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If your liver could send you one warning, this is what it would be... January 26, 2012
If your liver could talk…well, that would be annoying. But if your liver could speak just once and give you one piece of guidance, it might be this: “You are what you drink.” What your liver is talking about is fatty liver disease.
Doctors may be as clueless as teen girls when it comes to expectations about HPV vaccines January 23, 2012
Apparently it needs to be said, loud and clear: Gardasil is not a safe sex shot! Unfortunately, that message isn’t getting through to everyone. According to a new survey, about one in four girls who get an HPV vaccine believe they’re free to have unprotected sex. But to me, there’s an even bigger problem: Many doctors may be just as clueless as teenage girls when it comes to their expectations about what this vaccine can and cannot do.
Eliminate the agonizing pain of kidney stones in just three days... and keep it from ever coming back January 20, 2012
Have you suffered the most excruciating pain known to man? If you have, you know that I’m talking about kidney stones, and that you never want to live through that again. You don’t have to endure that pain ever again. Even if you’ve suffered the agony of kidney stones in the past, this formula can help make sure they don’t come back. In fact, if you’re suffering right now, take hope from Penny’s story as you watch for the delivery truck.
When China calls you out for "immorality," you're doing something very very wrong January 10, 2012
Let’s say you run a company that makes shampoo. But not just any shampoo, it’s specifically for newborns and infants. But now you need to find a way to prevent spoilage. Fortunately there’s a chemical called quaternium-15 that takes care of spoilage. But it has just one little problem: It kills bacteria by releasing formaldehyde. And formaldehyde is carcinogenic.
Well THIS is refreshing...a mainstream doctor comes over to the light side December 28, 2011
Well THIS is refreshing…After years of warning against the dangers of sunlight, at least one mainstream researcher has caught up to reality.
Make your brain happy -- give it the vitamin it craves December 22, 2011
Your brain has a powerful craving. So go ahead — indulge. A review of vitamin D research reveals two reasons why the vitamin is so important to brain health…
Think "safety first" when choosing a psoriasis treatment December 21, 2011
The narrator was a middle-aged woman, forced indoors, away from her friends, due to “embarrassing, flaky, painful, red patches” caused by plaque psoriasis. Then the tone turned upbeat again after she began using Humira, an injectable drug that treats psoriasis lesions. And the only thing that spoiled this happy scene was a sudden switch to a new narrator who explained…”Humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. Serious sometimes fatal events can occur, such as…” What’s stupefying is that the FDA allows billions of dollars worth of Humira and other drugs in this class of TNF-alpha blockers (Enbrel, Remicade) to be sold every year while safe alternative methods are available.
When your skin is exposed to sunlight, it responds with immediate protection December 20, 2011
A doctor once advised me to put on sunscreen every time I go outside. Yikes — talk about overkill! Even though that was years ago (before it was widely understood how important sunlight exposure is in producing vitamin D) I had a strong suspicion that this fear-the-sun recommendation was way over the top.
If you want to lower cholesterol without drugs, here's how NOT to do it December 19, 2011
What’s nearly as bad as taking a statin drug to lower cholesterol? Tofu, believe it or not.
Stop this toxic world from poisoning you with nature's ancient cure December 13, 2011
Have you noticed that you’re feeling exhausted all the time… for no obvious reason? And your blood pressure is up, and your doctor doesn’t have a solution, except another pill or ten. You have mysterious, seemingly unrelated symptoms—like muscle and joint pain, memory loss, new allergies, appetite loss—that seem sudden and don’t really make sense, symptoms your doctor can’t quite pin a diagnosis on. Your doctor’s not looking in the right place. Because with these types of symptoms, believe it or not, you may be a victim of toxic heavy metal exposure.
Shocking new research about BPA in canned foods -- it's worse than we thought December 13, 2011
I never trusted food in cans. Not sure why. Maybe it was the smell, the shape, or that it just seemed fake to me. In any case, years ago I made a decision to stop eating canned food and quickly found that it was actually pretty easy to live without the convenience.
Didn't see this coming: a little standup comedy from the FDA commissioner December 6, 2011
I don’t usually find myself laughing at comments from FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg, but she recently gave me a good solid laugh. Not exactly LOL, but close. This was just a few days ago when Hamburg announced that the agency was revoking approval of Avastin to treat breast cancer — a huge blow to Genentech, the maker of the drug.
