Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.5.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # What Doctors Don't Tell You Find all the latest natural health news, alternative remedies, alternative therapies and healthy recipes, plus much more. ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.wddty.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Blog](https://www.wddty.com/opinion-pieces/) - [Not just one for the boys](https://www.wddty.com/not-just-one-for-the-boys/) - When it comes to hormones and the need to supplement with them, all we tend to hear about is estrogen. For decades women have been told that after menopause, they basically can’t manage without supplementing hormones like estrogen and progesterone. Overwhelming evidence shows that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can cause cancer, such as a Lancet - [The 10 books every doctor should read](https://www.wddty.com/the-10-books-every-doctor-should-read/) - Doctors are being encouraged to learn empathy skills by reading books, says Bryan Hubbard Medical students at one UK university are being encouraged to read books to improve their empathy. A lack of empathy is widely recognized as one of the main failings of doctors, and it’s hoped that reading will widen their understanding - [All in the mind](https://www.wddty.com/all-in-the-mind-2/) - Big Pharma is driving the mental health crisis, says Bryan Hubbard Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, was a marketing genius. He went against traditional wisdom, which states that you study a market and its needs, then produce a product or service that addresses those concerns. Jobs did the very opposite. He created a product - [Why Brazilians live forever](https://www.wddty.com/why-brazilians-live-forever/) - Never seeing a doctor could be why some Brazilians live past 100, says Bryan Hubbard A small group of Brazilians is baffling anthropologists—they seem to be living forever. There’s Sister Inah, who was recognized as the world's oldest person until she was brought down in her prime at the age of 116, while one - [Cook your greens](https://www.wddty.com/cook-your-greens/) - For more than 30 years, WDDTY has been advocating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables—the best approach for most people most of the time. But a small minority of us suffer from a chronic health problem even when we are eating a healthy diet. When this happens, the very healthiest of foods could be - [Hey, statins—leave those fats alone](https://www.wddty.com/hey-statins-leave-those-fats-alone/) - The drugs are the stars of Big Pharma despite risk of memory loss, says Bryan Hubbard AI is one clever fellow. Ask it anything, and it has a perspicacious response at the ready. Ask it about cholesterol-lowering statins, and it’s especially insightful. “Statin drugs are a modern success story. They are the medical treatment - [Seeing the light](https://www.wddty.com/seeing-the-light/) - After a torrid summer, with renewed warnings about sunlight and cancer, and the need for suncream to block out ultraviolet (UV) rays, the latest medical research suggests UV light may actually be an amazing healer. It was well known and used in the 1950s but largely discarded with the rise (and rise) of the pharmaceutical - [The disease merry-go-round](https://www.wddty.com/the-disease-merry-go-round/) - Is anyone really teaching our kids nutrition? The other day I decided to change the world, but the world wasn’t interested. It told me so, and well within the statutory 14-day notice period. The big idea was simple enough: Teach the kids about nutrition, and the next generation won’t be such a strain on - [Nix to DEXA](https://www.wddty.com/nix-to-dexa/) - During a retreat that we were running in converted monasteries in Spain in 2019, I had a conversation with two American doctors, a husband-and-wife team, that has stayed with me. “Don’t believe any DEXA tests you’re given—they’re going to show you have osteoporosis,” the woman doctor told me. “My test showed that I have osteoporosis, - [Anti-vax? It’s the heebie-jeebies](https://www.wddty.com/anti-vax-its-the-heebie-jeebies/) - The vaccine-hesitant has butterflies in their stomach Are you “vaccine-hesitant” or even an “anti-vaxxer” (gasp)? If you are, you probably believe you’ve done the research and come up with a perfectly rational reason for your position. But you haven’t—not according to the very latest science, at least. No, you have the heebie-jeebies, formerly known as - [When a good drug turns bad](https://www.wddty.com/when-a-good-drug-turns-bad/) - Big Pharma loves an all-purpose drug: statins for cholesterol but also for heart disease, HRT for menopause but also for Alzheimer’s, Ozempic for diabetes but also for weight loss and God knows what else. But of all the drugs out there used for multiple purposes, the prom queen by far is antibiotics. Now, I profess - [First, do harm (and make money)](https://www.wddty.com/first-do-harm-and-make-money/) - Big Pharma breaks all the rules of capitalism—and still makes the biggest profits, says Bryan Hubbard Just in case you’ve gotten a little rusty, here’s a quick primer on capitalism. Private enterprise provides services or products for the benefit of society for a profit—and if you’re unsure what that looks like, explore the workings of - [A humdinger of a healer](https://www.wddty.com/a-humdinger-of-a-healer/) - A very basic molecule, made up of just two simple atoms in the body—oxygen and nitrogen—could well be the key to healing most degenerative diseases, and it’s been largely overlooked by modern medicine. Nitric oxide is a colorless gas that forms when nitrogen is oxidized, and it plays a central role in distributing blood around - [Just stop it](https://www.wddty.com/just-stop-it/) - The weight-loss jabs are not a long-term solution to the obesity epidemic, says Bryan Hubbard In a sketch by American comedian Bob Newhart, he plays a psychiatrist. The patient explains that she has constant thoughts of being buried alive and asks what she should do. “Just stop it,” Newhart retorts. The routine comes to mind - [The holy grail of modern medicine](https://www.wddty.com/the-holy-grail-of-modern-medicine/) - Modern medicine has knocked in a hole in one. It hasn’t conquered obesity, but it has made doing so effortless. All you need to do is get yourself a weekly injection. This promise of no-sweat weight loss has captured the British and American public; the latest Gallup poll estimates 15.5 million US adults—some 6 percent - [Three’s a crowd](https://www.wddty.com/threes-a-crowd/) - Nobody’s buying the super Polypill, says Bryan Hubbard If one pill can make you well, what can three pills do? Make you even weller, of course! Yes, welcome to the world of the polypill, the three-in-one power punch that delivers a knockout blow to heart disease. It’s so good, everyone over the age of 50 - [Double-blind fraud](https://www.wddty.com/double-blind-fraud/) - Fraud is endemic in medical research, says Bryan Hubbard Every so often, we get accosted by a self-proclaimed skeptic who tells us things like, “There’s nothing better than a robust double-blind placebo study.” Indeed not, but aside from revealing the aridity of their lives, our skeptics cling to the ideals of medical science, which regular - [All by myself](https://www.wddty.com/all-by-myself/) - Hands up, anyone who wants to take a guess. What is the biggest risk factor for illness in modern times? Smoking? Big Macs? Alcohol? None of them in excess is very good for you, that’s for sure, but none of them may offer the health risks of one simple facet of modern life: being by - [The guy who came in from the cold](https://www.wddty.com/the-guy-who-came-in-from-the-cold/) - Cold-water therapy may not be so good for us after all, says Bryan Hubbard Yes, reader, I’m a moral coward. I know I should be plunging into cold-water therapy with a happy heart, but somehow I just can’t. Turn the shower to freezing for 30 seconds at the end? Not so likely. Sit in an - [Turning back the clock naturally](https://www.wddty.com/turning-back-the-clock-naturally/) - It’s difficult to age naturally these days, particularly if you’re female. At last count according to several surveys, more than 9 million Botox injections are administered globally, some 86 percent of them to women. Botox, or botulinum neurotoxin, to give it its formal name, is the most common nonsurgical procedure, but the big surprise is - [The silver bullet](https://www.wddty.com/the-silver-bullet/) - What’s not to like about a silver bullet? After the excesses of Christmas—and, for some, of a lifetime—who wouldn’t want absolution of all dietary sins, and in the blink of an eye? No more New Year’s resolutions. No self-discipline required. You can now shed those pounds without giving up on your diet of sugary foods - [Of black holes and cancer](https://www.wddty.com/of-black-holes-and-cancer/) - No light escapes from the collapsed Big Cancer star As all you astrophysicists know, a black hole is a collapsed star that emits no light. It can be hard to get your head around such an extraordinary concept of space and time, so here’s a real-life example to help you: It’s like the cancer industry. - [Bright, shiny objects](https://www.wddty.com/bright-shiny-objects/) - Medicine has ignored the vital role that glucagon plays in diabetes Are you ready to play What Am I? According to Google Play, it’s “a word guessing and multi-activity game that can entertain you and your friends for hours without [you] noticing the time.” Missed your wedding? Of course you did; you were playing What - [Heading off course](https://www.wddty.com/heading-off-course/) - Holding steadfast to a particular course is generally seen as a good thing. It shows consistency, stability, continuity, perpetuity and all the rest of those positive attributes. But when it comes to medicine or science, failing to change course can be, at best, blinkered and foolhardy. Often it stems from a fundamentally unscientific refusal to - [People, do nothing](https://www.wddty.com/people-do-nothing/) - “Let the drug do the work” is the first principle of conventional medicine Now to the quick-fire round: What makes people overweight and obese? Answer: eating sugary junk food? Correct! So, how do you lose weight? Answer: Er, stop eating sugary junk food? Wrong! You start taking the weight loss drug Wegovy (semaglutide). Sorry, you - [Sweet treatments](https://www.wddty.com/sweet-treatments/) - Around 2,600 BCE, honey was listed in an ancient Egyptian trauma manual, much treasured for its ability to speed wound healing. And now, modern science has proved these ancient wisdoms correct. Manuka honey is now accepted, in even mainstream medicine, for its ability to heal wounds and successfully fight an array of nasty bugs like - [A feast for the brain](https://www.wddty.com/a-feast-for-the-brain/) - The other day we were having lunch with the amazing Gina Lazenby, bestselling author, speaker and mentor for women leaders and entrepreneurs. Gina is one of the best multitaskers we know. A consummate networker, she loves to hold women’s circles and put people together, focusing on the rise of the feminine (the title of her - [Spot the error The “safe” wonder drug for Alzheimer’s is neither](https://www.wddty.com/spot-the-error-the-safe-wonder-drug-for-alzheimers-is-neither/) - I used to get a weekly email letter from a marketing copywriter who would deliberately put a grammar or spelling error in the text each time. I was never sure what the prize was if you spotted it, but I think it was getting the following week’s letter, which was free anyway. That was a - [How to rule the world](https://www.wddty.com/how-to-rule-the-world/) - Novo Nordisk is the world’s fastest-growing pharmaceutical company—with one drug Dear avaricious, egotistical, money-mad humans (yup, that pretty much covers the room), so, you want to rule the world? Pull up a hunch-backed gremlin, get comfy and I’ll tell you how it’s done in my simple six-steps-to-world-domination blueprint. Step 1: Discover an amino acid that - [The airplane that couldn’t fly](https://www.wddty.com/the-airplane-that-couldnt-fly/) - Medicine doesn’t cure—and that’s a big problem In an alternate universe, the science of aeronautics was lauded. It was praised, yes, to the skies, and young people studied hard to get into the aeronautical colleges and dreamed of becoming engineers. There was one problem: the planes never flew. Instead, passengers would board the aircraft and, - [What’s up, doc? Robots are beating medics in making a correct diagnosis](https://www.wddty.com/whats-up-doc-robots-are-beating-medics-in-making-a-correct-diagnosis/) - You laypeople need to understand that a correct diagnosis isn’t all that important to the modern doctor. A wrong diagnosis that leads to pointless, even dangerous, treatment? The merest bagatelle. Missing the real disease, which results in your premature death? A trifle. We’re grateful to a leading investigator for putting us right on diagnosis. There’s - [The end of Frankenbelly](https://www.wddty.com/the-end-of-frankenbelly/) - Dr William Davis, a cardiologist based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, had an aha moment after discovering how modern wheat was grown. Scientists and farmers, Davis writes, had transformed “a traditional 1.5-meter-tall plant into a 45-centimeter-tall, thick-stalked, large-seeded crop, a change that required thousands of genetic experiments.” The result of their experiments proved highly successful for vastly - [The all-purpose elixir  ](https://www.wddty.com/the-all-purpose-elixir/) - We’ve all been raised on the idea of the inevitability of progress in every area of human endeavor. Thanks to our natural ingenuity, things, we believe, are getting better every day and in every way. Except, that is, when it comes to taking care of our health. With the notable exception of certain surgery and emergency Western medicine (if a building ever falls on either of - [Science for sale](https://www.wddty.com/science-for-sale/) - Academics are paying to have their studies published Robust is an adjective that was once reserved for stout hiking boots but has recently been weaponized by middle-brow bureaucrats as a cudgel to beat down alternative thinking. As a dog returneth to its own vomit, bureaucrats spout the word in their demands that evidence is - [I don’t remember it well](https://www.wddty.com/i-dont-remember-it-well/) - The WHO is planning to shape the global response to the next pandemic There’s a saying that if you remember the 1960s, you weren’t there. If that’s you, or if you’re suffering from long-term drug-fueled amnesia, try googling “What happened in 1968?” and you’ll discover that it was a busy, news-packed year. Two good men—Dr - [Clearing the air](https://www.wddty.com/clearing-the-air/) - We do it every day without thinking—in, out, on average 7.5 million times a year. And we think that if we just get the air into our lungs, it doesn’t matter which way it comes in. But new evidence suggests we’re doing it all wrong. If we’re to achieve optimum health, we need to take in far more oxygen than we ordinarily do, and we - [Why measles is back](https://www.wddty.com/why-measles-is-back/) - Anti-vaxxers shouldn’t be blamed for the latest epidemic Infectious diseases are like economic cycles. They ebb and flow over time, and our health guardians take the credit when they seem to vanish, just as politicians take the plaudits, and our votes, when there’s an economic boom. The World Health Organization (WHO) likes to feed into - [Don’t shoot the messenger](https://www.wddty.com/dont-shoot-the-messenger/) - The problem with being early messengers of information is that nobody believes them until it’s too late. And these days, they’re not just ignored or even debated. They’re demonized, defriended, deplatformed, debanked, professionally disciplined and even publicly derided by politicians and the media. That has never been more evident than with Covid-19. Even the scores of doctors who dared to suggest an alternative to government policy were castigated as - [Chewing the fat—and more ](https://www.wddty.com/chewing-the-fat-and-more/) - We are a civilization of terrible teeth. I say this with some personal knowledge, because with the exception of the four front teeth on the top and bottom, every tooth in my head has cavities and every last one deep fillings (albeit white rather than mercury ones). The state of my teeth has everything to do with the diet I was brought up with. My - [I’m sorry, I’ll read that again](https://www.wddty.com/im-sorry-ill-read-that-again/) - The good news about the HPV vaccine was actually bad news What’s not to like about the HPV vaccine? Not only does it protect women against cervical cancer, at least according to the package insert, but it also reduces the risk of a preterm birth. Researchers from New Zealand made the discovery when they analyzed - [Shredding wheat](https://www.wddty.com/shredding-wheat/) - In my mid-30s, I got ill with a range of multiplying symptoms: a bad gut, hormones causing havoc, eczema and hives, cystitis and constant infections, and allergies, it seemed, to everything in the world. As I worked to heal my gut and much more with a pioneering integrative doctor, many of these symptoms disappeared and - [Not so random](https://www.wddty.com/not-so-random/) - New research into the Spanish flu outbreak puts a medical myth to bed Who gets ill? Anyone, says the doctor, who believes nobody is immune. Disease is blind, he argues: it afflicts the young and old, the healthy and the infirm. WDDTY columnist Dr Sarah Myhill would disagree; she has followed a strict low-carb keto - [Chinese takeaways](https://www.wddty.com/chinese-takeaways/) - The UK is starting to manipulate its own viruses after the Covid Wuhan leak Bryan Hubbard News just in from our When Will They Ever Learn Department . . . disappointed by the slack security of their Chinese colleagues at the Wuhan Institute of Virology who let the Covid virus escape, UK scientists have decided - [C is for cure-all](https://www.wddty.com/c-is-for-cure-all/) - In 1948, just three years after the end of the Second World War, an earlier pandemic than Covid gripped America. Tens of thousands of people were struck down by the polio virus, and with no cure in sight and a vaccine still to be developed, thousands died. Those who survived were often left crippled—just as - [Not so quiet on the Covid front](https://www.wddty.com/not-so-quiet-on-the-covid-front/) - When Covid first struck, doctors around the world rushed to come up with a solution. Chief among them were a number of doctors from major academic medical centers, who had some 200 years’ worth of combined experience in critical care medicine plus about 1,000 published papers in scientific journals. - [Healing the long-haulers](https://www.wddty.com/healing-the-long-haulers/) - When Covid first struck, doctors around the world rushed to come up with a solution. Chief among them were a number of doctors from major academic medical centers, who had some 200 years’ worth of combined experience in critical care medicine plus about 1,000 published papers in scientific journals. - [Air and water](https://www.wddty.com/air-and-water/) - Camilla Sherr has an extraordinarily green thumb. When her mother’s apple tree became infested with moths, she and her husband Jeremy prescribed a treatment that not only removed the moths and their caterpillars but also resulted in the tree producing its first season of edible, delicious fruit. - [Relative risk makes a drug seem effective when it’s not](https://www.wddty.com/relative-risk-makes-a-drug-seem-effective-when-its-not/) - Ban All Relatives. Hope you like our new campaign and will join BAR in getting rid of them. No, we’re not planning to usurp uncles or mount an attack on aunties; we all love those relatives, and they make a mean Victoria sponge when we visit. BAR is campaigning to ban the use of the - [Looking forward to...nothing](https://www.wddty.com/looking-forward-to-nothing/) - WDDTY Editor, Lynne McTaggart discusses her take on the SSRI antidepressant epidemic. - [The drugs are lovely!](https://www.wddty.com/the-drugs-are-lovely/) - Patients are being encouraged to do direct-to-consumer advertising - [Masking the truth: face masks don’t block the Covid