As everyone know I am the resident fashion and beauty queen here at BB&W and although I love everything beauty and fashion, I want to address another side of the industry, health.
Le sigh! Working to get up-to-date health news is SUCH HARD WORK. So I’ve been working the aisles at the Natural Products Expo and lo and behold, there he was. The guy from the “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” commercials, and the object of many vibrator-fueled women’s fantasies who read those Harlequin romance novels. He’s [...]
It’s a ‘shr00m. (Hey Law, get in here–it’s Chinese, and since you’re a doctor and stuff…). Depending on whom you ask, ganoderma, “more commonly known as reishi, ganoderma is a hard, bitter mushroom used to promote health and longevity in traditional Chinese medicine. Proponents claim that ganoderma can relieve fatigue, keep cholesterol in check, curb high blood pressure, tame inflammation, build stamina, and support the immune system,” says Cathy Wong, ND, CNS, a licensed naturopathic doctor and an American College of Nutrition-certified nutrition specialist.
You may wash and scrub, every morning in the shower to squash that smelly bacteria waste that cause body odor, but you’ll just have to face the fact that you’ll never get rid of all of it–especially that little bacteria family that’s laid down real estate in your intestines. And like real life, you have good neighbors–you know, who mow their lawns and don’t park their old cars on the grass, and the bad neighbors who party all night playing Jayz and never met a weed they didn’t try to smoke.