Cutting Edge Research Made Easy
by Linda Woolven, B.A., Master Herbalist, Acupuncturist and Ted Snider, B.Ed., M.A.
The scientific evidence for the benefits of vitamin D for dementia and Alzheimer’s is rapidly accumulating. This new study adds even more.
Many diets are hard to maintain because they require you to eat less. Instead, this diet asks you to change the foods you eat while allowing you to eat as much as you want: delicious, filling and effective!
If you are diabetic or overweight, black seed could help you to prevent cardiovascular disease.
Pomegranate is loaded in polyphenols and has proven powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. This systematic review and meta-analysis put those powers to the test against risk factors for heart disease.
It’s hard to believe, but it is estimated that over a billion people have high blood pressure. It might also be hard to believe, but something as safe, simple and inexpensive as ginger supplements might help that.
It should no longer be surprising that a healthy diet, loaded in, among other things, fruits and vegetables, fiber and healthy fats, can help prevent breast cancer and death from breast cancer. This exciting new study adds to the evidence and points to a particular class of antioxidant.
Want a tasty way to live longer? Check out this huge new study of diet and all-cause mortality.
New science says helping hot flashes may be a beautiful flower away!
Could that beautiful pink flower growing on your lawn really be a potent enough herb to take on the hot flashes of menopause? That’s what this new meta-analysis set out to see.
You know melatonin as a hormone secreted by the human pineal gland. But a surprising discovery is that there is a plethora of plant sources of melatonin.
A surprising discovery is that several plants and herbs are natural sources of melatonin, a hormone that, in humans, is produced in the pineal gland. One of those natural sources in pistachio. How well does it work for sleep?
Pharmaceutical treatments for ulcerative colitis have a range of side effects that is considerable. That has led to a search for natural alternatives. That search has led to a surprisingly simple new candidate.