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Editorial Panel
Dr Damien Downing, a specialist in allergy, environment and nutrition, is current president of the British Society for Ecological Medicine, on the editorial board of Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Chief Medical Advisor of cancer charity Yes to
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I was very pleased to see the article on fluoride (WDDTY AU/NZ Jun/Jul 2022). However, I was surprised to see no distinction made between: 1) naturally occurring fluoride, 2) pharmaceutical-grade fluoride, and 3) hexafluorosilicic acid, an industrial
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Drink Plenty Of Water To Avoid Heart Failure
Drinking plenty of water every day could lower your chances of heart failure—and it's especially important if you're over the age of 65. Women should be drinking up to two liters (3.5 pints) of liquids, and men up to 3 liters (five pints), every day
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Spiritual People Are Less Depressed
If you have a spiritual or religious belief, you are much less likely to suffer from depression and anxiety. And having these beliefs is especially important if you've suffered from heart disease. People recovering from heart failure are more likely
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Scrambled Eggs And Salmon Make The Best Vitamin D Top-up Breakfast
A breakfast of scrambled eggs and salmon is a great way to top up your vitamin D levels if you live in the sun-starved northern hemisphere. Fatty fish—which also includes trout and mackerel—is one of the richest dietary sources of the vital vitamin,
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A Purpose In Life Reduces Dementia Risk
Having a purpose in life can reduce your chances of developing dementia. Finding a higher purpose or meaning in life lowers your risk by 19 percent, say researchers from University College London. But just having a positive outlook on life isn't enou
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Live Near Green Space To Reduce Stroke Risk
Where you live matters almost as much as how you live when it comes to reducing your risk of a stroke. People who live close to some green space are 16 percent less likely to suffer an ischemic stroke, the most common type that happens when a blood c
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Eat An Avocado, Reduce Your Heart Risk
Eating an avocado several times a week is good for your heart. People who eat two or more avocados every week are 16 percent less likely to develop cardiovascular disease (CVD), and they also reduce their chances of coronary heart disease by 21 perce
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Healthy Living Means You Live Longer—and Without Alzheimer's
People who follow a healthy lifestyle—such as eating a Mediterranean diet and moderately exercising most days—can add up to six years to their life expectancy and will spend fewer years suffering from Alzheimer's. The impact of a healthy lifestyle on
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Near-death Experiences Are Real
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are not hallucinations of a dying brain—they are likely to be real, and suggest some part of us survives death, a new study has concluded. People who have an NDE before they are revived report similar experiences that sh
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Active Oldies Still The Beat The Youngsters
Use it or lose it: people who were physically active throughout their lives still had better muscles when they were elderly than young people who didn't exercise. Even after they reach the age of 68, lifelong exercisers can still outperform sedentary
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Cranberries Are So Good For The Heart
Eating cranberries every day is good for your heart—and you could start seeing a difference within a month. The fruit improves the health of your arteries and enhances blood flow, say researchers from King's College London. People who eat half a cup
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Don't Eat Fish? Walnuts Are A Healthy Substitute
Great news for vegetarians: walnuts and flaxseeds are the ‘new fish.’ They deliver high levels of omega-3 fatty acids to keep your heart healthy. They contain alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), the plant variety of the nutrient, which has a similar health b
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Three Cups Of Coffee A Day Could Help You Live Longer
Drinking two to three cups of coffee every day could help you live longer. Coffee lowers your risk of premature death and could protect you from developing heart disease, suffering from heart failure or experiencing heart rhythm problems—known as atr
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Tax Big Pharma To Pay For Independent Research
A special tax should be levied on drug companies to pay for independent research. It's the only way to make evidence-based medicine a reality, say Jon Jureidiini and Leemon B McHenry, coauthors of the book, The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine: Ex
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After 130 Years, Researchers Agree Osteopathy Can Ease Pain
It's been practiced for around 130 years—and it's finally been acknowledged that osteopathy can help ease muscle pain. A review has concluded there is “promising evidence” the therapy can help relieve acute and chronic low back pain, neck pain and ge
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Pregnant Women Still Given Drug That Causes Birth Defects
An epilepsy drug that has caused at least 20,000 deformities in newborns is still being prescribed to pregnant women in the UK. New guidelines introduced in 2018 prohibited the use of sodium valproate for women “of childbearing potential,” and yet at
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Artificial Sweeteners Increase Breast Cancer Risk
