Healing Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Through Your Guts

by Julissa Clay | Aug 22, 2020

In recent years, researchers have established that people with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) have intestinal bacteria that are different from those in healthy people. In a new study published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology, a group of...

An Easy Way to Cure Sleep Apnea—Permanently

by Christian Goodman | Aug 21, 2020

The most commonly prescribed treatment for sleep apnea is continuous positive airway pressure devices that involve sleeping with a mask over the face and beside a noisy machine. If this sounds like a terrible solution, the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine has now...

Gout: What to Eat and What to Skip

by ShellyManning | Aug 20, 2020

For the management of gout, the American College of Rheumatology just released its 2020 guidelines—or guideline; the only recommendation is for people to lower their uric acid levels. And while the American College of Rheumatology wants us to do this by using drugs,...

Hidden Cause of High Blood Pressure

by Christian Goodman | Aug 19, 2020

For decades, it has baffled researchers why African Americans overall have a higher tendency of developing high blood pressure. Even after taking into account factors such as diet, lifestyle, and genetics, African Americans still surpass other racial and ethnic groups...

Does Meat Cause Heart Attacks? Surprise, Surprise…

by Scott Davis | Aug 18, 2020

Studies researching the connection between meat consumption and cardiovascular health have been quite contradictory, which has baffled researchers. But a new study from the Journal of Hypertension may finally explain this. Yes, meat can cause stroke and heart attack....

These Heartburn Drugs Cause Alzheimer’s

by Scott Davis | Aug 16, 2020

The use of specific acid reflux drugs has increased significantly in the past few years, and so has the occurrence of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. A new study published in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia now shows that people using these drugs...

This Fatty Drink Stops High Blood Pressure and Diabetes in Their Tracks

by Christian Goodman | Aug 15, 2020

Doctors and nutritionists have been telling us for decades to drink less of this beverage because it allegedly contains saturated fat that clogs our arteries and raises our blood pressure. These claims were, however, completely debunked in a new study published in the...

When Chronic Kidney Disease Drugs Kill

by ShellyManning | Aug 14, 2020

Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. And that seems to be the case with many chronic kidney disease mediations according to a new study from the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. Even worse, the side effects become more and more severe...

Drug-Free Parkinson’s Disease Treatment Discovered

by Jodi Knapp | Aug 9, 2020

Being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease almost always results in life sentence of medications with a long list side effect. But a new study in the Journal of Neurology reveals a new drug-free treatment option that is safe and side effect free. And it works for all...

Why HDL Cholesterol Is Sometimes Good…But Sometimes Not

by Scott Davis | Aug 8, 2020

HDL (good cholesterol) has long been viewed as an important lifesaver because it removes LDL (bad cholesterol) from the bloodstream. But some new studies have indicated that HDL does nothing to prevent stroke and heart attack. Scientists from the University of Texas...