The oils we eat affect our levels of inflammation. It's a complicated topic, with lots of hype flying around. Here is a pretty good article on the subject. I...
Be careful when reading scientific papers. Be doubly careful when reading press interpretations of scientific papers. The study described in this article is a...
This article links ulcers and COPD. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_66955.html Ulcers, of course, are famously linked to Helicobacter pylori....
A guy in New Mexico thinks homosexuality may be caused by an infection. When I mentioned this to a gay friend, he snorted and asked me why there couldn't be a...
Russ, Â So I looked up tilapia to see what I would see....and I see that there is no consensus...I know farm raised fish is often fed food that would change...
If Paul Ewald and other researchers are right, and most illnesses are caused by pathogens, resistance to antimicrobials will be a big hurdle to overcome on the...
Another wonderful example of how our pre-existing judgments--our prejudices--affect our interpretations of scientific findings. Researchers have claimed for...
This is interesting because Alzheimer's has been linked to several pathogens, and angiotensin receptor blockers are an important part of the Marshall protocol...
Here is another case where a medicine is helping despite the theories about how it works. There is reason to believe that the benefits of statins come from...
What I think happens is that the infections that cause diabetes weaken the immune system and make people more susceptible to other infections, including TB....
Sleep apnea is linked to a wide range of health problems, and it is not always clear which are causes and which are effects. It is a cause of hypercortisolism,...
I think this is an important study because it points to a subset of depression symptoms that are markers for future heart disease, and excludes some others. My...
btw....I used cranberry for UTI's for some years and was mostly successful however being diabetic the sugars (even in cranberry concentrate) are pretty high so...
Very interesting, Judy. I had never given much thought to D-mannose, but there are thousands of articles about it at http://www.pubmed.gov. Many of those...
Hello Group: I joined this group a week ago and have been reading the posts that you all have put up. I am very interested in this topic for several reasons....
Welcome, Cheryl, and thanks for the information in your introduction. I hope you will repost the introduction later when we have more members. I plan to get...
Judy, What you say about this being used as an antibiotic is new to me, but I completely agree that there are many natural substances that can be used...