virus](https://www.wddty.com/masking-the-truth-face-masks-dont-block-the-covid-virus/) - Face masks don’t block the Covid virus—but the media doesn’t want to know - [Is energy healing the future of medicine?](https://www.wddty.com/is-energy-healing-the-future-of-medicine/) - If we had a dollar for everyone who has written in to tell us about their amazing new “quantum device,” we could retire tomorrow. The question is, does it work? - [How much does your diet contribute to your risk of cancer?](https://www.wddty.com/how-much-does-your-diet-contribute-to-your-risk-of-cancer/) - How much does your food contribute to your risk of cancer? The most comprehensive study of this question, carried out by Imperial College London, tracked the dietary habits of nearly 200,000 British people aged 40–69, who revealed their food consumption every 24 hours for three years between 2009 and 2012 and were then followed up - [The logic of lifestyle medicine](https://www.wddty.com/the-logic-of-lifestyle-medicine/) - Lifestyle medicine has the answers that the conventionalmedical model doesn’t, says Rob Verkerk - [Doctor who questioned the Covid strategy loses her license](https://www.wddty.com/doctor-who-questioned-the-covid-strategy-loses-her-license/) - After more than 30 attempts, the medical goon squad finally got their man (or, in this case, feisty woman). Dr Sarah Myhill, the “people’s doctor,” has been banned from practicing medicine for nine months after she made statements during the Covid pandemic that “undermined public health.” The UK’s Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service—the executioners to the - [Medicinal mouthfuls](https://www.wddty.com/medicinal-mouthfuls/) - That food can cure illness isn’t exactly a new idea. More than 2,000 years ago, the Greek physician Hippocrates, considered the Father of Medicine, famously wrote, “Let food be thy medicine.” - [Doctors are the least likely to take their own medicine as it’s prescribed](https://www.wddty.com/doctors-are-the-least-likely-to-take-their-own-medicine-as-its-prescribed/) - It’s true that people from low socioeconomic groups are less likely to follow the guidelines, but doctors are loaded so that won’t wash - [On aging well](https://www.wddty.com/on-aging-well/) - I’ve just returned from the US, where I saw a batch of my close American girlfriends, who are mostly my age. I was heartsick to learn that of the two dear friends who’d had surgical facelifts, one was still in pain a few years later (a one-in-a-million chance, her doctor had told her—not very comforting - [There are parallels between Covid measures and totalitarian states](https://www.wddty.com/there-are-parallels-between-covid-measures-and-totalitarian-states/) - The media—encompassing TV and the web—is the new opiate of the people, replacing religion. People who have their TV are happy people, and happy people don’t revolt. - [A miraculous stroke recovery](https://www.wddty.com/a-miraculous-stroke-recovery/) - A few months ago, a friend of ours told us about her associate who’d suffered a catastrophic hemorrhagic stroke, likely the result of a two-year struggle with long Covid. We look at how she overcame this in just two weeks! - [Permission to heal: the power of placebo](https://www.wddty.com/permission-to-heal-the-power-of-placebo/) - Parts of the brain physically change when someone is given a placebo to relieve pain. No chemical is making these changes, but it’s happening because a person thinks they have been given a drug - [Diversification is the way out of the pandemic](https://www.wddty.com/diversification-is-the-way-out-of-the-pandemic/) - Our latest challenge is how to exit decisively and smoothly from the pandemic. I believe it’s a big mistake to put all our eggs in one basket—that basket representing vaccine-based solutions. - [Giving nonspeaking autistic children a voice](https://www.wddty.com/giving-nonspeaking-autistic-children-a-voice/) - Imagine growing up with the full capacity for normal—possibly even superior—thoughts and cognition, but never being able to communicate to the outer world, even to your parents. - [The end of allergies](https://www.wddty.com/the-end-of-allergies/) - When interviewing ecological medicine pioneer Dr Damien Downing for our company’s Get Well online intensive on gut healing, we were completely floored by the implications of something he said. - [The Phoenix is rising](https://www.wddty.com/the-phoenix-is-rising/) - There’s an extraordinary movement of health professionals working together for the greater good, says Rob Verkerk. - [Don’t blame me](https://www.wddty.com/dont-blame-me/) - Medicine is more deadly than malaria, but nobody admits their mistakes - [Getting out of the way of the body](https://www.wddty.com/getting-out-of-the-way-of-the-body/) - The story of Michelle Slater, who’d contracted Lyme disease and gone to every possible doctor. How did she find a cure? - [Do mothers need science to help them soothe a crying baby?](https://www.wddty.com/do-mothers-need-science-to-help-them-soothe-a-crying-baby/) - Do mothers need science to help them soothe a crying baby? - [Impossible, but true](https://www.wddty.com/impossible-but-true/) - Miracles happen because science can’t explain them - [Reflections on a pandemic](https://www.wddty.com/reflections-on-a-pandemic/) - Reflection is something many of us have done quite a bit of lately. Here’s what I’ve observed since a pandemic was declared in March 2020, which can be loosely categorized into three areas: control, connection and communication. Control The pandemic has seen a massive shift in the locus of control as it relates to healthcare. - [Covid virus lab leak is looking less like a conspiracy theory](https://www.wddty.com/covid-virus-lab-leak-is-looking-less-like-a-conspiracy-theory/) - Noah was a conspiracy theorist until it started to rain. . . Facetablet post from Noah: Quick, get on the ark! Facetablet advisory: Visit the Land of Nod Flood Information Center for weather updates. - [Hearing loss: prick up your ears](https://www.wddty.com/hearing-loss-prick-up-your-ears/) - Although we think of hearing loss as the purview of aging rock stars, military vets who have been exposed to loud noises or simply the inevitable effect of old age, one of the most unexpected of the varied aftereffects of Covid is hearing loss—most specifically tinnitus, or persistent ringing in the ears. - [Bird’s-eye view](https://www.wddty.com/birds-eye-view/) - It’s important to take a step back to consider the world we are living in right now, says Rob Verkerk - [Sleep, good. Death, bad](https://www.wddty.com/sleep-good-death-bad/) - Medical science has just come up with two very obvious observations - [Pinch yourself](https://www.wddty.com/pinch-yourself/) - In today’s world, it’s important to keep our minds wide open, says Rob Verkerk - [On a planet far, far away](https://www.wddty.com/on-a-planet-far-far-away/) - It’s not just Earth with an epidemic to battle - [Cancer’s best medicine](https://www.wddty.com/cancers-best-medicine/) - Why do we get cancer, and how do we survive it? - [Let’s get ill, let’s make money](https://www.wddty.com/lets-get-ill-lets-make-money/) - Chronic disease is the end point of a diet of Big Food’s processed glob - [Us vs Them](https://www.wddty.com/us-vs-them/) - “Whether you are pro- or anti-Covid vaccine, whether you have been vaccinated or not, let’s stand together against vaccine passports” - [Accentuate the positive](https://www.wddty.com/accentuate-the-positive/) - Robert Verkerk gives his tips for maintaining a positive outlook, regardless of what’s happening in the world. - [Mommy, why are scientists so confused?](https://www.wddty.com/mommy-why-are-scientists-so-confused/) - There are good reasons why most medical advice is contradictory. - [A diet fit for a monkey](https://www.wddty.com/a-diet-fit-for-a-monkey/) - Natural substances contain complex, synergistic healing compounds that even the most sophisticated drug cannot mimic. - [When it isn’t cancer](https://www.wddty.com/when-it-isnt-cancer/) - A quarter of all breast cancer cases aren’t cancer at all. - [What would Jesus do?](https://www.wddty.com/what-would-jesus-do/) - Over the Christmas period, we both had Covid. We didn’t die or go to a hospital, despite not being in the first flush of youth. It was a flu/cold by any other name, and we both got fully better within a few weeks without much more than vitamin C, vitamin D and a salt pipe with iodine. - [Nature is the big winner](https://www.wddty.com/nature-is-the-big-winner/) - Natural solutions have a better risk/benefit profile than Covid vaccines - [Nothing makes sense about the Covid pandemic](https://www.wddty.com/nothing-makes-sense-about-the-covid-pandemic/) - For much of the Covid-19 pandemic, I felt as though I was a spectator to unlikely scenes from the strange world of Alice in Wonderland, and through a frosted glass for good measure - [The big exhale](https://www.wddty.com/the-big-exhale/) - We are all now in a febrile state over Covid, everyone claiming that everyone else is wrong. - [How doctors are silenced if they speak out against the Covid narrative](https://www.wddty.com/how-doctors-are-silenced-if-they-speak-out-against-the-covid-narrative/) - A few brave doctors and nurses have put their heads above the YouTube and Facebook parapets to pronounce, from the frontline, either that Covid is not as bad as everyone is telling us, or that there are effective treatments they’re not being allowed to use, or that the vaccines aren’t as safe as you’re being told, and so on. - [The limits of the common good](https://www.wddty.com/the-limits-of-the-common-good/) - The polarization of societies across the world has been painful for many of us. It’s sometimes split families, other times whole nations. Among the opposing views have been a gamut of different perspectives on how much or how little control we should have as individuals versus the state. - [All in the mind](https://www.wddty.com/all-in-the-mind/) - Renowned orthopedic surgeon David Hanscom came to the conclusion reached by many of his colleagues in their quiet moments: spinal surgery wasn’t helping his patients, but mostly making them worse. - [Blood in the water](https://www.wddty.com/blood-in-the-water/) - Dr Stephen Hussey, an American chiropractor, has a revolutionary view of the function of the heart. It’s not a pump, he maintains, so much as a regulator of blood activity, which whooshes around the body, he says, essentially on its own. - [Not so dead](https://www.wddty.com/not-so-dead/) - Science is discovering that something of us survives death - [Crazy ladies](https://www.wddty.com/crazy-ladies/) - Many years ago, I read an article in Esquire by Nora Ephron entitled “Dealing with the, uh, Problem,” about the early days of the feminine-hygiene spray business. - [Thinking away Alzheimer’s disease](https://www.wddty.com/thinking-away-alzheimers-disease/) - The brain appears to revise itself throughout life, depending on the nature of its thoughts - [Money first, health last](https://www.wddty.com/money-first-health-last/) - You can’t trust anyone these days, as no eagle-eyed WDDTY reader needs reminding. - [Scoundrel Time](https://www.wddty.com/scoundrel-time/) - In 1953, the award-winning and much-lauded American playwright and author Lillian Hellman was called to testify before the Committee on House Un-American Activities (HUAC), chaired by Senator Joseph (“Have you now or have you ever been a Communist”) McCarthy. - [Do statins cause muscle pain?](https://www.wddty.com/do-statins-cause-muscle-pain/) - A new study claims statins don’t cause muscle pain - [Detox: the fingerprint principle](https://www.wddty.com/detox-the-fingerprint-principle/) - January-that month of atonement for many Christmases past-is the time of year that healthfood shops look forward to their best sales of detox products all year. So, it caught our eye when the self-styled quackbusting watchdog, Sense about Science, announced that detox products are useless and unnecessary, and that our bodies are perfectly able to - [A prescription for old age](https://www.wddty.com/a-prescription-for-old-age/) - Most of us assume that if we're lucky enough to exceed our threescore and ten-the Biblical estimate of our lifespan-we do so at the expense of our bodies. We've come to expect that the long path to our demise is accompanied by an inevitable decline in our physical health. And perhaps our most terrifying fear - [Asking the obvious](https://www.wddty.com/asking-the-obvious/) - Someone finally bothered to ask the question: does breast screening work? The answer is a damning and resounding no, as our cover story this month makes clear. No breast screening programme anywhere is making the slightest impact on cancer mortality.According to the prestigious Cochrane Collaboration, which carried out one of the most extensive and unbiased - [Monkeying with the truth](https://www.wddty.com/monkeying-with-the-truth/) - The US and UK governments and the press are exulting in the recent highly public hanging of Dr Andrew Wakefield, found guilty of misconduct by the British General Medical Council (GMC). Wakefield, you may recall, is the British gastroenterologist who first raised the alarm bells over the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (MMR).In the minds of many medicos - [The couch potato's charter](https://www.wddty.com/the-couch-potatos-charter/) - Couch potatoes rejoice! As of today, you don't have to eat those five portions of fruit and vegetables every day in order to ward off cancer. Researchers have discovered that the advice of every government has, all along, been wrong. The beneficial effect is modest, say researchers from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, after - [Double trouble](https://www.wddty.com/double-trouble/) - Early in my career, I worked in the editorial department of a newspaper syndicate in New York, editing a variety of columnists, one of whom was the renegade medical columnist Dr Robert Mendelsohn.Bob introduced me to the dangers of modern medicine. In particular, I remember his stark warnings about what he maintained were the most - [Strange bedfellows](https://www.wddty.com/strange-bedfellows/) - It's reassuring to think that there are big organizations out there so wedded to our best interests that they are beyond reproach, impossible to buy or sell. The premiere organization with this kind of impeccable reputation the world over is the World Health Organization, one of original agencies set up by the newly formed United - [The kindest cut](https://www.wddty.com/the-kindest-cut/) - In these austere times, President Obama's Congress and the fledgling UK coalition government are casting around furiously for ways to trim their bloated deficits. Yet, in the midst of all this slashing and burning, healthcare is the area that clearly remains a no-go zone. In the UK, although Prime Minister David Cameron has been combing - [Not my problem](https://www.wddty.com/not-my-problem/) - In 2002, WDDTY learned of plans within the European Union to radically restrict natural medicine across all member countries, starting with laws to create a very low ceiling of 'safe upper limits' in vitamins.Although the laws were ostensibly to create a 'level playing field' within the European supplement market, the proposals bore the heavy hand - [The damaged brain](https://www.wddty.com/the-damaged-brain/) - Just occasionally, I come across a doctor willing to break the conspiracy of silence on the damage caused by their tools. My hero of the hour is American psychiatrist Grace E. Jackson, who is utterly and refreshingly horrified by psychiatric and most other forms of pharmaceutical medicine. In fact, so incensed was Jackson over the - [Mind medicine](https://www.wddty.com/mind-medicine/) - Dr Bruce Moseley, an orthopaedic specialist at Methodist Hospital in Houston, TX, was convinced of the powerful effect of the human mind on healing. He recruited 180 patients with severe knee osteoarthritis and divided them into three groups, two of which underwent true surgery to clear out degenerative tissue and debris. The third group underwent - [What is natural?](https://www.wddty.com/what-is-natural/) - I was recently asked by a health symposium to write something along the theme of 'What is natural?' Here is my paper:What is Natural?By their fruits shall you know them. The simple dictionary definition suggests that a natural thing is from nature. The flora and fauna are natural phenomena. The evolution of the neo-cortex and - [Ghostly medicine](https://www.wddty.com/ghostly-medicine/) - All of us at WDDTY are shaken to the core by the recent disclosures that most studies in the medical literature are marketing dressed up as research. For as many as 90,000 published drug trials, a drug company hired a PR firm-a 'medical education and communication company' (MECC)-to carry out its clinical trials, engaged a - [Medicine in the raw](https://www.wddty.com/medicine-in-the-raw/) - Our dog Ollie, as a small, tricolored Cavalier King Charles spaniel, was bred by royal decree and born with a peculiar sense of regal entitlement and a permanent look of disdain. He belongs in a Peanuts cartoon-the curmudgeonly dog whose thought balloon continuously registers exasperation with his clueless owners. He refuses to eat except when - [Mass-production medicine](https://www.wddty.com/mass-production-medicine/) - By the early years of the 20th century, mass production processes were being refined. Soon, factories would produce thousands upon thousands of items inexpensively - from bottle tops, cola drinks, processed foods, to bicycles and motor cars. Suddenly, everyone could have the same thing!These new industrial processes weren't restricted to consumer fare; they were also - [Only connect](https://www.wddty.com/only-connect/) - Nearly a year ago, Hollywood was shocked when actress Brittany Murphy, just 32, died from pneumonia, which she contracted after taking over-the-counter drugs. Within five months, her doting husband, British screenwriter Simon Monjack, aged 40, was also dead from a cardiac arrest-his heart had literally broken. This phenomenon, called 'stress cardiomyopathy', is extraordinarily common; an - [Healing thoughts](https://www.wddty.com/healing-thoughts/) - The biggest headache for any drug-company executive is the placebo, or 'sugar pill', used in controlled trials to show that a drug in question works. Patients are divided into two groups, one of which is given the active drug, while the other takes the placebo, but no one knows who got what, not even those - [Fixing the fat police](https://www.wddty.com/fixing-the-fat-police/) - We are fat and getting fatter by the day.Several years ago, Johns Hopkins University did a study showing that, if obesity trends continue, in four years, an astonishing three-quarters of all Americans will be overweight. In Britain, according to an Oxford University epidemiologist, who wrote a government report on the subject, in less than 15 - [The superficial science](https://www.wddty.com/the-superficial-science/) - Philosophy is the art of asking the difficult question, and it is the engine room of most of the sciences. Physicists, astrophysicists and biologists, for instance, are driven by the quest to understand the complexity of life and how it began. Medicine, on the other hand, doesn't ask the fundamental questions. It's down to the - [Because they say so](https://www.wddty.com/because-they-say-so/) - Before the discoveries of Copernicus and Galileo, the Sun orbited the Earth. It didn't, of course, but everyone accepted that it did because the popes and the Roman Catholic Church told them so.Medicine operates in a similar fashion. Its governing bodies determine the measure and tempo of disease, which we all go along with, and - [My back phages](https://www.wddty.com/my-back-phages/) - Pity the poor general practitioner. He doesn't have the tools for the heroic gesture, unlike his counterpart in emergency medicine who saves lives, patches people up and generally performs miracles on a daily basis. The general practitioner deals with the chronic problems, those persistent health issues that never get better. All he can offer are - [Fat profits](https://www.wddty.com/fat-profits/) - The cancer at the heart of medicine is its need to serve two masters: the patient and the