Artificial sweeteners are supposed to be safer alternatives to sugar—but they increase the risk of breast cancer, new research has discovered. They raise the chances of breast cancer and cancers associated with obesity—including colon, uterine and ga
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Half Of Women Will Have One False-positive Mammogram
Half of all women who have regular mammogram checkups will at some stage be told they have breast cancer when they don't. Any woman who has an annual mammogram runs a 50 percent risk of at least one false-positive reading if she is screened every yea
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Natural Immunity Twice As Effective As A Covid Vaccine
Natural immunity after a Covid-19 infection gives you double the protection of getting vaccinated, a major new study has discovered. Just three in 10,000 people (0.03 percent) who have natural immunity, but haven't been vaccinated, need hospital care
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Eczema Cases Increase Fourfold After Covid
Covid restrictions may have led to a massive increase in cases of eczema in the past year. Rates of the skin condition have risen by 400 percent, and today nearly half of all Britons have the problem. Many of the new sufferers blame Covid-related str
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Broccoli Could Combat Covid As Well As A Drug
Broccoli could prove to be as effective as a drug against a Covid-19 infection. A compound found in the vegetable—and in other cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage, kale and Brussels sprouts—makes a Covid infection milder. The compound, a phytochem
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Brush Your Teeth To Prevent High Blood Pressure
Keep your teeth and gums healthy. Inflamed gums and poor teeth—known as periodontal disease—can increase the risk of high blood pressure (hypertension) by around 16 percent. Researchers have identified 10 bacteria in dental plaque that can cause bloo
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Herbal Teas Reduce PMS Symptoms
Herbal teas don't only taste nice—they also have important health benefits, especially if you're a woman. Researchers have put three herbal teas through their paces to discover they help women sleep better after they've given birth; reduce premenstru
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Mix Up The Protein To Lower Hypertension Risk
Getting your protein from plenty of different sources could keep your blood pressure levels in check. Proving that variety really is the spice of life, those whose protein intake comes from up to eight different sources are also 66 percent less likel
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Household Chores Lower Your Heart Attack Risk
You may resent doing the dishes, but simple household chores could be helping you live longer. People who are active around the house for four hours every day are 62 percent less likely to suffer a fatal heart attack, and they have a 43 percent lower
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Pregnant Women Who Meditate Have Healthier Babies
Women who practice mindfulness meditation when they're pregnant are more likely to have healthier babies with better stress responses. It's already known that women who are stressed or anxious during their pregnancy are more likely to have a child wi
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Pet Owners Stay Mentally Sharper For Longer
Having a pet can keep our mental faculties sharp as we get older. It can also reduce our blood pressure and stress levels. Pet owners experience slower cognitive decline after they reach the age of 65, a new study has found. The benefits were greates
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UK Authorises Use Use Of Pesticide
The UK is allowing the use of a banned pesticide that can kill the bee population. Neonicotinoid pesticides, which have been banned across the EU, are being allowed to be used, on an emergency basis, on sugar beet crops in the UK. The pesticides dama
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Green Hospitals Relax The Patient
Hospitals can be intimidating places, especially when you're already stressed. But adding plants in soulless corridors and having big windows that look out on greenery relax the patient, researchers have found—and these design changes could be incorp
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Special Diets Can Hit Your Wallet As Well As Your Waistline
Going on a special weight-loss diet can cost up to $600 a week. Special supplements, low-carb replacements and high-protein substitutes all eat into your wallet, say researchers from the University of South Australia. They assessed the costs of seven
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10,000 Steps A Day? That's Only If You're Under 60
Do you really need to walk 10,000 steps a day to stay healthy? It all depends on your age: if you're over 60, walking 8,000 steps will probably be enough, and only younger people should be aiming for the 10,000-step target. The 10,000 step guideline
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Baby Formula Manufacturers Face Class-action Suit
A class-action suit is being prepared against manufacturers of two baby formulas that are given to preterm babies. The formulas are being blamed for cases of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), an intestinal disease that can cause inflammation and can s
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Car Exhaust Fumes Lower IQ Levels By Around Three Points
Leaded gas from car exhaust has reduced the IQ level of the average American by around three points Collectively, the fumes have robbed 170 million American adults of around 824 million IQ points, roughly three per person, researchers from Duke Unive
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Vaping Increases Gum Disease Risk
