Cutting Edge Research Made Easy
by Linda Woolven, B.A., Master Herbalist, Acupuncturist and Ted Snider, B.Ed., M.A.
Hops is best known, not as a medicinal herb, but as an ingredient in beer. Turns out it’s valuable for both.
Though not much talked about, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common cause of chronic liver disease. Being overweight and being insulin resistant play key roles in the progression of NAFLD. A surprising herb may be able to help you lose weight in a way that helps with insulin and NAFLD.
Olive leaf extract is little discussed, but it has shown great promise as a supplement for heart health. Now a new study on a supplement that sounds more like a salad has combined olives with citrus and come up with remarkable results for preventing cardiovascular disease.
Want to enhance the effects of your workout? Fenugreek may be a powerful answer for men.
Coffee can be really good for you, or it can be really bad for you. So, how much is enough, and how much is too much? Recent research has redeemed coffee and transformed it from a bad habit to a health food. But, there is a sweet spot for coffee: the right amount is good…
You’ve heard of saffron, and you’ve heard of depression and anxiety, but have you ever of saffron for depression and anxiety?
Schizophrenia can impair daily functioning to the point of being disabling. And it is not easy to treat. But, emerging research on an exotic but readily available herb is creating excitement.
Schizophrenia is difficult to treat. Drugs may offer some help to the positive symptoms like hallucinations and delusions, but they are helpless against the negative social and cognitive symptoms like apathy, lack of emotion, poor social functioning and disorganized thoughts. But where the drugs don’t help, a herb might.
Researchers keep giving hydroxychloroquine another chance, but, despite continued promotion from nonexperts, it just keeps failing.
Antimalarial drugs like hydroxychloroquine have a surprising history in times of pandemic: they keep showing up. But the case of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 gets curiouser and curiouser.
The research is really early, but the preliminary hope is that it might.
Coenzyme Q10 is one of the most important heart nutrients. New research is showing that it may also be an important antioxidant.