pharmaceutical company's shareholders. In an ideal capitalist system, this does not necessarily present a problem. The very best drugs will become the most popular because they are the most beneficial, and so the company and its shareholders - [The MMR believers](https://www.wddty.com/the-mmr-believers/) - Pity the poor parents who want to do the right thing whenit comes to vaccinating their child. Even suggesting thatthey have concerns about side-effects can be likenedto questioning the existence of God to a 12th-centurypope-such is the doctor's belief in vaccinations.Vaccines are medicine's greatest success story, or sodoctors are told almost from their first day - [Zen and dementia](https://www.wddty.com/zen-and-dementia/) - This is the 22nd year that we've been producing a monthly issue of What Doctors Don't Tell You, and people always seem to ask: Don't you ever run out of things to write about? Thus far, we don't seem to have any problems, but thanks for asking. It's never a question I ask myself. But - [The expert-free therapy](https://www.wddty.com/the-expert-free-therapy/) - We live in an age of complexity. We switch on the lights in our home, but don't really understand how the electricity works. We turn on the taps in our bathroom, without completely grasping how water can run through the pipes. We're probably vague about how television images are transmitted to our screens. Or even - [It's an ill wind](https://www.wddty.com/its-an-ill-wind/) - The West is going through financial turmoil. Its governments are bankrupt, and are being forced to cut back on public expenditure. For David Cameron's UK government, the National Health Service (NHS) presents a special challenge: not only is it the nation's premier cash drain, costing the taxpayer lb100bn a year, it is also its most - [When miracles happen](https://www.wddty.com/when-miracles-happen/) - Praying for another's wellbeing is problematic, even at this time of year when our thoughts might turn to miracles and healings of the sick. It's not a problem for the sender or receiver, but it most certainly is for the scientist, the researcher, the doctor and the sceptic, especially the sceptic.Prayer and its other distant - [In the pocket](https://www.wddty.com/in-the-pocket/) - Our main feature this month (http://www.wddty.com/kill-not-cure.html) highlights two disturbing statistics about Big Pharma: in 2011, it was recorded as the most fraudulent industry group in the world, while its drugs became more lethal than traffic accidents, killing one person every 14 minutes in the United States alone.These worrying facts beggar two obvious questions: why hasn't - [The science of profit](https://www.wddty.com/the-science-of-profit/) - Imagine you're a Venusian paying a visit to Earth, and I'm in the welcoming party. Over a bubbling Martian cola I tell you we have a major health problem on the planet - cancer. Our standard therapies kill cancer in 40 per cent of cases - if caught at the earliest stage - and around - [First, do something](https://www.wddty.com/first-do-something/) - Breast cancer is one of the major 'ladykillers' - and so governments want to be seen to do something, not least because it affects half the electorate. For the past 24 years - and at a total cost of lb2.3bn - women in the UK over the age of 50 have been invited to have - [The consent that is never sought](https://www.wddty.com/the-consent-that-is-never-sought/) - Aside from death and taxes, life's only other certainty is that you have a body, over which you have complete sovereignty and which is protected by law, including human rights legislation. If somebody attacks you, the assailant will be prosecuted and punished - indeed, any action on your body carried out without your full consent - [The ethical drug company](https://www.wddty.com/the-ethical-drug-company/) - The recent bank bail-out left a bitter taste. Apparently too big to fail, the banks enjoyed state support to keep them afloat, then cut off credit to small firms, a decision that threatens to plunge us back into recession, and began paying enormous bonuses the moment they moved back into profit.All of this has been - [Caught in the Act](https://www.wddty.com/caught-in-the-act/) - We recently fell foul of the Cancer Act 1939. It's the same pernicious act that forced the cancellation of an alternative cancer conference in Totnes, Devon the other month, which was to feature the Italian oncologist Tullio Simoncini. For us, we have been stopped from advertising our cancer books and recordings with some of the - [Because they can](https://www.wddty.com/because-they-can/) - The faint-hearted among us often question the suicidal bravery of mountaineers who risk their lives to climb the world's highest peaks. When asked why they climb the mountain, the stock-in-trade explanation is something like, "because it's there". It's similar to the response of the strong who do things against the public will or good "because - [Old drugs, new diseases](https://www.wddty.com/old-drugs-new-diseases/) - One of the drug industry's tactics for selling more remedies is to invent a disease. 'Social phobia' springs to mind as a classic from around 10 years ago.Now they have a new one, this time courtesy of the psychiatric profession. It's 'internet addiction', and an addict is anyone who spends more than 38 hours on - [An amalgam of half-truths](https://www.wddty.com/an-amalgam-of-half-truths/) - The news that the European Parliament is expected to ban mercury fillings throughout the 27 member states, including the UK, raises two questions: why was mercury ever put in our teeth in the first place, and why have the dental associations always been so ready to defend the use of one of the most toxic - [Making it up](https://www.wddty.com/making-it-up/) - Around 90 years ago, the pharmaceutical industry took over medicine. Inspired by the discoveries made by its sister companies in the burgeoning petro-chemical sector, it imagined medicine on a mass-production scale, available to everyone at their point of need.There had to be a few things in place for the bold adventure to work. First, it - [Eat well, stay well](https://www.wddty.com/eat-well-stay-well/) - Only around 10 per cent of Britons take their health seriously; the rest rely on medicine. In other words, just one in 10 of us take responsibility for our well-being by eating plenty of fruits and vegetables every day and adopting a healthy lifestyle while the vast majority eats a nutrition-free diet and expects their - [Miracles of the demi-gods](https://www.wddty.com/miracles-of-the-demi-gods/) - Medicine seems to divide itself between the miraculous interventions and the mundane. The latter is all the things medicine isn't very good at: the nagging, chronic problems that are made bearable by drugs, although almost never cured by them. But the miracles-they're the stuff of TV drama and newspapers headlines, and include emergency procedures, life-saving - [They're not even wrong](https://www.wddty.com/theyre-not-even-wrong/) - There's a breathtakingly ignorant comment that has done the rounds of late, and it goes like this: there are only two types of medicine, that which works and alternative medicine. This suggests that modern medicine is an open house, a "come all ye" of every therapy and treatment that has been proven to work, while - [Back to the future](https://www.wddty.com/back-to-the-future/) - When Lynne's mother was 24, her dentist unwisely extracted a tooth while she had the flu. Within days her neck had ballooned with a streptococcal infection and she was rushed to hospital. Lynne's father, then her fianc'e, wept helplessly at her bedside while priests filed past him after administering last rites.And then the wonder drug - [A Long Shot](https://www.wddty.com/a-long-shot/) - Last January, after sustaining an injury to one knee during a particularly heated hockey match, our 16-year-old daughter Anya, a sports scholar, was handed the diagnosis most dreaded by athletes of any age: complete rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament of the knee. The ACL, one of the crisscross ligaments attaching the knee cap to - [Beyond the blueprint](https://www.wddty.com/beyond-the-blueprint/) - The whole of modern medicine rests upon the belief that, to a great extent, your future health is out of your control. Biologists and doctors in the main believe that the functioning and health of any organism are largely due to DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), the coiled double helix of genetic coding within the nucleus engine - [In our own backyards](https://www.wddty.com/in-our-own-backyards/) - Recently, European scientists finally isolated the reason for the sudden, puzzling disappearance of entire colonies of bees. Although parasitic mites, deadly viruses and bacterial disease have been variously blamed for the phenomenon, study after study has now fingered the pesticides sprayed on garden plants and food crops, which affect the ability of bees to navigate - [Moving the goalposts](https://www.wddty.com/moving-the-goalposts/) - We're living longer, but we're not necessarily better off for it, at least not according to modern medicine. Several months ago, the UK's International Longevity Centre released a statement announcing that less than a third of us will reach the typical retirement age of 65 years in a healthy state. In the US, where one - [White mischief](https://www.wddty.com/white-mischief/) - If we were asked to name the deadliest weapon dispersed during the 20th century, we wouldn't choose the A-bomb or the efficient gas chambers of Auschwitz or drone warfare, or even sophisticated microbiological weaponry. And we wouldn't have to think very long about it, either.There's no contest. It has to be processed sugar, by a - [The inconvenient truth](https://www.wddty.com/the-inconvenient-truth/) - A small group of people tried to prevent you from reading this issue ofWhat Doctors Don't Tell You. They pressurized shops to stop selling our magazine and they were prepared to go to almost any lengths to achieve their aims, including the stage-managing of an 'independent' news article in a major newspaper that contained malicious - [Light in the darkness](https://www.wddty.com/light-in-the-darkness/) - Increasingly, those at the very centre of Establishment medicine are joining the ranks of whistleblowers like What Doctors Don't Tell You in shining a light on the dirty secrets of mainstream medicine. One of the largest spotlights at the moment is Peter Gotzsche, the head of the Nordic Cochrane Centre, the Scandinavian arm of the - [Beyond three score and 10](https://www.wddty.com/beyond-three-score-and-10/) - A few years ago, we asked a bold question: what are the key ingredients to a long and healthy life? Specifically, what 100 conditions might best maximize your chances of living to 100?From our research over the years we knew that the key to healthy longevity isn't a matter of a few resolutions on January - [The third diabetes](https://www.wddty.com/the-third-diabetes/) - Governments of the West have finally woken up to the fact that we have an epidemic of dementia on our hands. The incidence of Alzheimer's disease is growing so quickly (the worldwide incidence is set to treble to 135 million in 35 years), and the death rates are so high (it's the sixth leading cause - [Back-door solutions](https://www.wddty.com/back-door-solutions/) - The statistics speak for themselves. At some point, 85 per cent of us will suffer from back pain and yet medicine is still at a loss for how to treat this medical epidemic. Despite all manner of sophisticated gadgetry and high-tech surgery, including lumbar surgery, spinal fusion and surgery for slipped discs, surgical success only - [Inventing the problem](https://www.wddty.com/inventing-the-problem/) - Economist John Kenneth Galbraith was one of the first to identify 'revised-sequence' markets which, unlike the ordinary consumer-driven variety, are driven by a corporation, which controls the consumer's attitudes and values and so creates product demand. Or, to put it more simply, theyinvent the problem to sell the solution.As American political activist Ralph Nader once - [Farsighted](https://www.wddty.com/farsighted/) - Failing eyesight has become so closely associated with old age that medicine has applied a number of adjectives synonymous with 'geriatric' to conditions like 'age-related macular degeneration' and 'senile cataracts', and it's just taken for granted that your eyes are going to wear out even faster than the rest of you.As Dame Judi Dench once - [Catching it early](https://www.wddty.com/catching-it-early/) - It's all over the newspapers. Deaths from breast cancer have almost been halved, and the bow belongs to screening with routine mammography.So persuasive is the catch-it-early argument that governments have spent millions putting into effect mass screening programmes, with women the primary targets for wholesale breast and cervical cancer campaigns.In the latest invitation that comes - [Beyond your genes](https://www.wddty.com/beyond-your-genes/) - When it comes to cancer, modern medicine is in firm denial. For all the triumphalism over the latest claims that approximately 50 per cent of people survive cancer for at least 10 years, the bald fact remains that cancer incidence rates in Great Britain have risen by 23 per cent in men and by 43 - [Je suis gagged](https://www.wddty.com/je-suis-gagged/) - Since January, all of us in the West have been horrified by the spectacle of Islamic fanatics storming into the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and assassinating 10 of its staff, including its editor,St'ephane Charbonnier, and his police bodyguard.It shocks us precisely because we believe that one of our most fundamental freedoms, - [The quantum cook](https://www.wddty.com/the-quantum-cook/) - Last month, WDDTY was saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Annemarie Colbin, one of its panel members, a visionary in the natural-food movement and a dear friend. In 1977, in need of income to support her young daughters, Dr Colbin started the Natural Gourmet Cookery School in the kitchen of her Upper West - [The second brain](https://www.wddty.com/the-second-brain/) - In 1992, after rediscovering a network of neurotransmitters in the gut that act in a similar way to ordinary neurons, Dr Michael Gershon, chairman of the department of anatomy and cell biology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, an expert in the new field of neurogastroenterology,christened this phenomenon 'the second brain'.He and others have - [It's only natural](https://www.wddty.com/its-only-natural/) - The scene would not look out of place in Breaking Bad. Special Forces in camouflage gear and night-vision goggles stealthily break into a house and hold up its terrified owner, still in his dressing gown, shining a light in his face as they catch him holding a bottle of what appears to be illegal contraband."Guys, - [The secret message of pain](https://www.wddty.com/the-secret-message-of-pain/) - We are a society gripped by constant pain of one sort or another-and life appears to be getting more painful by the year. In the UK alone, according to government statistics, at least a third of all households-representing some eight million of us-have one or more members suffering from moderate-to-severe persistent pain of some variety. - [Welcome to the new site](https://www.wddty.com/welcome-to-the-new-site/) - After several years of planning and coding, we're proud to welcome you to the new WDDTY site.Many of the features are the same, and you'll find News and Feature articles easily enough.But perhaps what is new is a more powerful Members' area, which puts you in control of your subscription. The site is also mobile-friendly - [An immovable feast](https://www.wddty.com/an-immovable-feast/) - We've not only been built to move; like a dog needing to be walked every day, our bodies need to move in order to function properly.Somewhere during the 20th century, though, we forgot about this essential purpose and designed lifestyles in which hours of movement punctuated by short bouts of stillness have been replaced by - [Don't believe the HPV hype](https://www.wddty.com/dont-believe-the-hpv-hype/) - One week last September, the headlines exclaimed to the parents of young children that it was imperative to get their daughters, and even their young sons, vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV).Behind the headlines was a seemingly weighty scientific paper, published in the journal Clinical Reviews of Infectious Diseases, headed by one of the world's leading - [The audacity of hope](https://www.wddty.com/the-audacity-of-hope/) - For us, the story began in 1995 when Bryan's 78-year-old mother, Edie, was diagnosed with end-stage breast cancer. Privately her doctor told us, äóìIf I were you, I'd get her affairs in order.äó When he'd examined her, he'd been shocked: her breast, he told me, looked like raw meat. In fact, so advanced was the - [The real med diet](https://www.wddty.com/the-real-med-diet/) - Been down to the Med lately? If you have, you'll have noticed that the locals don't eat the Mediterranean diet - or certainly not the idealized version celebrated by medical researchers. Yet, they've been urging us to eat oily fish, fresh vegetables and fruit, with lashings of olive oil, all rounded off by a plate - [Not so little grey cells](https://www.wddty.com/not-so-little-grey-cells/) - Tell your doctor that you have to search harder to recall the names of distant friends or remember where you last placed your keys, and he's likely chalk it up to 'mild cognitive decline' and tell you to get used to the inevitable slippery slope of ageing.But as this month's cover story (page 28) demonstrates, - [Brexit means Brexit...](https://www.wddty.com/brexit-means-brexit/) - The Conservative Party conference of early October marked the decision by British PM Theresa May to reveal her true sovereign colours following the June referendum. But committed Europhiles won't like it, as she'll be doing deals with the likes of Canada, China, India, Mexico, Singapore and South Korea, all of which are willing to engage - [Do nothing](https://www.wddty.com/do-nothing/) - It should be the golden rule of medicine (yet it's never taught in medical school): first, do nothing. Instead, the fledgling medic is cast in the mould of the hero, ready and waiting to intervene at the drop of a blood-pressure reading.To help him in his quest to restore health to all are the paraphernalia - [The Trump effect in healthcare](https://www.wddty.com/the-trump-effect-in-healthcare/) - At 35,000 feet over the Pacific between Sydney and LA, I'd hoped this view of our troubled planet offered greater objectivity - but then I read the latest news about the US elections, more reactions to the High Court's decision re Brexit, the political strife - and bushfires - in Australia . . . with - [Medical terrorism](https://www.wddty.com/medical-terrorism/) - In the last six weeks, I've met with leaders of ketogenic dietary approaches for cancer in Melbourne and London who were targets of personal and professional attacks, I've met families in California who plan to leave the state because they don't want their kids vaccinated, yet still want to send them to school, and I've - [Combatting the lady killer](https://www.wddty.com/combatting-the-lady-killer/) - Medicine, we're told, is feeling victorious about beating breast cancer, now that the incidence of heart disease has overtaken it as Britain's number-one lady killer. This victory celebration may be premature. While deaths may have decreased by 35 per cent since the early 1970s, the incidence of this form of cancer is going up - - [When dying is right](https://www.wddty.com/when-dying-is-right/) - Britain's National Health Service (NHS) is rated the fifth largest employer - not in the UK and Europe, but in the world! A remarkable 1.7 million people are employed by what is sometimes referred to as the 'jewel in Britain's welfare crown'. The only bigger global employers, in decreasing order of size, are the US - [Post-truth medicine](https://www.wddty.com/post-truth-medicine/) - Last year was the start of something big, and it even gave birth to a new word: post-truth. Critics argued that much of the Trump presidential campaign