Category: Diseases
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Better Sleep Can Protect Against Dementia
Dementia is a progressive loss of cognitive abilities, such as memory, that is significant enough to have an impact on a person’s daily activities. It can be caused by a number of different diseases, including Alzheimer’s, which is the most common form. Dementia is caused by a loss of neurons over a long period of…
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Platelets – Triggers for Life or Death
President Eisenhower was astonished. Two fitness scientists, Kraus and Webber, had just shown that American young people were flabby. He decided to change that arond, flew to Colorado, played 27 holes of golf in one day! Ate a couple of big hamburgers meanwhile. And … got a heart attack that shocked and shook the nation.…
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Benefits from an Anti-Inflammatory Diet
There is a lot of health buzz around the term “inflammation” right now. From new scientific discoveries to celebrities and social media influencers, it seems like everyone is talking about this important bodily process and its potential impact on our health. Discover in this article what diseases are caused by inflammation and what diet can…
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The Relation Between COVID, Long COVID and Your Gut Microbiome
A vast combination of microorganisms live in our gut, including bacteria, fungi and viruses. Collectively, we refer to this as the microbiome. One role in particular the microbes in our gut play is supporting immune function. In this article you will understand the intricate interplays between the microbiome and acute COVID as well as Long…
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Does Fibromyalgia Come From Your Mind?
Fibromyalgia is affecting 2% of the US population. Besides muscle pain it shows a number of other symptoms and can have a strong influence on the mood. But psychological causes can trigger fibromyalgia as well. We will look into some of those possible triggers and reflect what we can do about that.
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Chronic Pain: Roots and Remedies
Chronic pain — pain that persists for more than six months — affects around 100 million Americans and is associated with conditions that include physical injury, headache, arthritis, cancer, and diabetes-linked nerve pain. Find out in this article what can increase or lower our pain perception.
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Super Foods That Fight Cancer
Cancer. The very word strikes fear, and with good reason. Each year nearly 14 million people worldwide are diagnosed with cancer, and 7.6 million die from the disease. However, evidence shows that most of these deaths are preventable. Find out in this article how to use food to fight against cancer.
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Natural Treatments for Long COVID
Long COVID can be a quite debilitating condition that affects the body in many different ways. In this article we will look into some possible mechanisms where long COVID could come from, and what we can do to treat naturally the multiplicity of symptoms it can cause in our body.
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What is Happening with COVID-19? Myths and Facts
The pandemic has affected the life of all of us in very dramatic ways. While dealing with that crisis, we have seen much of conflicting advice, changes in polices, questionable statements, and a counterreaction in the population leading to a widespread distrust and all kinds of conspiracy theories. What are the facts? What are the…
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When Milk Becomes a Problem
As early as 400 years before the birth of Christ, Hippocrates described painful gastrointestinal reactions after consuming milk. Flatulence, colic, diarrhea, nausea, bloating, chronic fatigue and blemished skin – all of this is associated with milk when you can no longer tolerate it for a very specific reason. Globally, around 2.3 billion adults and 600…
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NAFLD – When the Liver Gets Inflamed
Bill found out at a routine check-up that he has a fatty liver. And he is not alone. Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease is rising quickly in prevalence, and is affecting already 30% of the US population. Most people do not have any symptoms and discover their disease by accident. Learn in this article why this…
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What You Ought to Know about the COVID-19 Vaccines
On December 2 the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency of the United Kingdom gave temporary authorization for the application of the Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine. Between 8 and 15 of December the first dose of the vaccine was applied to 137,897 people in the country.((Covid vaccine: More than 130,000 vaccinated in UK in…