Volume 1: Issue #15 Is This Obscure Vegetable the Real Secret of the Longest-Living People on Earth? The Japanese islanders of Okinawa enjoy one of the world's longest life expectancies and have the highest concentration of people over the age of 100 to be found anywhere. Far from being decrepit, [...]
Volume 1: Issue #14 It's Not All in Your Head The Most Common Yet Unrecognized Health Concern in America Today Many of us have been down this road: You’ve got a health problem. You’re shunted from immunologist to rheumatologist to gastroenterologist to neurologist. You take one test after another. Each [...]
Volume 1: Issue #13 Add Years to Your Life and Support Your Memory, Too Taken by bodybuilders as a way to sculpt the perfect body and by dieters as an easy method to lose weight, there’s actually scant proof that this supplement can do either one. But while the research [...]
Volume 1: Issue #12 Startling New Study Shows Niacin "Megadose Therapy" is Dangerous For decades, conventional doctors have been dishing out megadoses of a vitamin that, while important for well-being in small doses, is risky to take in large amounts. Big doses of this nutrient have an unjustified reputation [...]
Volume 1: Issue #11 The Truth about Salt The stories that I read about the supposed dangers of salt confirm what I’ve always suspected about the diet advice we see on the Internet and hear on TV – you can’t believe much of it. Despite all the scientific research that [...]
Volume 1: Issue #10 Colon Cleanliness – The Key to Vibrant Health Perhaps there is nothing that distinguishes naturopaths from conventional doctors more than their attitude towards the colon (also known as the bowel or the large intestine). For naturopathic doctors – "alternative" doctors, if you will – a healthy [...]
Volume 1: Issue #9 It’s Finally Settled: Reducing Cholesterol Doesn’t Prevent Heart Disease If you’re like me and you spend a lot of time studying out-of-the-mainstream health news, you’ve known for years that high cholesterol has nothing to do with heart disease, and that lowering cholesterol by way of statin [...]
Volume 1: Issue #8 The "Smart" Mushroom That Could Keep You Mentally Sharp For Life What was her secret? It's not only that neurobiologist Rita Levi-Montalcini lived to the age of 103, the only Nobel prize winner who ever achieved that distinction. It's that she was still engaged in research [...]
Volume 1: Issue #7 Common Chemical in Food Packaging is Messing Us Up More than 38 million Americans have a thyroid problem, and most don’t know it. It’s a serious concern: When your thyroid goes awry, your health also takes a dive. If you suffer from low energy, constipation, depression [...]
Volume 1: Issue #6 Eat the Meal that Keeps Your Weight Down While skipping a meal might seem like a good way to keep your food intake under control, research actually shows it can hurt your efforts at weight control. And breakfast is the one meal you should always eat [...]
