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Why Steroids Are Best Avoided
If you have arthritis, chances are you’ve been offered steroid injections. Unfortunately, mounting research suggests this treatment may actually do far more harm than good — even in the short term. The first recorded use of steroids can be traced to 1930, when an extract of animal adrenocortical tissue was used to counteract human adrenal failure.1 After more than a decade of testing and research, the first patient with rheumatoid arthritis was treated with steroids. The results were impressive, and it wasn’t long before the drug was...
read moreBlue Light Accelerates Aging
Before the invention and distribution of artificial lighting, the sun determined when people went to bed and when they woke up. While artificial light has extended the hours you may be productive, it comes at a price as it affects health, interrupts sleep patterns and circadian rhythms and may shorten your lifespan. Digital devices are pervasive sources of artificial light. They emit high levels of blue light, which have a damaging effect on the photoreceptor cells located in the retina. This photosensitive tissue converts light into...
read moreTrojan Horse of Measles — More Vaccines With the Mandate
Bills to either remove or restrict vaccine exemptions have been filed across the U.S. in 2019. One of the most striking was New York’s A2371, which eliminated the religious exemption to vaccination in one day, with no public hearings. Soon after, New York state health officials eliminated the ability of doctors to grant medical exemptions to schoolchildren, too.1 The bill’s sponsors justified its passage by bringing up the more than 800 cases of measles reported in New York City from September 2018 to June 2019, although reportedly no...
read more20% of Water Pollution Is From Your Clothing
The clothes on your back probably don’t come to mind when you think about the biggest polluters on the planet, but the clothing industry is a toxic one, nearing the top of the list. Along with being a water intensive industry, the dyeing and treatment of textiles uses many dangerous chemicals, such that these processes are said to contribute 20% of industrial water pollution globally.1 As noted by Rita Kant of the University Institute of Fashion Technology at Panjab University in India, color is a major reason why people choose to buy certain...
read moreHow Do We Stop Our Dangerous Addiction to Plastic?
A number of chemicals found in plastic products are known to act as endocrine disruptors. Some of the most pervasive and well-known include phthalates and bisphenol A (BPA). Being similar in structure to natural sex hormones, these chemicals interfere with the normal functioning of those hormones. This is particularly problematic in children who are still growing and developing, as the glands of your endocrine system and the hormones they release influence almost every cell, organ and function of your body. Your endocrine system as a whole is...
read moreCan Fenugreek Improve Your Blood Sugar?
Diabetes is a disease of insulin resistance in which your body suffers from high blood sugar. The number of people suffering from diabetes has risen sharply since 1958 when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated 0.93% of the U.S. population had been diagnosed with diabetes, as compared to 7.4% in 2015. The rise in absolute numbers was even greater since the population also increased during this time. In 1958, 1.6 million were diagnosed with diabetes and in 2015 the number rose to 23.4 million. One model used to predict...
read moreWeekly Health Quiz: Amazon, Google and UTIs
1 Which of the following foods contain some of the highest amounts of leucine and glutathione, both of which are important for the prevention of sarcopenia (age-related muscle loss)? Butter Eggs Whey protein Whey protein stimulates muscle protein accretion and staves off sarcopenia, in part due to its high leucine and glutathione content. Learn more. Soy 2 Which of the following foods has been linked to the spread of urinary tract infections, and drug resistant UTIs in particular? Wild turkey Venison Factory farmed pork Factory farmed chicken...
read moreLard Rated One of the Top 10 Healthiest Foods
For decades, saturated fats like butter, lard and tallow were said to cause heart disease. Responding to such health concerns, the food industry replaced saturated fats with hydrogenated oils that are loaded with trans fats, giving rise to a whole new market of low-fat (but high-sugar) foods. Americans’ health plummeted in tandem with this systemwide change, and millions have been prematurely killed by it. As it turns out, trans fat, found in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, acts as a pro-oxidant, contributing to oxidative stress...
read moreThese Seeds Are Good for Your Knees
Sesame seeds are popular in the kitchen and offer a host of health benefits as well. They come from one of the oldest cultivated plants with a history dating back thousands of years. In the Hindu culture, sesame seeds were a symbol of immortality; the ancient Egyptians and Persians used them in flour. Today they are used as a condiment in China, India and Japan. You may find sesame seeds topping bread or sprinkled throughout a variety of Asian dishes. Sesame seed paste is the main ingredient in tahini and halvah,1 both Middle Eastern dishes....
read moreCannabis in Modern Medicine
Dr. Allan Frankel, a board-certified internist at GreenBridge Medical in Santa Monica, California, has treated patients with medical cannabis for the past 13 years. The first time I interviewed him back in 2014, cannabis laws in the U.S. were quite different, so in this interview, he provides us with a much-needed update. Not only is recreational use of cannabis now legal in California and several other states, but hemp is also legal nationwide, thanks to a change in the farm bill passed at the end of 2018.1 As noted by Frankel: “Cannabis is...
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read moreDo Sunglasses Protect or Harm Your Eye Health?
I’ve written many articles detailing the general health benefits (and potential but largely avoidable risks) of sun exposure. But did you know sun exposure impacts your eye health as well? Here too, there are both risks and benefits, which largely prevents any hard and fast recommendations from being made. Ultraviolet Light May Raise Your Risk of Cataracts Starting with the risks, research1 funded by the U.S. National Eye Institute published in 2014 found ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun can damage proteins in your eyes, over time...
read moreGoogle Whistleblower Zach Vorhies Speaks Out
In mid-September 2019, Namely Liberty started publishing a video interview with Google whistleblower Zach Vorhies.1 The interview is broken into four parts, all of which have been included in a playlist further below. In the featured video above, Vorhies and Maryam Henein, a journalist and functional medicine consultant, discuss Google’s suppression of natural health information from holistic health sites such as Mercola.com with Sayer Ji, founder of Greenmedinfo.com — another victim of Google’s censorship. I also recently interviewed Vorhies...
read moreAntidepressants for Seniors Have Doubled in Two Decades
Depression is common in older adults, occurring in 2% of those aged 55 years and older and rising with increasing age. Many more — from 10% to 15% — struggle with depressive symptoms, although they may not have been diagnosed with major depression.1 That being said, there’s been a major rise in the number of antidepressants being prescribed for older adults over the last two decades, without a similarly sharp increase in the number depressed, according to a study published in The British Journal of Psychiatry.2 The findings suggest seniors...
read moreWhat to Do if You’re Diagnosed With Breast Cancer
Approximately 1,663 people will die today from cancer in the United States.1 This is criminal since cancer is a relatively new disease and would rarely occur if you were healthy. The time to use natural medicine, ideally, is before you are diagnosed, but certainly when you are diagnosed. If you are motivated by fear and run to conventional physicians, they implement therapies like chemo and radiation that will compromise your immune system, which ultimately is responsible for controlling the cancer. Even if they are successful, these...
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