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Eat less salt. If you have or are at risk of high blood pressure, you may have heard this advice from your doctor. That’s because when you ingest too much salt, your body responds to the excess sodium by holding on to water to dilute it. The result is an increase in the amount of fluid in your blood vessels, which raises the pressure inside the vessels and makes your…
There are enough health benefits tied to olive oil that you really don’t need one more reason to make it part of your life. You can read about eight benefits you can only get from extra virgin olive oil, right here — but there’s just one in the list I want to focus on right now… According to a study published in the journal Foods, Greek men and women over…
A friend at work seemed to always be on a diet. Atkins, cabbage soup diet, grapefruit diet, keto… You name it; she tried it all. While she was always successful at losing weight, it always came back a few months later, along with a couple of extra pounds. Talk about frustrating! Given how good she was at sticking to whatever diet she was following, we could never figure out why…
Chronic pain is one of the most damaging and soul-destroying things a person can face. And despite new medical advances and age-old traditional approaches, chronic pain still holds millions of people prisoner. Many turn to opioids, and still more make liberal use of NSAIDs such as ibuprofen and other pain relievers, unaware of their potential dangers. But a team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, has discovered…
There’s no question that obesity is terrible for health. And one of the worst impacts it has is on cancer risk. Obesity is linked to an increased risk of more than a dozen types of cancer, and it’s also shown to worsen prognosis and survival rates. The metabolic changes and chronic inflammation associated with obesity help create a more cancer-friendly environment within the body, including one that allows cancer cells…
Menopause isn’t for the weak. In fact, when you consider what women have to go through, from fatigue and bloating to mood changes, night sweats and more, it’s a wonder we get through it at all. One minute, you’re rolling through your day just fine, and the next, you’re a hot, sweaty puddle! It’s no wonder, then, that we’re willing to pop a prescription pill just to survive. But if…
Most of what we hear about spending time on screens (computers, tablets and smartphones) is bad. Take the warnings about blue light, for example… Research says artificial light disrupts the natural order of things, like our circadian rhythm. That blue light exposure from screens potentially accelerates aging by altering mitochondria — the powerhouses of our cells. But not everything related to screens is bad… In fact, according to a study…
In 2002, I was diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia. This painful condition is not the subject of this post, so let me be brief and say that it causes unpredictable jolts of electric pain through the head and jaw. It wasn’t until 2014 that a friend told me to try CBD oil. Marijuana? You mean pot?? That was my initial reaction. How far we’ve come. But let me tell you, it…
Eat right. Exercise. Get enough sleep. Don’t smoke or drink. That “healthy lifestyle” list just keeps getting longer. Wouldn’t it be great if there were just one thing we could do (or take) that could grant us complete health and well-being? The unfortunate truth is that no such “magic bullet” exists. But there is one thing that comes close… fermented foods. Foods like yogurt, kefir, kimchi, miso and even coffee…
You can’t scroll through a social media feed without running across someone touting beef tallow’s benefits. From nutrition to skin care, this “ancestral fat” is definitely having its moment. So, should you just jump on the bandwagon? What Is Beef Tallow and How Is It Made? Beef tallow is created by taking the fat that surrounds the internal organs of a cow, cooking that fat down, and straining out the…