was hallmarked by post-truths - and preposterous post-truths at that, such as President Obama being the founder of ISIS and opposition candidate Hilary Clinton running a paedophile ring - [Sugar and spite](https://www.wddty.com/sugar-and-spite/) - It's a belief that still underpins our most popular weight-loss programmes and, if truth be told, somewhere deep down you probably believe it too. It's this: the more you eat, the more weight you'll put on.It seems logical enough, but it's not entirely true. The idea of the equality of calories was started by the - [Weak at the knees](https://www.wddty.com/weak-at-the-knees/) - At any moment, up to a third of us are struggling with pain in our knees. In a major US National Health Interview Survey in 2006, nearly a third of adults reported experiencing some type of joint pain, with more than a sixth reporting pain in the knee. The situation is even worse in the - [Grains of truth](https://www.wddty.com/grains-of-truth/) - The BBC TV series Horizon has been exploring scientific issues affecting the British populace since 1964. It exposed whale meat in pet food in 1972, and examined the question (sadly, with insufficient evidence) of whether the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) jab causes autism. With many more mindful about what they eat as the new year begins to - [A sharp jab at safety claims](https://www.wddty.com/a-sharp-jab-at-safety-claims/) - Vaccination is possibly the single most controversial issue in public health. Western medicine has devised a number of key strategies for managing health, and the three most widely used are drugs, surgery and vaccines. Drugs and surgery have thousands of years of historical use, but until around 70 years ago, most drugs were derived from - [The spaces between facts](https://www.wddty.com/the-spaces-between-facts/) - William Halsted is revered among surgeons. He died in 1922, and yet is still considered one of the most influential surgeons ever, with many of his innovations - such as the use of rubber gloves and a surgical procedure on the digestive tract - still in use in operating theatres today. He also developed the - [A cleaner sweep](https://www.wddty.com/a-cleaner-sweep/) - This magazine owes its start to dental fillings - my dental fillings. I'd had bad teeth as a kid - the product of the average heavily processed, high-sugar, American diet - and by the time I was a teenager, there weren't many of my teeth, other than the few at the front, that weren't covered - [Back to the future](https://www.wddty.com/back-to-the-future-2/) - To eat or not to eat - that is the question. Or, to put it another way, what is the perfect diet for health, perfect weight and longevity? In the close to three decades since we've been publishing, WDDTY has seen (and, in many cases, seen off) the Cambridge Diet (a very low-calorie diet), the - [Prove it!](https://www.wddty.com/prove-it/) - Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) groups could soon lose their tax-advantageous charitable status in the UK unless they can demonstrate that the therapies they represent benefit the public. It's the test for every group that's a charity. For some, like Oxfam and Christian Aid, it's easy to demonstrate that their work benefits the public, and - [The Big Food rip off](https://www.wddty.com/the-big-food-rip-off/) - Junk food and ready meals aren't as cheap as you might think, says Rob Verkerk The facts are increasingly clear: unhealthy diets and a poor lifestyle are the primary causes of chronic disease and early death in our society. The diseases we get from these inappropriate life choices - especially type 2 diabetes, obesity, heart - [Scan or scandal?](https://www.wddty.com/scan-or-scandal/) - You're running late for a flight and when you get to security, you hope to get diverted to the manual security channel. But it's not your day - and you can't face the stress of trying to explain to the security officers why you want a manual pat-down - you're going to be bombarded with - [First mad, then destroyed](https://www.wddty.com/first-mad-then-destroyed/) - Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. Medicine's governing bodies - those who determine the truth about disease, its causes and proper treatments at any given time - clearly took a leaf from Euripides's book when it came to dealing with malcontents, nay-sayers and iconoclasts - or, in other words, people - [A mental adjustment](https://www.wddty.com/a-mental-adjustment/) - Despite being the world's most popular form of alternative treatment, chiropractic has lately had a bad press, particularly in the UK. It began when Simon Singh, the self-appointed attack dog on all things alternative, decided to promote his book Trick or Treatment: Alternative Medicine on Trial by writing an article in The Guardian in 2008 - [Mental starvation](https://www.wddty.com/mental-starvation/) - Entire industries in modern medicine - psychiatry, the drug industry, even many therapeutic arms of psychology - are predicated on the idea that chronic, crippling stress, anxiety and a number of other forms of so-called mental illness are incredibly tough nuts to crack, requiring years of strong medication that, at best, can only control symptoms. - [Thinking makes it so](https://www.wddty.com/thinking-makes-it-so/) - Here's a very radical thought: suppose it's all placebo. Does the thought that a remedy will work actually make it work - whether you've been given a prescription drug, a placebo or dummy drug, or a homeopathic pill?The idea that the mind can make us feel better when we're given any kind of pill isn't - [All brawn and no beef](https://www.wddty.com/all-brawn-and-no-beef/) - I recently visited the BodyPower Expo at the NEC in Birmingham, billed as the "world's number 1 fitness expo". I wanted to learn more about those interested in powerful bodies and the commercial sector that provides products for them, and to see how far things have moved on since the early days of bodybuilding supplements - [How to fix the NHS](https://www.wddty.com/how-to-fix-the-nhs/) - The key is building a parallel system of preventative care, says Rob Verkerk The sooner our politicians stop thinking that money is all that's needed to fix our crumbling healthcare systems, the better off and healthier we'll be. Eventually, we must accept the risk that the system may never fulfil its intended function very well, - [Don't trust me (I'm Big Pharma)](https://www.wddty.com/dont-trust-me-im-big-pharma/) - When you start something, are you prepared to see it through to the bitter end? Whatever the outcome or consequences? Without fear or favour? These are questions that a group of brave souls will need to answer if they're going to achieve their ambition to clean up medicine. The group, mostly made up of doctors - [Seeing clearly now](https://www.wddty.com/seeing-clearly-now/) - Ask most doctors why people develop eye diseases like glaucoma, cataracts and macular degeneration, and they'll blame it on the fact that eyes just inevitably wear out. Two of those conditions - macular degeneration and cataracts - even have 'age' attached to a particular version of them, as in 'age-related cataracts' and 'age-related macular degeneration' - [Reversing the irreversible](https://www.wddty.com/reversing-the-irreversible/) - Treatment of type 1 diabetes is touted as a great medical success story - a condition considered long-since conquered, ever since Sir Frederick Banting and his colleagues at the University of Toronto ground up the pancreas of a cow and injected it into a 14-year-old diabetic boy in 1921. There's no doubt that the discovery - [Quiet as mice](https://www.wddty.com/quiet-as-mice/) - I'm not a mouse; nor, I suspect, are you (unless you're a highly intelligent one who reads our magazine when you're not eating cheese or whizzing around on one of those running wheels - fun, aren't they?) If you don't have a very serious identity crisis, this is not earth-shattering news, although it could be - [Blue zone thinking - The politics of health](https://www.wddty.com/blue-zone-thinking-the-politics-of-health/) - I recently had the pleasure of meeting Dr Michel Poulain in Guernsey, a small island off the coast of northern France that is a self-governing British crown dependency. Poulain was there to talk about his groundbreaking work with National Geographic writer and bestselling author Dan Buettner. Over the last decade or so, they've famously identified - [The healing power of a group](https://www.wddty.com/the-healing-power-of-a-group/) - For many years, I refused to write about the strange healings that were happening in my workshops because I didn't believe them for one moment, which is to say, I had a hard time handling miracles.By 'miracles' and 'healings,' I'm referring to genuine loaves-and-fishes-type miraculous events - a series of extraordinary and untoward situations in - [Rethinking the HPV vaccine](https://www.wddty.com/rethinking-the-hpv-vaccine/) - We've been fed multiple mistruths about the safety of the vaccine, says Rob VerkerkWith people losing faith in pharmaceutical drugs as the primary mechanism for managing health, drug companies are doing their best to expand their portfolios with vaccines. And for good reason. You can target extremely large numbers in national vaccination programs (and that - [Reasonable doubt](https://www.wddty.com/reasonable-doubt/) - Proof of vaccine damage is now down to common sense. Courts of law deal in probabilities. If the defendant pleads innocence, a jury must assess all the evidence and come to a verdict that is "beyond reasonable doubt." This means that the juror may still have some doubts, but the evidence is strong enough to - [When conspiracy theory becomes conspiracy fact](https://www.wddty.com/when-conspiracy-theory-becomes-conspiracy-fact/) - The terms 'public health' and 'consumer protection,' as used by governments, are among the biggest misnomers of all time. Governments and Big Business love telling us just how hard they're working to protect our health and our interests. Well, they're lying to us. Public health policy typically comes as a top-down dictate from health authorities - [Chinese delivery](https://www.wddty.com/chinese-delivery/) - The Economist magazine has recently been voted the world's most trusted news source, but even such a highly rated title can get it badly wrong when it reports on alternative medicine. In an editorial, it has accused the Chinese government of state-sponsored 'quackery' - for supporting the country's own ancient healing system, traditional Chinese medicine - [Curing from the cupboard](https://www.wddty.com/curing-from-the-cupboard/) - Desperate times call for desperate measures - a thought generally attributed to the Greek physician Hippocrates, the father of medicine, after writing in his Aphorisms, "For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure... are most suitable." This has been the catchphrase of medicine ever since. If a patient has some sort of serious condition, so the - [Metal fatigue](https://www.wddty.com/metal-fatigue/) - Medicine is baffled by Alzheimer's disease (AD), and thus far, no matter how great the fanfare about amazing new breakthroughs, not one drug has managed to halt the slow but inevitable robbing of a person's identity. There's a good reason for this. The fact is, conventional medicine has no idea what causes Alzheimer's, and that's - [Dirty medicine down under](https://www.wddty.com/dirty-medicine-down-under/) - I am writing this column some 40,000 feet above Indonesia, bound from Sydney, Australia, to London. After a tight schedule of meetings following the second annual Lifestyle Medicine Australasia conference, I presented on the subject of healthcare sustainability. Australia, like all former British colonies, has a checkered history of human rights. Despite apologies on behalf - [Fake real news](https://www.wddty.com/fake-real-news/) - In more innocent times, there was news, pure and simple. We believed most of what we were told in newspapers and on TV. Now, in the Days of Trump, we also have fake news: blatant untruths like 'Hillary Clinton uses a body double' or 'Donald's tan is natural.' But there's a gray area between these - [It's all a Wonderland](https://www.wddty.com/its-all-a-wonderland/) - Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice might have said if she'd seen some of the research papers that have been passing across the WDDTY desks in recent weeks. They're curious because they provide more evidence of the humbling fact that we have so much still to learn about how the body works and how (or why) - [When a plant gets patented](https://www.wddty.com/when-a-plant-gets-patented/) - You've probably heard about Big Pharma's patent cliff in the early part of this decade - when the patents of huge blockbuster drugs like Lipitor, Plavix and Singulair expired. The effect was a precipitous drop in sales. But the decline in use of these drugs didn't send disease rates skyrocketing, because people tend not to - [Blame it on the back](https://www.wddty.com/blame-it-on-the-back/) - There's a medical problem out there that threatens to outstrip the cost of treatments for all types of cancers combined, and that's back pain. According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in February 2008, Americans spent a staggering $86 billion on treatments for the spine in 2005 - an - [High drug pressure](https://www.wddty.com/high-drug-pressure/) - If you are one of the millions of people taking powerful drugs to treat high and 'abnormal' blood pressure and prevent heart disease, you could be victim to one of medicine's greatest blunders in preventative care. Although high blood pressure is seen as one of the most common health risks we face as we grow - [Blame the Russians](https://www.wddty.com/blame-the-russians/) - The vaccine debate has taken a sinister turn. Any bad news you read about the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) and flu vaccines on social media sites has been placed there by Russian cyber units, plotting to destabilize the West, according to a British tabloid newspaper.First they orchestrated Brexit, then they helped get Trump into the White House, - [When technology takes over](https://www.wddty.com/when-technology-takes-over/) - Technology has drastically altered the lives of most humans on the planet. Infant mortality has plummeted, with most babies in the developed world now surviving birth and their early years. Agricultural and food technology makes sure more people are fed than we ever thought possible. And when we start to ail in later life, technology - [Getting the vax facts wrong](https://www.wddty.com/getting-the-vax-facts-wrong/) - The media is pulled by the forces of simplification and sensationalism, says American sociologist Robert McChesney. I'd add a third 'S' to the list: suppression. All three are amply exercised when it comes to reporting on vaccinations, a touchy subject that has had journalists tying themselves up in knots for decades. Simplification and sensationalism were - [When poachers turn gamekeepers](https://www.wddty.com/when-poachers-turn-gamekeepers/) - Big Food corporations are increasingly buying out the top natural-food players Only around 10 companies control the vast majority of food brands that line our supermarket shelves globally, including NestlŽ, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Danone, General Mills, Kellogg's and Mars. The food they produce isn't real food, at least in terms of what we humans have - [Germ warfare](https://www.wddty.com/germ-warfare/) - Blaming health conditions on bugs like bacteria or viruses has fallen out of fashion. We look for lifestyle causes of illness, whether diet or too few important nutrients, lack of exercise, too much processed, sugary foods or even the fallout from drugs and other aspects of modern medicine. We figure that in almost every instance, - [Calories aren't all created equal](https://www.wddty.com/calories-arent-all-created-equal/) - You wouldn't ask your doctor about nutrition any more than you'd interrogate a nomadic tribesman of the Sahara about the intricacies of snow. The typical doctor's dietary knowledge is primitive, but then, he's only been taught about it in medical school for an average of 10 or so hours over his five years of training. - [Brains on fire](https://www.wddty.com/brains-on-fire/) - Much of modern psychiatry rests on the assumption that mental illness is a biological or genetic disease. Nowhere is this more evident than with serious conditions like depression, bipolar disorder or even schizophrenia - all catch-all terms used to describe individuals who supposedly have lost contact with reality and suffer from delusions, hallucinations, illogical thought - [The myth of the 'faulty' gene](https://www.wddty.com/the-myth-of-the-faulty-gene/) - Mutated genes don't automatically lead to cancer, says Rob VerkerkAngelina Jolie is the pin-up woman for an entire new industry centered around cancer prevention (see page 20). Just like Jolie, you can find out if you have mutations in one or both of the genes that most affect your chances of getting breast cancer (BRCA1 - [The unfair pill](https://www.wddty.com/the-unfair-pill/) - We're living in unfair times - some of the most unfair in recent history. And now WDDTY may have come up with a reasonable answer as to why. It may have something to do, believe it or not, with aspirin and acetaminophen, those everyday painkillers we buy and consume by the handful to blunt the - [Oiling the wheels of natural healthcare](https://www.wddty.com/oiling-the-wheels-of-natural-healthcare/) - When it comes to sustainable healthcare, the West could learn from the East I was honored to deliver the keynote address at the inaugural International Integrative Medicine Conference in Malaysia this February. I spent my childhood in Malaysia, as well as a year in the mid-1990s working with university and government researchers on natural ways - [A maverick's passing](https://www.wddty.com/a-mavericks-passing/) - We need our nay-sayers if medicine is ever to improveThe death of a maverick is always worth a moment's reflection. They often put their own personal ambitions and career on the back burner as they strive for something that's more important, such as changing the system they're a part of.One such maverick was Professor Alan - [There's something fishy going on](https://www.wddty.com/theres-something-fishy-going-on/) - When a paper in a major mainstream journal comes out against omega-3 fish oils, my eyebrows rise. Especially when the paper says they have no protective effect against heart attacks and other forms of heart disease - the Western world's biggest killers and massive money spinners for Big Pharma - as a new meta-analysis (pooled - [The secret life of pain](https://www.wddty.com/the-secret-life-of-pain/) - We all know what causes physical pain, don't we? A part of your body gets crunched, cracked, stabbed, cut or burned, and you feel pain. Or, pain starts up when some body part gives way, like an overworked knee, or wears away, like cartilage, so that the parts no longer mesh together with ease. In - [What big picture?](https://www.wddty.com/what-big-picture/) - If you're a doctor - or, better yet, a researcher at a pharmaceutical company - you think you've got human biology nailed. After all, you must know how it all works so that you can develop new drugs and prescribe and treat patients.And because you've got it all figured out, you can laugh at unscientific - [Do fewer patients die when the surgeon is away or on strike?](https://www.wddty.com/do-fewer-patients-die-when-the-surgeon-is-away-or-on-strike/) - I can imagine that the typical surgeon, when he was a young boy (or girl, of course), was the sort who would keep fiddling around with things until his exasperated mother exclaimed: "For goodness sake, Bernard (Bernadette), it'll never get better if you keep touching it."This fiddling around doesn't do anyone any good, least of - [Bugs, baby wipes and leukemia](https://www.wddty.com/bugs-baby-wipes-and-leukemia/) - Being exposed to bugs early in life could help prevent cancer, says Rob Verkerk I can't imagine much more shocking news than learning your precious child has been diagnosed with leukemia. It's a disease that's on the rise in industrialized countries like the US and UK, with around 6,000 and 800 new diagnoses annually in - [Mitochondria: small but mighty](https://www.wddty.com/mitochondria-small-but-mighty/) - Everybody's talking about them as the new hope for overcoming every condition from chronic fatigue to Alzheimer's disease. 