Wellness & Nutrition

Wellness Education & Olive Nutrition Insights

Explore practical wellness education, olive-derived nutrition research, supplement guidance, and healthy-living insights from McCord Health. Our articles are designed to help you make more informed decisions about your everyday wellness routine.

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How Olive Polyphenols Can Help Your Brain

How Olive Polyphenols Can Help Your Brain

Andy Brazil

The normal neuronal-vascular relationship is vital to healthy brain functioning. Cognitive decline and neurodegenerative diseases can result from endothelial dysfunction, oxidative stress, and inflammation. The olive polyphenols, hydroxytyrosol and oleuropein...

How Olive Polyphenols Can Help Your Brain

Andy Brazil

The normal neuronal-vascular relationship is vital to healthy brain functioning. Cognitive decline and neurodegenerative diseases can result from endothelial dysfunction, oxidative stress, and inflammation. The olive polyphenols, hydroxytyrosol and oleuropein...

Vitamins and Health

Vitamins and Health

Andy Brazil

Vitamins are water-soluble or fat-soluble compounds that can be obtained by dietary intake or supplementation. Some are also synthesized in the human body including by intestinal bacteria, but they are...

Vitamins and Health

Andy Brazil

Vitamins are water-soluble or fat-soluble compounds that can be obtained by dietary intake or supplementation. Some are also synthesized in the human body including by intestinal bacteria, but they are...

6 Health Benefits from Turmeric (Curcumin)

6 Health Benefits from Turmeric (Curcumin)

Andy Brazil

Curcumin is a potent antioxidant found in the Cucrcuma longa plant, more commonly known as turmeric. Turmeric is commonly used around the world and is gaining popularity as a superfood...

6 Health Benefits from Turmeric (Curcumin)

Andy Brazil

Curcumin is a potent antioxidant found in the Cucrcuma longa plant, more commonly known as turmeric. Turmeric is commonly used around the world and is gaining popularity as a superfood...

Sound Sleep for a Sound Mind

Sound Sleep for a Sound Mind

Kyle Hilsabeck

Inadequate sleep is linked to long-term health risks including dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Common pharmaceutical sleep aids tend to increase a person's risk while more natural nutritional approaches including melatonin...

Sound Sleep for a Sound Mind

Kyle Hilsabeck

Inadequate sleep is linked to long-term health risks including dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Common pharmaceutical sleep aids tend to increase a person's risk while more natural nutritional approaches including melatonin...

Keeping a Balanced Gut Microbiome for Overall Health

Keeping a Balanced Gut Microbiome for Overall Health

Andy Brazil

The community of microbes in the gut known as the gut microbiome promotes processes critical for health. Microbiome imbalance (dysbiosis) may lead to inflammation and associated diseases. Fiber, as a...

Keeping a Balanced Gut Microbiome for Overall Health

Andy Brazil

The community of microbes in the gut known as the gut microbiome promotes processes critical for health. Microbiome imbalance (dysbiosis) may lead to inflammation and associated diseases. Fiber, as a...

Helping Your Immune Responses with N-acetylcysteine (NAC)

Helping Your Immune Responses with N-acetylcysteine (NAC)

Andy Brazil

N-acetylcysteine (NAC) has been used for over 50 years in many clinical investigations and human trials that have demonstrated its various benefits. NAC is an important small molecule that replenishes...

Helping Your Immune Responses with N-acetylcysteine (NAC)

Andy Brazil

N-acetylcysteine (NAC) has been used for over 50 years in many clinical investigations and human trials that have demonstrated its various benefits. NAC is an important small molecule that replenishes...