Vaping may not be such a safe alternative to cigarettes after all. E-cigarettes increase the risk of gum disease, and this can eventually cause tooth loss, say researchers at New York University. They change the microbiome—the community of bacteria—i
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Pessimistic Teenagers Are Candidates For Heart Disease
Teenagers who are optimistic and have a positive outlook are less likely to suffer from heart disease when they're older. It's a new risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and schoolchildren and teenagers should be taught coping techniques and resil
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Why MS Sufferers Should Avoid Milk
People with multiple sclerosis (MS) should stop drinking milk. Milk—plus other dairy products such as yogurt and cheese—can make the symptoms worse, say researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany. Even for people without the condition, cow's
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Ivermectin Does Help You Survive A Covid Infection
It's been the go-to Covid remedy among conspiracy theorists—but a new study suggests that ivermectin, a drug to treat gut parasites in people and animals, really can help you survive an infection. Researchers from the University of Miami compared its
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Neem Oil Treats Covid As Effectively As Any Drug
Neem oil is a natural antiviral that can combat Covid and its variants, a new study has found. The oil is a safe remedy that can treat and reduce the spread of coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2 and variants that cause Covid-19. Neem oil, an extract
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Covid Vaccine Side-effect Rate 10 Times Higher Than Official Figures Suggest
The true rate of side-effects and deaths from a Covid-19 vaccine could be 10 times higher than official figures suggest, a major German insurer has claimed. Germany's health agency recorded around 245,000 serious reactions to the vaccine last year, b
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The End Of Psychiatry?
Psychiatry has hit a dead-end. The pharmaceutical industry has walked away from the specialty and hasn't produced a new drug in more than a decade, while psychiatrists can't agree on the origins and diagnosis of so-called mental health problems such
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More Die Of Heartbreak
Ken Wilkinson had no fears about his routine heart checkup. The levels of fatty acid lipids in his blood were normal, and his cholesterol readings were textbook perfect. Not surprising, really, for a man who ate tofu instead of beef and who always we
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How To Avoid Heart Disease: An Alternative View
• Increase your time in the sun • Exercise • Stay hydrated •Join a club, become more social From The Clot Thickens by Dr Malcolm Kendrick (Columbus Publishing, 2021) •Chondroitin sulfate •Glucosamine •Hyaluronan •L-arginine •L-citrulline •Coenzyme Q1
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Who's Top Banana?
It's time we got straight about the humble banana. Far from being something of a joke, it's a fruit with skin in the game, whose health-giving qualities rank almost on par with the revered avocado. It can control blood sugar levels—which makes it an
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How To Live To 100, And Beyond (according To Those Who've Done It)
So, you want to blow out 100 candles on your birthday cake and—if you're a Brit—get a congratulatory message from the Queen. But how do you reach the age of 100, and beyond? As you'd expect, scientists have plenty of theories about how you can reach
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Quenching The Fire
Cortisol is made in the adrenal glands, just above your kidneys. Cortisol is the body's primary stress hormone, meaning that it's released in response to threatening situations. It also signals the liver to increase glucose production to prepare the
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Seeing Clearl Y Again
It's the little things that are noticeable when you begin to lose eyesight, Dame Judi Dench has revealed. The 007 star known for her role as M, James Bond's steely no-nonsense boss, says that she's missed reading the newspaper and doing the crossword
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Microbes And Eye Health
The concept of a “gut-brain axis,” which describes how microbes in the gut impact the function of neurons and the brain to affect mood and mental health, is now well established. You may also have heard of the “gut-skin axis,” which describes how mic
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Viagra May Lead To Blindness
Researchers from the University of British Columbia in Canada have found that men who regularlytake erectile dysfunction (ED) pills including Viagra maybe at increased risk of sudden vision loss and other visual disturbances. The researchers looked a
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Low-level Light Therapy For Dry Eyes
Up to a third of people are affected at some point by dry eye syndrome, which, just as the name says, leaves the eyes low on tear fluid, causing a gritty feeling and blurred or distorted vision and can lead to inflammation and damage to the eye surfa
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Hunger Games
But behind the Iron Curtain in the 1950s, psychiatrist Dr Yuri Nikolayev was treating patients at a Moscow sanatorium with a radical form of fasting that was hailed by American orthomolecular psychiatrist Dr Allan Cott as an “unparalleled achievement
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The Power Of Connection
The late professor John T. Cacioppo, a pioneer in the field of social neuroscience, found that loneliness wasn't a result of depression, but actually led to depression. In Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope (Bloomsbury Publis
