Big pharma loves COPD. It stands for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. (In the old days, we used to call this hard-to-treat disease emphysema and chronic bronchitis.) And big pharma pines [...]
Big pharma loves COPD. It stands for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. (In the old days, we used to call this hard-to-treat disease emphysema and chronic bronchitis.) And big pharma pines [...]
Last month, the U.S. Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) published a report on the efficacy of popular ingredients found in sports-performance and weight-loss [...]
As you get older, achieving optimal nutrition is more important than ever. But a new study shows that a staggering number of older adults don’t even get the paltry “government-recommended” levels [...]
Bioavailability is a big buzz word in natural medicine these days. Basically, it describes how well your body absorbs an ingredient — whether a supplement or drug — from your GI tract into your [...]
A recent study from the Medical University of Graz in Austria showed that people who follow a vegetarian diet are more physically active, have a lower body mass index (BMI), smoke less, and drink [...]
Much to the disappointment and frustration of affected patients and families around the world, mainstream medicine has failed to develop a drug to prevent, and much less treat, Alzheimer’s [...]
It’s typical to gain a few extra pounds over the winter, right? You may eat more over the holidays. Plus, you probably don’t get outdoors as much to walk, exercise, or do yard work. But there’s [...]
A new study published in the International Journal of Nanomedicine found that a simple vitamin could help reverse damage to the cardiovascular system caused by common chronic diseases like [...]
Mainstream medicine continues to pour billions of dollars into the development of new drugs for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) — so far, without much success. Probably because they continue — time and [...]
In one of my very first Daily Dispatches back in 2013, I warned about the dangers of eating processed foods. Including increased cancer risk. I’ve also written a great deal about the other very [...]