What Your Disease Tells You About Life

by Christian Goodman | Apr 28, 2012 | 22 comments

If you suffer from any of the most common health issues bothering the Western world, the last thing you want to do is fight it. I know this is against everything your doctor as well as your common sense has told you, but after helping thousands of people with...

Vertigo and High Blood Pressure Connection

by Christian Goodman | Apr 24, 2012 | 24 comments

Even if you suffer from both vertigo and high blood pressure, you may not be aware there is a connection between the two. You might write each one off as separate conditions that need to be treated separately. But as with so many other conditions, a high percentage of...

Lower Blood Pressure Using This Common Vitamin

by Christian Goodman | Apr 22, 2012 | 25 comments

Taking 500mg (five times the recommended daily dose) of Vitamin C daily lowers high blood pressure 5 points according to a new study by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The study is pretty...

Diabetes and High Blood Pressure by Surprise

by Jodi Knapp | Apr 21, 2012 | 12 comments

Today’s article is quite personal. You see, on Monday morning, a good friend called me internationally telling me he had collapsed on the floor and couldn’t move for about two hours. After that he staggered to bed and fell asleep. Why this happened has everything to...

Root Crops Stabilize Cholesterol

by Scott Davis | Apr 20, 2012 | 30 comments

A new study conducted by the Department of Science and Technology’s Food and Nutrition Research Institute reveals incredible benefit of root crops. The fiber in root crops such as camote, or sweet potatoes, can send bad cholesterol levels plummeting, according to the...

Are Your Eyes Causing Insomnia?

by Christian Goodman | Apr 19, 2012 | 6 comments

The gradual changes in the eye as we age cause it to be less effective in letting critical wavelengths of light in, and this leads to insomnia, according to researchers in Sweden. As we age, the lens in our eye gets less and less flexible. It also becomes more and...

Specific Type of Blood Pressure Causes Heart Problems

by Christian Goodman | Apr 18, 2012 | 8 comments

A mega-study following 12,000 middle age adults for over two decades may have cracked the code on how to spot heart problems early, simply by measuring certain blood pressure changes. Researchers found over the course of this two-decade study that participants whose...

Snoring May Cause Spouse’s Weight Gain

by Christian Goodman | Apr 17, 2012 | 3 comments

Chronic sleep deprivation changes areas in the brain related to reward and pleasure. Scientists measured brain activity using MRI scans and compared the uptick in response in sleep-deprived participants to the normal levels in those that had plenty of sleep. The tired...

White Coat Symptoms Proven in Studies

by Christian Goodman | Apr 16, 2012 | 25 comments

White coat syndrome, or the phenomenon where a person’s blood pressure raises simply because they are stressing out over visiting a doctor, has been shown to affect over 1/3 of people over 50. A study conducted by researchers at The National Clinical Guideline Center...

White Rice Contributes to Type 2 Diabetes

by Jodi Knapp | Apr 15, 2012 | 24 comments

A new study published in the journal BMJ raises concerns about eating too much white rice. Researchers examined the results of 4 studies that spanned the globe to look at the number of times per day a participant ate white rice. They then correlated it with the...