It is common practice to apply an ice pack to a sprained ankle or a sore muscle, and many professional athletes have been reported to use cryotherapy to aid with recovery. However, the benefits of the well-known RICE protocol (rest, ice, compression, and elevation) for injuries and sore muscles have been thoroughly debunked, including by the doctor that originally coined the term four decades ago. While icing an injury does effectively relieve pain, it also constricts blood vessels and reduces blood flow to the cold area. Even though the injury feels better, this impairs the body’s ability to heal, extending
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By Sara Middleton, staff writer (NaturalHealth365) Prenatal supplements are recommended by Mayo Clinic and other leading organizations for all women of childbearing age. The reason: key fetal developmental events occur even within the first days or weeks of conception, often before a woman even knows she’s pregnant – so making sure she has plenty of vitamins to support herself and her unborn baby right from the start can make a big difference. What we’re realizing now is just how much of a difference prenatal supplementation can make on a child’s future, as one recent study published in BMC Medicine suggests.
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By Michael By Andrea Germanos Despite lower applied amounts of pesticides in U.S. agriculture, their toxicity to non-target species including honeybees more than doubled in a decade, according to a new study…. …read more Source: Natural Blaze
By Karen Sanders, staff writer (NaturalHealth365) There is strong scientific evidence coming out of Japan about the anticancer effects of shinrin-yoku or forest bathing. In fact, according to Dr. Qing Li – one of the world’s foremost experts on shinrin-yoku, forest walking may prevent chronic illnesses like cancer, reduce blood pressure, heart rate, and stress hormones. Chronic stress slowly kills. Environmental toxins like car fumes and industrial wastes, processed foods, and EMF pollution increase our cortisol levels and the risk for disease. Bottom line, most people in modern society are stressed out and need to relax – much …read more
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Early results from a landmark research program designed to observe the brain development and health of American children have just been released, revealing a first glimpse at a dataset both invaluable and, in many ways, disquieting. The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study is the largest long-term study of its kind in the United States, involving almost 11,700 healthy children aged between nine and ten who are being studied at over 20 research sites across the country. At the outset of the ABCD Study, this huge, demographically diverse cohort of children had their brains scanned by high-resolution structural magnetic resonance
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By Hesh Goldstein Most people involved with natural healing usually advise specific vitamin, mineral, or other food supplements, depending upon the state of health of the person desiring to reverse something. There is a lot of research being done to further understand the physiological effects of these food factors. The use of these natural substances as medication has been hotly contested by most of the medical profession. The average conventional physician feels that all factors necessary for health can be gotten through the SAD (Standard American Diet) and that additional supplements are a waste of money. Practitioners that practice natural
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By Lori Alton, staff writer (NaturalHealth365) Increasingly, researchers are discovering the role played by cancer stem cells in the growth and spread of the disease. In groundbreaking research, vitamin C showed its ability to target cancer stem cells and stop their growth – preventing the recurrence of tumors. Although mainstream medicine has been slow to accept the cancer-fighting properties of vitamin C, the exciting results of this study could help to change that. It’s official: Vitamin C interferes with the metabolism of cancer stem cells In a recent study conducted at the University of Salford in Manchester, vitamin C demonstrated
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By Virgilio Marin (Natural News) Researchers made a makeshift “elevator” …read more Source: Natural News
By Michael Greger M.D. FACLM Sham surgery trials prove that procedures like nonemergency stents offer no benefit for angina pain—only risk to millions of patients. …read more Source: nutritionfacts.org
By Damon Hines, staff writer (NaturalHealth365) In a recent interview with James Temple at the MIT Technology Review, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates sanctimoniously declared that “all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef.” The $133 billion dollar man’s pronouncement is a lot like Marie Antoinette’s famous decree, “Let them eat cake,” although the queen wasn’t a personal investor in French pastry companies like Gates is in tech-meat giants Beyond Meats and Impossible Meats. In his quest to “innovate in the food space” and avoid a climate disaster, Bill Gates overlooks the important details: synthetic, lab-grown Frankenfoods aren’t good for
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By Edit Lang, staff writer (NaturalHealth365) After a solid year of social distancing, mask mandates, and oppressive government lockdowns, one would assume we’ve had plenty of time to ask some difficult questions. What percentage of the so-called COVID measures are based on sound science? Do we know the risks and benefits of wearing face masks or the rationale for the 6-foot social distancing rule? The reality is, most people do not ask for proof but instead willingly give up their basic freedom. Take social distancing as an example. Where is the science that unequivocally proves that staying 6 …read more
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By Michael By GMI Reporter Most of us have seen the Top 10 lists of why we should be drinking lemon water. But do we really know the added vitality and cleansing effects on the body lemon water provides? Lemon… …read more Source: Natural Blaze
“I decided to post this as food for thought. Everyone will hopefully have the freedom of choice to determine it it’s in their best interest to take “the Jab” or not.” Admin Imagine if you will, a virus SO deadly you have to be tested to see if you even have it….and a 99.9% survival rate if you do get it. And a vaccine so good for you, they have to bribe and force people to take it! You’re now entering….The Twilight Zone! It would be funny, except we’re living it. Read More: 40 Reasons
