Once again, the debate of talcum powder and health problems are back in media discussion as the pharmaceutical giant Johnson&Johnson (J&J) announced a global discontinuation of their talc-based baby powder products from 2023. J&J announced on Aug. 11, 2022 that they will replace talc with cornstarch in their household baby powder. This declaration of change…
Certain Cancer Immunotherapy Treatments Impair Fertility: Study
August 29, 2022
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Australian researchers have found that some immunotherapy treatments for cancer can damage fertility, prompting a call for further research and preventative measures such as freezing eggs. A pre-clinical trial, led by experts from Monash University’s Biomedicine Discovery Institute and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, demonstrated that a common type of immunotherapy drug known as immune…
The Antitumor Effects of Quercetin
August 29, 2022
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Quercetin has a wide range of benefits, which has made it useful for a variety of different health conditions. In the past two years, the antiviral benefits of quercetin have been the focus of many studies. However, there are other, lesser-known benefits, including the effects as a senolytic agent against senescence-mediated cancer growth. Cells become…
Iron-Deficiency Anemia
Do you need to catch your breath after walking a flight of stairs? Or maybe the days just feel like they are too long and you can’t keep up, and no amount of make-up will hide the dark circles under your eyes? Feeling like a couch potato and wanting to sleep all day may not…
How Mushrooms Help Protect Your Brain
Mild cognitive impairment can have a significant impact on your quality of life and may increase your risk of dementia. Mushrooms may be a simple way of protecting your brain and reducing your risk. STORY AT-A-GLANCE Eating more than two portions of mushrooms a week reduced the risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in study…
What to Do When You’re Feeling Drained
Lately, I’ve noticed that a lot of people are feeling drained by life—the challenges they’re facing, their workloads, the anxiety of the world around them, and more. Someday soon I’ll write a longer guide on how to get yourself to a place of renewed resilience, but for this article, I would like to share how…
How to Make Progress When You Lack Motivation
“Just 30 minutes,” I told myself. I didn’t feel ready to start work yet, so I gave myself permission to catch up with my favorite websites first. But not too long, because there was work to do. When the timer chimed I was in the middle of something interesting, so I reset the timer for…
Take a Stand for Better Health
August 28, 2022
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the already largely sedentary U.S. population moved even less. In the United States, daily steps plunged 15 percent within 15 days of the pandemic declaration, according to researchers at the University of California–San Francisco, and the situation didn’t improve. With more people working from home, the tendency to sit at a computer…
Ask a Doctor: What Is Leaky Gut?
A leaky gut is when our intestinal lining develops holes that allow harmful substances to leak into our bloodstream. Our intestinal lining has t has two main jobs. The first is to digest food so that we can absorb nutrients and water into our bloodstream for distribution throughout the body. The second job is to…
Coffee: Medicine for the Body and Soul
Could coffee do more than just stimulate alertness and stress out the adrenals? What if there was more going on to this ritualistic beverage consumed by billions around the world than just caffeine addiction? What if it was medicine for both the body and soul? That coffee possesses ‘drug-like’ properties, we know quite well. Some…
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