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You’ve probably heard about daily aspirin therapy as a preventative for heart attack and stroke. But in 2019, a large clinical trial showed that, beyond the age of 70, taking a daily aspirin did not reduce the risk of a first heart attack or stroke. However, it did increase the risk of serious internal bleeding. Well, now we’re going down a similar research road with colorectal cancer. It’s been long…
As researchers explore the effects of COVID-19, trying to understand who, how and why some are hit so hard while others will barely have symptoms, they’re discovering that the disease may be more deadly in people who aren’t getting enough of certain vitamins and nutrients. Take zinc, omega 3 fatty acids and vitamin D, for example. Low levels of each of these nutrients have been associated with worse outcomes of…
You’re in your 30’s and 40’s and suddenly you don’t even recognize yourself anymore… You start gaining weight, especially around your middle.Your PMS hits you like a bag of bricks, and you seriously think you’re going to kill someone. Heavy bleeding, intense cramping, and uncomfortable bloating become the norm for your period (and you may even have uterine fibroids).Your breasts feel SO heavy, tender, and fibrous.You can’t sleep.You feel tired…
The overuse and misuse of antibiotics has led to antibiotic resistance that most medical experts agree has reached crisis proportions. Germs that could once be knocked out within a few short days of antibiotic therapy now require hospital stays and IV antibiotics — if anything works at all. Now, however, thanks to research at The University of Queensland and Botanix Pharmaceuticals Limited, a new and powerful option has been found…
Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most significant personal and public health challenges. In 2020, an estimated 5.8 million Americans aged 65 and older lived with Alzheimer’s. Unfortunately, research does not look to be terribly close to finding a cure. However, it has resulted in identifying various factors, including lifestyle interventions, certain foods, vitamins and nutrients that could help stave off the disease, as well as medications that may slow…
There’s an Ayurvedic proverb: When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need. When I went to med school, we got zero hours of nutrition training. (It’s improved ever so slightly since then, up to a whopping 19 hours.) When I started practicing and realized how much my patients needed my counseling on diet, I sought out that missing curriculum on my…
In the 1970s, scientists were able to isolate the amino acid dimethylglycine (pronounced die-meth-ill-gly-seen), better known as DMG, from its source. Eventually, it became one of many nutrients used by athletes to help give them a performance edge. Thanks to its reputation as an all-natural oxygen and endurance enhancer, scientists from all areas of health started their own experiments with DMG to see if it could help their patients. Sure…
There is no doubt that multiple sclerosis is one of the scariest and most debilitating diseases around, in no small part thanks to the fact that it’s caused by your own body. This autoimmune disease attacks from within and wears down the protective coating around nerve fibers in the central nervous system, slowly stealing your coordination, your vision and your independence. And to add insult to injury, it’s a disease…
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is an extremely painful condition that affects about twenty percent of the world’s population. But too often, when their doctor can find no allergic responses to any of the foods they’re eating, people who suffer the very real pain and cramping of IBS are told that it’s “all in their head.” Since there’s no apparent physiological cause, and because the mechanism that causes IBS is so…
Since the pandemic began a year ago, more and more of us are working from home. For many of us, myself included, this means sitting for hours at a desk or in front of a computer. You may feel stiff after sitting at your desk for hours at a time, maybe a little hungry. But what you may not realize is that this suddenly sedentary lifestyle is doing silent harm…