Original article written by Joseph Mercola, DO (Doctor of Osteopathy) In a recent study, researchers took a group of sedentary, overweight men and women and over 18 months and trained them to run a marathon. The men lost just a few pounds, and the women in the study averaged no change to their weight. One [...]
Is it True that Eggs are as Bad for Your Arteries as Smoking? By Dr. Mercola Recently, news headlines were ablaze with startling information that eggs are nearly as bad for your arteries as cigarettes. After surveying more than 1,200 seniors, the researchers concluded that eating egg yolks on a regular basis is approximately two-thirds [...]
Do YOU Take Any of These 11 Dangerous Cholesterol Drugs? By Dr. Mercola Tens of millions of Americans are taking cholesterol-lowering drugs—mostly statins—and some “experts” claim that many millions more should be taking them. I couldn’t disagree more. Statins are HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, that is, they act by blocking the enzyme in your liver that [...]
ALL ABOUT CHOLESTEROL AND LIPITOR by Dr. Mercola Cholesterol could easily be described as the smoking gun of the last two decades. It’s been responsible for demonizing entire categories of foods (like eggs and saturated fats) and blamed for just about every case of heart disease in the last 20 years. Yet when I first [...]
By Dr. Mercola I have long been a fan of coconut oil as one of the most health promoting of all plant-based fats. I have spent nearly 15 winters in Hawaii where fresh coconuts off the tree are readily available. Coconut oil comes from the “meat” of the coconut. But today, I’d like to share [...]
Worse than a Disease Diagnosis – This Mistake Can Land You in the E.R. By Dr. Mercola In 1776, Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, foretold a grim scenario that has now taken shape right before our eyes. He said: “Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution the time [...]
Rofecoxib (Photo credit: Wikipedia) DR. MERCOLA: BIG PHARMA IS IN THE BUSINESS OF KILLING PEOPLE By Dr. Mercola What would you say if you knew someone had killed 60,000 people? Would you call it a felony of the worst kind, times 60,000? If you totaled up the value of all those lives in criminal court, [...]
TUMERIC TWELVE ”Grow Younger” Nutrients I Take Every Day By Dr. Mercola Nutritionists have long been interested in the dynamics of telomere length in the body, and how telomeres figure in to human health and life expectancy. Telomeres were first discovered in 1973 by Alexey Olovnikov. He found that the [...]
