Movement as Nutrition

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Katy Bowman Katy invites us to return to movement. She explores how we came to be such sedentary people, mostly indoors for the better part of the day. This is true for adults and children alike. We all have movement deficiencies. Katy explains how this is essentially a nutritional deficit of sorts.

Thermography: A Safe Breast Health Assessment

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The Gerson Institute Thermography is a non-invasive way to study the physiology of the human body (as differentiated from ultrasound and mammograms, which study the structure of the body). Thermography simply detects subtle variations in skin temperature using an infrared camera in a temperature-controlled room, which can provide clues to what is going on beneath […]

Scutellaria Baicalensis Georgi is a Promising Candidate for the Treatment of Autoimmune Diseases

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Jun Wang et al. Autoimmune diseases a group of disorders elicited by unexpected outcome of lymphocytes self-tolerance failure, and the common members of which include multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and type 1 diabetes mellitus, etc. The pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases is not fully understood and the current therapeutic regimen’s […]

N-acetyl Cysteine: A Tool to Perturb SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Conformation

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Utsab Debnath et al. The infection caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) resulted in a pandemic with huge death toll and economic consequences. The virus attaches itself to the human epithelial cells through noncovalent bonding of its spike protein with the angiotensin-converting enzyme-2 (ACE2) receptor on the host cell. We hypothesized that […]

The Borax Conspiracy

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Walter Last Due to their content of boron, borax and boric acid have basically the same health effects, with good antiseptic, antifungal, and antiviral properties but only mild antibacterial action. In plants as well as animals boron is essential for the integrity and function of cell walls, and the way signals are transmitted across membranes. […]

Food Synergy: An Operational Concept for Understanding Nutrition

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David R. Jacobs Jr., Myron D. Gross and Linda C. Tapsell Research and practice in nutrition relate to food and its constituents, often as supplements. In food, however, the biological constituents are coordinated. We propose that ‘‘thinking food first’’ results in more effective nutrition research and policy. The concept of food synergy provides the necessary […]

Our 7 Favorite Food Synergy Combinations with Recipes to Try

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World Council for Health Food synergy is the collaboration of nutrients to create more outstanding positive health outcomes. It implies that the perfect mixture of food constituents operates in concert with the life of the organism eaten and the life of the organism eating it. … An essential finding of Food Synergy is that it […]