Nutritional consulting has trended into the mainstream for good reason. This form of consulting provides invaluable advice pertaining how one should eat, the frequency at which one should eat and which types of foods are ideal for one's...
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Green Tea
This Eastern remedy for stress is packed with antioxidants and a compound called...
A nutritional counselor can help you master a balanced diet, which is one of the most important factors of good health. Whether you want to manage a chronic illness like diabetes or lose weight, changing your eating habits can be the difference...
Chiropractors treat issues of the musculoskeletal system, focusing primarily on the spine. Their practice is founded on the belief that subluxations in the spine are responsible for pain or health issues in the body. Chiropractors are trained in...
As cold and flu season quickly approaches, now is the time to review a few immune-boosting practices to help keep colds at bay. Frequent hand washing and a diet rich in colorful fruits and vegetables are two ways to improve your immune health....
Bookstores and blogs are filled with nutritional advice and diet plans, but unfortunately, not all of these recommendations are based on tested nutritional science. Seeking out a basic counseling seasons with a dietitian or another nutritional...
What are the side effects of parabens?
Parabens, man-made preservative chemicals, are used by manufacturers in a variety of domestic products, such as cosmetics, sunscreens, lotions and moisturizers, shampoo, shaving,...
Antidepressants are among the most commonly prescribed drugs in America; about 10% of the population take them. The number jumps to 25% for women between the ages of 50 and 64. When compared to placebo, they are not very effective in controlling...
In 2013, biologist Dr. Brian Hooker received a call from a Senior Scientist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who led the agency’s 2004 study on the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine and its link to autism.The...
Just seven medical procedures account for 80 per cent of all deaths and complications from emergency medicine.Around 15 per cent of patients will suffer complications—often requiring another hospital visit—and just over one per cent will die...
The most under diagnosed health problem in the West, parasites may be responsible for a multitude of conditions from joint pain and chronic fatigue to many general disorders of the gut and immune systemThe most under diagnosed health problem in the...
Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is an increasingly recognized condition in which there is an elevated number of bacteria in the small intestines. The small intestine normally contains relatively few bacteria, but with SIBO, bacteria...
Dirty Electricity: A form of electro pollution—refers to the high frequency voltage transients in the electrical wiring inside buildings produced by computers, dimmer switches, etc. These contaminate the standard 60 hertz electric current and...
For most people, daylight saving is an inconvenience. For some, it could be a question of life and death.Researchers from the University of Turku in Finland looked at 10 years of data concerning stroke-related hospitalizations and in-hospital...
A study conducted at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan shows that children given antibiotics in their first six months of life have an increased risk of allergies to ragweed, pets, grass, and dust mites. They also have an increased risk of...
In a recent study published this month in Scientific Reports, researchers at the University of Louisville School of Medicine have gained new insight into the association between different types of stroke and the presence of the oral...
Every year, Americans are exposed to potentially unsafe levels of DNA-altering radiation through medical imaging such as CT scans.An astonishing 72 million CT scans are performed annually in the United States, which is about one scan for every...
New evidence has emerged this week that supports the idea that nutrition can cause—and reverse—most diseases. Scientists have discovered that almost all of our genes are affected by the food we eat, and change according to the nutrients that are...
The deadly effects of even slightly elevated glucose are fatally misunderstood.One reason for this calamity is physicians who continue to rely on obsolete blood glucose ranges. These doctors fail to recognize that any excess glucose creates lethal...
Myth: Heart disease in America is caused by consumption of cholesterol and saturated fat from animal products.Truth: During the period of rapid increase in heart disease (1920-1960), American consumption of animal fats declined but consumption of...
Costs to treat common ailments a prescription for painA month’s worth of Glumetza diabetes pills cost Marge Meffert $746 last April. Then the price began skyrocketing — to $6,714.It wasn't an isolated surge. The price of Lantus...
By now, most people have heard about the Flint water crisis. This is an ongoing drinking water contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan, in the United States.In 2014, the City of Flint switched its water supply from the City of Detroit (which...
