If you go to your doctor complaining of depression, the chances are slim that he or she will ask you what you’re eating.
Instead, you’ll likely get a prescription for the first-line mainstream treatment…an antidepressant drug.
These medications are often ineffective. And they can cause life-altering side effects such as erectile dysfunction and weight gain. What’s more, antidepressants are notoriously difficult to quit once you start taking them.… Read More
Researchers have known for years that exercise is one of the best ways to keep your brain strong as you get older.
Which kind of exercise works best?
They had no idea…until a recent study was published.
Scientists from Canada’s McMaster University recruited 64 sedentary people between the ages of 60 and 88. They divided them into three groups.[1]
Each group did one of the following routines, three times a week for 12 weeks:
When you eat at a restaurant these days, you’re often getting a side order of antibiotics.
That’s because many chains continue to serve meat from animals raised in such crowded, unsanitary conditions that they must be dosed with drugs to keep them from getting sick.
This practice is one of the main contributors to antibiotic resistance, which is become deadlier every year.… Read More
Doctors didn’t know what to make of it. They had never seen it before…
The patient was peeing purple.
A 70-year-old woman had been hospitalized with a stroke. Her doctors reported that the woman’s urine “appeared purple.”
At first, the medical staff was at a loss to explain it.
Urine color is, in fact, a common diagnostic indicator. But none of the doctors had ever heard of purple urine.… Read More
Until recently, mainstream doctors often advised patients against drinking coffee.
They believed the caffeine could cause the heart to speed up and beat irregularly. That myth was finally debunked in a 2016 study in the Journal of the American Heart Association.[1]
Other recent studies have found that coffee actually improves heart health. And it also:
When it comes to prescription drugs, newer is not better.
An international panel of researchers conducted a study in which they looked at 946 new drugs approved after 2002. They concluded that 92% were less effective or worked about the same as older drugs.
Only 8% were an improvement on older drugs. Just two medications out of 946 were true breakthroughs.… Read More