CBD, short for cannabidiol, has become one of the hottest wellness trends. It’s popping up in cafes, gift shops and pharmacies as a component of oils, tinctures, soaps, lotions, food products and even pet food. Coffee shops are offering to add CBD shots to your latte, while juice bars will add CBD oil to smoothies.
Have you ever heard of a condition known as myocarditis? If not, you need to be aware of it because according to some, the deadly disorder is on the rise as reported: Myocarditis, a potentially deadly type of heart disorder, is on the rise… This potentially deadly condition can affect anyone, but the picture of
According to the CDC: Stroke kills about 140,000 Americans each year—that’s 1 out of every 20 deaths. Someone in the United States has a stroke every 40 seconds. Every 4 minutes, someone dies of stroke. Every year, more than 795,000 people in the United States have a stroke. About 610,000 of these are first or new strokes. About 185,000 strokes—nearly 1 of
A novel use of intense light therapy may help decrease the tissue damage experienced during heart attacks, reveals new research in mice. The study, out of the University of Colorado and appearing in the journal Cell Reports, shows that exposing lab mice to intense light for a week improved their outcomes after heart attacks. The
New research suggests that using controlled electric currents to stimulate certain parts of the ear could readjust the body’s metabolic balance, thus reducing the risk of age related health problems. Vagus nerve stimulation is a practice that has lately gained a lot of attention from medical researchers. The vagus nerve is the longest of the
Nails are, nowadays, more than just the tip of our fingertips and toes that serve a few functions for our everyday lives and a part of our body. They have become a fashion accessory. A lot of people are seen flaunting acrylic or fake nails to make their hands look more put together and pretty.
Visceral fat is considered dangerous to a person’s health because of where it’s stored in the body. It can be found in the abdominal cavity next to many vital organs, such as the liver, pancreas and intestines. If a person has high levels of visceral fat, they may be at increased risk of developing more
Better heart health at age 50 is associated with better brain health and a lower risk of dementia later in life, according to the results of a 25-year longitudinal study (Sabia et al., 2019) published August 7 in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Dementia is a progressive disease caused by multiple factors that begin developing over a
Consumed in many traditional Asian populations for millennia, soya has only been a common part of the Western diet for around 60 years. Now, many of our supermarkets are full of soy milk alternatives, soy burgers and other soya-based meat replacements – not to mention traditional soy-based products like tofu, tempeh, soya milk, miso and
There is no question that cigarette smoke is deadly and is one of the main causes of lung cancer. Which leads to one of my key arguments against gun control laws. If people really want to do something to save the lives of people, they would strive to outlaw most, if not all, tobacco products
