Category: Healthy Living

Why Your Brain Craves PQQ

Randolph Jason

Why Your Brain Craves PQQ by Dr. Joseph Mercola for Mercola While your diet is one of the most important tools you can use to take control of your health, certain supplements can be helpful, especially when it comes to improving your mitochondrial function. One particularly powerful supplement in this regard is pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ),1 which has been shown to promote the growth of new mitochondria (mitochondrial biogenesis). Your mitochondria also require PQQ to catalyze energy producing reactions, and it’s critical in protecting your mitochondria from damage. Your mitochondria are the tiny energy producers…

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Adding beetroots to your diet can prevent high blood pressure from salty food

Randolph Jason

Adding beetroots to your diet can prevent high blood pressure from salty food By Melissa Smith for Prevention Eating lots of salty food can contribute to the development of hypertension or high blood pressure, which is a key risk factor for many heart-related diseases. Protect yourself from hypertension by adding nitrate-rich beetroots to your diet. A study published in the journal Hypertension found that small amounts of beetroot and other foods loaded with nitrates may prevent increases in blood pressure caused by salt consumption. In this study, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, Michigan…

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Omega-3 Fish Oil As Effective As Drugs For Some Children With ADHD

Randolph Jason

Omega-3 Fish Oil As Effective As Drugs For Some Children With ADHD By Jane Chang via Natural Blaze Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is quite common. It affects about one in 20 children and is three or four times more common in boys than in girls. Children with ADHD, which is characterised by inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity, are more likely to drop out of school. Fortunately, drugs to treat the condition work well for 60-80% of children who take them. But that leaves 20-40% of children who have a poor response to the drugs or…

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Probiotics Help Prevent Cognitive Decline

Randolph Jason

Probiotics Help Prevent Cognitive Decline by Dr. Joseph Mercola for Mercola As your “second brain,” the state of your gut has been shown to play an important role in your neurological health. Importantly, studies have shown probiotics (beneficial bacteria) can help decrease pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), including amyloid plaques and tangles.1 One of the most impressive of these studies2 was published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience in 2016. Sixty elderly patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s received either a placebo or a probiotic milk product containing Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus casei, Bifidobacterium bifidum…

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Salmonella in Ground Beef Kills One and Sickens People in Seven States…But No One Is Saying Which Brands to Avoid

Randolph Jason

Salmonella in Ground Beef Kills One and Sickens People in Seven States…But No One Is Saying Which Brands to Avoid By Dagny Taggart for The Organic Prepper Surprise! There is another foodborne illness outbreak making the rounds. Some of the details surrounding this one are particularly disturbing. This time, the offending pathogen is a nasty strain of Salmonella. From Food Safety News: Officials say another person is among the victims of a seven-state Salmonella Dublin outbreak that is linked to ground beef. One company has initiated a recall, but federal officials say other unnamed companies also…

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Trump smashes hospital bill secrecy sham, forces hospitals to publicly publish secret prices so that consumers can make informed choices

Randolph Jason

Trump smashes hospital bill secrecy sham, forces hospitals to publicly publish secret prices so that consumers can make informed choices By Ethan Huff for News Target The Trump administration is currently in the process of finalizing a new price transparency rule that, once it comes into effect in January 2021, will force all hospitalsto publish their service prices publicly for the benefit of consumers. Currently, hospitals are allowed to charge whatever prices they want to for services, typically in secret, burdening patients with exorbitant bills after they’ve already received medical care.…

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The Flu Is NOT A Season

Randolph Jason

The Flu Is NOT A Season from Natural Blaze Between the months of December to February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declare “Peak Season” for the flu, a time to get a flu vaccine. However, flu is not a season. And the flu vaccine is more like baseball. How The Flu Vaccine is Like Baseball What is worse than a batting average of .290? That would be the effectiveness of the 2019 flu vaccine, dubbed to be “the second lowest rate since 2014.”  “The experts” claim the…

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What You Need to Know to Protect Your Family from Superbugs as Antibiotic Resistance Reaches Crisis Level

Randolph Jason

What You Need to Know to Protect Your Family from Superbugs as Antibiotic Resistance Reaches Crisis Level by Jenny Jayne for The Organic Prepper Antibiotics have saved lives since 1942 when the first person was saved using the first antibiotic, penicillin. However, since then, overuse and permeation of life-saving drugs into our environment and water sources has caused drug resistance in once easy-to-cure strains of bacteria and fungi. As preppers, we prepare for disasters, but most don’t know that we are no longer waiting for a particularly serious disaster. The apocalypse has…

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Low Magnesium Linked to Diabetes and High Blood Pressure

Randolph Jason

Low Magnesium Linked to Diabetes and High Blood Pressure by Dr. Joseph Mercola for Mercola Magnesium1 is involved in hundreds of biochemical reactions in your body,2,3 and deficiency can contribute to significant health problems. Two common pathologies associated with magnesium deficiency are Type 2 diabetes4,5 and heart disease. According to one scientific review,6 low magnesium may actually be the greatest predictor of heart disease, and other recent research7 published in Open Heart journal suggests even subclinical magnesium deficiency can compromise your cardiovascular health. As noted in a 2018 scientific review8,9 published in Open Heart journal, a “vast…

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