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One of the most interesting things about the human body is how the systems that keep us healthy are all intertwined. To have a healthy brain, you have to have a healthy heart. For healthy lungs, your kidneys must function optimally to keep fluid buildup at bay. And according to research published in Hypertension, an American Heart Association journal, to have healthy blood pressure you need a healthy gut. The…
Cancer cells tend to favor the use of glucose to survive and multiply, and this is especially true in prostate cancer. One of the biggest differences between prostate cancer cells and normal prostate cells is how the cancer cells use sugars and fats to produce energy and rapidly grow. South Australian researchers have been closely examining this process, and in doing so they’ve identified a new way prostate cancer cells…
There’s no question that exercise is one of the best ways to reduce risks for chronic disease. And one of the main ways exercise accomplishes this goal is by helping to burn the fat that can lead to metabolic syndrome. If you haven’t heard the term before, metabolic syndrome isn’t truly a health condition in and of itself. Instead, it’s a constellation of factors that increase your chances of ending…
We all want to live a long and healthy life. And we all want to avoid falling into the pit of memory loss and debilitation known as Alzheimer’s disease. Our genetic makeup plays a role in how well we fare. Some of us are predisposed to Alzheimer’s because we carry a gene variant known as APOE-E4. But can a healthy lifestyle overpower this genetic tendency? Can we save ourselves from…
When most of us think about the foods we eat and whether or not they’re healthy for us, we most often think about things like fat, calories and the amount of sugar in them. Yet, one thing few of us consider is the effect of food on the pH balance — alkalinity to acidity ratio — of the body, which is equally as important, even moreso, for your kidneys. Your…
Did you know that there are two types of fat on your body — one that you see each time you look in the mirror and one that is deeper and more dangerous? That’s right, the fat that sits right under the surface of your skin, known as subcutaneous fat is the one responsible for the bulge you may be battling on your hips and thighs. But visceral fat, which…
You may think of bacteria as tiny, disease-causing organisms In fact, though, many bacteria are extremely important for your overall health. Your gut microbiome refers to the trillions of bacteria living in your intestine. It’s important to have a diverse gut microbiome. In other words, you want to have a wide variety of bacteria living in your gut. Why? For myriad reasons… The bacteria you have in your gut plays…
For those of us who suffered through COVID-19 in the past 18 plus months, living with the symptoms of the virus over its two-week course was supposed to be the worst part. After all, dealing with fever, coughing, sneezing, headache and shortness of breath is no walk in the park. Yet, for many who lived through the infection, those symptoms have turned out to be the least of their worries…
As we progress from midlife into old age, we expect that certain things just won’t work as well as they used to. We don’t move quite as fast when we walk or run, and we may take a little longer to remember where we put our keys or whether we left the garage door open. However, if you start having trouble getting off the sofa or opening a jar, it’s…
If you’re one of the 80 percent of people who suffers from low back pain at one point or another in their lives, there’s something that you need to know before you see your doctor — and accept the prescription he’s going to write out for you. That prescription probably isn’t going to work. But even worse, while it’s a pretty sure bet it will do nothing for your pain,…