This Gut Issue Increases Alzheimer’s Risk by 600 %

by Christian Goodman | Aug 26, 2020

Gut health is usually not on the long list of risk factors when it comes to dementia. But according to a new study from University of California at San Francisco and Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan, it should be. One specific gut health issue (you may not...

Strange Type 2 Diabetes and Bone Health Connection Discovered

by Jodi Knapp | Aug 25, 2020

Type 2 diabetes is well known for causing blindness, kidney disease, and nerve damage to the legs. But there is another common complication, one that you might not realize is caused by type 2 diabetes. But it can be even more serious than the once better understood. A...

EVERYONE’S Blood Pressure Dropped When Using This Herb!

by Christian Goodman | Aug 23, 2020

One way is to put people under lots of both mental and physical stress—something that would normally skyrocket their blood pressure. The next step is to give them an herb and see what happens. This is exactly what researchers from the University of Nottingham did, and...

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...