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Written By: January 22,2015

The American Heart Association recommends getting your blood pressure checked at least once every two years starting at age 20. But the next time you have yours checked, don’t just take the reading in one arm. It’s important to check the blood pressure readings in both of your arms because, while you might assume they’d b … Read More

#1 Secret: Enzymes We will be publishing the top 5 secrets, each in their own devoted article. Today we reveal secret #1 ... enzymes. Enzymes are found in every cell in your body where they help your body carry out thousands of biological functions. At the most basic level, enzymes speed up processes in your body that would … Read More

By Jesse Cannone Each year, more than 2 million Americans are given powerful prescription painkillers that contain opiods (sometimes called narcotics) for the relief of pain and discomfort brought on by injury, surgery, menstrual cramps, and even headaches. But a growing number of people taking these medications are becomin … Read More

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