'They' are the mitochondria of our cells - microscopic 'organs' in their own right that act like a teensy digestive system to convert the nutrients absorbed by the cell into energy, or 'respiration,' which the cell requires - [The powerful healing properties of baking soda](https://www.wddty.com/the-powerful-healing-properties-of-baking-soda/) - Innovations are often described as being the best thing since sliced bread - but what was the best thing before sliced bread? My money is on an ingredient that helps make the bread in the first place: baking soda (or bicarbonate of soda). It's the rising agent for breads and cakes that also doubles as - [Bridging the nutritional divide](https://www.wddty.com/bridging-the-nutritional-divide/) - Imagine you're an insurance company. You're worried about covering the costs of people who get sick relatively young, then die slowly and expensively. You not only have to foot the bill for medical expenses, you have to pay out life insurance to the family once the client passes on. Your scientific advisers are clear that - [Hearing loss and the benefits of acupuncture](https://www.wddty.com/hearing-loss-and-the-benefits-of-acupuncture/) - Once you've got it, you've got to learn to live with it - and strap on a device to help you do so. That's the usual medical thinking around hearing loss, which currently afflicts one in five people - some 48 million - in the US, and one in six, or 11 million people in - [Researchers admit they were wrong about full-fat dietary advice](https://www.wddty.com/researchers-admit-they-were-wrong-about-full-fat-dietary-advice/) - Hello World, Research HQ here. Hope you're well! (And if you're not, we'll dig and dig and dig until we find out just what's wrong with you!) Anyhow, you remember how we told you that fat in your diet could clog up your arteries and cause heart disease? You know, we've been banging on about - [Cutting-edge water science sheds new light on homeopathy](https://www.wddty.com/cutting-edge-water-science-sheds-new-light-on-homeopathy/) - It was with great interest that I accepted an invitation to speak at a conference at the Royal Society of Medicine in London last July controversially titled New Horizons in Water Science: Evidence for Homeopathy. Organized by the British Homeopathic Association, the one-day conference brought together some of the brightest minds in the field to - [Ozone injection therapy: the magic bullet for joint and back pain](https://www.wddty.com/ozone-injection-therapy-the-magic-bullet-for-joint-and-back-pain/) - Although modern medicine has looked to the complex and high-tech, in fact, the biggest breakthroughs are occurring in the natural and the everyday. We see this with the powerful effect of a low-carb diet to reverse type 2 diabetes or heart disease. And now, in the latest issue of WDDTY magazine, as Celeste McGovern discovered, - [Don't keep the faith](https://www.wddty.com/dont-keep-the-faith/) - It's clear in most walks of life that science is the new religion. This doesn't mean people have stopped believing in God - or in a God of some form. It's more that so many of us now 'believe in science.'More than this , countries and economies are fueled by it, and technology is selected - [The dental revolution](https://www.wddty.com/the-dental-revolution/) - A subterranean revolution is taking place in dental medicine. To date, standard dentistry has operated as though teeth are inert substances entirely divorced from the rest of the body. Like carpenters or construction workers, dentists have hacked and drilled and pulled teeth like so much rotting wood, the theory being that once the rot has - [You could make it up](https://www.wddty.com/you-could-make-it-up/) - Repeat a lie long enough and people start believing it, as Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propagandist-in-chief, once said. Medicine is full of lies - sorry, assumptions of dubious provenance - that everyone believes must be true but aren't. We believe them because medicine is a science (discuss), and they wouldn't just make this stuff up (oh - [It's true (no, it's not)](https://www.wddty.com/its-true-no-its-not/) - This is an urgent appeal on behalf of headline-readers. This troubled group are perpetually confused and bewildered, and some have already ended up in nursing homes, sedated by round-the-clock staff.These unfortunate people read headlines and take them seriously. As with so many things, it started out with good intentions. They are busy people who are - [Lighting the way](https://www.wddty.com/lighting-the-way/) - In 1970, the late German physicist Fritz-Albert Popp had been playing around with ultraviolet light, in an attempt to find a cure for cancer, when he made an unexpected discovery. Using a special machine that could count individual photons, the tiniest units of light, Popp discovered that all living things, including humans, emitted a tiny - [Down to a science](https://www.wddty.com/down-to-a-science/) - It's hopefully not a case of wishful thinking that another big fat nail has been driven into the coffin of the system that's been issuing faulty nutritional advice to the public for years. The advice hasn't been just slightly wrong - it's been killing people prematurely.It's also at the heart (excuse the pun) of the - [Collateral medicine](https://www.wddty.com/collateral-medicine/) - Collateral damage is one of those weasely words of our times that masks human tragedy and loss in war zones. Clenching a cigar between his teeth, the US general told assembled reporters: "It was a successful mission; we took out the intended target, although there was inadvertent loss of life at a nearby school." It's - [Cutting common allergens from our diets could have beneficial effects on health](https://www.wddty.com/cutting-common-allergens-from-our-diets-could-have-beneficial-effects-on-health/) - Government authorities responsible for food safety - whether it's the Food and Drug Administration in the US, the Food Standards Agency in the UK, Health Canada or the Therapeutic Goods Administration in Australia - are legally required to label specific allergens, referred to as 'legal allergens' to reflect this obligation.Although we're actually exposed to hundreds - [Let less food be your medicine](https://www.wddty.com/let-less-food-be-your-medicine/) - When it comes to diet, it's now clear that one size doesn't fit all. Different people have different metabolic types, so foods like meat that are life-saving to some are sheer poison to others.We also have very different levels of the fat hormones leptin and ghrelin, which regulate appetite and fat levels, and appear to - [The trouble with treating symptoms and not the cause](https://www.wddty.com/the-trouble-with-treating-symptoms-and-not-the-cause/) - Doctors are supposed to inspire confidence. After all, you want someone on the other side of the table who is quietly reassuring and in control. Someone who might say: "Yes, I can see you're close to a complete meltdown, but I can handle this. I've got this one covered."And in that moment, you think this - [Prevention is the future](https://www.wddty.com/prevention-is-the-future/) - What's happened to healthcare over the last half century or so? Those of us who're a little older might remember the kindly gaze of the family doctor, listening carefully while you spoke about your concern. Then there'd be the comprehensive physical exam - the cold of the stethoscope, the tightening of the blood pressure cuff, - [Alzheimer's: a possible cure](https://www.wddty.com/alzheimers-a-possible-cure/) - While medicine wrings its hands over the explosion in cases of dementia and Alzheimer's disease (AD), and the inability of the pharmaceutical industry to produce an effective drug to counter them, a few forward-thinking doctors here and there are quietly carrying out new research showing that medicine has it all wrong about the cause of - [Goodbye Dr Google](https://www.wddty.com/goodbye-dr-google/) - What do you do when you first get diagnosed with an illness? Or perhaps when you're put on a new drug? Of course - you Google it! And why do you Google it when you've just seen your doctor and he or she has given you all the information you're supposed to need? Because perhaps - [Talking the walk](https://www.wddty.com/talking-the-walk/) - All across the world, people are lining up to do the Walk the Walk Moonwalk - in May in the UK, in November in New York. The ads have been on the radio, raising the battle cry, firing up the pink army troops: "For together, we will beat breast cancer."During these events, hundreds of thousands - [The future of healthcare](https://www.wddty.com/the-future-of-healthcare/) - What if most of the effort expended in healthcare was actually spent on keeping people healthy rather than managing the sick? What if we could abandon the health wars between different factions in medicine, with everyone sharing a holistic view of human health, in a system built on sound scientific principles that puts the individual - [It's just mental](https://www.wddty.com/its-just-mental/) - The whole of modern psychiatry rests on the platform that mental illness is, in fact, mental - a sickness that occurs in the brain. Nowhere is this more evident than with depression, a catch-all term used to describe individuals who are excessively sad, listless and lacking in the will to carry on with life as - [Follow the money, continued](https://www.wddty.com/follow-the-money-continued/) - The ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus knew a thing or two; one thing he said was that "in war, truth is the first casualty." Usually truth is quickly replaced by propaganda, because winning the war is more important than the citizens knowing what's really happening. We're seeing a miniseries of this being played out in medicine - [Big Tech: the newest 'Big' on the block](https://www.wddty.com/big-tech-the-newest-big-on-the-block/) - The health geeks among us will be very familiar with the terms Big Pharma, Big Food and Big Ag. For many, when we use these terms, we are not dismissing all parts of the industries that produce licensed pharmaceuticals, the foods on our supermarket shelves or the agricultural products that many of us rely on.What - [Muscling in on hip pain](https://www.wddty.com/muscling-in-on-hip-pain/) - Dr Mitchell Yass is a man on a mission--to do nothing less than revolutionize orthopedic treatment, particularly when it comes to knee and hip replacements.And for good reason. As a physiotherapist specializing in curing pain, his treatment office is the last-chance saloon for people who have tried everything - from painkillers and surgery to chiropractic, - [Beyond biochemistry](https://www.wddty.com/beyond-biochemistry/) - Back in 1977, the eminent American psychiatrist Dr George Engel published a paper asserting that the prevailing biomedical model - built on a foundation of molecular biology - was inadequate to deal with many of the diseases of the time.1That model, he claimed, would encourage 'fixes' that involved putting new molecules into the body in - [Medicine's blasphemers](https://www.wddty.com/medicines-blasphemers/) - Medicine isn't a science, although it likes to dress itself up in those fineries. It isn't an art, although a few gifted healers make it so. While it can on occasion be both of those things, it is fundamentally a religion. It is a series of core beliefs, and those who dare talk against the - [A long engagement](https://www.wddty.com/a-long-engagement/) - If you're well-educated and relatively wealthy, you're much more likely to live a long life, with many more disease-free years. If you're less fortunate, both in terms of your education and means, you won't fare as well.Unfortunately, the disparity in health outcomes between the rich and poor is continuing to widen. Of course, education and - [The big fat lie](https://www.wddty.com/the-big-fat-lie/) - Bad theories die hard, and one of those that seems to have the gift of eternal life is the cholesterol theory of heart disease. It was launched on faulty science, the famed Seven Countries Study conducted by American physiologist Ancel Keys, who claimed to show that countries whose population consumed a high-fat diet had a - [Taking the credit](https://www.wddty.com/taking-the-credit/) - What has medicine ever done for us? Well, there's antibiotics. And chemotherapy. And vaccinations. OK, apart from antibiotics, chemotherapy and vaccinations, what has medicine ever done for us? Not so fast. They've helped combat infectious diseases, haven't they, and, as a result, there's been a 74 percent decline in mortality rates in developed countries since - [Mother Nature’s medicine](https://www.wddty.com/mother-natures-medicine/) - Governments around the world have finally come around to admitting the obvious: air pollution isn’t very good for us. And it’s not just the particulate matter belched out in exhaust fumes. We’re talking about the estimated 80,000 chemicals in our food, air, water and homes, all poisoning us in slow motion. Up until now, companies - [Do not disturb](https://www.wddty.com/do-not-disturb/) - Anyone for pick-up sticks? It’s that frustrating game for the steady handed where you must remove one stick from a pile without disturbing any of the others. Easy to begin with, but then it gets trickier as the layers of sticks reveal themselves in their complex glory. It could be seen as a metaphor for - [Killing us softly](https://www.wddty.com/killing-us-softly/) - You know the old adage that things have to get really bad before they get better? For some time, I’ve been wondering where the bottom of the dip is when it comes to the spiral we are seeing in preventable diseases like type 2 diabetes and obesity—along with most instances of heart disease and many - [Come off it](https://www.wddty.com/come-off-it/) - Regular readers may have inferred from articles that have appeared in these pages that medicine is in a death-grip embrace with the drug industry that has been killing millions of innocent people in the name of profit. We have subsequently learned that we have been mistaken in this belief, and that no such relationship exists. - [Desperate measures](https://www.wddty.com/desperate-measures/) - I have a decidedly love-hate relationship with antibiotics. On the one hand, I have to admit that I owe my life to them. In 1942, when my mother was 24, her dentist unwisely extracted a tooth while she had the flu. Within days, her neck ballooned with a streptococcus infection, and she was rushed to - [Don’t give me five](https://www.wddty.com/dont-give-me-five/) - We live in an increasingly ‘connected’ world, with real social connections substituted for virtual ones. Sitting around a campfire has been traded for Facebook. Microcircuits have made their way into our homes. The future is being prepared for driverless cars—whether or not we actually want them. Selling us more and quicker connectivity isn’t difficult. Most - [What’s up, doc?](https://www.wddty.com/11308/) - Who wants to be a doctor? Well, quite a few people, apparently, with more and more of our best and brightest enrolling in medical school. The rate of new applicants in the US has risen by 30 percent this year, a new peak for a trend that has been growing inexorably since the start of - [Censored by social media](https://www.wddty.com/censored-by-social-media/) - In my lifetime, that’s pushing six decades now, I’ve never seen the degree of censorship that we now face in the Western world. Historically, the main perpetrators of censorship have been governments—and government efforts in the EU and US to limit the ability of companies to communicate health claims has been such an example. In - [All in your head](https://www.wddty.com/all-in-your-head/) - Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis, or ME, has such strange physical manifestations—from severe unexplained physical and mental fatigue to memory loss, nervous system problems and even flu-like symptoms—that some scientists go as far as to label it the twenty-first century polio. For a swathe of the medical profession, what can’t be - [Big Pharma Google](https://www.wddty.com/big-pharma-google/) - We can’t see the world as it really is, only as we perceive it to be. Wise words from the great German philosopher Immanuel Kant—so what about the world we see, or think we see, when we go online? The gateway to the web starts for most of us with Google. It’s the world’s dominant - [What happened to ‘Do no harm’?](https://www.wddty.com/what-happened-to-do-no-harm/) - It’s time to radically rethink how we practice medicine to unlock our full healing potential. It’s confusing for a lot of people knowing that your doctors have signed up to a medical code of conduct—proposed 2,500 years ago by the Greek doctor and philosopher Hippocrates—that undertakes they must “First, do no harm.” Yet we also - [The thyroid tragedy](https://www.wddty.com/the-thyroid-tragedy/) - Some 20 million Americans—or one in every 16—and one in 20 British people suffer from some form of thyroid disease. That’s a medical tragedy, no doubt, but the bigger tragedy is that almost two-thirds have no idea they are affected—and in the majority of instances, neither do their doctors. Exactly this situation happened to Georgia - [When medicine lost its soul](https://www.wddty.com/when-medicine-lost-its-soul/) - Anybody heard of the Flexner Report? Can’t miss it—a big report, published more than a hundred years ago. Anybody? Mrs Flexner perhaps? No, you probably haven’t heard of it. Yet you live with its consequences every day. The report, published in 1910, laid the foundations for the teaching of the new “scientific medicine” in medical - [Why you shouldn’t be wary of B12](https://www.wddty.com/why-you-shouldnt-be-wary-of-b12/) - Vegans who “don’t believe” in supplements may have found themselves celebrating lately. It’s been reported that high levels of vitamin B12 (which vegans are advised to supplement with) might be linked to an increased risk of cancer. The most recent news challenges the long-held view many of us have had for years, ostensibly based on - [For your eyes only](https://www.wddty.com/for-your-eyes-only/) - Judy Dench, who played “M,” head of the British Secret Service in seven James Bond movies, broke hearts recently when she spoke openly about her failing eyesight. Dame Judy, age 84, is a victim of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which causes slow and steady deterioration of cells in the macula, the pigmented part of the - [Death by vitamin](https://www.wddty.com/death-by-vitamin/) - The Irish are lucky—and not just in general. They’re especially lucky when it comes to vitamins and supplements. With those fusty old bureaucrats in the European Union dithering for years in setting the maximum doses that people can safely take, Ireland’s own watchdog has acted decisively. With Ireland’s supplement market tripling in just 10 years, - [A Google detox](https://www.wddty.com/a-google-detox/) - Freedom is one of our most treasured rights—one that’s tightly allied to privacy. And while many of us rejoice at living in societies that supposedly respect both these rights, we would do well to ponder just how free and private our lives really are. Focus especially on what relates to our freedom and privacy when - [Light in the darkness](https://www.wddty.com/light-in-the-darkness-2/) - For years, we as a society have largely refused to deal with a very basic question: why is the rate of autism skyrocketing in the West, up 200 percent in less than two decades, with one in every 68 children diagnosed on the autistic spectrum? What the authorities have vehemently focused on is what they - [A knife in back surgery](https://www.wddty.com/a-knife-in-back-surgery/) - Every year, half a million Americans undergo surgery for low back problems alone, at a cost of more than $11 billion. For the most part, the surgeries are for herniated (or slipped) discs, where a disc tears, some of its gelatinous insides come out, and the disc starts to bulge. The other major condition landing - [The