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]]>Millions of adults take a daily aspirin in the hope that it will help protect their heart, but that is no longer recommended for many people because the benefits don’t outweigh the risks.
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Aspirin is far from being the ‘wonder drug’ or ‘miracle drug’ it is often portrayed as in the mainstream media.
Researchers have found that elderly people who take daily aspirin tablets after a heart attack or stroke are at much greater risk of potentially fatal internal bleeding than originally thought. Published in The Lancet medical journal in 2017 by scientists at Oxford University, the analysis suggests that more than 3,000 patients die every year in the UK from long-term use of aspirin. Significantly, for people over the age of 75, the risk of suffering a disabling or deadly bleed from treatment with the drug was shown to be ten times higher than for younger patients.
In healthy, elderly people, a large clinical trial published in 2019 found that daily low-dose aspirin tablets have no effect on prolonging life. Other research has revealed that men who take daily aspirin tablets have nearly double the risk of melanoma, a type of skin cancer. The drug has also been shown to accelerate the progression of advanced cancers in older adults.
To learn more about the dangers of aspirin, including how it depletes body levels of vitamin C, see this article on our website.
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]]>A study analyzing over 14,000 people has found exercise could be more beneficial than antidepressants alone for the treatment of clinical depression.
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A variety of different forms of exercise, including walking, jogging, yoga, strength training, and dance, were found to be beneficial in this study. Interestingly, the research highlighted that the amount of exercise matters less than the fact that some form of exercise is undertaken, with higher intensity exercise and group activities showing enhanced benefits. Overall, the findings suggest that exercise can provide a valuable alternative to antidepressant drug treatments, offering a cost-effective and accessible option for managing depression.
The study adds to a growing body of scientific evidence that natural approaches can play an important role in the control and alleviation of depression. This evidence is particularly strong in the case of micronutrients. Examples of micronutrients found to be beneficial against depression include omega-3 fatty acids, B vitamins, magnesium, curcumin, vitamin D, vitamin C, and acetyl-l-carnitine.
To learn about research showing that vitamin-rich Mediterranean diets may help prevent depression, see this article on our website.
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]]>An additional 7,000 people died of tuberculosis in Europe because of the disruption to health services caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report.
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A worrying consequence of the mainstream media’s obsessive coverage of COVID-19 over the past 4 years is that deaths from other major infectious diseases have essentially been ignored. A notable example is that of tuberculosis (TB), a disease that 10 million people globally now fall ill with each year and 1.5 million die from.
Significantly, therefore, reminding us that TB remains one of the world’s top infectious killers, a 2021 scientific review examines the potential role of vitamins in its prevention and treatment. Promisingly, not only do the authors suggest and encourage the use of vitamins against TB, they conclude that taking them may significantly improve outcomes.
Published in the journal Antibiotics by researchers from Italy, the review examines the impact of vitamin A, vitamin B complex, vitamin C, vitamin D, and vitamin E on TB infection. Noting that low levels of micronutrients are commonly observed among TB patients, the researchers suggest that supplementing with them may be beneficial against the disease.
To read how vitamins can help end the TB pandemic, see this article on our website.
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]]>The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for immediate action to combat a worldwide spike in cholera cases amid a global vaccine shortage.
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An acute diarrheal illness caused by infection of the intestine with Vibrio cholerae bacteria, people can get sick with cholera after consuming contaminated food or water. Primarily affecting areas with inadequate access to safe water and basic sanitation, cholera is essentially a disease of poverty and can kill within hours if left untreated. Estimates suggest there are between 1.3 and 4.0 million cases worldwide each year, and 21,000 to 143,000 deaths.
With Southern and Eastern Africa currently fighting a protracted cholera outbreak affecting more than 16 countries, global stocks of vaccines for combatting the spread of the infection have essentially run out. The outbreak is particularly severe in Zimbabwe, where there has already been over 25,000 cases and 470 deaths. Water shortages and poor sanitation systems are commonplace in Zimbabwe, a situation which is inevitably fueling the problem.
While these challenges can be overcome, eradicating cholera in Africa will take much more than simply increasing the availability of vaccines. To learn how paying proper attention to nutrition could go a long way towards reducing the death toll, see this article on our website.
