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How opioids sabotage your ‘feel good’ receptors to make pain worse
Back pain, neck pain, headaches and fibromyalgia — no matter what the cause of your chronic pain, living with its day-to-day fallout can seem like an impossible task. After all, how can you live your...
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The mood switch in our brains activated by daylight
There’s no denying the seasons influence our state of mind and social life. It’s easier to be in a good mood in the spring and summer, when the days are long and the weather is warm, making it easy to...
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When that burning and tingling in your feet is a warning sign
My favored position for reading is to sit with one foot tucked under me. If I sit this way for too long, though, I end up with that “pins and needles” feeling in my foot. But when I start walking...
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The vitamin duo that beats depression and anxiety: K2 + D3
Sad, listless, blue, unhappy, melancholy, desolate… Those are just a few of the words that describe people living with depression or anxiety… And, since it’s estimated that at least 350 million suffer...
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The vitamin your spine needs the most to battle disc degeneration
If you live in the northern hemisphere, research shows you’re most susceptible to a vitamin deficiency that can have far-reaching health consequences, mostly involving your bones. You see, unlike...
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7 signs a vitamin D deficiency is dragging you down
The winter months can bring too many dreary days where you’re stuck inside, week after week. And, with so little time out in the sunshine, this leaves you more likely than ever to end up deficient in...
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More research says vitamin D deficiency can cut life short
If you’re determined to live a long and healthy life, there are plenty of steps you can take to better your odds. Diet, exercise, social connections and mental stimulation all contribute to longevity...
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Is your thyroid OK? Check your feet
January is thyroid awareness month, and lucky for me, my annual physical is coming right up. And based on some research I’ve been doing, I’ve requested a few additional blood tests, specifically...
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The ‘d’eeper problem behind age-related muscle weakness
Sarcopenia is the progressive loss of muscle mass, strength and functionality associated with aging. But have you heard of its close cousin, dynapenia? Dynapenia is defined as a loss of muscle...
View ArticleThe vitamin that halves the risk of melanoma
I recently visited my doctor when I became aware of a mole on my back that I couldn’t see, but that had seemingly appeared out of nowhere. Because I’m over 65, I know that I’m at higher risk of...
View ArticleThe common sense rule for best vitamin benefits
I don’t get on Facebook often, but I did last weekend in time to see the funniest meme a friend shared. You may have seen it too since it’s really blowing up. It went like this… If you think you’re...
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8 things you didn’t know vitamin D does
You go to the doctor for your yearly check-up and say to him, “Doc, I want a pill that will make me stronger, smarter, healthier, disease proof, age-proof, thinner and with great skin and strong...
View ArticleVitamin D metabolism: Why it’s not a one-size-fits-all vitamin
We’ve known for some time that weight is a risk factor for vitamin D deficiency. Research has shown a body mass index (BMI) of over 40, classified as severe obesity, increases the risk for vitamin D...
View ArticleConclusive: Vitamin D’s viral ‘protective effect’
During the height of COVID-19, there was a lot of research into the role of nutrition and supplementation in helping the body defend itself. At least one team of international physician-researchers...
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The ties between vitamin D and dementia thicken
For decades now, researchers have been on the lookout for a magic pill for dementia. And supplements appear to be among the top contenders… Take omega-3s. Several studies have found these fish oil...
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The vitamin that could turn prediabetes around
Diabetes isn’t “just high blood sugar,” and it’s nothing to toy with. It’s a serious disease that can cause blindness, foot amputation, nerve damage and kidney problems, to name a few of the possible...
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The anti-heart disease, stroke, diabetes, breast cancer vitamin
If you’re like me, you have a medicine cabinet packed with different vitamins and supplements. I have one to help my joints, one to support my heart health, another to boost brain function, and so on....
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To make vitamin D work better, eat this superfruit
Vitamin D offers wonderful health benefits, combating heart disease, cancer and autoimmune problems. But there’s a superfruit you should eat to make it even more powerful. When scientists at the Linus...
View ArticleThe deficiency setting African American men up for prostate cancer
According to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, African American men are more likely to get prostate cancer. That’s bad enough, but the odds of survival are also against them. The...
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Vitamin may solve problem of the little blue pill
The list of possible causes of erectile dysfunction is long, yet one option is often overlooked, until recently. The results of numerous studies have indicated that vitamin D deficiency is linked to...
