Category: Health/Natural

Researchers find only 250 products out of 30,000 worthy of top rating. Analysis includes dietary supplements, natural medicines, herbals, homeopathics and other natural products.

Consumers shopping the dietary supplement aisle and healthcare professionals advising patients using natural medicines face difficult questions. Of the hundreds or thousands of products on the shelf or online, which ones work? Are they safe? Do they even contain the ingredients listed on the label?

In many cases, vertigo can be treated with simple maneuvers - a series of head and body movements performed by a doctor or therapist while the patient sits on a bed or table.

A new guideline developed by the American Academy of Neurology found that the best treatment for vertigo is the easiest and quickest one. The guideline on benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), an inner ear disorder that is a common cause of dizziness, is published in the May 27, 2008, issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

The real antidote to the acid reflux blues is not so much about “what to do“ but about “what not to do.“ The important factors are what we eat, how we eat, where we eat and when we eat. It is not about drugs, surgery or ever doctors, for that matter. The natural cure for acid reflux is all about common sense.

The real antidote to acid reflux, gerd, heartburn and indigestion is what we eat, how we eat, where we eat and when we eat. This all sounds quite simple, but it is not. Everyone is different; therefore people have to approach eating in different ways.

Thanks to ground-breaking technology and a neurological understanding about what causes fibromyalgia, a small group of board-certified doctors across the US are successfully treating neurological fibromyalgia by bringing the brain and nervous system back into balance without using pain-masking pills or prescription medication.

Cherry Govers is one of 6 million Americans who understand the daily pain, fatigue and frustration of living with fibromyalgia. She suffered with fibromyalgia for nearly 25 years. Today, thanks to ground-breaking technology and a neurological understanding about how fibromyalgia results from an overabundance of cortizol that ultimately disrupts the lower and upper brain stem connection prompting Type-C brain fibers to become overexcited, patients like Cherry can regain their ability to function at work and home virtually symptom-free.

Mothers exposed to farms, particularly to barns and farm milk, while pregnant confer protection from allergies on their newborns, according to a group of German researchers.

Mothers exposed to farms, particularly to barns and farm milk, while pregnant confer protection from allergies on their newborns, according to a group of German researchers, who presented their findings at the American Thoracic Society’s 2008 International Conference in Toronto yesterday.

Researchers believe that they've found yet another medical benifit from the moderate consumption of wine.

Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine are challenging conventional thinking with a study showing that modest wine consumption, defined as one glass a day, may not only be safe for the liver, but may actually decrease the prevalence of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD).

Chemicals found in green tea may be able to stave off the cognitive deficits that occur with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to a new study published in the second issue for May of the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Researchers examined the effects green tea polyphenols (GTP), administered through drinking water, on rats who were intermittently deprived of oxygen during 12-hour “night” cycles, mimicking the intermittent hypoxia (IH) that humans with OSA experience.

Acupuncture and myofascial trigger therapy treat same pain areas, Mayo specialist says.

Ancient acupuncture and modern myofascial pain therapy each focus on hundreds of similar points on the body to treat pain, although they do it differently, says a physician at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville who analyzed the two techniques.

NIST has developed Standard Reference Materials for bitter orange, long used in folk medicine and now increasingly used in herbal weight-loss products. Researchers can use the new materials to develop and test analytical methods for compounds in bitter orange or as control materials for quality assurance.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) for bitter orange, long used in folk medicine and now increasingly used in herbal weight-loss products. Researchers can use the new materials to develop and test analytical methods for compounds in bitter orange, or as control materials for quality assurance of their measurements. The NIST samples do not offer scientific evidence to address the use of bitter orange for health purposes.

Laughter yoga can really make a difference in your overall health. While it shouldn’t replace other types of exercise, laughter yoga is fun and it can help to reduce stress, enhance the immune system, and even tone muscles, say University of Michigan Health System fitness experts.

“Ho ho, ha ha ha,” students in a fitness class at the University of Michigan Health System chant repeatedly while clapping their hands and walking around the room.

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The laughter yoga course at the University of Michigan teaches students how to re-learn something children already know instinctively: that laughter makes you feel better.