Listen Up! Antioxidants May Aid Hearing

Aging is the most common cause of hearing loss. Thirty percent of folks over the age of sixty-five are afflicted, and those over seventy-five have a fifty percent chance of suffering from it. The effects of hearing loss can snowball into bigger problems like social isolation, a drop in cognitive functioning and depression, too. There are severalContinue reading “Listen Up! Antioxidants May Aid Hearing”

How to Stay Healthy through Life’s Adversities

Shared by Barbara Bird AIM Director in Brights Grove, Ontario Here is a little of what I have learned over the years, right up to how AIM helped me stay healthy through 2015: one of the most difficult years of my life. In June 2006, Rita Vandertil (AIM Star Sapphire Director) convinced me to become an AIM Member even though IContinue reading “How to Stay Healthy through Life’s Adversities”

Proancynol 2000: When the Show Must Go On

When you are a professional singer, your livelihood depends on the show going on no matter how you feel. That is a major part of being a performer in the music industry. Georgiann Gibson knows this all too well as a soprano who sings classical music. Even so, there are times when her vocal health is challenged. One of the healthContinue reading “Proancynol 2000: When the Show Must Go On”

Lycopene May Preserve Post-Menopausal Bone Density

  On several dozen occasions, lycopene, our tomato-based friend, has been linked to prostate health and prostate protection in men. And that’s great. Men are grateful to grapefruit, glad for guavas and thankful to tomatoes because of all that beneficial prostate-protecting nutrition they provide. But just because lycopene is closely associated with men’s health doesn’t meanContinue reading “Lycopene May Preserve Post-Menopausal Bone Density”

Staying Healthy on Vacation

Traveling has always been one of Donna Eilertsen’s priorities in life. “Basically, I worked hard all my life so that I could afford to travel,” she admitted. “Otherwise, I would have earned just enough to live simply and stay home.” Home is Vancouver, British Columbia, where Donna has lived for over fifty-three years. During those years, she journeyed to her desired destinations all over the worldContinue reading “Staying Healthy on Vacation”

The AIM Direction

Shared by Carol Campbell, AIM Director in Beaverton, Ontario.    The day I walked into my doctor’s office after a routine mammogram sixteen years ago, I never thought I would hear her say, “You have breast cancer,” but she did. What a shock as I had been relatively healthy all of my life. That was the start of my journey to regain my health. The doctorContinue reading “The AIM Direction”

Our AIM-Nourished Travels

Shared by Jan Baxter, AIM Director in Waterloo, Ontario.    My husband Wayne and I are both in our early seventies, and we do enjoy traveling. The first thing I pack is our First AIM Kit to help us maintain our health. We use recycled containers for our nutritious AIM powders such as the Garden Trio®, ProPeas®, and CalciAIM™. Depending onContinue reading “Our AIM-Nourished Travels”

Antioxidants May Aid Aging Immune Systems

The “free-radical theory” of aging got a significant boost to its scientific paradigm this month when scientists from the The Scripps Research Institute were able to pinpoint how the aging process hampered the production of new immune cells. Their research went on to suggest that dietary antioxidants diminished the damage caused by aging. This is theContinue reading “Antioxidants May Aid Aging Immune Systems”