ByHealthy MangoSt. John’s Wort may well be one of the most effective natural cures for depression — without the side effects associated with prescription drugs. In fact, fifty percent of depressive disorders in Germany are treated (by prescription) with St. John’s Wort. Despite sounding like “wart”, this yellow-flowered wild plant takes its name from the Old…
Over half of your body is made up of water. It’s in every cell and every tissue. Biological processes like circulation, digestion, absorption and excretion depend on water. It forms the foundation of blood and lymph, maintains hearty muscles and young-looking skin, lubricates joints and organs and regulates body temperature. You can’t function without it….
Most people believe that parasites are something that happens to someone else. I don’t have parasites. Well, that is true for some people, and that is false for many other people. It is estimated that more than 50 % of people in the western world have some parasitic or semi-parasitic animals living inside their bodies….
These are only possible symptoms, and please keep in mind that not everyone that has a few of these symptoms should automatically make the assumption that they are infected; however, if you suspect infection or have been unsuccessfully treated for a problem, it is worth doing some specific parasite cleansing. Possible signs and symptoms of…
Nutritional scientists have been well funded by agribusiness to find ways to deal with factors that interfere with animal health, including aggressive and destructive behavior. When farm animals become “violent”-when pigs start biting each others’ ears and tails, when chickens attack chickens-farmers have learned that the aggressive behavior can be reduced by adding certain minerals…
Dr. Rath is the scientist who discovered the close connection between cardiovascular disease and the sailor’s disease scurvy: The common denominator of both health conditions is the instability of the blood vessel wall due to impaired supply of micronutrients to millions of cells of the vascular wall. On May 4, 2002, Matthias Rath, M.D. world…
My dad and his angina It was a bit odd to have a conversation with my 67-year-old father about his sex life. “I’m on this medicine, Andrew,” he said. “It’s for angina. My doctor sent me to a heart specialist, and they both agreed I have to take it. The problem is that it causes…
The United States Patent Office delayed issuing a patent on the Wright brothers’ airplane for five years because it broke accepted scientific principles. This is actually true. And so is this: Vitamin B-3, niacin, is scientifically proven to be effective against psychosis, and yet the medical profession has delayed endorsing it. Not for five years,…
In my article “How Vitamin C Improves Health” I mentioned that a large intake of vitamin C has value in helping to control the common cold, influenza, hepatitis, schizophrenia, and other diseases. Only a brief mention was made of cancer. Interest in the prophylactic and therapeutic use of vitamin C against cancer is now so…
Scandal of scientists who take money for papers ghostwritten by drug companies. Doctors named as authors may not have seen raw data Scientists are accepting large sums of money from drug companies to put their names to articles endorsing new medicines that they have not written – a growing practice that some fear is putting…
Health concerns about pesticides have tended to focus on their potential to act as acute poisons or their ability to cause cancer. But pesticides may pose other important risks as well. Recently, evidence has accumulated that many commonly used pesticides can suppress the normal response of the human immune system to invading viruses, bacteria, parasites,…