The politics of cancer is blocking innovative new treatments from being tried, says US Vice-president Joe Biden, whose own son died from a brain tumour last May.His remarks echo those of the UK’s Lord Saatchi, who is also trying to free...
Proteins, carbohydrates, the essential fatty acids, minerals and vitamins are all needed to stay healthy. A nutritional deficiency can, therefore, result in a variety of diseases and disorders. To determine which nutrient you may be deficient in, a...
What are the TOP ways to:1. Raise your Immune System2. Stop Inflammation3. Lose Weight4. Add quality years to your LifeResearch shows that a three-day long fast can regenerate your entire immune system, NO MATTER how old you are. The researchers...
We’re going backwardsOver half of US children now suffer from a chronic condition, disability, or disease. Americans spend the least on food, the most on...
One of the telltale adverse effects of ACE inhibitors, including lisinopril, is a chronic, hacking cough — a potential side effect that patients often don't hear about. Studies suggest that up to a third of all patients taking an ACE inhibitor...
Pumpkins aren’t just for Halloween carving and Thanksgiving pies. The seeds they contain are full of beneficial nutrients. One of the most important minerals in pumpkin seeds is zinc, an antioxidant that helps protect against age-related diseases...
Myths & TruthsMYTH: People with high cholesterol are more prone to heart attacks.TRUTH: Young and middle-aged men with cholesterol levels over 350 are slightly more at risk for heart attacks. Those who have cholesterol levels just below 350 are...
October is the National Breast Cancer Awareness month in the U.S., and October 21 is National Mammography Day.Zeneca Group plc., a pharmaceutical subsidiary of Imperial Chemical Industries and manufacturer of the blockbuster breast cancer drugs...
Men with untreated prostate cancer are unlikely to die from the disease, even if they have lived with it for 15 years or more, a new study has found. In fact, they are 24 times more likely to die from another cause than their cancer.In a study...
Inflammatory bowel disease is a general term used to describe recurring inflammation of the small or large intestine. Inflammation often leads to ulceration and eventually scar tissue can form. This includes Crohn's disease (where it affects the...
Psychiatric drugs for insomnia, depression and anxiety are the third major killer in the West after heart disease and cancer, a major new review has concluded. More than 80 million prescriptions for psychiatric drugs are written in the UK alone...
The FDA is requiring prescription non aspirin non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) labels to include information on heart attack and stroke risk. This update strengthens an existing label warning that NSAIDs increase the risk for heart...
Sinus infections are more prevalent than most physicians realize. Sinusitis may have already replaced the common cold as our most "frequent" illness. In a research study performed at the University of Virginia in 1993, students who thought they had...
What makes an apple so good for us? Is it the vitamin C? Vitamin K or B6? Is it the soluble fiber or the insoluble fiber? Is it the potassium or the phytosterols?Or is it the apple? What a concept.Western science is obsessed with deconstructing...
More than half of children and adolescents aren’t drinking enough water, and even mild dehydration can cause headaches, irritability, and poor physical performance and reduced cognitive functioning, a new study has found.And it’s worse for boys....
A July Spike in Fatal Medication Errors: A Possible Effect of New Medical ResidentsAbstractBackgroundEach July thousands begin medical residencies and acquire increased responsibilities for patient care. Many have suggested that these new medical...
If thyroid hormone is not being produced as it should be, then nothing works properly—including the adrenals—and the situation is compounded by the fact that a low thyroid output is a stress-inducing situation. For the system to cope with not...
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have found a feedback system in rats that may explain the craving of so called “comfort foods” in people who are under stress. A steroid hormone, called corticosterone, is produced in...
Diagnosis I recommend starting with the following tests:CD57 Panel (cellular stress) (HNK-1) (LabCorp: 505026) and Complement C4a (complement stress) (LabCorp: 004330) The CD57 is not so much a test to detect Lyme disease as it is an immune marker...