twisted nature of Wikipedia](https://www.wddty.com/the-twisted-nature-of-wikipedia/) - Jimmy Wales’ and Larry Sanger’s idea of an online encyclopedia created by the people, for the people, seemed like a brilliant idea at the time. Wikipedia’s concept of crowd-sourcing information on anything and everything, and making it accessible to everyone, was a game changer—and in many ways it continues to be so, albeit for different - [Joining the statin love-in?](https://www.wddty.com/joining-the-statin-love-in/) - If you’re over the age of 50, healthy and have no history of heart disease, you probably should be taking a cholesterol-lowering statin (viz. our health guardians). And if your risk for heart disease is above 10 percent—because of lifestyle habits, diabetes or family history, for example—you definitely should be taking one, as the ultimate - [A five-alarm fire](https://www.wddty.com/a-five-alarm-fire/) - Despite all the protests from campaigners and scientists alike, 5G wireless network technology is arriving. Companies like T-Mobile are busy hooking up the United States, while in Britain, Three, EE and Vodaphone have launched 5G, and the plan is for there to be blanket coverage by 2022. Despite that soothing name “5G,” which stands for - [Don’t eat like a monk](https://www.wddty.com/dont-eat-like-a-monk/) - If I’d been paid a dollar every time someone has been told “Eat less” as the best way to lose weight, I’d be twice as prosperous as Croesus and half as wealthy as a president and a presidential candidate combined. The calorie myth—that there’s a direct correlation between the amount we eat and our weight—is - [Light my fire](https://www.wddty.com/light-my-fire/) - This month, we have assembled a special issue on cutting-edge energy treatments for a host of so-called incurable illnesses. American chiropractor Carolyn McMakin has achieved the seemingly impossible in patients with chronic pain and many other conditions after developing equipment that can deliver specific microcurrent frequencies to the body. We’re also featuring new research with - [Keeping you informed](https://www.wddty.com/keeping-you-informed/) - Hello, I’m a doctor. That may be the last thing I say in the next few minutes that you’ll understand, but I’ll press on. As a doctor, I have an onerous, and frankly pointless, legal requirement to get “informed consent” from you. That means doctors are supposed to sit down with you, run through all - [Fix it, when you know it’s broke](https://www.wddty.com/fix-it-when-you-know-its-broke/) - Nothing quite piques your desire to help create a new healthcare system more than seeing it fail your loved ones. When the problem lands on your doorstep, you know it’s time for change, not in a decade or a year, but today or tomorrow. In my case, the problem landed on my doorstep when my - [Doctor Dog](https://www.wddty.com/doctor-dog/) - Did you hear about the woman who went to see her doctor about her insomnia? First, a cat walked into the exam room and sniffed her, followed by a dog that licked her. The doctor then wrote out an invoice and handed it to her. “What’s that for?” she exclaimed. “You haven’t done anything.” The - [Know your news](https://www.wddty.com/know-your-news/) - Be mindful of the source of your news to make informed choices about your health. If you’ve picked up this magazine and read this far, you probably like that what you learn in these pages can’t be found in the popular press. You probably also live in what we call a “free country” and support - [Breathing easy](https://www.wddty.com/breathing-easy/) - We literally cannot breathe. The latest figures, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), show that 1 in 13 of all Americans have asthma, adding up to more than 25 million, or about 8 percent of all adults and children. Figures for asthma in the UK are proportionately just as bad, - [Of keto and coronavirus](https://www.wddty.com/of-keto-and-coronavirus-2/) - Don’t trust the mainstream media’s reporting on keto diets, says Rob Verkerk. Uncertainty is a strange thing. Take the latest coronavirus disease, COVID-19. We can’t be sure what’s going to happen next. Yes, transmission continued at an ever-increasing rate around the world. But was its virulence increasing or subsiding? Are the new mutations going to - [Reasons to believe](https://www.wddty.com/reasons-to-believe/) - People with religious or spiritual beliefs are much happier than nonbelievers. If you like a bet that you really can’t lose, may I introduce you to Pascal’s Wager? Formulated by French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal, it goes something like this: God exists or doesn’t, but we can’t know directly. So, we either believe in - [A bone of contention](https://www.wddty.com/a-bone-of-contention/) - According to the American Osteoporosis Society, one in two women over 50 will break a bone because of osteoporosis. And although not exclusively a woman’s problem, 80 percent of the 10 million people diagnosed with osteoporosis in the US are women. Statistics in the UK are similar. In the main, these grim figures are arrived - [Damage control](https://www.wddty.com/damage-control/) - Whose rights will prevail in the COVID aftermath, asks Rob Verkerk. With such incredibly rapid changes in circumstances, I’m a little apprehensive writing about the COVID phenomenon that started to engulf our lives in March or April, depending on where we were in the world. But right now, my five top concerns about where things - [Not earthing](https://www.wddty.com/not-earthing/) - We’ve lost direct contact with the earth and its negative charge. It was a story that captured the headlines a few years back: people living in high-rise apartments were less likely to survive a heart attack or stroke. The reason seemed self-evident—the emergency crew took longer to get to the patient. And that’s the problem - [Natural-born killers](https://www.wddty.com/natural-born-killers/) - By the time you read this, the COVID-19 pandemic may have peaked and begun to recede. But even if it has, all of us are left with the terrifying sense that we have just experienced the most dangerous enemy we’ll ever know—invisible, all-pervasive, unpredictable and unvanquishable—until medical scientists finally produce that much-vaunted preventative: the coronavirus - [Blinded to the light](https://www.wddty.com/blinded-to-the-light/) - There’s a strong link between vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19. Health agencies and governments are clinging to the hope of a COVID-19 vaccine as a Catholic would to his rosary. Only when a vaccine is found can we safely run through the sunlit uplands we once used to enjoy. At the time of writing, more - [Emergency powers](https://www.wddty.com/emergency-powers/) - We like to feel empowered in the knowledge we have control over our own destiny. But this idea has been somewhat shaken by the events of the last few months. We are all now highly aware of the level of control that governments can have over our lives—in many cases these powers having laid dormant - [COVID-19: Now what?](https://www.wddty.com/covid-19-now-what/) - As many states and countries are beginning to emerge from lockdown, media outlets around the world continue to dwell on the numbers: the total number of cases and deaths; the R numbers and whether individual countries have brought infection rates down to acceptable levels; a nation’s total stockpile of test kits and personal protective equipment; - [Is it catching?](https://www.wddty.com/is-it-catching/) - There’s another theory as to how epidemics happen—and it’s not person to person - [Supplement superstar](https://www.wddty.com/supplement-superstar/) - In addition to its crucial role as an antioxidant, glutathione is a powerful microbe hunter - [What we’re not being told about the COVID vaccine](https://www.wddty.com/what-were-not-being-told-about-the-covid-vaccine/) - What we’re not being told about the COVID vaccine - [A hero’s unwelcome](https://www.wddty.com/a-heros-unwelcome/) - There aren’t too many successes being reported in the COVID-19 saga, but every so often you come across a hero who is actually getting somewhere. One of these heroes is Dr David Brownstein, a board-certified family physician, assistant professor, noted practitioner of holistic medicine and the medical director of the Center for Holistic Medicine in - [Insult or LSD?](https://www.wddty.com/insult-or-lsd/) - Heart not in the COVID-avoidance fun? How about a few insults to get you in the mood for the pending vaccine, or the forcible injection of a psychoactive drug such as LSD to make you more of a socially responsible mask wearer? The virus is nasty, for sure, and like others from the corona family, - [A hundred rays of hope](https://www.wddty.com/a-hundred-rays-of-hope/) - For over 30 years, the What Doctors Don’t Tell You team has reported on cutting-edge holistic practitioners of every persuasion who are curing the so-called ‘incurable.’ A few years ago we had a big idea: what if we gathered these pioneers together into a single location where people with health issues—or those interested in finding - [Adapt, don’t fight](https://www.wddty.com/adapt-dont-fight/) - Not in a million years did I ever think freedoms so hard won over the last century would be lost in a matter of months. Even more odd is that the trigger is a viral pathogen that for the vast majority of people causes few if any symptoms. That’s not meant to minimize the fact - [The dishonest broker](https://www.wddty.com/the-dishonest-broker/) - Fake news” and “anti-vax” are attack terms reserved for those who question the official medical line, especially in these Covid-crazy days. But there’s only one way we will ultimately know whether something is fake or true—and that’s with the passing of time. Until we have that perspective, it’s all so much censorship or propaganda. Right - [Statistics don't tell the whole COVID story](https://www.wddty.com/statistics-dont-tell-the-whole-covid-story/) - Have you noticed the bizarre custom of marking every day of the year with some celebration? Nothing is ignored, and one day you could be asked to Honor The Paperclip and another to Celebrate Your Bicycle Pump. 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As Covid-19 merges into the general miasma of respiratory diseases that infect people during the winter months, there won’t be the same sense of urgency that’s driven emergency use - [Movement and cognitive challenges in children transformed](https://www.wddty.com/movement-and-cognitive-challenges-in-children-transformed/) - Kassie, a three-year-old, suffered brain damage at birth, which left her with severe spastic cerebral palsy. She received intense therapies for two and a half of these three years. There was little she could do on her own. When trying to move, her whole body tightened even more, and her attempts failed. After I’d worked - [When cancer goes away](https://www.wddty.com/when-cancer-goes-away/) - Let’s face it, you’re complicated. Much as scientists like to put us on straight tracks that lead to measurable and inevitable endpoints, we curve, dip, bend and even go into reverse. If we’re unlucky enough to develop cancer, the disease doesn’t always follow its inexorable path from stage I to stage IV when it’s not - [Working with nature to overcome COVID-19](https://www.wddty.com/working-with-nature-to-overcome-covid-19/) - Regardless of how you feel about the threat posed by the new coronavirus, or the human response to it, these last 11 months have been an ordeal. Barring the few who have benefited massively from the pandemic, nearly all the rest of us have been impacted negatively—sometimes catastrophically so. But there is always a silver - [The inconvenient question](https://www.wddty.com/the-inconvenient-question/) - Welcome to this magazine’s 100th issue. This is in fact the 360th issue of What Doctors Don’t Tell You as a publication, but after starting out life as a newsletter, we rebranded WDDTY as a newsstand and subscription magazine in September 2012. 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Researchers from the Cochrane Collaboration reviewed 73 randomized controlled trials involving nearly 5,000 adults diagnosed with depression that had looked - [Intense exercise could combat cancer](https://www.wddty.com/news/intense-exercise-could-combat-cancer/) - If you have cancer, build up a short intense bout of exercise into your day. Just 10 minutes of hard workout releases molecules into the bloodstream that switch on DNA repair and shut down cancer growth signals. Researchers at Newcastle University discovered that exercise raises the levels of several small molecules in the blood that - [The secret of longevity? Don’t see a doctor](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-secret-of-longevity-dont-see-a-doctor/) - There’s a small group of Brazilians who are living well beyond 100—but what’s their secret? For one thing, they live in isolated areas and don’t see a doctor, and they’ve never been vaccinated, researchers from the University of Sao Paulo have discovered. For another, there’s enormous genetic variability and they seem to have a resilience - [No, people don’t get a heart attack because of a blocked artery](https://www.wddty.com/news/no-people-dont-get-a-heart-attack-because-of-a-blocked-artery/) - The standard model of heart disease is just plain wrong. Most of us don’t get a heart attack because our arteries get blocked—and that’s especially true for women. Fewer than half of all women who suffer a heart attack (myocardial infarction) have blocked arteries, and it’s also the cause in just 70 percent of men. - [High-fat cheese reduces dementia by 30 percent](https://www.wddty.com/news/high-fat-cheese-reduces-dementia-by-30-percent/) - As we’ve been saying for years, you need fats as you get older, especially to protect your brain. A new study makes the point: people who eat plenty of full-fat cream and cheese are less likely to develop dementia. A high-fat diet reduces the risk of vascular dementia—the most common type when the blood supply - [‘Safe’ opioid isn’t so safe after all](https://www.wddty.com/news/safe-opioid-isnt-so-safe-after-all/) - Tramadol—marketed as Tramal—has been seen as the safer painkiller. But it isn’t so safe after all, and reactions can include heart-related problems like chest pain and heart failure. Not only is it dangerous, it’s also not that effective, a major new review has concluded. Its painkilling abilities are ‘modest’, and some people won’t notice any - [Don’t put it on your face—eat vitamin C for a glowing skin](https://www.wddty.com/news/dont-put-it-on-your-face-eat-vitamin-c-for-a-glowing-skin/) - When it comes to healthy, glowing skin, you don’t need vitamin C enriched potions—just eat more of it every day. Upping your daily intake of the vitamin results in healthier skin and even eating two kiwi fruit every day makes a big difference to how your skin looks and feels. Researchers from the University of - [Take this supplement if you’ve been given the mRNA jab](https://www.wddty.com/news/take-this-supplement-if-youve-been-given-the-mrna-jab/) - If you’ve been given the mRNA Covid jab, start taking genistein supplements—they could protect your heart. The vaccine can cause myocarditis, or heart inflammation, and it’s a reaction more commonly seen in young men. In some cases, the myocarditis is so severe that it needs hospital treatment, and it can be fatal. But researchers from - [Pollution from toxic waste sites increase breast cancer risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/pollution-from-toxic-waste-sites-increase-breast-cancer-risk/) - Living near a toxic waste site can increase your risk of developing aggressive breast cancer by as much as 30 percent. Rates of triple-negative breast cancer—the hardest to treat—are higher in areas where there is air pollution, and researchers from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine say one of the biggest culprits are - [Here’s the real skinny: 70 percent of Americans are obese](https://www.wddty.com/news/heres-the-real-skinny-70-percent-of-americans-are-obese/) - Around 70 percent of all American adults are obese, at least according to a new measure. Previous estimates had put the ratio at closer to 40 percent, but that was using the standard BMI (body-mass index) calculator to assess our weigh profile, but the measure is simplistic and doesn’t take account of fat distribution. Researchers - [Drink more tea (and less coffee) after menopause](https://www.wddty.com/news/drink-more-tea-and-less-coffee-after-menopause/) - If you’ve been through the menopause, start drinking more tea—and cut back on the coffee. Teas contain catechins, natural polyphenolic compounds that strengthen the bones as we age and reduce the risks of fracture and osteoporosis. Women who drink plenty of tea every day have stronger bones, but bone health deteriorates in women who drink - [Busted: eight myths about low back pain](https://www.wddty.com/news/busted-eight-myths-about-low-back-pain/) - Low back pain is one of the most common problems we can suffer from—and yet we know so little about what causes it and how best to treat it. In fact, there are eight major myths about back pain that Meghan Murphy, a neurosurgeon at the Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato, has busted. Myth: - [Four ways to make your brain younger](https://www.wddty.com/news/four-ways-to-make-your-brain-younger/) - What to have a younger brain? You can have a brain that’s eight years younger than your actual age if you follow a few simple rules. An ageing brain increases your risk of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and general cognitive decline—but it’s not inevitable. We can make our brain younger by making sure we get enough - [Don’t cheat on the vegetables: make sure they’re fresh, not processed](https://www.wddty.com/news/dont-cheat-on-the-vegetables-make-sure-theyre-fresh-not-processed/) - Eating plenty of fresh vegetables is good for our heart—but don’t cheat. If your plant-based diet is processed, you’re increasing your risk of heart disease by as much as 40 percent. The importance of fresh vegetables as nature intended is underlined in a new study that discovered any benefits disappear if the plant-based food in - [More young people are getting colon cancer—and it’s down to processed food](https://www.wddty.com/news/more-young-people-are-getting-colon-cancer-and-its-down-to-processed-food/) - Colon cancer is no longer a disease of the old—young people are also getting the disease, and the rise in cases is being driven by a diet of processed foods and drinks. Almost every country around the world is seeing a rise in colon (colorectal) cancer, but the steepest increase is in North America and - [Aches and feeling tired? Check out your gas stove](https://www.wddty.com/news/aches-and-feeling-tired-check-out-your-gas-stove/) - Do you suffer from persistent fatigue or aching muscles? The culprit could be your gas stove. The stoves release large amounts of nitrogen oxide (NO2), and as well as causing aches and fatigue, the gas can also be responsible for asthma, obstructive pulmonary disease, preterm birth, diabetes, and lung cancer. Cooking on a gas stove - [The powerful trio that can improve autism symptoms](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-powerful-trio-that-can-improve-autism-symptoms/) - A trio of nutrients can improve some of the symptoms of autism. They combine to improve signalling in the brain’s synapses, and this can result in better social behaviour, say scientists at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. The three—zinc, serine, and branched-chain amino acids, such as eucine, isoleucine, and valine—improve synaptic signalling in the brain, and - [The P word for a healthy heart](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-p-word-for-a-healthy-heart/) - Remember the P-word to keep your heart healthy. Polyphenols, plant compounds that are in tea, coffee, berries, nuts, olive oil and whole grains, are essential for our cardiovascular system, a major review has concluded. People who regularly eat a polyphenol-rich diet have a much lower risk of heart problems, and they also have healthier blood - [Try hydrogen sulphite to clear persistent nail