Tag: medicine

An Effective Yet Neglected Treatment for Chronic Pain

More than 20 percent of U.S. adults—50 million people—live with chronic pain such as spinal disorders and disc disease, pinched nerves, low back pain, neck pain, complex regional pain syndromes, fibromyalgia, shingles, diabetes-caused neuropathies, and arthritic and musculoskeletal conditions, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. People suffering with chronic pain were frequent…


Researchers Develop a Cheaper and Less Invasive Alternative to IVF Treatments

University of New South Wales (UNSW) researchers have developed a cheaper and less invasive alternative to traditional fertility treatments that is now available at Sydney’s Royal Hospital for women. In vitro fertilisation or IVF has been the established treatment for infertility for a long time. However, this method is expensive, and to stimulate egg growth…


The Ins and Outs of Supplements

Supplements have become a massive industry with plenty of enthusiastic promoters. But for all the research telling us how certain vitamins and nutrients affect our bodies, taking supplements can’t always deliver the results we may hope and expect. “In my clinical experience, benefit from supplements is most successful when tailored to the unique nutritional needs…


Avoiding the Toxic Effects of Aluminum

The human body is an electrochemical miracle. While we often think of it as a fleshy machine of sorts, it can be more likened to a constantly changing collection of chemicals and electrical signals that’s continuously rebuilding itself and responding to your mental state, food, air intake, physical activity, and environment. This biochemical landscape of…


COVID Exposed the Medical-Pharmaceutical-Government Complex

Commentary In college, I took a Latin American Politics and Development class. When discussing Latin American medical care, Professor Eldon Kenworthy presented a deeply countercultural idea. Echoing a journal article by the scholar, Robert Ayres, Kenworthy maintained that building hospitals there costs lives. If, instead of erecting, equipping, and staffing gleaming medical centers, this same…


Milk Thistle for Liver Health

Milk thistle, with its distinctive purple flowers and long, thorny leaves, has long been touted for its liver health benefits and detoxing prowess. Milk thistle and its healing properties were first described by the Greek physician Dioscorides in 40 A.D. Dioscorides was a physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and the author of De Materia Medica, a five-volume…


Supercharging Your Food With Essential Oils

When we think of cooking with herbs and spices, we usually reach for the fresh or dry versions of those ingredients to add flavor and depth to our culinary dishes. Now imagine enjoying those herbs and spices in a concentrated medicinal form that not only provides an intense spectrum of flavor, but is packed with…


Choosing Between Health and Your Hairline?

More than half of men older than 50 will experience male pattern baldness, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), and that rate climbs to 80 percent for Caucasian men. Male pattern baldness, medically known as “androgenetic alopecia,” begins above both temples, causes thinning at the crown, and often results in partial or complete…


Drug Marketed for Baldness Linked With Side-Effects Ranging From Impotence to Suicide

More than half of men older than 50 will experience male pattern baldness, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), and that rate climbs to 80 percent for Caucasian men. Male pattern baldness, medically known as “androgenetic alopecia,” begins above both temples, causes thinning at the crown, and often results in partial or complete…


Chocolate for a Leaner, Longer Life

Chocolate offers unique slimming and longevity benefits, as well as antioxidants that can help prevent chronic disease—but it’s important to eat the “good” type and only in ideal amounts. Studies point out that chocolate may not only make life sweet, but also help lengthen it. Chocolate isn’t a recent invention; its health benefits date back to ancient…