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]]>Scientists have found preliminary evidence that adolescents and young adults with concussion who take a specific formulation of branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) supplements after injury experience faster symptom reduction and return to physical activity.
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The branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) are a group of three essential amino acids: leucine, isoleucine, and valine. Essential amino acids are those that the body cannot produce endogenously and so must be obtained from the diet. BCAAs are especially important for protein synthesis and muscle metabolism, playing crucial roles in muscle growth, repair, and energy production. Supplements containing BCAAs are often taken by athletes and people looking to support muscle recovery and enhance exercise performance.
In this latest study, researchers from the Minds Matter Concussion Frontier Program at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia conducted a clinical trial aimed at evaluating BCAA supplements in the treatment of mild traumatic brain injury (concussion) in young patients. Published in the Journal of Neurotrauma, the trial involved participants aged 12-30 and found that higher doses of BCAAs led to greater symptom reduction and a quicker return to physical activity. The researchers concluded that BCAA supplementation could be a useful treatment for concussion in youths and young adults.
To read about research suggesting that high-dose omega-3 supplements may protect American football players from repetitive head injury, see this news story on our website.
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]]>Of the 16 publications analyzed, 7 were randomized controlled trials. The remainder were categorized as analytical studies. The doses of vitamin D used ranged from 400 IU to 5,000 IU daily, 5,600 IU to 50,000 IU weekly, and 10,000 IU to 100,000 IU monthly. Studies using calcifediol, a vitamin D3 analog, gave 54,000 IU monthly, 0.266 mg monthly, or 250 mcg per dose. Over one million participants were assessed in the studies.
The protective effect of vitamin D was especially apparent in populations with a high incidence of deficiency/insufficiency in the nutrient. Healthcare workers were found to have a particularly high incidence of vitamin D deficiency/insufficiency. The researchers suggest that the reduction in intensive care demands resulting from the use of vitamin D could bring a consequential decrease in expenses, antibiotic therapies, and the emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains.
The analysis adds to what is now a considerable body of evidence demonstrating the benefits of vitamin D against COVID-19. Research published in 2023 by a separate group of Italian researchers similarly found ‘definitive evidence’ that vitamin D supplementation protects against COVID-19-related ICU hospitalization.
Even by early 2021, Spanish doctors were already saying that high doses of vitamin D could cut the risk of death in hospitalized coronavirus patients by a dramatic 60 percent. Earlier still, in mid-2020, it was shown that combining vitamin D3 with magnesium and vitamin B12 reduces the severity of disease in older COVID-19 patients.
As important as vitamin D is, however, the most significant development in the field of natural approaches to COVID-19 is the awarding of a patent to the Dr. Rath Research Institute for a specific nutrient combination to prevent and treat coronavirus infections. Employing vitamin C, quercetin, baicalin, N-acetylcysteine, naringin, and resveratrol, as well as extracts from broccoli, black tea, and turmeric, the combination simultaneously inhibits all pathways used by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus to infect the human body. The growing public awareness of this revolutionary natural health approach threatens multibillions of dollars-worth of sales in COVID-19 drugs and vaccines.
Early in the pandemic, assisted by their stakeholders in politics, medicine, and the mainstream media, Pfizer, Moderna, and other pharmaceutical companies were able to terrify millions of people to such an extent that they willingly submitted to being injected with experimental vaccines. The consequences of this deception are rapidly now becoming apparent. But with a wealth of evidence attesting to the effectiveness and safety of science-based natural approaches to enhancing immunity, in the event of another global pandemic the people of the world will not be so easily fooled again.
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]]>Covid likely originated from Wuhan lab, scientists say after running a risk analysis on the cause of the global pandemic in 2020.
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It is looking increasingly probable that the COVID-19 pandemic originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. Significantly, therefore, even the United States Energy Department and the director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) have now concluded that the outbreak was likely the result of a laboratory leak. This clearly represents a remarkable turnaround for a theory that was once effectively banned from being shared on social media.
