Category: treatments

FDA Just Fast-Tracked a Vaccine for Alzheimer’s

A vaccine that targets amyloid beta in the brain to treat Alzheimer’s disease has been granted fast-track designation by the FDA. STORY AT-A-GLANCE The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted fast-track designation to UB-311, a vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease made by biotechnology company Vaxxinity Aside from the potential problems that can arise when a vaccine…


How to Get Enough Calcium—Without Dairy

Calcium could, in all fairness, be called the king of minerals. It’s the most abundant mineral found in the human body, and it plays a critical role in the formation and maintenance of bones and teeth, as well as muscle contraction, blood clotting, and nerve signaling. The vast majority of the body’s calcium—98 percent according…


9 Reasons to Drink Aloe Vera Juice Every Day

I’m going to let you in on a few secrets. One, there are many reasons you may want to drink aloe vera juice every day. Although not every one of them may interest you, chances are many of them will and that someone close to you may benefit from them as well. Two, aloe vera…


Taiwanese Study Finds a Chinese Herb Stops Coronavirus From Penetrating Cells and Works Against Mutant Variants

The COVID-19 pandemic is still happening around the world. Although many kinds of COVID-19 vaccines have been established, most of them are not effective against the virus variants. A study by China Medical University in Taiwan pointed that an alkaloid, peimine, which is extracted from Fritillary plants, has a preventive effect from some virus variants, and…


Cancer: Treating Illness by Generating Health

Readers of my Empowered Patient blog may recall my straightforward explanation for the cause of cancer—carcinogens. Whether the culprits are chemicals such as glyphosate, non-native electromagnetic fields such as radio frequency radiation, or lifestyle behaviors such as smoking, the initiation of the cancer process is an epigenetic damaging of cells creating a “wound that doesn’t…


New Pre-Print Study Implies Airborne COVID-19 Antibodies Post-Vaccination

Since the rollout of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, many researchers have speculated on the possibility of transmission of vaccine particles from the vaccinated to the unvaccinated, more commonly known as “vaccine shedding.” Though these speculations are routinely fact-checked, anecdotal stories of unvaccinated people who become infected with COVID-19 or have experienced strange symptoms after contact with…


How ‘The Most Dangerous Opioid’ Works on Your Brain

The United States has been in the midst of an opioid crisis for over two decades with the pandemic only aggravating an already looming problem. With words such as fentanyl, morphine, heroin, and opioids constantly being thrown around in the media, we can become fearful of these drugs that were once made and used to…


The Key to Reversing Autoimmune Diseases

The American College of Rheumatology estimates that more than 54.4 million people in the United States have an autoimmune disease.[1] Some of the major ones would be rheumatoid arthritis (RA), multiple sclerosis, and inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis. Since I have massive clinical experience with RA, I am going to use…


Researchers Find Taurine Enhances Liver and Anti-Aging Functions

A study published in the journal “Nutrition” suggests that taurine supplementation may help to maintain a healthy balance of reactive oxygen species, thereby slowing down the aging process. When cells absorb oxygen, they generate “free radicals”. If too many free radicals have been generated, the internal structure and functioning of cells could be damaged. The…


New Tech May Create Pathway For Women Suffering From Congential Reproductive Issues

Researchers have developed a new technology that permits the growth of fallopian tubes and uterine tissue, offering a better approach to female reproductive repair surgery and hope for women born with reproductive abnormalities to obtain a normal functioning reproductive system. Unfortunately, some women are born with missing or malfunctioning reproductive organs; this occurs because of…