Inflammation is your body’s built-in emergency response to assaults resulting in injury or infection. In the acute state, inflammation is an important and vitally necessary part of your body’s healing mechanism.
Tag: Health
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BUCKYBALLS: NATURE’S NEW HEALTH ELIXIR
Humans are a carbon-based life form—carbon is the common element among most of our molecules—so maybe it’s not surprising that one of the newest health elixirs gaining notoriety is made of carbon: buckminsterfullerenes, also known as buckyballs.
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MICROPLASTICS MAY BE HARMING YOUR BODY AND BRAIN
Discarded plastic—both large and microscopic—circles the globe, choking our oceans and polluting our food supply, ultimately finding their way into your body where they can accumulate over time
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‘PURE GARBAGE’: SCHOOL CAFETERIAS START SERVING UP BIG FOOD’S LUNCHABLES
The quality of school lunches has been deteriorating for decades, and it just got another downgrade.
As reported by CNN, two Kraft Heinz ready-to-eat prepackaged Lunchables are being added to K-12 school lunch programs across the U.S. as of this fall semester.
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“SCRAMBLER THERAPY” MAY CURE CHRONIC PAIN
Chronic pain is a more common medical condition than depression or diabetes. Treating it focuses on managing the discomfort because there is no cure that has proven reliably effective.
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WHAT CAN YOU DO TO PREVENT CATARACTS?
Cataracts is an eye condition that causes your vision to blur due to a buildup of proteins on the lens of your eye. Left untreated, cataracts can result in progressive loss of vision and, ultimately, blindness.
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SCIENTISTS FIND SIX CHEMICAL COMBINATIONS THAT REVERSE ILLNESSES OF AGING
For almost two decades, scientists have been experimenting with “Yamanaka factors,” special molecules that convert adult cells into stem cells—cells that can be nudged to become any of a range of different kinds of cells.
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TOP SWEETENER OFFICIALLY DECLARED A CARCINOGEN
The World Health Organization has finally gotten around to declaring the popular artificial sweetener aspartame a potential carcinogen.[1] I warned about aspartame’s cancer-causing potential on my site over 25 years ago, in my best-selling book, “Sweet Deception: Why Splenda, NutraSweet, and the FDA May Be Hazardous to Your Health,” in 2006, and in an article I wrote for The Huffington Post.[2] It’s since been deleted—but you can see just how long this danger has been known.
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TWO SUBSTANCES THE HUMAN BODY MAKES MAY BE KEY TO DEMENTIA AND ALZHEIMER’S
An obscure enzyme named HDAC9 may be a key to understanding the origins and prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia in general.
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HOW TO PREVENT AND TREAT ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
In 2014, Dr. Dale Bredesen published a paper demonstrating healthy lifestyle choices could reverse Alzheimer’s in 9 out of 10 patients. His team is now launching a new randomized, controlled trial at six sites. Biological aging, brain aging and epigenetics will be included in this trial, using newer blood tests that weren’t available even a few years ago.