All posts tagged with prevention
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-(Natural News) Everyone knows that vitamin C helps to support the immune system. It’s also a potent antioxidant that promotes wound healing and plays many other roles in human health. Vitamin C helps to detoxify the body on a cellular level and protects the body against damaging free radicals and toxins and boasts many health […]
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-(Natural News) Avian influenza, or bird flu as its commonly known, is a viral infection that was restricted to birds, particularly chickens, until 1997, when the first human patients were diagnosed in Hong Kong with the H5N1 strain. Now the agriculture ministry in France has announced an outbreak of a different strain of bird flu, […]
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-(Natural News) An innovative new smart bandage has the ability to detect bacterial infections in burn patients before an actual infection takes hold. Four UK hospitals will participate in clinical trials using tissue samples from burn patients. The smart bandages change color upon detecting a real infectious threat. This innovation has the potential to help […]
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-(Natural News) Vitamin D is one of the most extensively studied nutrients. Contrary to popular belief, vitamin D is not, well, a vitamin. The body can produce its own vitamin D, so it is technically a hormone. The primary source of vitamin D is sunlight. When skin cells are exposed to sunlight, a molecule in […]
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-(Natural News) Turmeric is all the rage right now, and for good reason! It’s been used for centuries as both a flavorful spice in a variety of dishes, and as a potent herbal medicine. The yellow-orange hued root provides a whole host of health benefits, and new research has just revealed another one. A study conducted […]
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-(Natural News) The quest for a sunscreen product that is non-toxic is a tough one. The fact is that many sunscreens rely on toxic, man-made chemicals to filter and protect your skin from the sun’s rays. Sunscreens often also include ingredients meant to enhance the product’s adherence to your skin, but this can also result in […]
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-(Natural News) Gac (Momordica cochinchinensis) is a fruit indigenous to Southeast Asia and highly valued for its nutritional and medicinal uses. Its seeds are used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat a variety of ailments including boils, rheumatic pain, muscle spasm, hemorrhoids, and hemangiomas. In a recent study published in The American Journal of Chinese Medicine, researchers from Sungkyunkwan University in […]