Tag: health

Is Ivermectin a Cancer Solution?

It’s been vilified as being dangerous, useless or both, but extensive research shows that’s not true. This study demonstrates potential for its use against a broad range of cancers. Along with direct cytotoxic effects, it’s believed to help regulate the tumor microenvironment, mediating immunogenic cell death. Story at-a-glance Ivermectin has notable antitumor effects, which include…


NIH Director Says Error Was Made When Chinese Sequencing Data Was Pulled Offline

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) made an error when it took COVID-19 sequencing data offline, the agency’s head said on May 11. “In the way it was originally eliminated from public view, it was ‘withdrawn.’ And that’s the most difficult for people to access. The error that was made—and we found this out after…


The Baby Formula Shortage Is Serious

Before I had kids, I thought that breastfeeding was the most natural thing in the world and that it was something that mothers just instantly knew how to do perfectly once the baby was born. I would sit with my calm, little cherubic pink baby at breast, marveling at myself, at the very thought of…


Intro to Ayurvedic Herbs – Learn Which Ones Works Best for You

Ayurveda, the ancient science of healing, is based on three doshas. Doshas are forces of nature that make up your unique mental and physical constitution. Each of the doshas is present in every individual. One or a combination of two doshas is predominant in each, depending on their personality, lifestyle, and other influencing factors. The…


Explaining COVID-19 Vaccine-Induced Autoimmunity, Hepatitis, and Healing

With more and more reports of adverse reactions caused by the COVID-19 vaccines, the medical community is becoming increasingly aware of vaccine-induced autoimmune diseases. 2 Doses of Pfizer Vaccine Resulted in Developing Hepatitis Twice A study on vaccines and autoimmune hepatitis published on April 21, 2022, in the Journal of Hepatology, an authoritative medical journal,…


How the Brain Knows to Take out the ‘Trash’

New research reveals more about how the brain’s own housekeeping service, a sophisticated mechanism that cleans up debris and trash left over from cellular activity, actually works. Scientists have had a hard time figuring out exactly how the brain knows when to initiate this cellular “trash pickup.” Now, researchers have identified a protein that’s key…


Ask a Dentist: Causes and Cures for Shrinking Gums

A lingering glance in the bathroom mirror may bring you the unsettling realization that your gums are shrinking or red, or that your teeth are longer. What’s going on? Truth be told, it didn’t happen overnight. The condition may have been quietly developing for years, but now it’s clearly visible. Someone may have said something…


US Overdose Deaths Reach New High as Fentanyl and Meth Use Soars

Overdose deaths in the United States have reached new highs, peaking at nearly 108,000 in 2021, according to data published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), amid increased usage of fentanyl and methamphetamine. On Wednesday, the CDC released provisional data that shows some 106,700 Americans died via a drug overdose last…


Can Your Diet Ease Chronic Pain?

The idiom, “you are what you eat,” is well accepted when it comes to increasing or decreasing your risk for heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, obesity, and some types of cancer. But it may come as a surprise that research increasingly suggests that what you put on your plate can either increase or decrease pain…


All About the Newest COVID Pills – Should You Take Them?

Pfizer’s new antiviral pill Paxlovid is receiving high-profile attention – the vice president even took it when she contracted COVID. But a strange phenomenon is being reported by some of its users, raising the question if it, too, should be avoided. Story at-a-glance So far, all of the drugs developed against COVID-19 have been disastrous…