Depression often strikes for no apparent reason and can devastate entire families, even among those who are otherwise successful and healthy. Yet, there’s no denying the important role that lifestyle plays in your mood and mental health. Not only do poor lifestyle choices make the symptoms of depression worse, but they ma … Read More
If you’re a smoker and you have chronic back pain, it may not have occurred to you that one might be related to the other. In fact, smokers are three times more likely than non-smokers to develop chronic back pain, in part because of the way it impacts your brain. New research from Northwestern Medicine revealed that smok … Read More
Keloids are excess scar tissue that forms on your skin at the site of an injury. Virtually any type of skin injury can lead to a keloid, including not only surgery or trauma but acne, burns, chicken pox and even ear piercing, vaccination sites and minor scratches.[i] When you have a wound, your body gathers collagen aroun … Read More
Any type of prolonged, repetitive or awkward movement can cause damage to your muscles, tendons and nerves, leading to varying degrees of pain, weakness and numbness. In the modern day, the resulting repetitive strain injury (RSI) (also sometimes called repetitive stress injury) is often the result of computer usage – but th … Read More
New York doctor Craig Spencer is the latest person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States. As a physician working with Doctors Without Borders, he had recently returned to the US after treating patients in Guinea, Africa, which is one of the three hardest-hit countries with Ebola. After returning home, the doctor … Read More
Proteolytic enzymes have an unsurpassed ability to fight chronic inflammation and underlying pain. Unlike ordinary enzymes, proteolytic enzymes can migrate to other parts of your body, entering your bloodstream where they literally seek and destroy “danger zones,” like scar tissue and blood vessels packed with fibrin. The … Read More
There are actually more than 3,000 enzymes in your body, each with a specific function. You cannot survive without them, as enzymes act as catalysts for countless biological changes that take place in living organisms. Some experts, such as Dr. Edward Howell, believe that you are born with a limited supply of enzyme energ … Read More
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) causes extreme unexplained fatigue that is not improved by sleeping and may become worse after physical or mental exertion. There is no blood test or scan for diagnosis, so it’s typically diagnosed if you have fatigue accompanied by at least four of the eight following symptoms, and last for at … Read More
About 24 million Americans have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but more than half don’t know it – even though they have symptoms.[i] That’s because the increased breathlessness and frequent coughing that accompany COPD are often mistaken for something else, or even just assumed to be a ‘normal’ part of aging. … Read More
Chronic diseases – heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, arthritis and even obesity – are the leading cause of death and disability in the United States. In fact, seven of the top 10 causes of death in America are chronic diseases (and just two, heart disease and cancer, account for 48 percent of all deaths).[i] Nearly … Read More