View ArticleThe one-a-day vitamin that slashed death from cancer
Approximately 35% of adults in the United States have a vitamin D deficiency according to some reports. But it may actually be lower… Part of the reason is that most doctors don’t test patient levels...
View ArticleVitamin D levels bolster skin cancer treatment
In 2023, about 97,610 adults in the United States will be diagnosed with malignant melanoma of the skin, and almost ten percent will die of the disease. If detected early, melanoma is one of the more...
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AGEs: Why diabetes is bad for your bones
Diabetes comes with a long list of complications that affect so many parts of the body — including the brain, heart, eyes, feet and kidneys. These complications don’t happen to everyone with diabetes....
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Living with Lupus: The vitamin deficiency you can’t afford to ignore
According to the Lupus Foundation of America, an estimated 1.5 million people — 90 percent of them women — are currently living with lupus in the United States. While between 80 and 90 percent of...
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Why your hips hurt and the supplements that help
If you were to ask me to name the joint in my body that I fear injuring the most, I’d have to say the hip. Without a functioning, pain-free hip joint, we can’t walk, run, dance or even stand. Living...
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Largest trial to date finds vitamin D reduces heart attacks
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain the No. 1 cause of death worldwide. They cause 17.9 million deaths each year, with a third of those deaths occurring prematurely in people under the age of 70....
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The vitamin that reduced atrial fibrillation
Most of us beyond a certain age have experienced heart palpitations, where our heart literally pounds in our chest. They may come when we’re stressed, or after or during heavy exercise. But your...
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Why menopause makes time in the sun riskier
Menopause is infamous among women for being a time of uncomfortable changes, including hot flashes, mood swings and weight gain, as the body prepares to stop menstruating. Unfortunately, once...
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The other supplement that helps you get the most from vitamin D
Vitamin D supplementation has become a buzzword these days — even in mainstream healthcare. In fact, the benefits of adequate D3 intake have been made so clear that many doctors’ offices now routinely...
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The treatment study that pitted vitamin D against COVID-19
Even though the pandemic has been declared over, COVID-19 hasn’t gone anywhere. In fact, it’s expected to be part of the upcoming flu season. The good news is that the potential to become severely ill...
View ArticleHow vitamin D powers up a cancer-fighting gene
Some human studies have found no clear link between vitamin D and cancer protection, while others indicate an undeniable connection… For example, studies have shown that people who live near the...
View ArticleTwo common conditions increasing pancreatic cancer
Your pancreas is a hard-working organ. After a meal, your blood glucose — or blood sugar — levels rise, and your pancreas responds by producing insulin. Insulin helps glucose gain entry into your...
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Vitamin D’s ties to autoimmune and age-related fatigue
Fatigue can be a minor inconvenience or a huge downer impacting the quality of your life. You might feel fatigued after a long day of activities or a long night of poor sleep. But if daily fatigue is...
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15 risk factors for young-onset dementia
Common wisdom has been that dementia before the age of 65 is due to genetic factors that we can’t do much about. But if you’re familiar with epigenetics, then you know genes don’t always have the...
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This vitamin gets sucked from your body when you soak up the sun
When sunlight hits your skin, something very important happens… Ultraviolet B (UVB) rays interact with a protein called 7-dehydrocholesterol (7-DHC) in the skin, converting it into vitamin D3, the...
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Optimizing vitamin D gets personal
If there were a single powerhouse vitamin that everyone should take, it would have to be vitamin D. After all, research has tied the sunshine vitamin to numerous health issues including boosting...
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Soak up the sun to ramp up your calorie-burning metabolism
Spending time in the summer sun isn’t just fun and recreational… It’s also a great way to power up your health, as long as you’re cautious. Time in the sun contributes to the amount of vitamin D in...
View ArticleThe vitamin that helps cancer-fighting bacteria thrive
The human body is such a wonderfully complicated thing. Our bodily systems are connected in ways we’d never expect. And the role of the gut has become a focal point of those unexpected links. For...
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Medical panel finally admits we need more vitamin D
Despite decades of mounting evidence that we need more vitamin D, the medical community has held fast to the meager recommended daily allowance (RDA) set by the Institute of Medicine (IOM). And many...
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Symptoms that can increase women’s dementia risk 74%
Someone is diagnosed with dementia every seven seconds. And the odds are good that person is a woman. That’s because Alzheimer’s is almost twice as common in women, which makes identifying...
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