Here’s a link to the article on NPR (http://n.pr/1lrRnq3 Given, the current agreement is, that there is 10 : 1...
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Oregano — Wonder Herb
Origanum vulgare (Oregano) is native to Greece, but mostly produced today in Turkey. Like all mints, the plant has a...
Osteoarthritis
The arthritic diseases revolve around degeneration of bone and cartilage and can be due to infection, trauma, and inflammation, or...
Osteoporosis Update
Loss of height of one inch or more may be an indicator of a vertebral fracture.That means one of the...
Overheard at Rainbow Foods
Overheard in the Healthfood Store Two friends, Linda and Jenna, who work at Rainbow Foods in beautiful downtown Juneau, Alaska,...
Oxygen and ozone therapy — fundamental and innovative
What is the most fundamental nutrient? It’s oxygen. Think about it. You can go 40 days or so without food....
Pass the Butter, Please
Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money...
Pestilence, Pandemics and Contagion continue to shape human history
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-pandemics-change-history?itm_content=footer-recirc Check out this excellent interview with Yale history of medicine professor Dr. Frank Snowden about pandemics, which have stopped...
Pills That Make Us Fat
published in the March 8, 2008 issue of New Scientist Magazine by Harvard researcher Paula J. Caplan Walk down any...
Popular Antidepressant May Promote Breast Cancer
Yet again, we learn that drugs are good for the pharmaceutical industry and not necessarily for patients. Even worse, these drugs...
Practical advice for reducing COVID-19 risk
I will be offering TeleMedicine in April as soon as my state license to do so is approved. We will...
Preparing for a COLONOSCOPY (humor)
This is from newshound Dave Barry’s colonoscopy journal: I called my friend Andy Sable, a gastroenterologist, to make an appointment...