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Food as medicine is far from a new idea. Research has long shown that our food choices can either improve our health or make it worse. The fruits, vegetables, and whole grains that are centerpieces of the Mediterranean diet have been proven to lower diabetes risk. And the metabolites produced from eating walnuts have been proven to lower your risk of both diabetes and heart disease. But what if you’ve…
While researchers have used the term “vital exhaustion” for a while, it might not be something you (or I) have heard of before. Like metabolic syndrome, which covers a group of physical symptoms, vital exhaustion covers a constellation of physical and emotional symptoms. These can include persistent stress, excessive fatigue, feelings of demoralization or hopelessness, increased irritability and trouble sleeping. Vital exhaustion (VE), also referred to as burnout syndrome, is…
Across the country, millions of people are living with migraines. That means throbbing pain, nausea and even the vision problems that can come with these debilitating headaches seem like a regular part of life. And while there are new therapies available that doctors can prescribe that could help if you suffer from migraines, if you can stand the side effects of these drugs, your wallet might not. So are you…
Low-carb diets have been all the rage for a while now. Diets like paleo, keto and carnivore all tout the health benefits of eating few to no carbohydrates and forcing your body into ketosis, a mode where the body begins to burn fat instead of carbs. People who follow these diets believe they help with weight loss and improve inflammation, cholesterol, blood sugar and insulin levels. However, many health professionals…
Available research underlines the dangerous link between paraquat herbicide and the development of Parkinson’s disease, yet the use of the herbicide has increased by almost 200 percent in the last decade. With its approximately 100 million acres of agricultural land, California leads in paraquat use with 10,262,736 kilograms of the chemical being sprayed yearly. The Golden State is closely followed by Texas and Kansas which deploy 8.4 and respectively 3.7…
My great aunt was a fan of the old saying, “don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” I never took it as literally as she did… she raised chickens when I was a little girl and always had fresh eggs in the house. I spent a lot of time with her and have fond memories of helping her collect freshly laid eggs — but never in one basket, of…
You’ve heard the saying, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Well, new research may have not only proven the truth in the adage, but done so with a bang… Especially when it comes to your brain and supporting the growth of neurons in areas related to learning and even memory. In fact, according the study, from German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases the phytonutrients found in apples could hold…
Cancer is different than other disease processes, making it all the more frightening. Rather than dying off like normal cells when they change for the worse, cancer cells spread, grow and takeover. And there aren’t a lot of newly developed options for stopping this hostile takeover of your body’s tissue. We still have to turn to the toxic chemicals used in chemotherapy to halt the metastasis of cancer cells. But…
On March 8, 2021, the American Heart Association issued an urgent statement regarding the recognition and treatment of central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO), a rare form of acute ischemic stroke that affects the eye. “CRAO is a cardiovascular problem disguised as an eye problem,” says Dr. Brian Mac Grory, chair of the statement’s writing committee and a staff neurologist at the Duke Comprehensive Stroke Center at Duke University School of…
The direct link between sugar consumption and cancer certainly isn’t news. About four years ago, we reported on research showing that sugar may over-activate proteins found in cancer cells, causing rapid and excessive cell growth. Sugar is like a gourmet meal for cancer cells. They prefer to live off of sugar, since it breaks down very quickly — a phenomenon known as the Warburg effect. And, over five years ago,…