Other notable figures to have added their voices to those who believe the virus was created in a laboratory include Richard Dearlove, a former head of MI6, the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, who says he has seen an “important” scientific report suggesting the coronavirus was created by Chinese scientists and that it escaped from a laboratory, and Dr. Robert Redfield, the former director of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
To read more on the increasing acceptance of the COVID-19 lab leak theory, see this article on our website.
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]]>Continuous maternal folic acid supplementation during the pre-conceptional and prenatal periods may decrease the risk of autism in offspring, according to new research from China.
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It is well known that folic acid deficiency during pregnancy leads to serious neural tube defects in the fetus and may result in miscarriage. As a neural tube defect can occur before a woman is even aware that she is pregnant, every woman of childbearing age should take at least 400 mcg of folic acid daily regardless of whether she is pregnant or not.
In this latest study, researchers from China looked at whether mothers taking folic acid supplements before and during pregnancy affected the chances of their children having autism spectrum disorder. They studied over 6,000 toddlers and found that children whose mothers didn’t take folic acid during pregnancy had a higher risk of autism spectrum disorder than those whose mothers did. Mothers who took folic acid consistently from before pregnancy until during pregnancy were found to have the lowest risk of their children having the disorder. The researchers therefore concluded that taking folic acid during pregnancy could help lower the risk of autism spectrum disorder in children.
To learn more about natural approaches to preventing and controlling autism spectrum disorder, see this page on our website.
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]]>Surviving childhood cancer does not always mean a clean bill of health, as the treatments that eradicate those cancers can put adult survivors at risk of new cancers and other serious health problems.
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Despite their role as the standard treatment for cancer, chemotherapy drugs are highly toxic. Their multiple adverse side effects range from nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and hair loss to decreased immunity and damage to vital organs. Moreover, seemingly unrealized by many patients, many chemotherapy drugs are themselves known carcinogens. Research carried out in the UK has found that, in some hospitals, within 30 days of starting treatment, chemotherapy kills up to 50 per cent of patients who receive it.
These dangerous drugs affect not just cancer cells but all of the body’s organs and cell systems. As such, for most patients, each cycle of chemotherapy results in severe pain and a multitude of additional health problems. In order to help them cope with this treatment, still more drugs are prescribed, inevitably causing further side effects and additional misery. Despite there being no significant clinical benefit, chemotherapy often continues to be administered almost right up to the point of death.
Just as bad is the fact that the chemicals used in chemotherapy are so toxic they are still dangerous to other people even after they have been excreted by the patient in the form of sweat, urine, stool, tears, semen, or vaginal fluid. The people at particular risk from such contamination include family members, caregivers, and literally anyone touching a chemotherapy patient.
To learn about Dr. Rath’s decisive breakthrough towards the natural prevention, control, and ultimately elimination of cancer, read the groundbreaking book he has authored with Dr. Aleksandra Niedzwiecki: Victory Over Cancer.
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]]>Increasing an individual’s Omega-3 levels can improve long-term health outcomes following a heart attack, according to new findings published in the International Journal of Cardiology.
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Over the past century heart attacks, strokes, and other forms of cardiovascular disease have cost hundreds of millions of lives. Today, however, we know from Dr. Rath’s scientific discovery that these health problems are primarily caused by chronic deficiencies of vitamins and other key micronutrients. As such, by taking advantage of this understanding and ensuring optimum intakes of the necessary dietary elements, cardiovascular disease can now be largely prevented.
Just as the discovery that microorganisms are the cause of infectious diseases led to the control of infectious epidemics, the discovery that heart attacks and strokes are the result of long-term micronutrient deficiencies will similarly lead to the control of cardiovascular disease. If the right steps are taken on a global scale, heart attacks, strokes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart failure, irregular heartbeat, and other cardiovascular problems can all essentially be eradicated by the end of the 21st century.
The main resistance to this historic development will come from the multinational pharmaceutical industry, which has a vested interest in the continued sale of drugs for treating the symptoms of cardiovascular disease. The eradication of heart problems as a cause of death and disability will destroy a lucrative cardiovascular drug market that is expected to be worth more than 200 billion dollars globally by 2032.
To learn more about Dr. Rath’s revolutionary approach to the natural prevention and control of cardiovascular disease, read his classic book: Why Animals Don’t Get Heart Attacks…But People Do!
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