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Healthy Habits: Sassafras

Healthy Habits: Sassafras root bark was traditionally used for the most delicious beverage (in my opinion) known to humans – root beer!  After enormous amounts of sassafras were fed to lab rats and the safrole in it allegedly causing them liver damage and cancer, the FDA banned it and root beer companies stopped using the…

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Horse Chestnut

  Healthy Habits:  Horse Chestnut Horse Chestnut is in the same family of trees as buckeyes but slightly larger are horse chestnut trees. Neither are actually in the true chestnut family and both horse chestnuts and buckeyes are poisonous. However, horse chestnut is available in a standardized seed extract that you can find in capsule,…

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