Leaky Gut Syndrome (LGS) is a major cause of disease and dysfunction in modern society, accounts for at least 50% of chronic complaints, as confirmed by laboratory tests.In LGS, the epithelium on the villi of the small intestine becomes inflamed and...
Lyme disease is an infectious illness commonly caused by a tick bite infected with the spiral-shaped bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi. Of special interest, the disease is named after the towns of Lyme and Old Lyme, Connecticut. There are...
Ciprofloxacin is a ‘last resort’ antibiotic—but doctors are treating it as a routine drug, with terrible consequences Ciprofloxacin hydrochloride—marketed as Cipro in the US—is a ‘last resort’ antibiotic, or should be. It’s usually...
The first question is, ‘What is methylation?’ When we speak about methylation as it relates to the body, it is thought of as the process that regulates protein synthesis, genetic expression and many aspects of metabolism. Since the completion of...
Doing a mini-fast every so often—such as skipping a meal or eating less—could help you live longer and reduce your chances of developing a chronic disease, researchers say. Although most of us couldn’t live like that every day, the occasional...
Research published in Science News (1994;145:324) raises the question of whether the antihistamines we take for allergies can be linked to cancer. Studies in mice have shown that antihistamines promote the growth of malignant tumors. Scientists at...
After considerable research it is interesting to bring you up to speed on documented evidence of things which answer the question. "Why is the human brain deteriorating faster than the rest of the body?”There are a multitude of factors and today's...
Dietary supplement fans got a big "buyer beware" warning this week when the New York attorney general's office ordered GNC, Target, Walgreens and Wal-Mart to pull a number of store-brand products from their shelves, following an investigation that...
Several years ago Knox Gelatin introduced a new product named Nutrajoint with great fanfare. This supplement contains gelatin, vitamin C and calcium, and advertisements touted “recent scientific studies” proving that gelatin can contribute to...
It looks as though medicine has been fingering the wrong guy when it comes to heart disease prevention and lowering blood pressure. For years we’ve been told that salt is the major villain, but it appears that sugars in processed foods—and...
Every pharmaceutical drug can cause an adverse reaction, but sometimes the effects are so significant—or the drug just doesn’t do what it is supposed to—that the risks far outweigh any benefits. Here’s a list of some of those drugs.ADHD...
One in six courses of antibiotics fails to treat infections - and sometimes it’s as bad as one out of every two - suggesting the age of the ‘superbug’ is getting ever closer.The antibiotic failure rate now stands at 15.4 percent, which means...
Estrogen is not a single hormone. It is a class of hormones and hormone like compounds that have estrogenic properties.There are human estrogens, animal estrogens, synthetic estrogens, phytoestrogens, and xenoestrogens.The three human estrogens are...
The average American now has 116 synthetic compounds in his or her body, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. These compounds include dioxin, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and organochlorine pesticides....
Most of you have probably heard about Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV), however, did you know that it has been used for many hundreds, if not thousands of years. In fact, Hippocrates ( the father of medicine) used AVC back in around 400 B.C. for its health...
The Importance of Natural Sunlight - According to numerous studies, poor light poses a serious threat to health. Many firmly believe that the best light for maintaining health must contain the full wavelength spectrum found in natural sunlight. Most...
Many studies now confirm what Grandma always knew–that broth made from bones is a great remedy, a tonic for the sick, a strengthener for athletes, a digestive aid, a healing elixir. And unlike bitter medicines, broth can be incorporated into...
As a direct result of the Standard American Diet (SAD), gallbladder problems are rampant in modern society. Traditionally, many practitioners have supplemented those with gallbladder issues with products containing bile salts. While bile salts...
When an epidemic steals thousands of lives, including those of health workers trying to stop it from spreading, it creates fear and panic in ways that are almost unimaginable. Though it has been around since 1976, occasionally striking Africa,...
“The vaccine is completely worthless, and the government knows it,” says Dr. Blaylock. “There are three reasons the government tells the elderly why they should get flu shots: secondary pneumonia, hospitalization, and death. Yet a study by the...
