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Migraine sufferers sometimes feel like someone tied to the railroad tracks.
They can see the train coming. But there’s nothing they can do to stop it.
Migraine patients often can tell when a headache is coming. They become sensitive to light. Or they get a dull ache on one side of their head.
Shortly after, the pain comes roaring through. It’s so excruciating that work or any other normal activity is impossible.… Read More
For years, Big Pharma ignored fish oil.
And when they weren’t ignoring it, they were disparaging it by saying that statin drugs and other prescription meds were more effective in preventing heart disease.
But then study after study began showing fish oil’s effectiveness.
Large, high-quality trials showed that fish oil cut the risk of heart attack with few, if any, side effects.… Read More
X-rays…CT scans…PET scans…mammograms…fluoroscopy…
You’ve had a least some of these medical imaging procedures done to you. And the chances are good that you’ve had them done many times.
Doctors often order imaging tests routinely when trying to diagnose an illness or determine its severity.
We’ve known for a long time that the radiation exposure from these tests raises cancer risk. But doctors routinely warned us that the danger was slight.… Read More
Intermittent fasting is all the rage these days among people trying to lose weight. And justifiably so.
Study after study shows it works better than traditional low-calorie diets. Not only does intermittent fasting help people drop weight, but it helps them keep it off. Intermittent fasters are far less prone to regaining lost weight than conventional calorie-cutters.[1]
Now a new study shows that intermittent fasting’s benefits go beyond weight loss.… Read More
Mainstream medicine’s top weapons against inflammation are glucocorticoid drugs. They include cortisone and prednisone.
These drugs are also called steroids. But they aren’t the kind that give you muscle. Instead, they change your metabolism to tamp down inflammation.
Doctors prescribe them for a wide variety of conditions. They include autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, colitis, psoriasis, and eczema.… Read More
For years, doctors treated arthritis patients this way…
First, they would recommend aspirin, ibuprofen or another NSAID medication to ease the pain.
If that didn’t work, they would prescribe something stronger. If the patient had knee or hip arthritis, the choice was often an opioid drug.
Addiction? That wasn’t seen as a problem because doctors believed patients truly in pain did not become addicted. … Read More