A Highly Effective, Cheap, Easy-to-Use, Safer Treatment for Heavy Periods
Ginger is most famous for its role in preventing and alleviating nausea and vomiting. There...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
What happens when you put diabetics on a diet composed largely of whole grains, vegetables, and beans? The American Medical Association has described macrobiotic diets as “one of the most dangerous dietary regimens, posing not only serious hazards to the...
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The Downside of Curcumin Supplements
Supplement manufacturers often fall into the same reductionist trap as the drug companies. Herbs are...
Turmeric Curcumin Put to the Test for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
My video Striking with the Root: Turmeric Curcumin and Ulcerative Colitis tells the story how...
How to Treat Lupus with Turmeric
Different autoimmune diseases tend to target different organs. If our immune system attacks the insulin-producing...
Fennel Seeds for a Nitrate Boost
Dozens of studies now suggest that the nitrates in vegetables, such as beets and green...
How to Treat Infant Colic
Colic, characterized by prolonged periods of inconsolable crying, affects up to 40 percent of young...
Fennel Seeds vs. Ginger for Menstrual Cramps and PMS
Ninety percent of women report having painful menstrual cramps at least some of the time....
The Spice Proven to Benefit Prediabetes
In my video Turmeric Curcumin for Prediabetes, I talk about “Curcumin extract for prevention of...
What to Take After Surgery
Medicine is messy. One of the reasons researchers experiment on animals is they can create...
Boosting Brown Fat Through Diet
Until about ten years ago, brown adipose tissue (BAT) was considered to be biologically active...
Heart of Gold: Turmeric vs. Exercise
The endothelium is the inner lining of our blood vessels. Laid end-to-end, endothelial cells from...
Ginger Root for Migraines
Many successful herbal treatments start like this: Some doctor learns that some plant has been...
Best Food for MGUS to Prevent Multiple Myeloma
Multiple myeloma is one of our most dreaded cancers. It’s a cancer of our antibody-producing...
Why Some Like Cilantro and Others Hate It
One sign of changing U.S. demographics is that salsa has replaced ketchup as America’s #1...
How May Eating Plants Help Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease?
Intake of saturated fats and added sugars, two of the primary components of a modern...
How Turmeric Can Help Combat the Effects of Sitting
The average American spends most of their waking life sitting down, which is associated with...
Treating Pancreatic Cancer with Turmeric Curcumin
Pancreatic cancer is among the most aggressive forms of human cancer, characterized by a very...
Can Turmeric Help with Alzheimer’s?
The spice turmeric may help prevent Alzheimer’s disease (See Preventing Alzheimer’s with Turmeric), but what...
Might Turmeric Help Prevent Alzheimer’s?
There are plenty of anti-inflammatory drugs out there that may reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s...
How to Cook Broccoli
When I used to teach medical students at Tufts, I gave a lecture about this...
Making Your Own Mouthwash
The effects of a vegetarian diet on systemic diseases like cancer, diabetes, and heart diseases...
How to Suppress the Aging Enzyme TOR
Over the last decade, more than 5,000 papers have been published about TOR, an engine-of-aging...
Topical Application of Turmeric Curcumin for Cancer
In my video, Turmeric Curcumin and Colon Cancer, I talked about a study where researchers...
Preventing and Treating Colon Cancer with Turmeric Curcumin
The low incidence of bowel cancer in India is often attributed to natural antioxidants such...
