Category: Health/Natural

Get your immune system in shape and protect yourself from colds with these six tips.

A cold can strike at any time of the year, so keeping our immune system working at its peak level should be something most of us should consider long before the start of cold season. "It is believed that our immune system is easily affected by a number of factors, such as diet, stress levels, environment - even the medications we take," says Suzy Cohen, R.Ph., noted pharmacist and author of The 24-Hour Pharmacist. "Not knowing what particular things might affect you personally, it's important to incorporate a number of healthy changes into your lifestyle to assure that you're supporting your immune system and protecting yourself from infection all year long."

To help you understand the efficacy of natural healing with homeopathy, you can receive a free weekly e-letter to learn how to use homeopathy safely in your own home.

With people becoming more aware of the dangers linked to taking prescribed drugs, attention is turning to safer, natural therapies. Homoeopathy is a little known but highly effective form of natural health care. Because it is not widely known by the general public, Madeleine Innocent, a consultant homeopath in Western Australia, writes a free weekly e-zine to help increase people's awareness of homeopathy.

Researchers at UCSD School of Medicine are studying whether the brain hormone released with touches, hugs, or when a mother and her newborn baby bond might help patients with schizophrenia, social anxiety and a variety of other disorders.

Gazing into your lover’s eyes isn’t only romantic; it may also mimic early attachments that forever alter your brain and body.

A 10-day intensive training program helps people to take control of their health and lives. This program has been successful in guiding individuals to relieve symptoms of fibromyalgia, sometimes leading to complete recovery.

Fibromyalgia afflicts 600,000 Americans, 90% of whom are women. This disorder involves chronic widespread pain, extreme tactile sensitivity, fatigue, and often problems with sleep, bowel function, emotions and cognition. From a medical point of view, fibromyalgia's cause is not well understood, and no universally accepted cure exists. However, some doctors have successfully treated it as stress-related condition.

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Before you get all upset and decide throw away your stash, be aware that tobacco smoking causes even worse damage.

Regular use of marijuana in young adulthood is associated with periodontal (gum) disease, according to a study in the February 6 issue of JAMA.

You probably spend a lot of time in your living room. Here's ten Feng Shui tips to help you maximize this room to create harmony and a more healthful environment.

As any practitioner of Feng Shui can tell you, the single most important thing you can do to get the most out of your home is by paying attention to color. Color is the single biggest determining factor in attracting love and romance to your bedroom, education and peace to the room of your children and health and harmony to your living room.

Fibromyalgia, a disease affecting approximately 5 percent of the population, can cause pain that is truly profound and widespread affecting all aspects of the sufferer's life. Studies demonstrate that the use of magnetic therapy is an effective drug free means of alleviating this profound pain.

Fibromyalgia is a rather elusive disease characterized by widespread muscular and myofascial aches and pains. The most common sites are the back, shoulders and the joints, accompanied by pain and stiffness. Studies now show that those with the disease are experiencing drug free pain relief by using magnetic therapy to block pain receptors.

Drinking cranberry juice to prevent urinary tract infections, an old home remedy, has now been shown to be effective.

Evidence supports drinking cranberry juice — a familiar home remedy — to treat urinary tract infection (UTI), according to a new review from Scotland.

A new, as yet unpublished, review indicates that hawthorn extract improves symptoms of heart failure.

Adding another twist to the ongoing debate over the value of an herbal treatment for patients with heart failure, a new review of existing research suggests that hawthorn extract “significantly” improves symptoms.

More information from the Dahn Yoga folks to help keep the body healthy. Dahn Yoga is a body-mind fitness system based on ancient practices, and has diet and exercise programs for losing weight and regaining health. These guidelines involve eating good foods to obtain optimal life-enhancing nutrition and energy.

"Stressful living, inadequate exercise and poor nutrition make it easy to gain weight and hard to take it off and keep it off," declares Ilchi Lee, president of the University of Brain Education in South Korea. He adds, "A large part of the problem and solution is what is happening to our digestion, and therefore our health. Most people experience a build up of waste in their intestines, which negatively affects all our vital functions -- including the brain -- even leading to an unfavorable emotional impact."