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Weight loss surgery can come with big benefits, not only boosting your confidence every time you look in the mirror but lowering your risk of chronic conditions, like heart disease and diabetes. In fact, studies show that patients with severe obesity who have gastric bypass surgery reduce their risk of dying from obesity and other diseases by an incredible 48 percent up to 10 years after surgery, compared to patients…
People with preexisting health conditions are more vulnerable to serious COVID-19 infections. This includes people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) like Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. In case you don’t know, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a broad term used to describe a variety of conditions that cause inflammation in the digestive tract. Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis are the two most common types of IBD. Like other chronic inflammatory conditions,…
Your drinking water could be full of dangerous heavy metals. Especially if you live in an old house. Many heavy metals lurking in your drinking water are known carcinogens. Take aluminum, for example. Despite the fact that we wrap our food in aluminum foil without even thinking, aluminum is hazardous to our health. Exposure to aluminum is linked to breast cancer, nerve damage and even Alzheimer’s disease Cosmetics, food packaging…
In my early 50s, about a decade ago, menopause arrived on my doorstep. For the first time, I understood what had been happening when, on car trips in mid-winter, my mom kept demanding that my dad roll down her window. I sat behind her shivering in the cold wind. Unlike many women I knew in the same predicament, I never considered hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to ease my sweats and…
Making changes to your diet can drastically improve your autoimmune disease symptoms… or even send your disease into remission. But what diet is best if you want to get an autoimmune condition under control? That’s still up for debate. But whatever diet you choose, make sure it’s one that fights rather than fuels inflammation. As you may have heard, autoimmune diseases are rooted in chronic inflammation. Long-term inflammation triggered by…
The rate of type 2 diabetes in the United States is rising sharply. In fact, it’s estimated that between 2015 and 2030, the rate will increase by a shocking 54 percent. And men are at even higher risk than women. Lots of reports and research seems to focus on the American lifestyle and the terrible food we eat. And when people feel they can’t change these habits, sometimes they resign…
There’s been some debate over the years about whether omega-3s reduce the risk of heart disease. Some studies show they provide a little heart health boost… others show they don’t do a dang thing. But a new study may put that decades-long debate to rest. Not only does it show that omega-3s offer substantial cardiovascular benefits, but it also shows exactly how these healthy fats help your heart. Before we…
When I was growing up, the medicine cabinet was a forbidden place. As I got older, I could be trusted to be in the bathroom and not eat, drink or otherwise mess with the various pills, creams, oils and liquids that lived in there. We’re talking about things like Ben-Gay (that smelly ointment for sore muscles), ibuprofen and prescription medications my parents took for high blood pressure. It wasn’t until…
For far too many years, Alzheimer’s disease has been a mystery to the medical community. Doctors and researchers are unsure why it starts… much less how to find a cure. Now a team of scientists from Sapienza University in Rome has found that stopping inflammation in the brain could play the biggest role in fighting Alzheimer’s progression and give us all the best chance of warding off the disease that…
If you’ve been reading our posts for a while, then the dangers of pesticides and the sneaky ways they get into your home aren’t news to you. You know which fruits and vegetables have the most pesticide residue. You know about the endocrine disruptors that hijack your health by disrupting the function of the hormones that control just about all of your bodily functions. And you know all about the…