by Julissa Clay | Jul 3, 2023
Essential oils can be very effective in treating nail fungus—more so than using antifungal pills or applying antifungal nail polish, and without their side effects. There is only one problem: When the nail fungus is thick, it’s difficult to get the essential oils down...
by Jodi Knapp | Jul 2, 2023
Type 2 diabetes is a condition that causes your blood sugar levels to rise excessively. Enlarged prostate is inflammation of the prostate gland. At first glance, there is no connection. However, a new study published in The Aging Male took a second look. It revealed a...
by Jodi Knapp | Jul 1, 2023
We often hear that fat is unhealthy, but that is not true for all types of fat. New research presented at the International Association of Parkinsonism and Related Disorders World Congress suggests that a specific fat could drastically improve motor symptoms and...
by ShellyManning | Jun 29, 2023
Except for calcium, surprisingly little research has been done on the benefits of nutrition for osteoporosis. A new study in the journal Menopause changes that. It reveals extremely powerful nutrition that can lower your risk of osteoporosis by a whopping 44%. Best of...
by Scott Davis | Jun 28, 2023
Studies on coffee consumption and cardiovascular health are very contradictory. Some studies show extreme benefits of coffee, while others show extreme dangers of heart attack and stroke. A team of Norwegian researchers decided to research whether the way we brew our...
by ShellyManning | Jun 27, 2023
It’s a fact that chronic kidney disease (CKD) is at least partly caused by diet and lifestyle factors. But doctors struggle to identify what food is the biggest culprit. A new study in the journal Kidney Medicine reveals a common type of food that’s a serious...
by Jodi Knapp | Jun 25, 2023
The occurrence of neuropathy has been rising rapidly in recent decades. However, it’s often overlooked as a disease in itself and just considered an annoying consequence of diabetes. A new study by the American Board of Family Medicine changes this by revealing two...
by Jodi Knapp | Jun 24, 2023
Levothyroxine, a drug used to treat hypothyroidism, is prescribed for 23 million Americans every year. In Clinical Chemistry, a Yale scientist warns that up to 90% of it might be completely unnecessary and based on a common cause of misdiagnosis. When more than 10% of...
by Christian Goodman | Jun 22, 2023
Technology is great, but not when it causes vertigo. A new study presented at the latest IEEE Conference reveals how a growingly popular technology causes vertigo for many who use it. Strangely, however, this is drastically more true for one gender than the other....
by Jodi Knapp | Jun 21, 2023
Type 2 diabetes is considered a lifestyle disease, meaning that it’s caused primarily by our modern Western lifestyle. What exactly about our modern lifestyle causes type 2 diabetes, and how can we avoid it? That’s the burning question a new study in Nature Medicine...