Well-being Chronicles

Why Kids Get Sick More Often in the First Month of School

Why Kids Get Sick More Often in the First Month of School

Every parent knows the pattern. Your child spends a healthy summer outdoors, goes back to school, and within three weeks the whole house has a cough. It feels like bad...

5 Minute No Bake Pumpkin Seed Energy Bites

5 Minute No Bake Pumpkin Seed Energy Bites

Magnesium rarely gets the attention that calcium or iron do, yet it is one of the minerals children are most likely to fall short on.  According to the NIH Office...

Resetting Your Kid's Sleep Routine Before the First Bell Rings

Resetting Your Kid's Sleep Routine Before the First Bell Rings

Every August the same thing happens. Summer bedtimes have drifted to 10 p.m., wake-ups have crept toward 9 a.m., and school starts in two weeks with a 6:45 alarm waiting...

10 Immune-Boosting Lunchbox Ideas for Back to School

10 Immune-Boosting Lunchbox Ideas for Back to School

Packing a lunchbox feels like a small task. Five minutes in the morning, a sandwich, a piece of fruit, done. But researchers who have actually looked inside thousands of lunchboxes...

Why Kids and Adults Alike Are Ditching Pills for Gummies

Why Kids and Adults Alike Are Ditching Pills for Gummies

For a long time, gummy vitamins were seen as a kids' product. Something you gave a five-year-old because they wouldn't swallow a tablet. Adults took the serious stuff: capsules, tablets,...

How Magnesium, Iron, and Zinc Affect Your Ability to Relax

How Magnesium, Iron, and Zinc Affect Your Ability to Relax

Some days you do everything right and still can't switch off. You go to bed on time, you skip the late coffee, you put the phone down, and your body...

Signs of Low Iron That Have Nothing to Do with Fatigue

Signs of Low Iron That Have Nothing to Do with Fatigue

Ask most people what low iron feels like and you'll get one answer: tired. That's fair, since fatigue is the symptom everyone knows. But it's also the reason so much...

Frequently Asked Questions About Magnesium Glycinate

Frequently Asked Questions About Magnesium Glycinate

Magnesium glycinate has quietly become the most recommended form of magnesium out there. Walk into any pharmacy, scroll any sleep forum, ask any nutritionist which magnesium to start with, and...

Frequently Asked Questions About Zinc

Frequently Asked Questions About Zinc

Zinc is one of the hardest-working minerals in your body, and one of the most misunderstood. It's involved in over 300 enzymatic reactions, it runs your immune defenses, it repairs...

Frequently Asked Questions About Magnesium

Frequently Asked Questions About Magnesium

Magnesium is one of those minerals almost everyone has heard of, yet very few people actually understand. It's involved in roughly 80% of the body's known metabolic functions, and around...

Frequently Asked Questions About Iron

Frequently Asked Questions About Iron

  If you've been taking iron supplements for a while, or you're just starting out, you've probably got questions that a quick label reading doesn't answer. Iron is one of...

Magnesium's Role in Hydration

Magnesium's Role in Hydration

Most people think hydration is a two-ingredient story: water and maybe some sodium if you're sweating a lot. Magnesium rarely makes the list, which is a little strange once you...

Possible Iron Supplement Side Effects

Possible Iron Supplement Side Effects

Iron supplements have a bit of a reputation, and it's not entirely undeserved. Anyone who's started taking iron for low levels or anemia has probably heard a friend or family...

Differences Between Magnesium: Citrate and Glycinate

Differences Between Magnesium: Citrate and Glycinate

Stand in front of a supplement shelf for more than thirty seconds and you'll see it: magnesium glycinate here, magnesium citrate there, and about six other bottles claiming to be...

Weird Facts About Magnesium

Weird Facts About Magnesium

Magnesium has a reputation as a "boring" mineral, the kind of thing you skim past on a supplement label without really thinking about. But the more you dig into magnesium...

What Are the Behavioral Symptoms of Iron Deficiency?

What Are the Behavioral Symptoms of Iron Deficiency?

When most parents think about iron deficiency, they picture the classic stuff: pale skin, tiredness, maybe a doctor mentioning low hemoglobin at a checkup. What catches a lot of families...