Category: Latest Medical Research Articles
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Fist Bumps vs. Handshakes: What Is The Healthy Option?
There’s always been this “manners” stigma associated with how one should greet their elders. But this only happens in certain cultures, for instance in most South African black communities, it is believed that showing respect to your elders is shaking their hands when greeting. However, scientists at Aberystwyth University in Wales have found that handshakes…
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Everything You Need To Know About A Bladder Infection
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How Antibiotics Can Reduce Your Brain Function
Recent findings show that long-term use of antibiotics can impede memory and brain cell growth, as well as gut health. The link between the gut and brain has been under the medical spotlight for over a year. But a recent scientific paper published in April 2016 shows a clear link between gut microbes, the immune…
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Drinking From Plastic Can Make You Gain Weight
Hard to believe, but it’s true. Toxic Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDC) that lurk in many plastic products (1) we use on a daily basis can lead to weight gain. (2) While there have been a variety of studies proving this statement, one particular one conducted in the Environmental Health Perspectives Journal provided extensive proof. (3) This evidence was…
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Your Blood Pressure Explained And When To Worry
Your blood pressure reading measures the amount of blood forced through your veins pushing against the walls of your blood vessels. Most of the time, these readings only make sense to a health professional. So what does it mean when you are told you have low blood pressure or pre-hypertension and when should you begin…
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Adrenal Fatigue: The Ins and Outs of Exhaustion
It doesn’t matter whether mental or physical stress comes first; they both add to adrenal fatigue. Exhaustion is now so common that it has become a status symbol for the hard-working. The pace of life is increasing each day, leaving the body and mind struggling to keep up. The adrenal glands produce hormones that regulate…
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10 things to know about IDA and anemia
Ignorance is definitely not bliss – especially when it comes to your health and your family’s health. Not to freak you out, but we can’t be immune to almost every illness, and this includes Iron Deficiency Anemia (IDA). I recently read a study that reveals that iron deficiency is the number one cause of anemia…
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Know The Hazardous Side Of Synthetic Supplements
The long-standing debate on the availability of nutritional supplements and herbs is still a hot topic. Whether you believe they should be easily available or prescription only may not be as important as the regulation of quality. Even though we all have a right to good health we also need to know what we are…
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What Your Blood Type Tells You About Your Health
There is a certain amount of ambiguity when it comes to understanding exactly what your blood type tells you about your health. But the truth is, you’re likely to have been told many proven facts and mistruths. So before you start developing preconceptions, you need understand what this red stuff going through your veins really is.…
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How To Prevent A Stroke In 7 Steps
Thanks to amazing medical advances, more people than ever are surviving strokes – the blood clots and leaks that block blood flow to parts of the brain. A new study finds that a stroke ages your brain by eight years. Scientists from the University of Michigan compared memory and thinking-speed tests before and after a stroke…