infection](https://www.wddty.com/news/try-hydrogen-sulphite-to-clear-persistent-nail-infection/) - Suffering from a persistent nail infection? As you’ve probably discovered, most remedies don’t seem to work very well—but hydrogen sulphite just might. Hydrogen sulphite remedies traditionally target gut problems, but researchers at the University of Bath reckon they could reverse persistent nail infection. Most topical creams can’t penetrate the nail, but hydrogen sulphite does so - [Yes, Tik Tok is right—rosemary really can heal wounds](https://www.wddty.com/news/yes-tik-tok-is-right-rosemary-really-can-heal-wounds/) - It’s not just the stuff of urban myth—rosemary really can heal wounds. It’s been trending on social media platforms for a while, and now scientists have demonstrated all those posts are true: rosemary serum really can speed wound healing and, best of all, it does so without leaving a scar. Researchers at the University of - [We’re always stressed—and that’s why we’re always ill](https://www.wddty.com/news/were-always-stressed-and-thats-why-were-always-ill/) - Why do so many of us suffer from chronic health problems? One reason could be modern living and exposure to constant stress that we haven’t evolved to deal with. We’ve evolved to constantly move, be in nature and face short bouts of stress—but our lives are the very reverse of that optimum state, say researchers - [Wash your mouth out with garlic](https://www.wddty.com/news/wash-your-mouth-out-with-garlic/) - If you use a mouthwash, you might want to switch to a garlic extract version. It’s safer, has no chemicals, and it’s just as effective as the market leader, chlorhexidine, which is branded as Corsodyl, Covonia, Dermol, Germolene and Savlon. Chlorhexidine is a broad-spectrum antimicrobial and is one of the most common skin and mucous membrane antiseptic - [How to supercharge kale](https://www.wddty.com/news/how-to-supercharge-kale/) - Kale is one of the supreme health foods—but we can’t absorb its nutrients until we add oil to the mix. Oil or an oil-based dressing such as mayonnaise unlock the vegetable’s carotenoids, antioxidants that fight oxidative stress and protect our DNA. It results in stronger immunity, improved vision and a lower risk of diseases such - [Why you need to eat more fish (or take supplements)](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-you-need-to-eat-more-fish-or-take-supplements/) - Most of us don’t eat enough fish—and, as a result, we’re low in the vital omega-3 fatty acids, which help maintain a healthy cardiovascular system. Fatty fish such as mackerel and salmon are excellent sources of the fatty acids, but if we’re vegetarian—or the fish aren’t a regular part of your diet—you need to start - [Nattokinase dissolve blood clots from mRNA Covid vaccines](https://www.wddty.com/news/nattokinase-dissolve-blood-clots-from-mrna-covid-vaccines/) - Nattokinase can dissolve the micro-clots that are in the blood of people who have had an mRNA vaccine. At high doses, the enzyme clears out the clots within two hours, a new study has discovered. The clots have been found in the blood of people suffering from long Covid, and also in almost everyone who - [Covid vaccine killed more children than it saved, FDA chief admits](https://www.wddty.com/news/covid-vaccine-killed-more-children-than-it-saved-fda-chief-admits/) - Covid vaccines probably killed more children than it saved—and the deaths were unnecessary because the young were never at risk from the virus, one of America’s leading health officials has admitted. In a memo leaked to the press, the official said that at least 10 children died as a direct response to the Covid vaccine - [Euthanasia of the elderly—and not Covid—was the true cause of excess deaths, paper claims](https://www.wddty.com/news/euthanasia-of-the-elderly-and-not-covid-was-the-true-cause-of-excess-deaths-paper-claims/) - Doctors have been carrying out systematic euthanasia on the elderly while blaming the excess death rate on Covid infection, a controversial paper has claimed. They have been administering the ‘chemical cosh’ drug, midazolam, in care homes, and the excess death rate—nearly 44,000 more died in April 2020 in the UK than expected—was blamed on Covid - [Fructose-sweetened drinks drive inflammation](https://www.wddty.com/news/fructose-sweetened-drinks-drive-inflammation/) - Inflammation is the driver of many chronic health problems—and sugary drinks and colas kickstart the process. The fructose in the drinks triggers inflammation by putting the immune system into overdrive, and primes immune cells to overreact to bacterial toxins. Paradoxically, this heightened vigilance makes us more susceptible to infection, and the problem is heightened in - [Taking an arginine supplement every day could be the key to preventing Alzheimer’s disease.](https://www.wddty.com/news/taking-an-arginine-supplement-every-day-could-be-the-key-to-preventing-alzheimers-disease/) - The amino acid blocks the buildup of amyloid plaques in the brain, which are thought to be the cause of the disease. Taking a supplement lowers plaque levels, reduces inflammation, and improves behavior, say researchers at Kindai University in Japan. Exciting though the discovery is, the researchers have only tested the supplement on mice, and - [Forget fibre, eating your fruit and veg stops constipation](https://www.wddty.com/news/forget-fibre-eating-your-fruit-and-veg-stops-constipation/) - Doctors tell us to eat more fibre if we want to stay regular—but chronic constipation is much more to do with not eating enough vegetables, fruits and nuts. Chronic constipation—characterised as having little or no bowel movement for three months in a year—affects millions of people, but it needn’t happen to anyone who eats a - [Go vegan if you want to lose weight](https://www.wddty.com/news/go-vegan-if-you-want-to-lose-weight/) - The Mediterranean diet may be good for us—but going vegan is better if we want to lose weight. The diet’s focus on plant-based foods, such as whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and legumes, helps shed the pounds more effectively than the Med diet, which includes animal fats and oils. Even the ‘unhealthy’ plant foods, - [Cocoa and fruits keep our heart healthy—even if we sit around all day](https://www.wddty.com/news/cocoa-and-fruits-keep-our-heart-healthy-even-if-we-sit-around-all-day/) - We all sit around too much, and this sedentary lifestyle can affect our heart—but there are things we can start eating and drinking to offset any damage. The key is in upping our consumption of flavanols, polyphenols that are good for our cardiovascular system—and we can do that by drinking more cocoa and tea and - [Vaccines might cause autism after all, CDC admits](https://www.wddty.com/news/vaccines-might-cause-autism-after-all-cdc-admits/) - America’s health agency, the CDC (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention), has announced that its categorical assertion that autism isn’t caused by vaccines is unscientific and not based on any evidence. On its website, the CDC has stated that the claim—which it has been making for many years—is not based on scientific evidence “because studies - [A 17-year-old could start suffering from early diabetes if he’s eating too much processed food.](https://www.wddty.com/news/a-17-year-old-could-start-suffering-from-early-diabetes-if-hes-eating-too-much-processed-food/) - Even at such a young age, he can start showing signs of prediabetes, such as insulin resistance, which eventually can lead to type 2 diabetes. A group of 85 young people, aged from 17 to 23, were tracked for four years to see the impact of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) on their health. Just eating an - [Listen to music every day and reduce your dementia risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/listen-to-music-every-day-and-reduce-your-dementia-risk/) - People who listen to music every day are much less likely to suffer from dementia. They lower their risk by up to 39 percent. Playing a musical instrument has a similar protective effect, say researchers from Monash University. They looked at the impact of music on a group of 10,800 people who were 70 and - [UK refuses to publish Covid vaccine deaths—as it may discourage others](https://www.wddty.com/news/uk-refuses-to-publish-covid-vaccine-deaths-as-it-may-discourage-others/) - UK health officials have refused to reveal the number of people who died after a Covid jab as it might deter others from taking it. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has released the data privately to the vaccine manufacturers but has resisted requests from MPs and pressure groups to publish them. In a letter - [Strange micro-clots seen in blood of vaccinated and long Covid sufferers](https://www.wddty.com/news/strange-micro-clots-seen-in-blood-of-vaccinated-and-long-covid-sufferers/) - Strange micro-clots have been detected in the blood of people who had a Covid vaccine or are suffering from long Covid. These tiny clots form into sticky webs, known as neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs), and they have been noted by pathologists who have carried out autopsies on people who died following a Covid infection. Although - [Worldwide ban on mercury amalgam fillings](https://www.wddty.com/news/worldwide-ban-on-mercury-amalgam-fillings/) - Dental amalgam—‘silver’ fillings that are part mercury—will soon be a thing of the past. There will be a worldwide ban by 2034, by which time the material cannot be manufactured, imported or used in dental clinics. Although only a handful of dentists still use amalgam, their supplies may dry up before then as the major - [High doses of vitamin D stop the second heart attack](https://www.wddty.com/news/high-doses-of-vitamin-d-stop-the-second-heart-attack/) - If you’ve had a heart attack, start supplementing with D3 vitamins. The vitamin could halve your risk of a second attack. Most of us have low levels of vitamin D—usually because we don’t get out into the sun enough—and the deficiency is linked to heart attack. A research team from Intermountain Healthcare tested the impact - [Your doctor’s wrong. Drink coffee to stop the heart fluttering](https://www.wddty.com/news/your-doctors-wrong-drink-coffee-to-stop-the-heart-fluttering/) - Despite what your doctor may tell you, drinking coffee can stop the heart fluttering. Coffee protects against atrial fibrillation (AFib), a common heart rhythm disorder that causes the heart to beat too quickly and irregularly, sometimes leading to stroke or heart failure. Doctors warn patients not to drink coffee, but a new study has discovered - [New Alzheimer’s wonder drug doesn’t prevent the disease](https://www.wddty.com/news/new-alzheimers-wonder-drug-doesnt-prevent-the-disease/) - Lecanemab is the new wonder drug for Alzheimer’s—but it doesn’t stop the disease progressing. The drug targets amyloid plaques, a protein that forms sticky clumps in the brain, but patients still develop the disease, a new study has discovered. The drug, marketed as Leqembi, was approved in 2023—and was fast-tracked because it was seen as - [The 15 gut bacteria that drive heart disease](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-15-gut-bacteria-that-drive-heart-disease/) - Like almost everything else, heart disease can start in the gut. Scientists have discovered 15 gut bacteria that could be driving coronary artery disease (CAD) by causing inflammation, reducing protective bacteria, and triggering overactive metabolic pathways. Although scientists have already recognised that gut bacteria can drive heart disease, a research team from Sungkyunkwan University in - [Dry cleaning chemical causers liver damage](https://www.wddty.com/news/dry-cleaning-chemical-causers-liver-damage/) - A common household chemical is an unexpected cause of liver disease. Scientists had thought liver disease was caused by one of just three factors: excessive alcohol use, the buildup of fat in the liver, or viral infections such as hepatitis B and C. But now they’ve added a fourth: the chemical tetrachloroethylene (PCE), which is - [Gluten intolerant? It could be something else](https://www.wddty.com/news/gluten-intolerant-it-could-be-something-else/) - Many people are gluten intolerant—but the problem might be more to do with the way the brain and gut communicate. Gluten intolerance—known as non-celiac gluten sensitivity (NCGS)—is real enough, with sufferers reporting symptoms such as bloating, abdominal pain, and fatigue. But it may not just be a reaction to gluten, but instead the symptoms could - [Now the elderly are becoming opioid addicts](https://www.wddty.com/news/now-the-elderly-are-becoming-opioid-addicts/) - Opioid addiction isn’t just a problem among the young—the over-65s are also becoming addicts. Fatal overdoses of fentanyl, an opioid painkiller, have risen nine-fold among the over-65s in the last eight years. Seniors are mixing fentanyl with cocaine and methamphetamine, researchers from the University of Nevada have discovered. They analysed data from the CDC (Centers - [Don’t take drugs to ease knee arthritis pain—exercise instead](https://www.wddty.com/news/dont-take-drugs-to-ease-knee-arthritis-pain-exercise-instead/) - Medicine has plenty of ways to treat knee arthritis—but none is as good as exercise. Non-drug approaches, which also include knee braces and hydrotherapy, are the most effective, say researchers from the First People's Hospital of Neijiang in China. They analysed 139 clinical trials that had involved more than 10,000 people with knee arthritis to - [Fish oils delay the start of menopause](https://www.wddty.com/news/fish-oils-delay-the-start-of-menopause/) - Our lifestyle determines when menopause starts. Typically, it begins any time between the ages of 48 and 52—but taking supplements, and especially the omega-3 fish oils, delays it, while eating red meat and smoking accelerates its start. Researchers from the University of Leeds analysed data on 3,566 women taking part in the UK Women’s Cohort - [Why you shouldn’t add a banana to your smoothie](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-you-shouldnt-add-a-banana-to-your-smoothie/) - If you are adding a banana to your morning smoothie, stop it. It blocks most of the heart-healthy flavanols which are in the other fruits in your drink, such as apples, berries and grapes. When you pop a banana into the mix, up to 84 percent of flavanols don’t get absorbed by the body, say - [Our brain doesn’t just feed off sugars—it also needs fats](https://www.wddty.com/news/our-brain-doesnt-just-feed-off-sugars-it-also-needs-fats/) - Our brain doesn’t only need sugars—it also thrives on fats. Neurons can revive and energize within 48 hours on a diet of saturated fats, and they aren’t dependent solely on sugars, breakthrough research at the University of Helsinki has discovered. Even more remarkably, when the brain's energy demand increases, neurons can produce their own fats - [Eat more fruit and veg to sleep better](https://www.wddty.com/news/eat-more-fruit-and-veg-to-sleep-better/) - Not sleeping? Eat more fruit and vegetables—and you could see a difference that night. The diet also improves sleep quality by around 16 percent, say researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center. They logged the diets and sleep patterns of a small group of healthy volunteers and discovered that daily eating habits were strongly - [Exercise and omega-3 supplements counter gum disease](https://www.wddty.com/news/exercise-and-omega-3-supplements-counter-gum-disease/) - Exercising and taking omega-3 supplements is a one-two punch on gum disease. Together, they counter periodontitis, the disease of the gum and teeth that can be the genesis of inflammation in the body, leading to diabetes, heart disease and even some cancers. The combination approach controls bacterial growth, minimizes bone loss, balances the production of - [Walk for 15 minutes to improve your heart](https://www.wddty.com/news/walk-for-15-minutes-to-improve-your-heart/) - It’s not just about the number of steps you achieve each day—it’s how you do it. Walking continuously for 15 minutes is far better for your heart than shorter bursts of five minutes or less. People who walk without a break for up to 15 minutes reduce their risk of heart disease by nearly 70 - [Cancer surgery destroys body’s immune response](https://www.wddty.com/news/cancer-surgery-destroys-bodys-immune-response/) - Cancer surgery destroys the body’s immune response—and makes a recurrence more likely. Oncologists have traditionally removed lymph nodes to stop the cancer spreading, but new research has discovered that the nodes play a vital role in the development of our cancer-fighting T cells. Researchers at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Melbourne, - [B3 supplements reduce risk of skin cancer](https://www.wddty.com/news/b3-supplements-reduce-risk-of-skin-cancer/) - If you’ve ever had skin cancer—or you’re worried that you might—start supplementing with B3 (nicotinamide) vitamins. It can reduce your risk of getting the cancer by 14 percent, and it also lessens your chances of the cancer recurring by 54 percent. Although skin specialists have recommended the supplement for the past 10 years, their advice - [LED therapy killing cancer in 30 minutes](https://www.wddty.com/news/led-therapy-killing-cancer-in-30-minutes/) - A new LED light therapy is killing cancer in 30 minutes. The therapy has destroyed up to 92 percent of skin cancer cells and 50 percent of colorectal cancer cells in one 30-minute session while leaving healthy cells surrounding the cancer. It also uses ultra-thin pieces of tin known as SnOX nanoflakes, say researchers from - [Processed food alters the brain](https://www.wddty.com/news/processed-food-alters-the-brain/) - Eating processed food changes the structure of your brain and could explain why people get addicted. Scientists from the University of Helsinki examined around 30,00 scans to see how ultra-processed food (UPF) affects the brain. The changes could explain overeating and addiction, but the researchers say they can’t prove any connection. Not all processed food - [Forget BMI. Your neck size tells you your health risks](https://www.wddty.com/news/forget-bmi-your-neck-size-tells-you-your-health-risks/) - Who’s the most likely to get heart disease? Usually we look at the BMI (body-mass index) or the waist circumference to give us an idea—but the size of the neck could be another tell-tale sign of impending health problems. Men with a neck circumference of at least 17 inches (43 cm), and women whose necks - [Sprint for 10 seconds to give your health a boost](https://www.wddty.com/news/sprint-for-10-seconds-to-give-your-health-a-boost/) - You don’t have to jog around the park for hours—even short bursts of running for just 10 seconds can do wonders for your health. Just think 10-20-30 when you plan your workout—that’s 30 seconds of walking, 20 seconds of running at a moderate pace, and 10 seconds of full-out sprinting. The approach, known as interval - [Antidepressants trigger big weight gain and increase heart rate in just 60 days](https://www.wddty.com/news/antidepressants-trigger-big-weight-gain-and-increase-heart-rate-in-just-60-days/) - Antidepressants can trigger life-threatening side effects in just eight weeks. They can raise the heart rate by around 21 beats a minute, increase body weight by an average of 4 kg (8.8lbs) and raise blood pressure levels in just the first two months, one of the first reviews of the general side effects of SSRI - [Keto diet could help children overcome prenatal trauma](https://www.wddty.com/news/keto-diet-could-help-children-overcome-prenatal-trauma/) - A keto diet might help a small child overcome trauma it experienced in the womb. The high-fat, low-carb diet seems to safeguard brain development and promote sociability, which can be affected by prenatal stress. Studies have found that children can suffer ongoing psychological and development-related conditions if their mothers experienced stress during pregnancy, but preliminary - [Medications affect gut microbiome 10 years later](https://www.wddty.com/news/medications-affect-gut-microbiome-10-years-later/) - Everyday drugs could be having an impact on your health even decades after you stopped taking them. Although everyone knows that antibiotics can interfere with the gut microbiome, new