News Category - Dr. Axe

Study: Online Grocery Nutrition Labeling Severely Lacking

Most health-conscious people do their due diligence when buying groceries, reading food labels to ensure they consume the healthiest products they can. However, in a day and age when online shopping has become the norm ...

Olive Oil and Longevity: Can It Help You Live Longer?

Researchers have known for decades that olive oil consumption can help lower cardiovascular disease risk, but its associations with other causes of mortality (death) is less clear. Now, new research has shown the connection between ...

Can Exercise Reduce Anxiety? New Study Gives Us An Answer

Did you know that anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S.? Over 40 million adults age 18 and older are affected; this equates to 18 percent of the population. In fact, ...

Researchers Detect Billions of Tiny Plastic Pieces in Tea

As Nathalie Tufenkji sat in a coffee shop about several years ago, a thought crossed her mind as she lowered a bag of tea into hot water. Like so many tea bags these days, it was ...

Giving Seaweed to Cows to Help Reduce Methane

Believe it or not, cows' burps and farts are among the top contributors to global warming. Yes, you read that right — about 25% of all methane emissions is produced directly from fermentation by cows' ...

Impact of Dietary Changes on Health and the Environment

As the title of an August 2021 study published in the journal Nature Food states, "Small targeted dietary changes can yield substantial gains for human health and the environment." In other words, if every American replaced a ...

Can I Speed Up My Metabolism? Study Says No!

It's mentioned time and time again: It's normal to gain weight with age because of metabolism changes. Some blame their increasing age for excess body weight, even when their diet hasn't changed drastically. But a ...

EPA Bans Chlorpyrifos, a Common Brain-Damaging Pesticide

Chlorpyrifos pesticide dangers have been well documented for decades. The insecticide came into widespread use in 1965 as a replacement for DDT, and since then has been sprayed on everything from asparagus and apples to ...

The Surprising Benefits of Swimming in Cold Water (+ How to Stay Safe)

People living in cooler locations such as Russia, Finland and England have been practicing cold water swimming for hundreds of years. Since the 1800s swimming in cold water has even grown in popularity as a ...

Common Drugs that Steal Your Body’s Nutrients

The following is an adapted excerpt from my new book “Ancient Remedies: Secrets to Healing with Herbs, Essential Oils, CBD, and the Most Powerful Natural Medicine in History“ (Little, Brown Spark) Have a fever? Take an antibiotic. High ...