Study Shows Junk Food Harms Children’s Bone Quality
Abigail Klein Leichman via Israel21c – Parents may want to consider limiting their children’s consumption of ultra-processed packaged foods not only because these foods can lead to obesity and diabetes. They may…
Can Cell Phone Radiation Damage Your DNA?
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM via Nutrition Facts – Do mobile phones cause brain tumors? Whenever a trillion-dollar industry is involved—whether it’s Big Food, Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, or Big Telecom—there’s so…
Curcumin Nanosystems Could Be Powerful COVID-19 Therapeutics
Dr. Liji Thomas, MD via News-Medical – With new variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerging, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is far from over. While the…
Vitamin D Deficiency May Impair Muscle Function
Society for Endocrinology via EurekAlert – Vitamin D deficiency may impair muscle function due to a reduction in energy production in the muscles, according to a mouse study published in…
Yogurt as a Cure for Covid-19 and Crohn’s Disease?
Brian Blum via Israel21c – Can yogurt cure Covid-19 and Crohn’s disease? Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have identified molecules in kefir, a type of yogurt, that have…
Artificial Intelligence Could Crack the Language of Cancer and Alzheimer’s
St. John’s College, University of Cambridge via EurekAlert – Powerful algorithms used by Netflix, Amazon and Facebook can ‘predict’ the biological language of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, scientists have…
Helpful Foods to Support People with Autism
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM via Nutrition Facts – The sulforaphane found in five cents’ worth of broccoli sprouts has been shown to benefit autism in a way no drug ever has…
Accelerated Cellular Aging Associated With Mortality Seen in Depressed Individuals
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research via EurekAlert – Cells from healthy individuals with major depressive disorder were found to have higher than expected rates of methylation at specific sites on…
Pain Is Always a Perception’: Physical Therapy Can Help Prevent, Treat Opioid Use Disorder
West Virginia University via EurekAlert – When you think of ways to treat opioid use disorder, you might think methadone clinics and Narcotics Anonymous meetings. You probably don’t imagine stretches and…
Leaky Gut and Microbial Dysbiosis Could Contribute to Cytokine Storm in Severely Ill COVID-19 Cases
Dr. Liji Thomas, MD via News-Medical – As the world approaches the grim milestone of three million deaths from COVID-19 disease, a new preprint research paper posted to the bioRxiv*…
Childhood Brain Tumors Linked to Mother’s Exposure to Pesticides
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health via Newswise – LOS ANGELES (April 2, 2021) – Research published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Research suggests that exposure during pregnancy to a wide…
Fighting Autism Brain Inflammation with Food
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM via NutritionFacts – One food may be able to combat all four purported causal factors of autism: synaptic dysfunction, oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and neuroinflammation. In a…
Landmark Discovery May Lead to Safe, Effective Antiviral Drugs Against COVID-19
Argonne National Laboratory via News-Medical – The COVID-19 vaccines currently rolling out are providing hope that the spread of the disease can be halted. But infection rates are still high, and…
WARNING: Artificial Colors Trigger Unwanted Human Behavior
Sima Ash via NaturalHealth365 – In the 1970s, Dr. Ben F. Feingold, a physician out of Kaiser Permanente, noticed the link between behavior and artificial colors. Some physicians embraced his studies…
BrainGate: First Human Use of High-Bandwidth Wireless Brain-Computer Interface
Brown University via Newswise – PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University and Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center] — Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are an emerging assistive technology, enabling people with paralysis to type on…
