Health & Fitness Blog

Using a high-throughput screening process, scientists have for the first time identified molecules with the potential to block the accumulation of a toxic eye protein. This protein called myocilin can lead to early onset of glaucoma. Researchers have implicated a mutant form of a protein a possible root cause of this increased eye pressure. This […]

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Research from Tehran University of Medical Sciences’ Psychiatric Research Center in 2004 examined the benefits of an extract of Crocus sativus (Saffron) on mood. This short-term, pilot, double-blind randomized trial determined that 30mg of Saffron per day showed a similar positive effect on mood as 100 mg/day of imipramine. The main overall finding from this […]

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Bacopa or Brahmi has been used for thousands of years in “Ayurvedic” medicine as a brain tonic to improve brain activity. In an increasingly stressful world, Brahmi has rapidly become popular. Stress and anxiety affects learning and memory. Brahmi reduces these negative effects while providing benefits in learning and memory. It further enhances nerve impulse […]

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Researchers have recently demonstrated that patients with severe Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) have significantly lower levels of 25(OH)D as compared with other groups. Mete et al 2013 found that when the severity of OSAS increases, 25(OH)D deficiency becomes more pronounced.

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Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) triggers crucial signalling processes that regulate tumor angiogenesis and, therefore, represents an attractive target for the development of novel anticancer therapeutics. Tyrosol (Tyr), hydroxytyrosol (HT), taxifolin (Tax), oleuropein (OL) and oleic acid (OA), five compounds found in extra virgin olive oil. A recent study by Lamy et al (Dec 2013 […]

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My approach to health management is through bridging different perspectives such as eastern-western, ancient-modern, science-spiritual, and technological-environmental domains into an effective and integrated healing paradigm. Each patient is unique and therefore diagnosis and treatment plans should be specific to each individual’s needs.

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