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Types Of Intermittent Fasting
There are three main forms of intermittent fasting, each with its own schedule and challenges. Also known as the 16:8 or 14:10 method, this fast is the easiest to manage around a regular schedule by compressing eating into an eight- or 10-hour window
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The Gut-brain Axis
Cynthia Thurlow likes to remind her patients that digestion begins in the brain, in the way people think about their food before they have even taken a bite. Conversely, 95 percent of the mood-regulating neurotransmitter serotonin, which is targeted
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A Fast Solution To Health Problems
In a study of over 1,400 people who completed fasts from four to 21 days long, 93 percent of participants reported improvement in “physical and emotional well-being,” and fasting for any length of time was linked to significant improvement in blood l
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PCOS: Overdiagnosed And Undertreated
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) affects 5 to 26 percent of women and 75 percent of women attending infertility clinics, but my personal experience is that many women who are diagnosed with this disease actually may not have PCOS. It's typically char
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Recovering From Multiple Sclerosis
A young man in his late twenties came to see me, whom I'll call Roland. I've altered all identifying features, but the essence of his illness and its causes, treatment and outcome are unchanged. Roland had been suffering from numbness and pain in his
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From Surviving To Thriving
This is a tale of two people, intimately related, both ill, with different diseases but from the same cause. Names and identifying features have been changed to protect their anonymity. Martina lived in a small village in central Europe. She had had
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Beyond The ‘Air Germ’ Theory
Almost everyone in the world knows about germ theory. And almost everyone in the world forgets that it still remains a theory. Developed by the famous nineteenth-century French chemist Louis Pasteur, germ theory maintains that invisible living microo
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A Teeming Population Within Us
When it comes to microorganisms—bacteria, fungi, viruses and others—human beings are walking, talking microbial ecosystems. There are about 700 species of microbes in our mouths, including Streptococcus viridans, Neisseria sicca, and Candida albicans
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COWS And Terrain Theory
COWS is an acronym that stands for what Dr Robert O. Young refers to as the “seven natural doctors”: Chlorophyll, Clay, Oxygen, Oil, Water, Salt and Sexercise. “These are the seven doctors that you want to implement in your life for healthy living,”
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An Ancient Rivalry
Born in 1822, the noted French chemist Louis Pasteur birthed the development of pasteurization (the application of heat to destroy pathogens in foods and certain beverages). He popularized germ theory and developed some of the first vaccines. His res
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Give Us Our Daily (non-wheat) Bread
It's estimated that 1 percent of the global population has celiac disease, with another 7 percent having some form of gluten sensitivity. And this number is on the rise. Gluten sensitivity, or even excessive consumption of gluten (like we have in the
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Probiotics, Not Antibiotics
Jenifer Hartz, 55, of Gainesville, Florida, is a perfect example of a patient who began her medical treatment solidly in Pasteur's germ theory camp. She started having sinus infections in high school, which would recur a couple times a year. Each tim
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Healing The Whole Person
The UK National Health Service reports that one in two people in the UK will develop cancer at some time in their lives. This is a stark and rather frightening statistic, not only because cancer is a leading cause of death but also because the usual
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Detecting Cancer At The Earliest Stages
According to the latest statistics from the World Health Organization, cancer was responsible for the deaths of nearly 10 million people globally in 2020.1 That's one out of every six deaths worldwide. Though these statistics are daunting, cancer doe
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Puppy Fat
QOur 8-year-old Labrador Retriever Sadie is obese accordingto our vet, and he wants her to go on a weight management diet. We do not wish to feed her commercial kibble. Please advise. J.M., via email A Overweight pets are on the increase, and obesity
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You Don't Say
Researchers sometimes get paid just to tell you the blindingly obvious It's been a while since we've heard from the Department of the Blindingly Obvious, which collates research that arrives at conclusions so self-evidently true that they needn't hav
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Not So Dead
Science is discovering that something of us survives death Just as religions have been telling us for millennia, something of us survives death. And now science is beginning to agree. After studying all the scientific evidence, a multidisciplinary te
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Crazy Ladies
Many years ago, I read an article in Esquire by Nora Ephron entitled “Dealing with the, uh, Problem,” about the early days of the feminine-hygiene spray business. Ephron was investigating how Alberto-Culver managed to convince women, as a rival compa

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