Green tea can be harmful in large quantities

Green tea is good for you, but only if drunk in moderation. While the polyphenols in green tea are credited with preventing heart disease and cancer, it seems they can cause liver and kidney damage if consumed in very large quantities, a review of studies into the toxicity of polyphenols has shown.
“People shouldn’t be too [...]

Ayurvedic Panchakarma Treatment Is Explained By Doctor

‘Panchakarma’, as the name indicates is a method of treatment, which includes five (Paanch) basic procedures (Karma). Through these different procedures are put under the umbrella term ‘Panchakarma” different medicines are used for the different procedures depending upon the constitution of the patient. The physician determines the kind of procedure and the types of medicines [...]

Ayurstate – Maintain Optimal Prostate Health Naturally

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Try a Proprietary Formula for Prostate Care based on Ayurveda – the Oldest and Most Holistic, Comprehensive Medical System Available.
If you want to maintain good prostate health or suffer from frequent urination, weakened urine flow, dull pelvic pain, loss of appetite, or constant full bladder sensation which indicates your prostate [...]

Is Fasting Right for You?

Q: Is Fasting Right for You?I started fasting once a week, but I had to give it up because I was getting severe headaches. Could you suggest anything I can do to prevent the headaches and continue fasting?
A: You don’t say why you want to fast once a week. I have experimented with fasting one [...]

Commercial Yogurt: Dead or Alive?

Q: Commercial Yogurt: Dead or Alive?Do all brands of yogurt have the necessary cultures that are good for you?
A: Most yogurts on supermarket shelves probably don’t have the beneficial “live” or “active” cultures typically found in yogurt in countries such as Greece, Israel, Lebanon, or India. In fact, much of the custard-textured products sold in [...]

Regular Yoga May Improve Eating Habits

(HealthDay News) — Practicing yoga regularly may help your eating habits so you can maintain a healthier weight, a new study says.
Researchers at the Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center reported a link between yoga practitioners and “mindful eaters,” people who were better aware of their feelings of hunger and fullness and why they ate. [...]

Whooping Cough Immunity Lasts 30 Years or More

(HealthDay News) — Exposure to whooping cough will provide immunity for an average of three decades, new research suggests.
Doctors had previously thought that immunity lasted for much less time. But the new study, by researchers based at the University of Michigan and the University of New Mexico, rebuts that assumption.
Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, [...]

WHY IS Terrain PLEOMORPHISM UNKNOWN TO MODERN Germ MEDICINE?

WHY IS Terrain PLEOMORPHISM UNKNOWN TO MODERN Germ MEDICINE? A dichotomy in medical speculation, an unresolved philosophical conflict, has existed from ancient times to the present. This conflict is between two theories known traditionally as Empiricism and Rationalism. “While this conflict can be discerned in the earliest writings of the Hippocratic Corpus, from the fifth [...]

Health Secrets of Red Wine Uncovered

(HealthDay News) — Scientists already knew that drinking red wine in moderation is good for your health; now they are figuring out why.New research is uncovering the disease-prevention secrets of a polyphenol called resveratrol, one of compounds in red wine that seems to improve health. Although the benefits have been touted for years, researchers weren’t [...]

Short-Term, High-Dose Vitamin D2 May Ease Deficiency

Short-Term, High-Dose Vitamin D2 May Ease Deficiency
(HealthDay News) — Researchers are reporting that eight weeks of treatment with large doses of vitamin D2 can eliminate vitamin D deficiency, and twice-monthly doses can keep the condition at bay for up to six years.
The dosage — 50,000 international units (IU) every week or two — was large [...]

Fish Oil Supplements Don’t Help Depressed Heart Patients

(HealthDay News) — In a surprise and not very welcome finding, researchers report that fish oil supplements do not ease depression in individuals who suffer from both depression and coronary heart disease.
Participants in the study, which is published in the Oct. 21 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, were also taking the [...]

Diet, Exercise Thwart Diabetes: Study

(HealthDay News) — Diet and exercise can keep diabetes at bay for a decade, cutting the risk for the disease by more than a third in the most susceptible people, a new study finds.
About 11 percent of U.S. adults (24 million) have diabetes, mostly type 2, which is linked to poor diet and sedentary lifestyle. [...]

Is it safe to use over-the-counter medicines for yeast infec

Is it safe to use over-the-counter medicines for yeast infection
Yes, but it is important to talk to your doctor first. Always call your doctor before treating yourself for a vaginal yeast infection if:
you are pregnantyou have never been diagnosed with a yeast infectionyou are having repeat yeast infections Read more…Kama Yogi for Optimal Male Sexual [...]

Science Finds Healing in Halloween Horrors

(HealthDay News) — Monsters, bloodsuckers and spiders, oh my!
Scary as they are, some of the creepiest, deadliest creatures roaming the night this Halloween are also teaching medical science new ways to heal.
Consider the venom of the dreaded scorpion, for example.
Dr. Hector Valdivia, a physiology professor at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison is [...]

Whooping Cough Immunity Lasts 30 Years or More

(HealthDay News) — Exposure to whooping cough will provide immunity for an average of three decades, new research suggests.
Doctors had previously thought that immunity lasted for much less time. But the new study, by researchers based at the University of Michigan and the University of New Mexico, rebuts that assumption.
Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, [...]

Patients More Likely to Die While in ICU in U.S. Than in Eng

(HealthDay News) — Dying hospital patients in the United States are nearly five times more likely to spend their last days in the intensive care unit than patients in England, finds a new study, and U.S. patients over age 85 are eight times more likely to be in the ICU when they die.
That’s the conclusion [...]