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Dear Friends and Valued Customers,

In today's featured video from iHealthTube.com, Dr. Carolyn Dean explains how magnesium—a critically important mineral for overall health—works in your body. Dr. Dean describes why you need magnesium in conjunction with other minerals, as well as why many people are actually magnesium deficient and what that might cause.

I invite you to watch the video below and share your reaction in the comments section below this post. As always, I wish you the very best of...

Dear Friends and Valued Customers,

I’d like to take the opportunity to talk to you about the Marketplace Fairness Act, which the United States Senate recently passed with far too large a margin for comfort. We here at Swanson Health Products oppose this bill, and I’ll explain why. I want to make clear to you how this bill would impact your access to affordable vitamins, supplements and thousands of other natural health food products and drive up prices 7-10%.

How? The answer is quickly revealed...

Dear Friends and Valued Customers,

In today's featured video from iHealthTube.com, special guest Dr. Chandan Sen sheds some light on tocotrienols, the relatively newly discovered "sub-family" constituents of vitamin E. He explains that the scientific literature is a bit behind on studying tocotrienols compared to their counterparts, tocopherols. Dr. Sen also offers a few dietary sources of tocotrienols that we may consider adding to our diets.

I invite you to watch the video below and share your...

Dear Friends and Valued Customers,

In today's featured video from iHealthTube.com, Dr. Sam Possimiers (research director for BioActor, makers of Bonolive™) discusses how a compound found in olives and olive leafs can help promote bone health. He explains how this compound--oleuropein--works and how it can help retain bone health as you age.

I invite you to watch the video below and share your reaction in the comments section below this post. As always, I wish you the very best of health.

Lee...

Dear Friends and Valued Customers,

In today's featured video from iHealthTube.com, Bradley Bush, ND discusses exactly why adrenal health is so important. He also discusses how adrenal fatigue happens and why it's so common. Find out what adrenal health can mean to your overall health.

I invite you to watch the video below and share your reaction in the comments section below this post. As always, I wish you the very best of health.

Lee Swanson

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Dear Friends and Valued Customers,

In today's featured video from iHealthTube.com, Dr. Guosong Liu explains what magnesium does in your body, specifically highlighting how important it is for brain health. Dr. Liu goes on to talk about why, if you're relying only on your diet, you may not be getting adequate amounts of this important mineral. Today's average diet looks a lot different than it did 100 years, and Dr. Liu shows us that modern studies are confirming that diet alone just isn't enough.

I...

Dear Friends and Valued Customers,

In today's featured video from iHealthTube.com, we get to learn a bit about potassium from pharmacist Max Motyka M.S. R.Ph. Find out what potassium--an electrolyte--does in your body, why it is important and how it can "get out of whack" in your body.

I invite you to watch the video below and share your reaction in the comments section below this post. As always, I wish you the very best of health.

Lee Swanson

Watch these videos on iHealthTube next:

1. Six Reasons to...

Dear Friends and Valued Customers:

Last month I took to the Swanson Health Blog to showcase a few of our new products for the month of March. I really enjoyed having the opportunity to show off our exciting new additions, so I think I will make this a regular feature here on the blog, as we have a lot new items coming out each month. And with that little introduction, let me get right to this month’s features...

Spring Cleaning Time

As spring arrives (or in our case here in Fargo, ND, tries...

Dear Friends and Valued Customers,

In today's featured video from iHealthTube.com, we're treated to a topic that I'm guessing is near and dear to most of us: memory. If you're not familiar with the nutrient known as phosphatidylserine (PS), this video will be especially enlightening. Dr. Bob Berger sits down with the iHealthTube.com crew to discuss the signs and signals you should watch for that can indicate you may experience real benefits from a phosphatidylserine supplement. 

I invite you to...