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Five years ago, my children and I moved from a fairly large city to a small town; and in doing so, we improved our health. No longer driving in traffic on a daily basis lowered our stress levels. Having a strong sense of community boosted our emotional health. And perhaps best of all, breathing fresh air eased the allergy and asthma symptoms we had all struggled with in the city.…
Menopause symptoms are more than an annoyance for many women. Hot flashes can be downright miserable and embarrassing if they catch you off guard. And deciding how to alleviate these symptoms can be vey complex. There is much to consider. A study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association [1] looked at more than 16,000 postmenopausal women from 40 U.S. clinical centers over nearly six years, and found…
The most important factor for natural detoxification is a lifestyle that provides a strong foundation that supports your body’s natural cleansing mechanisms. In addition to foods that naturally detoxify, exercise that boost metabolic efficiency, and stress reduction, there are nutrients that bind and remove toxins, as well as lend support to your body’s own detox organs. To take your cleanse — and your health — to the next level, I…
The human body is amazing in the ways it allows us to experience and interact with the world. We get to taste great food, take a deep breath of fresh air, feel the warmth of sunlight on our skin, and experience being alive. But in today’s day and age, such close interaction with our environments is taking its toll on health: Just as we take in our surroundings through our…
If you suffer migraine headaches, you’re familiar with their severe pain and the way these headaches make it impossible to cope with your daily routine. But a review of ways to cope with migraines at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center shows that there’s a natural treatment you can use to fight against the pain. The researchers found that meditation can soften the pain of migraine and reduce the number of headaches you…
The “experts” in the media have repeated for years that the best way to lose excess fat is to take it off slowly and steadily. A recent study shows that advice to be backwards. Reducing your waistline very gradually, so that you only lose a pound or two a week, is the opposite of what you should do. Instead, this study shows that if you want to lose a lot…
Excess estrogen in our environment is a threat that’s causing breast cancer … but there’s another hormonal imbalance that increases breast cancer risk. Fortunately, you can rebalance your body easily and wipe out this growing risk, as you’ll see in a minute. Leptin is a protein hormone produced mainly by fat tissue that tells your brain you’re not hungry anymore. It also regulates metabolism, reproductive processes, immune processes, angiogenesis, and…
If you give in to fast food cravings for those oh-so-good, but oh-so-bad for you burgers, fries and thighs you could be putting your brain at perilous risk of memory-destroying inflammation. And if you’re male, you’re most at risk. Does that mean women can jump to the front of the fried chicken buffet? Well, not so fast. Lab tests at the Cedars-Sinai Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute in Los Angeles…
Do you think you sweat too much? Most of us do, but some of us feel we sweat more than anyone else on the planet. Truth be told, most of us perspire on the heavy side and it’s perfectly normal. However, hyperhidrosis is a not-too-common condition in which people sweat excessively. When it occurs it is challenging to know what’s causing it and how to solve the problem. What causes…
We live in a world where everything we eat and use pushes us toward estrogen dominance. Meanwhile, many newer studies now show that estrogen, specifically estradiol, increases the risk for and actually causes breast cancer and prostate cancer. Yet mainstream medicine’s answer to this threat of estrogen-caused cancers is to push more estrogen on women, and cut off a man’s supply of testosterone. This is backwards thinking, especially since there’s…