Category: Health Conditions

The Excruciating Pain of Kidney Stones: 2 Most Common Types and How to Prevent Them

Kidney stones are a common kidney disease, characterized by back pain and hematuria, and the pain they cause is so excruciating that it’s “impossible to forget for life.” Once a patient has kidney stones, he or she will have a high chance of having another one, so it is important to prevent them through diet….


Eight Steps to Preventing Heart Disease

Want to know how to avoid heart trouble? You can start by asking a nurse. Or, better yet, about 84,000 nurses. A 14-year study of 84,129 nurses — published in the New England Journal of Medicine — provides a blueprint for protecting the heart. You don’t have to be a medical professional to follow it,…


The Most Efficient Way to Boost Gut Health, Better Than Any Amount of Probiotics

You probably know that if you lack vitamin D, you are prone to osteoporosis. In fact, it’s much more than that. Vitamin D also has a large impact on your intestinal health. Dr. Joel Gould, a Canadian dentist for more than three decades, has cured countless patients of dental problems. However, for most of his…


Diabetes is Having Your Organs Soaked in Sugar Water: 5 Red-Flag Symptoms

The “atypical” symptoms of diabetes are becoming more and more common, and they are not easily detectable or identified as being a symptom of diabetes. As such, many people don’t know they have diabetes until complications occur. Diabetic complications can be serious and deadly, and they should not be ignored. According to the World Health…


When You Use Food to Check out on Feelings

Most of us have heard the term “freshman 15,” referring to the 15 pounds many college students put on in their first year away from home. But a similar phenomenon occurs for many adults over the wintertime. When we have to stay inside, we humans go through our own hibernation process, which often results in…


New Behavioral Vaccines Raise Unsettling Questions

In its 2016 to 2020 strategic plan, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), promoted the promise of “anti-addiction vaccines aimed at eliciting antibodies that block the effects of a specific drug.” Certainly addiction is a huge problem, with opioid addiction leading the way, taking more than…


Fasting for Autoimmune Diseases

The strongest evidence of the benefits of fasting surrounds the treatment of an autoimmune joint disease known as rheumatoid arthritis, as I detailed in my last video. There was a German study suggesting benefits for osteoarthritis as well, with reported improvements in pain and joint function. But we’d really need randomized controlled studies to know…


Crusty Eyes: Waking up With Too Much Rheum May Be a Warning Sign for 3 Major Diseases

When we wake up every morning, it is normal to have some eye “crust” or “goop” in our eyes. However, if there is a sudden increase, there might be three potential reasons behind this, with one of them being a very infectious eye disease. When we sleep at night, our eyes remove some of the…


Obesity: It’s Not Just for Mid-Life Anymore

No matter what time you set on your alarm clock, you keep pounding the snooze button until 8:30 every morning. Barreling out of bed in a panic, you hit the shower, race out the door, and clock into work just 10 minutes late with a coffee and giant muffin in hand. You work through lunch…


Better School Lunches Blunt U.S. Kids’ Weight Gain

America’s kids have a weight problem, but regulations that boosted the nutritional standards for school meals may have helped slowed down weight gain among low-income students, a new study finds. For decades, the National School Lunch Program has provided free or low-cost meals to U.S. schoolchildren. As of 2016, more than 30 million students nationwide were participating,…