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Researchers Accidentally Discover That It’s Raining Plastic

You probably know that plastics are a huge source of environmental pollution, but it may be surprising to find out that microplastics are now detected in the air, the seafood we eat and even in ...

How to Combat (or Prevent) Caffeine Headaches

Caffeine, regardless of the source, can be both a headache trigger or headache inhibitor. Caffeine withdrawal headaches, however, occur when someone normally dependent on caffeine (like one or more cups of coffee or tea a ...

Norepinephrine: How to Boost This Important Stress Hormone

You've probably heard of adrenaline (or epinephrine) before, but what about another similar hormone called norepinephrine? Like adrenaline, it's produced during the body's natural "fight or flight" response and works as one of the body's ...

Hydrogen Peroxide Uses for Skin, Mouth and Home

Remember when you scraped your knee as a kid and like clockwork, some responsible adult went to grab that brown bottle of hydrogen peroxide? Applied with a cotton ball or tissue, this clear liquid was ...

Galectin-3: Disarming Cancer’s Bodyguard

We're making great strides in the treatment of cancer — 16.9 million survivors in the United States can testify to that. But this doesn't mean it's easy, as any patient will tell you. Cancer acts ...

9 Popular Drugs Linked to Dementia and Memory Loss

Any time you take a medication, weighing the risks and benefits of the drug is a must. And now we must ask ourselves, "Is this one of the drugs linked to dementia and memory loss?" Emerging ...

Tips for Beating Cancer: Activate Your Body’s 5 Health Defense Systems

Tips for beating cancer should always include dietary components, but all too often, this part of cancer treatment is ignored. We turned to William Li, MD, world-renowned doctor and author of the New York Times bestseller ...

Top 5 Cancer Stem Cell-Killing Foods

Finding ways to kill cancer stem cells has been one of the holy grails in cancer research. While this is a target of biotechnology companies working on cancer treatment, scientists have already discovered dietary factors ...

7 Ways to Reduce Stress to Beat Autoimmune

The following is an adapted excerpt from Beat Autoimmune, The 6 Keys to Reverse Your Condition and Reclaim Your Health, by Palmer Kippola, with a foreword by Mark Hyman, MD (Kensington Books). Palmer is a ...

A New Way to Look at Stress to Improve Health Outcomes

Every once in a while, if we’re really lucky, we might happen to come across an idea that radically changes the course of life in unimaginable ways. I came across such a thing many years ...