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Balance the Feast: Festive Digestion and Liver Tips

Balance the Feast: Festive Digestion and Liver Tips

The holiday season is synonymous with lavish meals, festive drinks, and more than a few rounds of dessert. From carnivals, seasonal markets, and fe...

Holiday Hustle, Meet Your Match: Natural Ways to Stay Calm and Energized

Here we go again! The days are shorter, social calendars fill up, tasty treats crowd the break room, and the music in grocery stores turns distinc...

Calm Amid the Chaos: My Holiday Thrive Kit

Does the end-of-year holiday season fill you with excitement and anticipation, or a mix of dread and anxiety? Sure, I love the sparkling lights, en...

Immune Support

A Complete Immunity Arsenal: Stop Bugs in Their Tracks

The Arsenal to either Nip it in the bud, Head it off at the pass or Reduce duration & severity: Optimum Immunity -Our most broad spectrum a...

Gut & Digestive Health

Nurture Those Gums! Nature-Friendly Tips for Mouth Health

In the quest for wellness, oral care often takes a backseat, but your gum health is deeply connected to your body’s overall well-being. The mouth h...

Immune Support

How Calming The Gut Strengthens our Health & Immunity Beyond Just Colds & Flu

Once you are inflamed, your immunity goes down the drain! Did you know that one of the leading drivers of common health complaints is actually an o...

Detoxification

The Benefits of an "Alkaline Flush"

When starting a health protocol, many are concerned when they get diarrhea, thinking it is a sign of a problem, when in fact it can be a very healt...

Allergies

Breathe Easy. Lung Health is Vital for Everything!!

Whether you are trying to improve your running times, wheezing from a cough/cold/bug, or dealing with allergies/asthma, we can all agree that being...

Brain & Cognition

What are the Health Benefits of Resveratrol?

Dementia and memory problems are becoming increasingly prevalent as baby-boomers age, and there are a great many natural products coming on to the ...

Allergies

Probiotics and Gut Health: Q & A with J Biggs BSc, NCP, OHP

Over the years in the stores, one of the areas that our clientele have had the most questions about is probiotics. In this blog, I sit down with Jo...

Immune Support

How to Protect Both Your Lungs & Immunity at the Same Time

Life on earth started with bacteria, which were, and are fully dependent on always having an external source of food energy [1] (If the food runs o...

Welcome to Earth's Aromatique!

At Optimum Health and Kolya (OHK), what goes on your skin matters just as much as what goes into your body. Our ethos is simple: support sustainabl...

Allergies

The Hidden Truth Behind Health Canada’s New NHP Regulations

If you had a new idea about something that you thought no one, or very few people had ever had, you might call that a "novel" idea, and you might t...