace mineral that plays a crucial role to ensuring health and wellbeing, but is commonly deficient in many people, especially this time of year in cold and flu season. It's 3 main roles in the body are: 1. Proper thyroid hormone production. Therefore a lack of selenium could impact optimal thyroid hormone levels and be a cause of fatigue 2. Anti oxidant defence: Selenium is a co-factor for the enzyme glutathione peroxidase which is the bodies main antioxidant

The role that vitamin K plays towards improving and maintaining health has only relatively recently come to light in comparison to all of the other vitamins. As it turns out, there are many types of K vitamins all found in different foods and all doing different things in our body. In this blog post i'll summarise what vitamin K does and how to get it from food. Health Benefits of Vitamin K Exercise Performance: improved energy utilisation in muscle during exercise Sexual He

Theres been a lot of bad press in the media lately about the potential harmfull effects of coconut oil consumption. This has come off the back of the American Heart Association’s new presidential advisory called “Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease: A Presidential Advisory from the American Heart Association.” This is not centrally about coconut oil. It just has one section on coconut oil that makes up a very small portion of the paper, in which, yes, they say coconut oi