Cutting Edge Research Made Easy
by Linda Woolven, B.A., Master Herbalist, Acupuncturist and Ted Snider, B.Ed., M.A.
One of the oddest looking fruits, avocados are unique and delicious. According to a huge, new study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, they are also really good for your heart.
We typically eat the fruit and throw away the seed. But that little seed may be valuable for your heart. Emerging research is suggesting that grape seed extract may be important for cardiovascular health.
What if finally helping your depression was just a beautiful flower away? A new study adds to the mountain of evidence that this safe, beautiful herb is one of the most important treatments for depression.
This incredible study showed that NAC may have a remarkable ability to save lives from COVID.
Lemon verbena has long been used in herbal tea combinations to help you sleep. A new study puts some science behind that tradition.
Folic acid is a safe, inexpensive vitamin with several health benefits. New research is showing that taking folic acid could help you to live a longer and cognitively healthier life.
In our backyard, there is a beautiful old tree that, it turns out, could help cure COVID.
A healthy diet improves everything else about your health. So, why shouldn’t it improve your sleep? It does!
Gastrointestinal cancers are very common. The most common types are gastric and colorectal cancer. Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the world; gastric cancer is the third leading cause of cancer mortality in the world. Garlic has been shown to help prevent many types of cancer, including breast, prostate, pancreatic and esophageal….
Lots of berries, from blueberries to bilberries and hawthorn berries, have achieved herbal and health fame. One berry that has not attracted the spotlight yet is chokeberry. But it may be time to start taking notice of this emerging herbal star.
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia, or enlarged prostate, will affect the quality of life of more than half of all men in their lifetime. 90% of men over 85 suffer through it. But there is a safe herb that works as well as any of the far less safe drugs.
You know the fruit, and you know the oil. It’s time you got to know the leaf. Olive leaf that is. Did you know that there is more of olive’s healthy ingredients in the leaf than in the fruit or oil? And those ingredients just may be the answer for your aching knees.