Cutting Edge Research Made Easy
by Linda Woolven, B.A., Master Herbalist, Acupuncturist and Ted Snider, B.Ed., M.A.
Long COVID affects 10-30% of people who got COVID and were not hospitalized. Most of the recent research is pointing to numbers more like 50-70%. It is well known that vitamin D helps prevent COVID. But can it also help prevent long COVID?
As many as 10% of Americans experience unpleasant sensations in their leg that give them the irresistible urge to move them. But new research suggests that there is natural help for restless leg syndrome.
An important new global study shows that diet is a cause of most new cases of diabetes. The good news is that that means that preventing diabetes is largely in your control.
Several studies have suggested that vitamin D may play a role in preventing and treating diabetes. The evidence has just charged past suggestive!
Insomnia causes frustrating nights and leads to difficult days, including anxiety and lack of alertness. The herb ashwagandha is emerging in the research as a powerful, natural answer to both insomnia and anxiety. A new systematic review and meta-analysis has now added to that evidence. It included five studies of 400 people. Compared to placebo,…
A just published study offers new hope to people with multiple sclerosis that a safe, inexpensive and easy to find herb can improve disability and quality of life.
This one herb helps with stress, insomnia, cognition and happiness. It may be the perfect herb for today!
You can never get enough safe help for high blood pressure. So, it’s always nice when you add a new herb to the list.
You already knew that saw palmetto is at least as good as the drugs while being safer for men with enlarged prostate, but more evidence is always good.
This powerful and versatile herb does lots of good things. But did you know it helps with weight loss?
Breaking bones is always bad. For the elderly, it can be really bad. This simple vitamin can help relieve the worry.
In a just published study, adding this herbal extract to conventional treatment drastically reduced death in critically ill COVID patients who were admitted to ICU.