What natural supplements and medicines work to prevent or lessen diabetes? We know that the Western-prescribed medicines such as insulin injections and metformin pills are extremely effective, but wouldn’t it be great, and much healthier for us, if we could focus on more natural therapies?… Read the rest
Category Archives: Illness
Diabetes: Yes, You Can Prevent It. Here's The #1 Tip…
Here’s another pop quiz: What’s the most effective way to prevent or reverse diabetes?
- Exercise
- Diet
- Weight Loss
- Avoiding sugar
The answer, surprising to many, is not diet, it is — weight loss! Losing about 5-10% of your body weight seems to have the most impact in reducing your risk of developing diabetes.
Potassium Iodide and Radiation Exposure: Who Needs It?
It’s been a hectic couple days, but at least for today there is no radioactive cloud approaching us. But this certainly is bringing up a good debate about what to do in case this actually happens. Usually, if a community is exposed, people take the OTC medicine potassium iodide to use just before and during exposure. … Read the rest
Great News: Something Actually Helps Fight The Common Cold — Zinc!
I’ve often complained, along with the rest of the world, that there is no magic pill yet designed to cure the world’s most common illness — the common cold. But now, there is some hope! There’s an excellent meta-analysis by the well-respected Cochrane Library which now says what some docs had been touting for years — that zinc supplements, when taken within 24 hours of cold symptoms, can truly improve symptom severity and length, as well as lower risk of needing antibiotics.… Read the rest
Diabetes — Do You Have It And Not Know It?
How many of you have ever been told by a doctor that you have pre-diabetes? Even more worrisome, how many readers have diabetes but don’t know it?
This is not a rare problem at all; it’s estimated that all over the world , maybe 1/3 of people with diabetes are walking around unaware of their disease diagnosis — mostly because they don’t get annual screening tests from a local clinic.… Read the rest
“Not All Bugs Need Drugs” — AKA Antibiotic Overuse…
Here’s another pop quiz: Which scenario below requires antibiotics?
- A fever for 3 days
- Cough that turns wet
- A cough that “gets deeper into my chest”
- Runny nose that turns yellow
The oversimplified answer is “none of the above“, at least not without having a doctor check you out first, to decide whether it’s a virus or a bacteria.… Read the rest