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  It’s common to associate tension and neck pain with stress, but less common to think thatchronic low back pain could be caused or aggravated by stress.The researchers of the following study wanted to find out if financial worries were associatedwith chronic spinal pain (Yang H, Haldeman S, 2020).Data from...

  In this study, participants taking berberine when compared to the placebo group saw areduction in triglycerides by 35.9% total cholesterol by 18.1% and LDL (low-density lipoprotein),the so-called bad cholesterol by 21.1% (Zhang Y, et.al., 2008). Patients with metabolic syndrome treated with berberine for 3 months showed a decrease intheir...

  You need to keep your glucose metabolism healthy by keeping your blood glucose at a low andnormal level.There are several reasons why this is important. When your blood glucose is elevated to a highlevel as it tends to be when we get insulin resistant, and when we eat high...

    Mental toughness or what is also called psychological hardiness characterizes people whoremain healthy under psychosocial stress.The participants of this study were tested for several immune and neuroendocrine markersunder a highly stressful military field exercise (Sandvik AM, et.al., 2013).Blood samples were taken midway of the exercise, and also later...

  This research evaluated the effect of compassion meditation on immune, neuroendocrine andbehavioral responses to psychosocial stress.61 healthy adults were randomly allocated to either 6 weeks of practice in compassionmeditation or participation in a health discussion control group (Paace TW, et.al., 2009). The researchers found that increased meditation practice was...

  The researchers of this study analyzed more than 300 articles describing a relationship between psychological stress and how it affected the immune system in human participants (Segerstrom SC, Miller GE.,2004).They found that chronic stressors were associated with suppression of both cellular and humoral immunity.A cellular immune response activates phagocytes,...

    Shoulder conditions like rotator cuff tendinopathy are more common as we get older. It ispainful, it interferes with daily activities, and it can take a long time to get rid of it. The observation that it is more common as we age is a correct observation.This research where...

Our tissue can get damaged in many ways, from an injury to bacterial and viral infections.When tissue gets damaged, free radicals and inflammation are triggered.Research has shown accelerated viral mutation by nitric oxide-induced oxidative stress (AkaikeT, 2001).Glutathione which the body makes it an important intracellular and extracellular protective antioxidant against...

We know that eating more for breakfast and less for dinner can result in weight loss.Eating dinner earlier can also lead to weight loss.How might an irregular eating pattern affect us?This has been investigated.In this study, participants followed either a regular meal pattern (6 meals daily) or an irregularmeal pattern...

  Why would we need to take glutathione if the body is making it?The reason is that we make less as we get older, and under certain circumstances, we also use more.Altered intracellular glutathione levels are observed in a wide range of pathologies, includingseveral viral infections, as well as in...

  We know it’s better to avoid high blood glucose levels since that can cause tissue damage. Several things can affect blood glucose levels, one important factor is the type of food we eat.   It’s logical that the food we eat will have an impact on our blood glucose...

  This research tested whether supplementation of resveratrol would enhance memoryperformance in older adults (Witte AV, et.al., 2014).The participants were 23 healthy overweight females and males 50-75 years old which werematched to 23 participants given a placebo.The study went on for 26 weeks, and the dose of resveratrol used was...

  Maybe you find it surprising that you can reduce your blood pressure just by changing the timeyou eat. You can however not only reduce your blood pressure by doing that, but quite a fewother things have been shown to improve as well.This research was based on the results of...

  Every tissue in the body needs nutrients including the brain and the nervous system.To deliver an optimal amount of nutrients to the tissue, we need a vascular system thatprovide good circulation.Atherosclerosis and stenosis of the vascular system will decrease blood circulation.The following research investigated the impact of intracranial arterial...

Can it be this easy to lower your cholesterol and LDL?   The following research compiled data from several randomized controlled studies thatinvestigated the effects of turmeric and curcumin on blood triglycerides, total cholesterol, LDLcholesterol, and HDL cholesterol in subjects with metabolic diseases (Yuan F, et.al., 2019).The above-mentioned compounds are...

  They started following 27,607 men without cancer from 1994 to 2008 who developed distant organ metastases (it spread to other parts of the body), and men who died from prostate cancer during the follow-up. This is what the researchers found. Men who consumed 2.5 or more eggs per week...

Increasing evidence is now supporting the hypothesis that oxidized cholesterol is the driving force behind the development of Alzheimer’s disease and oxysterols, which are the oxidized form of cholesterol, are the link connecting the disease to altered cholesterol metabolism in the brain and to high cholesterol; this is because of...

  No one wants to feel anxious, so what can you do?  The aim of this research was to find out if omega 3 fatty acids would reduce inflammatory markers and symptoms of anxiety in healthy young adults (Kiecolt-Glaser JK, et.al., 2011). The participants of this double blind placebo controlled...

  Both omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids are essential which means we have to get them through the diet, since the body cannot make them.  The omega 6 fatty acid intake is quite a bit higher than the omega 3 intake the way most people eat now. Omega...

The following was a small study, but it is interesting because the participants were young females and males with an average age of 28.8 years (Montesinos L, et.al., 2018). Their average body mass index was 23.4 and their resting heart rate was 63.1 which are considered good.  Sleep and balance...