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The Steep Cost of Sleep Deprivation
By Dr. Mercola Sleep deprivation has the same effect on your immune system as physical stress or illness, which helps explain why lack of sleep has been shown to raise your risk of numerous chronic diseases. Sleep is also intricately tied to important hormone levels, including melatonin — an antioxidant with powerful anticancer activity — which is diminished by lack of sleep, and to brain detoxification and rejuvenation, which only occur during deep sleep. Cutting just one hour of sleep a night increases the expression of genes associated...
read moreFast Facts About Safflower Oil
Warning: This oil comes with potentially damaging side effects due to either the ingredient it’s made from or the manufacturing process used to extract it. Because these negative effects overshadow the potential benefits, I do not recommend this oil for therapeutic use. Always be aware of the potential side effects of any herbal oil before using. Safflower oil is one of the many edible oils in the market lauded for positive health effects. While there may be some truth to this, there are many potential disadvantages to consider when...
read moreMagnesium Deficiency Raises Your Risk of Many Chronic Ailments and Premature Death
By Dr. Mercola Magnesium is important to the health of nearly every cell in your body, especially your heart, kidneys and muscles. Symptoms of a deficiency can include unexplained fatigue, abnormal heart rhythms, eye twitches and muscle spasms. As of 2011 data,1 45 percent of American adults do not get the recommended dietary allowance amount (RDA) of magnesium from their diet. Teen statistics are even more dire. Data2 published in 2014 suggests nearly 92 percent of teens aged 14 to 18 do not meet the estimated average requirement for...
read moreAre You Really Buying Spring Water?
By Dr. Mercola The recent lawsuit against Nestle Waters of North America alleges their bottled Poland Spring water is not spring water at all, but sourced from ordinary groundwater, much like the same stuff that comes directly out of your tap at home.1 The lengths to which Nestle has gone to protect their bottled water brand speaks to the love affair that Americans have developed for bottled water. Water sold in a bottle may be labeled distilled, spring, mineral, artesian or sparkling to name a few. More than 17 million barrels of oil are...
read moreFarmers Increase Profits Using Traditional Practices
By Dr. Mercola High-quality soil is crucial to growing nutrient-dense food. Tragically, much of the soil in the U.S. and around the world has been depleted and degraded by modern farming practices using nitrogen-based fertilizers, tilling and monoculture where only corn and soybeans are being rotated. Prior to 1904, soybeans were grown only as forage crops,1 providing some livestock feed, but more often used as a conservation crop.2 Soil carbon losses also greatly contribute to a loss of biodiversity in the soil and depletion of nutrients...
read moreCan You Really Call This ‘Clean Meat?’
By Dr. Mercola What do agricultural giant Cargill Inc. and billionaires Richard Branson and Bill Gates have in common? They’re among a group of investors who have given, so far, $17 million to Memphis Meats — a startup company that’s growing meat (beef, chicken and duck) from animal cells. No actual animals are involved, just their cells, so the idea is that one day environmentally (and ethically) devastating concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) could become a thing of the past. Branson is so confident about Memphis...
read moreClass and Race Profiling in the Vaccine Culture War
By Barbara Loe Fisher The Vaccine Culture War is heating up.1 Ground zero is America, Europe and other economically developed countries, where the pharmaceutical industrial complex is raising an iron fist to protect multibillion-dollar profits by disempowering the people.2,3,4,5,6,7,8 In America, professors and doctors in academia and government are profiling parents by class and race to shame and discredit those challenging vaccine orthodoxy. Elite members of the highest paid professions in our society are using academic journals and...
read moreWhy the Egg Is the Best Part About Chickens
By Dr. Mercola Chicken is a mainstay of many Americans’ diets, but it wasn’t always this way. In fact, as recently as the 1920s, chickens were raised primarily for their eggs — not their meat. Chicken meat was expensive, not considered very tasty and only available seasonally, as chickens were typically slaughtered in the fall after they were no longer needed for laying eggs. In her book, “Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats,” journalist...
read moreCinnamon Health Benefits Proven
By Dr. Mercola Even if you rarely cook or bake, if you have anything in your cupboard in the way of spices, cinnamon is probably one of them. The warming, fragrant powder harvested from the bark of a tropical evergreen bush not only is tasty in a plethora of dishes both sweet and savory, but has a long history of use as a medicinal. Ayurvedic medicine originated in India more than 3,000 years ago. Maharishi Ayurveda Products International (MAPI) notes that cinnamon is often used for Ayurvedic recipes to enhance the bioavailability of other...
read moreThe Strange Connection Between Vision Loss and Alzheimer’s
By Dr. Mercola Alzheimer’s disease, a severe form of dementia, affects an estimated 5.2 million Americans;1 200,000 of which are under the age of 65. According to recent data, Alzheimer’s disease kills more than half a million Americans per year,2 making Alzheimer’s the third leading killer in the U.S., right behind heart disease and cancer. Since there’s no conventional cure, it’s really important to take prevention seriously. There are also few if any successful medical treatments available once...
read moreVitamin C Stops Cancer
By Dr. Mercola There are continual advances in science (as well as always some controversy), but new research supporting vitamin C’s potential in preventing the advancement of several forms of cancer is some of the most promising and remarkable that’s emerged in a while. More specifically, vitamin C may stop leukemia stem cells from multiplying, which could prevent certain forms of blood cancer from advancing, the journal Cell reveals,1 along with pancreatic, colon, liver and ovarian cancers, according to several other notable...
read moreMake This Special Beef and Broccoli Stir-Fry for Your Loved Ones Today
Recipe From Joan Villamayor Stir-frying is popular in Chinese cuisine, and this involves the application of dry heat to foods, cooking them in little oil and stirring them in the process.[1] As Chinese cuisine became popular all over the world, so did stir-frying. This Fantastic Beef Broccoli Stir-Fry recipe from Mercola.com employee Joan Villamayor uses top-notch ingredients like grass fed ribeye steak and organic broccoli florets. If you’re looking for a nutritious stir-fry dish to serve to family and friends, this recipe is for you....
read moreThe Harmful Effects of Electromagnetic Fields Explained
By Dr. Mercola I’ve often noted that electromagnetic fields (EMFs) are a pernicious, hidden health risk. But exactly how does this kind of microwave radiation damage your health? Martin Pall, Ph.D., has identified and published research describing the likely molecular mechanisms of how EMFs from cellphones and wireless technologies damage plants, animals and humans.1,2 ,3,4 Pall has a bachelor’s in physics from Johns Hopkins and a Ph.D. in biochemistry and genetics from Caltech, and is uniquely qualified for this type of research....
read moreWhat You Eat Affects Your Body Odor
By Dr. Mercola An interesting study from a university study in Sydney, Australia, reports that what you eat influences how you smell — or rather, what you eat affects your body odor and, as a result, may affect other peoples’ response to how you smell. In addition, how you smell can also tell the story of your health, particularly in relation to the axillary (i.e., underarm) area of your body. (You may have noticed that body odor, good or bad, generally exudes from your armpits more than any other area.) There are several reasons why...
read more‘Crapshoot’ — How Sewage Contaminates Our Food Supply
Crapshoot: The Gamble with Our Wastes, Jeff McKay, provided by the National Film Board of CanadaBy Dr. Mercola The documentary, “Crapshoot: The Gamble with Our Wastes,” produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 2003, investigates an important aspect of human life you likely give little consideration: sewage. Do you know what happens to the water and other items after you flush the toilet or run water down the drain? If you’ve never stopped to consider what happens after you turn off the faucet or put down the lid, this...
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