No More Senior Moments: 5 Quick Memory Boosters “Senior moments” happen to us all at some point. We can’t remember the grocery item we needed… Or the phone number we thought we had memorized… Or the name of a person we just met. It’s a fact of biology: As we get older, our short-term memory [...]
How This Olympic Craze Can Help You Beat Back Pain Ever since swimmer Michael Phelps showed up at the Olympics looking like he’d gone ten rounds with a plunger, cupping has become the hot new trend in alternative health. Phelps is just one of several athletes at the games sporting the telltale circular purple-red marks [...]
BIG PHARM - Making The Decisions It’s no secret our nation is in the midst of a prescription drug addiction epidemic. Since 1999, fatal painkiller overdoses have quadrupled. So have sales of these dangerous medications. The latest numbers show that 165,000 Americans have died in the epidemic. This is more Americans than were killed in [...]
Scientists: Mouse Poop and Rat Hair in Your Food… Why That’s a Good Thing The FDA publishes something called the Defect Levels Handbook. It sets allowable limits for “natural or unavoidable defects in foods that present no health hazards for humans.” You might be surprised what is allowed in food. The FDA lists 179 “defects” [...]
Memory Loss: How to Tell if It’s Alzheimer’s “Where are my darn car keys...what’s the name of my neighbor’s barking dog…I can’t remember where we’re going to dinner tonight.” “Could I have early Alzheimer’s disease?” If you’ve had these thoughts, don’t panic. As we get older, we all experience some memory loss. Neural growth declines [...]
Scientists: This Fruit Promises to Reverse Aging? A research breakthrough has uncovered an anti-aging secret that promises to dramatically boost lifespan in worms and mice. And could have serious implications for humans too… The average American now lives to age 79. But if this new discovery can impact humans in the same way, it could [...]
Poison Under Your Sink: Natural Alternatives to Chemical Cleaners No one wants to live near a toxic waste dump. But if you’re like most people, that’s essentially what you have underneath your kitchen sink. Commercial cleaning products are full of chemicals that can cause serious health problems. They include laundry detergents, bathroom cleaners, dishwashing soaps, [...]
Fast and Natural Way to Purify Tap Water Since the Flint, Mich., water crisis more Americans are concerned about what’s coming out of their taps. There’s good reason to worry… Even if you don’t live in Flint. Studies of more than 24 municipal water supplies found tap water with unhealthy levels of copper, aluminum, lead, [...]
Low-Salt Diet Myth Debunked A new study explodes the long-held myth that cutting salt is good for your heart. To the contrary, McMaster University scientists say a low-sodium diet actually is more likely to trigger a heart attack or stroke than one with a lot of salt. Dr. Andrew Mente led the study. His findings [...]
Tests Show This Canned Food Is the Worst for BPA A new study reveals which canned foods are highest in the harmful chemical Bisphenol A. It’s commonly known as BPA. BPA is a hormone disrupter. It binds to hormones, reprogramming the cells they target. This leads to an array of health problems. BPA is linked [...]
