We’ve all heard it before… Use it or lose it.
This old adage is often applied to exercise. The idea is that if you stop working out, you may never get back to your former fitness level.
A new study shows that when it comes to muscle, this is not true. It turns out that once you have it, you never truly lose it.… Read More
One of mainstream medicine’s most prevalent (and lucrative) back treatments has been revealed as a fraud…
More than 44 million Americans suffer from low bone mass or osteoporosis. And one of the biggest threats to their health is a spinal fracture. Their vertebrae become so weak that their back can no longer support their weight.
Some 750,000 Americans suffer from spinal fractures every year.… Read More
If your blood pressure reading is high during a check-up, your doctor will likely ask you to cut down on salt. And he or she may tell you to exercise more.
And then, more than likely than not, you’ll be asked to take a hypertension drug.
But a new study shows that you may not need to do any of that.… Read More
In the U.S., breast cancer is one of the most feared forms of cancer.[i]
We have pink ribbon campaigns, “runs for the cure,” and screening awareness programs to fight it.
In China, they have none of this. That’s because breast cancer isn’t nearly the threat it is here.
The death rate from breast cancer in China is 5.76 per 100,000 residents.… Read More
Six hours.
That’s the minimum amount of sleep you need each night for a healthy heart, according to a major new study.
The research was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.[1]
About 4,000 subjects were divided into groups depending on how much sleep they got.
The researchers measured levels of atherosclerosis in the subjects’ femoral and carotid arteries using ultrasound.… Read More
For decades, doctors were taught in medical school that there were 11 major systems in the human body.
They are the circulatory, nervous, respiratory, urinary, reproductive, skeletal, muscular, endocrine, lymphatic, digestive, and integumentary (skin) systems.
All of these bodily systems have been known for a century or more.
But in 1988, scientists at St. Louis University School of Medicine announced the discovery of a 12th human body system.… Read More