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Vitamin D Deficiency, a Risk Factor for Cancer?

In this video, Dr. Mercola interviews Dr. William Grant, Ph.D., internationally recognized research scientist and vitamin D expert, reveals the important role vitamin D plays in your health. Dr. Grant, whose background is in atmospheric sciences, has applied the ecologic approach to the study of dietary and environmental links to chronic disease. He has worked at the level of senior research scientist at such notable institutions as SRI International, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the NASA Langley Research Center. More recently, Dr. Grant has uncovered exciting potential for the use of vitamin D in the prevention and treatment of a [...]

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A Simple Way to Get Smarter

The latest research suggests that while you are asleep, your brain is busily processing the day’s information. It combs through recently formed memories, stabilizing, copying, filing, and making them more useful for the next day. A night of sleep can make memories resistant to interference from other information and allow you to recall them more effectively. It also lets your brain sift through newly formed memories, possibly even identifying what is worth keeping and what to let go of. During sleep, your mind analyzes collections of memories, helping you discover hidden relations between seemingly random pieces of information, and helps [...]

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This Vegetable Oil Scrubs Your Arteries

You may know that I’m not a big fan of fat. In fact, I recommend you keep your fat intake to just 10% of the calories they eat. And I’m especially wary of processed fats, like vegetable oil. However, there is a processed fat that can scrub your arteries clean. Researchers recently studied 199 people, average age 67, at high risk of arterial disease. Those at the highest end of olive oil use showed a 92% reduced risk of thickening of the all-important inner/middle portions of their carotid arteries. We don’t want our arteries getting thicker with gunk! And olive [...]

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Omega 3′s – The Good, Bad and the Ugly

There’s a lot of confusion surrounding omega-3 fatty acid products. Many people think they can buy cheap fatty acid products and get the healthy oils their body needs. But there’s a problem with these low-quality oils: They may be highly toxic! Supplement manufacturers extract the low-quality oils using a toxic solvent. Take those produced by Martel Biosciences Corporation. This company produces artificially extracted omega oils. They call these oils DHASCO and ARASCO. The source of Martek´s products are a fermented algae and fungus. But that’s not the biggest concern. They extract the oils using hexane, a synthetic solvent petrochemical. It’s [...]

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Avoid the Sun and You Could Go Blind

By Robert Jay Rowen, MD Most people worry that getting too much sun can cause vision problems. But now there’s evidence that not getting enough sun can make you go blind. In a new study, researchers followed 7,752 subjects. Of those, 11% had macular degeneration. The researchers found that those in the highest quintile of serum vitamin D levels had the best protection. In fact, they had a 36% lower risk of developing the eye disease. The researchers also looked at milk to see if it protected the eyes. They found that it did not help at all. In fact, [...]

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Coffee Controversies

Although coffee is one of the most heavily researched commodities and studies have spanned decades, there is still much controversy surrounding its effects on health. Study after study is performed–often with conflicting results–and it seems there is always a new study out to discount the last one. For example, one 2004 study found that drinking coffee disrupted short-term word recall. This was promptly followed up by research published the following year, showing that the equivalent of two cups of coffee could improve short-term memory, prioritizing information efficiently, planning new tasks, and dealing with stored information. So, what’s the real deal [...]

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How to Avoid a Heart Attack

As you age, it’s common for your arteries to function less efficiently. If your arteries are healthy, they should be “relaxed” or dilated. This means they are less stiff. Age stiffens them. But researchers recently found that a powerful nutrient can relax your arteries and restore their function. Research has linked accumulation of ceramides to stiffening arteries. Ceramides are fatty deposits that form when undesirable fatty acids hook to a long-chain base. Acids are naturally attracted to their opposites — bases. Researchers thought that ceramide accumulation might be due to age-related loss of glutathione in endothelial cells (inner lining cells [...]

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Are Toxic Metals the Reason You Still Feel Sick?

Most people are absolutely clueless about just how toxic mercury is. It is toxic at one in one billion-part quantities. That is about the same concentration of one grain of salt in one swimming pool. That is why having mercury fillings is such a major challenge to your health. Heavy metal toxicity, just like chemical toxicity, has become one of the most pressing health hazards of our day. Your body is assailed by chemicals and heavy metals on a daily basis, oftentimes from the most innocent-looking sources, from your everyday cookware to your child’s rubber ducky. It has now gotten [...]

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This Cheap Spice Can Save Your Heart

I just found two new studies confirming the amazing health benefits of one of my favorite spices. According to these two new studies, this spice can literally save your heart – especially if you take statins to lower your cholesterol. The two animal studies show that turmeric (a.k.a., curcumin) can prevent heart failure. In one study, curcumin both prevented and reversed heart enlargement both in test tube heart cells and in living mice. Heart enlargement is a step toward heart failure. In the second study, researchers were able to confirm the first. They examined curcumin’s effects in living animals with [...]

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The Whole Soy Story

Let me assure you that if you carefully review the thousands of studies published on soy you will reach the following conclusion: Any possible benefits of consuming soy are FAR outweighed by the well-proven risks of soy. The problem with many of these studies is that the conclusion is NOT supported by the study, or is only partially true, with serious omissions that are conveniently excluded from the conclusion. For example, they might say that soy reduces your risk of colon cancer but neglect to state that they found it increases your risk of ten other cancers. You could delve [...]

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