Fermenting Your Foods in a Clear Glass Jar!

Joe Nowell at The Fresh Pharmacy, a Natural Medicine Compounding Pharmacy in Lenoir City writes about Fermenting Your Foods for healthy bacteria, balancing your immune system, and absorbing your nutrients properly.

Foods that are fermented are living foods and very good for you. Fermented foods introduce healthy microbes into your diet and help the body function properly.

Some popular fermented foods already on your kitchen table:
Sauer Kraut
Pickles
Salsa
Mustard
Ketchup
Hummus
If you want to try this, just make sure you properly ferment your foods so healthy bacteria and yeast grow and the healthy ones grow faster and keep the unhealthy bacteria from multiplying.


Some tips for fermenting:
1. Use clean containers and utensils
2. Prepare the food and remove spoiled parts or other signs of decay THE KEY IS FRESH FOOD
3. Pack with no air, or submerge the food in salt brine
4. Solid foods that do not have a liquid above them, make sure they are closed fermented with an airlock system if possible
5. Don’t forget the food will expand so leave room in the jar
6. During the first initial formation time, make sure the food stays UNDER the liquid brine always
7. Leave it Be! Don’t mess with it, allow 3-5 days for it to ferment
8. After it’s reached fermentation then it can be repacked into a clean storage container with a tight lid

A simple heart video to share with those you love!

Joe Nowell at The Fresh Pharmacy, a Natural Medicine Compounding Pharmacy in Lenoir City shares a video to share with your valentine!

We want to raise awareness for heart healthy month.

Information is power and below will help you assess if you are at risk. Also please know it is our philosophy that being proactive and preventing heart disease from occurring would be the first priority for your best health! Heart disease is a disorder of the blood vessels that can cause an artery to become blocked and prevent oxygen and nutrients from reaching the heart. Though there are procedures to help you live with the disease, it is not "curable" as many people mistakenly think.
Things you can do to prevent heart disease:

• Get Active
• Control Cholesterol
• Eat Better
• Manage Blood Pressure
• Lose Weight
• Reduce Blood Sugar
• Don't Smoke

To Your Health!
Joe Nowell, Pharmacist Lenoir City, East Tennessee Discount Drugs, The Fresh Pharmacy (Compounding Pharmacy in Lenoir City), Befitting You Mastectomy Boutique, Gifts Unique.

Cherries Are Good for Your Heart!

Joe Nowell at The Fresh Pharmacy, a Natural Medicine Compounding Pharmacy in Lenoir City writes about the health benefits of cherries…

In celebration of February being Healthy Heart Month, we wanted to share with you some whole nutrition heart healthy foods!

There is new evidence released at the Experimental Biology 2011 meeting about the anti-inflammatory benefits of tart cherry juice to helping with gout and heart disease.

Study quoted here: Overweight and obese subjects consumed 8 ounces/day of tart cherry juice or placebo for 4 weeks.  Tart cherry juice consumers experienced reductions in uric acid levels and inflammation markers.  With regard to cardiovascular disease, reductions were also seen in triglycerides, VLDL, and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1), a molecule involved in atherosclerotic plaque formation. Previous studies on sweet cherry consumption have similarly documented reductions in C-reactive protein (CRP), another inflammatory molecule that is also a marker of cardiovascular disease risk.

To Your Health!
Joe Nowell, Pharmacist Lenoir City, East Tennessee Discount Drugs, The Fresh Pharmacy (Compounding Pharmacy in Lenoir City), Befitting You Mastectomy Boutique, Gifts Unique.

References: (Martin KR, Bopp J, Burrell L, et al: The effect of 100% tart cherry juice on serum uric acid levels, biomarkers of inflammation and cardiovascular disease risk factors). In Experimental Biology 2011. Washington, D.C.: The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology; 2011. (Kelley DS, Rasooly R, Jacob RA, et al: Consumption of Bing sweet cherries lowers circulating concentrations of inflammation markers in healthy men and women). J Nutr 2006;136:981-986.