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By Terry Trahan by Terry Trahan Last week, the Daily Wire shared a story from Rochester, NY, about BLM activists marching through town and ending up at a Wegmans grocery store, shutting it … Read the rest The post 100 Shoppers Became Hostages in a NY Protest. Here’s How to Survive in a Protest Turned Hostage Situation appeared first on The Organic Prepper. …read more Source: Organic Prepper
By Michael Greger M.D. FACLM What do physicians and stent companies have to say for themselves, given that they are promoting expensive, risky procedures with no benefit? …read more Source: nutritionfacts.org
By Michael By Neenah Payne Food security is a national security issue. Victory Gardens were encouraged in the UK and US in WWII. We are told that we are now in a war with an “invisible enemy”. The policies… …read more Source: Natural Blaze
By Lori Alton, staff writer (NaturalHealth365) Dementia, which can feature memory loss, confusion, cognitive impairments, paranoia, delusions, and hallucinations, affects at least 5 million adults in the United States. Sadly, the overall number of people afflicted with this debilitating condition is expected to triple over the next 30 years. Alzheimer’s disease – which comprises 50 to 70 percent of dementia cases – is the main type of dementia, followed by vascular dementia caused by damage to the blood vessels that supply blood to the brain. While certain genes (such as apolipoprotein E 4 ) can predispose people to dementia, lifestyle
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The efforts to require every American to be injected with an experimental vaccine for Covid-19 are based on the false notion that vaccination will protect recipients from becoming infected with SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, or protect them from passing along the infection to other people. The FDA, the CDC, the NIH and the pharmaceutical companies involved have all stated very clearly that there is no evidence to support this idea. None of the three experimental Covid-19 vaccines now being distributed in the United States have been demonstrated to protect against infection with or transmission of the virus believed
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By Michael By Josh Anusewicz Efforts to shift from petrochemical plastics to renewable and biodegradable plastics have proven tricky—the production process can require toxic chemicals and is expensive, and the… …read more Source: Natural Blaze
By Sara Middleton, staff writer (NaturalHealth365) There’s a saying that “every hour of sleep before midnight is worth two after midnight.” Is this just folklore, or is it a valuable clue that can help you sleep better? While it might not track exactly in the research, there is evidence to support the claim that the best sleep starts earlier in the night (and that chronically staying up late could harm your health). To make sure you’re getting the most sleep benefits, let’s find out why. Want to get more restorative sleep? Getting to bed late robs you of the most
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The ketogenic diet (in earlier iterations known as the Atkins diet and the Low Carb High Fat diet) has been vilified for decades by members of the nutrition establishment, because it is pretty much telling people to do the exact opposite of what the establishment is telling them to do. While official diet guidelines recommend cutting down on fat intake, the ketogenic diet instead recommends cutting down on carbohydrate intake. Since cutting down on one of the sources of energy virtually requires increasing intake of the other, the two diets are completely incompatible. The reason proponents of a low fat
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By Michael By Rosanne Lindsay, Naturopath Spring has sprung! ‘Tis the season for rebirth and regeneration. Spring is ruled by the wood element which is associated with the liver and its complementary organ, the… …read more Source: Natural Blaze
After a solid year of social distancing, mask mandates, and oppressive government lockdowns, one would assume we’ve had plenty of time to ask some difficult questions. What percentage of the so-called COVID measures are based on sound science? Do we know the risks and benefits of wearing face masks or the rationale for the 6-foot social distancing rule? The reality is, most people do not ask for proof but instead willingly give up their basic freedom. Take social distancing as an example. Where is the science that unequivocally proves that staying 6 feet apart keeps you safe from contracting
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By Sara Middleton, staff writer (NaturalHealth365) Throughout this pandemic, it’s been understood by doctors and researchers that people with underlying chronic conditions appear more likely to not only get infected by SARS-CoV-2 but also have a more severe or even fatal bout of COVID-19. But new research out of Tufts University in Boston points the finger at four specific conditions that appear to dramatically increase a person’s risk of becoming hospitalized with an infectious illness and underlines the critical importance (on an individual and public health scale) of taking steps to reduce disease risk. Two-thirds of all COVID-19 hospitalizations are
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By Michael Greger M.D. FACLM Most heart attacks are caused by nonobstructive plaques that infiltrate the entire coronary artery tree. There is no such thing as “1-vessel disease,” “2-vessel disease,” or “left main disease.” Atherosclerotic plaque is continuous throughout the coronary arteries of heart attack victims. …read more Source: nutritionfacts.org
Have you forgotten where you laid your keys? Ever wondered where you had parked your car? Or having trouble remembering the name of the new neighbor? Unfortunately, these things seem to get worse as one gets older. A big question for researchers is where does benign forgetfulness end and true disease begin? One of the keys to having a healthy brain at any age is having a healthy blood-brain barrier, a complex interface of blood vessels that run through the brain. Researchers reviewed more than 150 articles to look at what happens to the blood-brain barrier as we age. Their
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The massive global effort to promote COVID vaccines plays on fears of getting the disease, despite the fact that they are experimental. Meaning that they have not gone through the rigorous, time-consuming and expensive randomized clinical trials that so many experts say is the gold standard for evaluating drugs. This absence was used by the government to condemn and block the use of drugs such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. Vaccine testing and regulatory approval have been rushed. Missing from nearly all information reaching the public are some key facts. …read more Source: Sott health news feed