Millions of Americans take vitamins for mood support, boosting energy, disease prevention and more, but it’s been debated whether such supplements are truly beneficial. Now new research has shown that vitamin and mineral supplements may indeed be useful for enhancing energy and well-being, not only among those who are healt … Read More
13 Disease Symptoms to Watch for in Your Urine
Urine is produced by your kidneys to help remove water-soluble wastes from your bloodstream. Although urine is primarily water, it also contains trace amounts of many other substances, including enzymes, hormones, and urea, a byproduct of protein metabolism. Bacteria, yeast, excess protein and sugar can also find their wa … Read More
The Doctor Shortage: How It Affects You
As the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) looms on the horizon, doctors, medical experts and patients alike are all worried: how is the already frail healthcare network going to handle an influx of 32 million newly insured patients? Worries include much longer waiting periods for appointments… more crowded emerge … Read More
Is Atrazine In Your Drinking Water?
Fluoride isn’t the only chemical in drinking water to get national attention lately. The EPA has been under fire because of widespread contamination of atrazine–one of the most commonly used weed-killers in the United States. How widespread? Chances are if you live in the U.S. it's in your water now. The chemical h … Read More
Blood Sugar and Weight Loss
What Everyone Needs to Know If you’re having trouble losing weight, or sticking to a diet because of uncontrollable sugar cravings, you need look no further than your blood sugar for answers. Understanding how your blood sugar works isn’t difficult. In fact, it’s essential to learn how to regulate your own blood su … Read More
11 Early Alzheimer's Symptoms to Beware Of
In the US, someone develops Alzheimer’s disease every 68 seconds, but by 2050 this is expected to increase to every 33 seconds. Already, more than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s, which is currently the sixth leading cause of death in the US.[i] This is expected to nearly triple to 13.8 million within the ne … Read More
Is the 5-Second Rule True?
Steroid Injections for Back Pain — Warning Update
Last year about 14,000 people received steroid injections for back pain that were tainted with the fungus Exserohilum rostratum, a type of black mold that can lead to fungal meningitis. To date, 58 people died and 745 were sickened by the contaminated injections, but even now some related spinal infections are still being u … Read More
Your Beliefs About What Causes Weight Gain Actually Cause It!
Do you believe weight gain is caused by a lack of exercise? Poor diet? Genetics? It turns out that what you believe may actually influence how much you weigh. Allow me to explain … … Read More
Magnets for Pain: Block Pain at the Source
If there was something you could use that would absorb pain like a sponge, preventing the pain signal from ever reaching your brain, what would you feel? You guessed it… no pain! Take someone who was paralyzed from the waist down were pinched on the leg, they would feel no pain. Why not? Because the broken nerve p … Read More