Jun 2, 2013

A number of studies suggest that milk thistle extract can reduce prostate cancer risk and spread in both animals and humans. Clinical studies have demonstrated that milk thistle extract possesses significant hepatoprotective, antidiabetic, and cardioprotective effects. In a recent study, milk thistle extract was used (along with soy, lycopene and antioxidants)...

Dec 20, 2012

CT scans, PET scans, routine medical and dental x-ray tests, and x-ray mammography now cause and estimated 2%-3% of all cancers in the United States—far higher than anywhere else in the world. U.S. citizens are the victims of modern medicine’s runaway use of medical and dental imaging tests. Your doctor or dentist will likely not inform you of the...

Jul 17, 2012

Tissue damage due to iron-generated free radicals is indistinguishable from damage caused by exposure to radiation from CT scans, mammograms, dental x-rays, and nuclear radiation fallout. A growing body of research suggests that consuming iron-fortified foods and iron-containing dietary supplements could pose a much greater health risk in men and women than has...

Jul 15, 2012

The Central Dogma of Paleolithic diet 2.0 theory — that our Stone Age DNA is ill suited to a Space Age environment – is intuitively appealing but questionable with respect to a number of it’s tenets. Many Paleo 2.0 bloggers and authors cherry pick contemporary biomedical science research in order to turn small fragments of data culled from the...

Jun 2, 2012

Researchers have discovered a compound in extra-virgin olive oil that may protect the brain from Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by the clumping together of a protein called tau into a snarled, spaghetti-like structure. Tau snarls form in brain regions associated with memory retention, and their appearance correlates well with...

Jun 2, 2012

Jack Sprat should stick to shellfish while his wife feasts on fattier fish, say diabetes researchers. Apparently, there’s a gender difference between the diabetes-lowering benefits men and women receive from seafood. Although several studies have linked the intake of omega-3 fatty acid-rich fish with a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes, a long-term Chinese study...