One reason for the increased number of outbreaks of pertussis infections is that the pertussis bacteria have mutated, making the current vaccine ineffective, and the new pertussis bacteria more reactive. This may come as an expected evolution of...
A vast array of pharmaceuticals including antibiotics, anticonvulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.To be sure, the...
Coconut water is found inside the cavity of a young, unripe coconut (in contrast with coconut milk, found inside the mature fruit). The balance of electrolytes in coconut water is nearly the same as that in the human blood -- so close, in fact, that...
You can’t control when health emergencies occur, but if you had to go to the hospital, you’d probably be better off avoiding the summer months.At least that’s been the conventional wisdom among doctors, who know that the most experienced...
The most under diagnosed health problem in the West, parasites may be responsible for a multitude of conditions from joint pain and chronic fatigue to many general disorders of the gut and immune systemFew of our doctors in civilized Western...
It’s Basic History 101In the 1800s and 1900s, many people in the United States lived in poverty and filth. In small, overcrowded, dark houses with rats, roaches, mosquitoes, and other vermin. Streets were filled with sewage and garbage and dead...
Vitamin B1 is also called thiamine. It is a water-soluble vitamin that participates in many of the chemical reactions in the body. If you ingest more vitamin B1 than your body needs, the excess is excreted in urine and through the skin via...
What are GMOs?GMOs, or “genetically modified organisms,” are plants or animals that have been genetically engineered with DNA from bacteria, viruses or other plants and animals. These experimental combinations of genes from different species...
How apple cider vinegar works:Apple cider vinegar contains a number of beneficial compounds including acetic and malic acid, vitamin A, vitamin B6, vitamin C, and several others. These nutrients function to balance the body’s natural pH to prevent...
People with high cholesterol live the longest.This statement seems so incredible that it takes a long time to clear one´s brainwashed mind to fully understand its importance. Yet the fact that people with high cholesterol live the longest...
Numerous studies have found that a common mineral heals the brain by stimulating the growth of new brain cells and protecting brain cells from every known neurotoxin. It has been shown to reduce the incidence of violent crime, homicide,...
Gluten sensitivity is currently estimated to affect as many as 18 million Americans. Reactions to gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye, and barley, are becoming increasingly common. Gluten sensitivity can range in severity from mild discomfort,...
1: Phthalates damage the chemistry of fatty acids most importantly, the fatty acid, DHA (docosahexaenoic acid). This is the fundamental chemistry necessary for making every cell lining or membrane. These fatty acids are the foundation for brain...
Latest trends show that adolescents and young adults may be especially vulnerable to prescription drug abuse, particularly opioids and stimulants.Data from the 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) indicate that rates of prescription...
Tim O’SheaHave you ever wondered why so many kids these days are allergic to peanuts? Where did this allergy come from all of a sudden?Before 1900, reactions to peanuts were unheard of. Today almost a 1.5 million children in this country are...
Research performed at the University of North Dakota at the Energy and Environmental Research Center, in conjunction with the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and several state and federal agencies, indicates...
Patients that are sensitive to chemicals, automobile exhaust, smoke, perfume, or for that matter any commercialized or synthetic odor. You know the person who goes into a salon and has a reaction to the chemicals in the air or has mental fog when...
You can't open a magazine these days or watch television without seeing an ad for "the purple pill", Nexium. The original purple pill, Prilosec, was the number one selling prescription drug in 2001.Both Nexium and Prilosec are what we call proton...
Guidelines on the prevention of cardiovascular disease are published again and again from various expert committees. Recently new ones were published by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA). They call...
Harvard Medical School’s Dr. Marcia Angell is the author of The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It. But more to the point, she’s also the former Editor-in-Chief at the New England Journal of Medicine,...
Inside the liver cells there are sophisticated mechanisms that have evolved over millions of years to break down toxic substances. Every drug, artificial chemical, pesticide and hormone, is broken down (metabolized) by enzyme pathways inside the...
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