Category: Health News

American Diets Have Gotten a Little Healthier, but Still Fall Short of Guidelines

American diets have gotten a little healthier, but still fall short of federal government recommendations for healthy eating, finds an analysis of nationally representative interview data from 1999 to 2016. The research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, analyzes a total of 43,996 adults’ one-day diet logs collected over the study period. The analysis focuses on the…


Pfizer Board Member: Immunity From Omicron Likely Protective Against Sub-Variant

Pfizer board member Dr. Scott Gottlieb said that the Omicron COVID-19 variant appears to confer some protection against an Omicron sub-variant known as BA.2 that was recently discovered in several countries. “You should be protected. So the mutations in this new version are not in the receptor-binding domain on the spike protein,” Gottlieb told CBS…


US Regulators Approve Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine for All Adults

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday approved Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for the prevention of the virus that causes COVID-19 for all Americans 18 and older, despite the vaccine providing little protection against the illness since the emergence of the Omicron virus variant. The FDA said the vaccine was 93 percent effective in preventing…


Quick Test Tells You How Old You Really Are

Ryan Smith is the founder of TruDiagnostic, a commercial testing system that tests your biological age, as opposed to your chronological age. It’s can be a profoundly useful tool, because you need an objective barometer to tell you whether or not the things you’re doing to improve your health are actually having the desired impact….


Ivermectin ‘Safe’ and ‘Effective’ for Treating Omicron: Japanese Company

A Japanese conglomerate has found that the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin is effective and safe for the treatment of the COVID-19 Omicron variant, according to a phase III clinical trial. Kowa Co. Ltd., a conglomerate with interests in trading, hospitality, electronics, along with health and medical applications, issued a press release (pdf) on Jan. 31 stating…


Omicron Subvariant Causes More Infections, Regardless of Vaccination Status: Study

A subvariant of the Omicron virus variant is more infectious than the original version, according to researchers in Denmark. People are more likely to get infected with BA.2, the subvariant, regardless of whether they’ve received a COVID-19 vaccine or a vaccine and a booster, researchers with the University of Copenhagen, the Technical University of Denmark, and…


Can Changing the Microbiome Reverse Lactose Intolerance?

After childhood, about two-thirds of the world’s human population loses the ability to digest milk. As far as we know, 100% of nonhuman mammals also lose this ability after weaning. The ongoing ability to digest lactose, the main sugar in milk, into adulthood is a biological abnormality. Lactose cannot be directly absorbed in the intestinal…


Why Pigs Don’t Get Sick From the Coronavirus

Researchers may have uncovered an important clue that sheds light on why pigs don’t get sick when exposed to the coronavirus. Studies since the start of the pandemic have noted that pigs can be infected by the virus if exposed to high doses, but the infection is self-limited and pigs don’t show clinical signs of…


Probiotics Improve Long COVID

Probiotics support beneficial bacteria in your gut microbiome. Data show this influences your immune response and can improve symptoms of long haul syndrome after an extended COVID-19 illness. STORY AT-A-GLANCE Probiotics reduced muscle fatigue and brain fog, two symptoms of long COVID, after only 14 days; this may have a significant impact on the nearly…


Cleaning Our Sinuses of Viruses

Did you know that one of the most important ways to reduce your chance of succumbing to a virus is cleaning the nasal passages and throat? Fostering oral and nasal hygiene is exponentially more effective than masking and sanitizing everything. In fact, Dr. Peter McCullough, a highly credentialed and published cardiologist, internist, and epidemiologist, says…