research has discovered that many other drugs have a similar effect. As the microbiome influences so much of our health—one that is out of balance can - [Is fructose driving Alzheimer’s disease?](https://www.wddty.com/news/is-fructose-driving-alzheimers-disease/) - Fructose—the sugars in fruit—could be driving Alzheimer’s disease. The sugars—which are also produced when we eat high-fat, sugary and salty processed foods—reduce blood flow to the brain and increase inflammation, a process that can lead to Alzheimer’s, say scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. An abundance of fructose creates tau and amyloid - [Vitamin D2 depletes levels of D3, the sunshine vitamin](https://www.wddty.com/news/vitamin-d2-depletes-levels-of-d3-the-sunshine-vitamin/) - Taking vitamin D supplements? You may think that D2 and D3 are interchangeable—after all, they’re both designed to top up your levels during the long, dark winter months—but new research suggests one depletes the other. If you just take D2 supplements, you’ll be depleting your levels of D3, the more ‘natural’ form that our bodies - [Chronic insomnia ages brain by a year](https://www.wddty.com/news/chronic-insomnia-can-age-the-brain-and-increase-the-risk-of-dementia/) - Chronic insomnia can age the brain and increase the risk of dementia. Poor sleepers have a brain that is biologically a year older, and which has more inflammatory markers that make it more susceptible to poor cognition and dementia, say researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. The researchers studied brain scans of 27,500 middle-aged - [Addiction is about avoiding pain, not getting high](https://www.wddty.com/news/addiction-is-about-avoiding-pain-not-getting-high/) - What makes us addicted? Most assume it’s about chasing the next high, but a new study suggests it is more often about escaping pain. Stress and anxiety are just as likely to make us addicts, say researchers from Scripps Research Institute who have identified an area of the brain that is activated by alcohol. A - [Lowering type 2 diabetes risk is more than just losing weight](https://www.wddty.com/news/lowering-type-2-diabetes-risk-is-more-than-just-losing-weight/) - Warding off type 2 diabetes isn’t so much about just losing weight—it’s about normalizing your blood sugar levels. People think that by losing weight, they have reduced their chances of developing diabetes—but your risk falls by more than 70 percent just by focusing on blood sugar, or glucose, even if you don’t lose a single - [Don’t drink water from a plastic bottle](https://www.wddty.com/news/dont-drink-water-from-a-plastic-bottle/) - Ditch the plastic if you drink bottled water and make sure you’re only using glass. People who regularly drink from plastic bottles have an extra 90,000 microplastic particles in their body after just one year, researchers from Concordia University in Canada have discovered. In a review of over 140 scientific articles, the researchers discovered that - [No such thing as a safe amount of alcohol](https://www.wddty.com/news/no-such-thing-as-a-safe-amount-of-alcohol/) - There’s no such thing as a safe amount to drink—even one glass of wine can increase the risk of dementia. New research overturns the belief that small amounts of alcohol protect the brain, especially as we age. Drinking even one to three glasses of wine every week increases the risk of dementia by 15 percent, - [Covid vaccines could be increasing cancer rates](https://www.wddty.com/news/covid-vaccines-could-be-increasing-cancer-rates/) - The Covid vaccines may increase the risk of cancer, a major new study has found. Although the shots seem to increase the rates of cancer in general, the risk appears to be greatest for six cancers: thyroid, gastric, colorectal, lung, breast and prostate. The cancers appear up to a year after vaccination, and the over-65s - [Eye supplement supercharges our cancer-killing cells](https://www.wddty.com/news/eye-supplement-supercharges-our-cancer-killing-cells/) - It’s one in the eye for cancer: zeaxanthin, a supplement that helps improve eye health, also supercharges our tumour-killing T cells. The supplement strengthens T-cell receptors, enhances immune signalling, and improves the effects of immunotherapy, researchers from University of Chicago Medical Center found. Zeaxanthin also slowed cancer in laboratory mice, and it enhanced the effectiveness - [One magic mushroom dose eases pain for two weeks](https://www.wddty.com/news/one-magic-mushroom-dose-eases-pain-for-two-weeks/) - Just one dose of psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, can relieve pain and anxiety for weeks. It calms brain circuits tied to pain and mood, easing both physical suffering and emotional distress, including depression, say researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. In studies using mice with chronic nerve injury and - [A Med diet keeps your gums healthy](https://www.wddty.com/news/a-med-diet-keeps-your-gums-healthy/) - Healthy gums aren’t just the result of brushing and flossing—eating a Mediterranean diet can also play a big part. The diet reduces inflammatory markers in the blood, and this can maintain healthy gums, say researchers from King’s College London. People who don’t follow the diet—with its emphasis on vegetables, fruits, nuts and oils—are more likely - [Stressed? Then drink more water](https://www.wddty.com/news/stressed-then-drink-more-water/) - If you get easily stressed, you could be dehydrated. People who aren’t drinking enough water can suddenly experience a big increase in levels of cortisol, known as the stress hormone. A stressful situation can often be the first sign of dehydration, say researchers from Liverpool John Moores University. Cortisol levels can suddenly rise by as - [Have a purpose in life to reduce your dementia risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/have-a-purpose-in-life-to-reduce-your-dementia-risk/) - Having a purpose in life—it can be anything from doing charity work to being a good parent or grandparent—can reduce your risk of dementia. It lowers your chances of suffering cognitive decline by around 28 percent, and it also delays the time when you start to lose mental abilities. Researchers of the world’s blue zones—areas - [Cannabis could help you sleep](https://www.wddty.com/news/cannabis-could-help-you-sleep/) - Not sleeping? Taking a cannabis medicinal could do the trick. They could also improve mood and reduce pain, say researchers from Imperial College London who tracked 124 insomniacs who took cannabis for 18 months. They reported improved sleep quality that lasted over the 18 months of treatment, and the participants also showed significant improvements in - [Routine heart drugs are killers](https://www.wddty.com/news/routine-heart-drugs-are-killers/) - Beta blockers are routinely given to heart patients, especially after they’ve suffered a heart attack—but the drugs could be doing more harm than good. They can cause a heart attack or heart failure that needs hospital care—and can even kill the person, a new study has discovered. The drugs should be prescribed only to those - [Have an earlier breakfast if you want to live longer](https://www.wddty.com/news/have-an-earlier-breakfast-if-you-want-to-live-longer/) - Want to live longer? Then eat your breakfast earlier. A late breakfast can also increase the chances of fatigue, depression and poor sleep, say researchers from Mass General Bingham. As people get older, their eating habits can change and can be eating breakfast and the final meal of the day later. But this reduces the - [‘Healthy’ low-sugar substitutes age your brain](https://www.wddty.com/news/healthy-low-sugar-substitutes-age-your-brain/) - Your brain ages 18 months faster than the rest of your body if you’re consuming high levels of artificial sweeteners—often seen as healthy low-sugar alternatives—found in processed foods and sodas. People who consume sweeteners such as aspartame and saccharin are suffering a rapid decline in their thinking and memory skills. The decline in cognitive abilities - [‘Safe’ painkiller in pregnancy could cause autism and ADHD](https://www.wddty.com/news/safe-painkiller-in-pregnancy-could-cause-autism-and-adhd/) - One of the world’s most common painkillers could be causing ADHD and autism. Tylenol (acetaminophen), marketed as paracetamol outside the US, is the most common painkiller women take during pregnancy—but the drug can cause neurological damage in their unborn child, which manifests as autism or ADHD (attention deficit, hyperactive disorder), say researchers from Mount Sinai - [Women, take omega-3 supplements to reduce Alzheimer’s risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/women-take-omega-3-supplements-to-reduce-alzheimers-risk/) - Alzheimer’s could be a different disease for men and women—and there’s a simple thing all women can do to lower their risk. For women, the disease seems to be associated with a dramatic drop of omega fatty acids, and this also suggests that taking omega-3 supplements and eating plenty of fatty fish could be important - [Meat doesn’t increase cancer risk—it might even reduce it](https://www.wddty.com/news/meat-doesnt-increase-cancer-risk-it-might-even-reduce-it/) - Meat eaters aren’t more likely than vegetarians to get cancer. In fact, meat may have a slightly protective effect, say researchers from McMaster University who carried out a major review of protein and its role as a carcinogen. The researchers analysed the diets and health of around 16,000 people and the amount of animal and - [Want to live longer? Then move to the seaside](https://www.wddty.com/news/want-to-live-longer-then-move-to-the-seaside/) - If you want to live longer, set up your home close to an ocean—the move could add an extra year to your life. People living within a mile of an ocean can add a year to the average life expectancy of 79 years, whereas those in urban areas are more likely to live an average - [AstraZeneca ‘funding Russia’s war chest’](https://www.wddty.com/news/astrazeneca-funding-russias-war-chest/) - Drugs giant AstraZeneca has been accused of funding Russia’s war chest and its invasion of Ukraine. The company has maintained a presence in Russia since the invasion began in 2022, and is paying around $43 million a year in taxes, according to a report from the Kyiv School of Economics. Overall, large Western conglomerates are - [Power up your power cells to stay mentally sharp](https://www.wddty.com/news/power-up-your-power-cells-to-stay-mentally-sharp/) - Starting to forget things? Your power cells might just need a little more oomph. Early signs of neurodegeneration—forgetting things or losing simple cognitive skills—could be sparked by a loss of energy in our mitochondria, often described as our cells’ powerhouse. For the first time, scientists have seen a direct link between mitochondria decline and neurodegeneration—and - [Blood pressure cuffs get it wrong 30 percent of the time](https://www.wddty.com/news/blood-pressure-cuffs-get-it-wrong-30-percent-of-the-time/) - Cuffs that doctors use to measure blood pressure get it wrong around 30 percent of the time—especially when it comes to assessing hypertension (high blood pressure). The remedy could be simple. Just raise your arm for a few seconds before the cuff is put on and the chances increase of an accurate reading, say researchers - [One session of exercise slows the spread of cancer by as much as 30 percent](https://www.wddty.com/news/one-session-of-exercise-slows-the-spread-of-cancer-by-as-much-as-30-percent/) - One session of strenuous exercise can slow the spread of cancer by as much as 30 percent. A 30-minute exercise class of high-intensity or resistance training dramatically slows the spread of cancer. It increases levels of myokines, a protein produced by muscles which have anti-cancer effects and slow its spread. A group of women had - [Change the way you walk to ease knee pain](https://www.wddty.com/news/change-the-way-you-walk-to-ease-knee-pain/) - Are you suffering from painful knee joints when you walk? Making a small adjustment to the way your feet are aligned could ease the pain dramatically. Turning the foot in or out by 5 to 10 degrees can give you pain relief that is even more effective than a painkiller—and it slows the deterioration of - [Wasps show us how to live longer](https://www.wddty.com/news/wasps-show-us-how-to-live-longer/) - Death, where is thy sting? For the wasp, death—and ageing—can be delayed, and it’s a trick that perhaps we too can learn. The larvae of the jewel wasp can pause their development, live longer and age more slowly, researchers from the University of Leicester have discovered. It’s all to do with biological pathways, and the - [Grapes—the new superfood](https://www.wddty.com/news/grapes-the-new-superfood/) - Family and friends who bring grapes to hospital patients knew a thing or two—the fruit contains 1,600 compounds that benefit heart, brain, skin, and gut health. In fact, grapes should join the elevated ranks of superfoods, says cancer researcher John M. Pezzuto, from Western New England University, who has reviewed more than 60 studies on - [Eat French fries and get diabetes—eat boiled spuds, and don’t](https://www.wddty.com/news/eat-french-fries-and-get-diabetes-eat-boiled-spuds-and-dont/) - Eat French fries (chips) three times a week and you increase your risk of type 2 diabetes. But substitute fries for boiled or mashed potatoes, and the risk disappears, a new study has discovered. Three servings of French fries every week raises your diabetes risk by around 20 percent—and that’s because they are high on - [The secret of the healthy agers](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-secret-of-the-healthy-agers/) - Is there a secret to living to a hundred—and beyond—and still be vibrant and healthy? Researchers who have been looking at centenarians think there must be something special about them—but not knowing what it is, they say that healthy agers must have a ‘super power’. A research team from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden tracked - [Don’t count calories. Cut the fast food to lose weight](https://www.wddty.com/news/dont-count-calories-cut-the-fast-food-to-lose-weight/) - Want to lose weight? Then keep off the fast food—it could be far more effective than just counting the calories. You could lose up to 13 percent of your body weight in a year by eating real food—and that’s over three times more effective than a calorie-controlled diet that includes processed food. Researchers from University - [Stevia sweetener kills pancreatic cancer cells](https://www.wddty.com/news/stevia-sweetener-kills-pancreatic-cancer-cells/) - Stevia, the artificial sweetener, kills cancer cells. It needs to have a twist added, though. When it’s fermented with bacteria isolated from banana leaves, it combats pancreatic cancer cells, a new study has discovered. And unlike chemotherapy, it doesn’t harm healthy kidney cells, say investigators from Hiroshima University in Japan. It could be an important - [mRNA research hit as Kennedy slashes funding](https://www.wddty.com/news/mrna-research-hit-as-kennedy-slashes-funding/) - Research into the new mRNA technology—which was first used in the Covid-19 pandemic—has been hit hard by the US’s health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, who has blocked $500m of research funding. Instead, he has told researchers to explore traditional vaccine protocols that have been used for years to counter infections. In a statement, Mr - [You lose weight with Ozempic, but you’re also losing muscle](https://www.wddty.com/news/you-lose-weight-with-ozempic-but-youre-also-losing-muscle/) - Yes, you can lose weight on Ozempic, but it’s not just fat that’s disappearing—it’s your muscle, too. Losing muscle mass can cause cardiovascular disease, increase your risk of premature death, and affect your quality of life, including posture and physical function. People on GLP-1 drugs have said how their muscle strength seems to be ebbing—and - [Lupus gets milder the older you get](https://www.wddty.com/news/lupus-gets-milder-the-older-you-get/) - Lupus—the chronic auto-immune disorder—may not be a life sentence: it can improve, and even disappear, as people get older. Doctors are finding that sufferers are seeing their symptoms improve dramatically when they reach their sixties, and it behaves completely differently than other chronic, progressive conditions. Lupus causes the immune system's interferons, its first-line viral defences, - [Long Covid hits the poor the hardest](https://www.wddty.com/news/long-covid-hits-the-poor-the-hardest/) - Long Covid could be a disease of the poor. People who have financial worries and aren’t eating a healthy diet are far more likely to suffer from the condition, say researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital. It especially affects black and ethnic communities. The researchers tracked 3,700 people who are participating in the Recover-Adult study - [Decades-old treatment for depression has never been proven to work](https://www.wddty.com/news/decades-old-treatment-for-depression-has-never-been-proven-to-work/) - The standard treatment for depression has been thrown into doubt after it was discovered the approach is based on bad science. Doctors routinely change the dose or the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) in a ‘step’ process as they seek out the most effective treatment. With around 75 percent of patients getting little or no - [Make pistachios your midnight snack](https://www.wddty.com/news/make-pistachios-your-midnight-snack/) - If you crave a snack before heading to bed, make sure it’s a handful of pistachios. The nuts help improve our gut microbiome, and they do their good work while we sleep, say researchers from Penn State University. The midnight snack could be especially beneficial for prediabetics who are told to eat a carbohydrate snack, - [Covid jabs saved the lives of just 299 young people](https://www.wddty.com/news/covid-jabs-saved-the-lives-of-just-299-young-people/) - The Covid-19 vaccines saved far fewer lives than health authorities like the World Health Organisation (WHO) kept claiming. The WHO estimated that the jabs saved more than 14 million lives in just the first year—and rising to 20 million lives over the course of the pandemic—but new analysis from Stanford University researchers say the true - [St John’s wort is as effective as an antidepressant](https://www.wddty.com/news/st-johns-wort-is-as-effective-as-an-antidepressant/) - St John’s wort really does ease mild depression and can be just as effective as antidepressant drugs, a major review has discovered. Saffron, probiotics and vitamin D supplements can also help, but there’s very little evidence to support the other 60 or so over-the-counter (OTC) products, say researchers from Liverpool John Moores University. They looked - [Forget 10,000 steps—7,000 a day halves your chances of an early death](https://www.wddty.com/news/forget-10000-steps-7000-a-day-halves-your-chances-of-an-early-death/) - Forget walking 10,000 steps a day—7,000 is enough to halve your risk of early death and improve your heart and cognitive abilities. And if you are still determined to walk your 10,000 steps, the benefits are marginal, say researchers from the University of Sydney, who took another look at 57 studies that had investigated the - [Is long Covid a reaction to the mRNA jab?](https://www.wddty.com/news/is-long-covid-a-reaction-to-the-mrna-jab/) - Long Covid could be a reaction to the mRNA vaccine, a new study has suggested. The symptoms—flu-like reactions that last for three months or more—are similar to post-vaccination syndrome, which had been thought to be a separate condition. But researchers from BreatheMD, a clinic in Houston, Texas think they could be one and the same - [Lockdowns and Covid fear campaigns aged our brains](https://www.wddty.com/news/lockdowns-and-covid-fear-campaigns-aged-our-brains/) - The recent Covid-19 pandemic has aged our brains—even if we never caught the virus. Stress, fear and the nation-wide lockdowns all caused our brains to age faster, say researchers from the University of Nottingham. People who were infected showed a drop in certain cognitive abilities, such as mental flexibility and processing speed. But although brain - [Don’t use a chemical cosh—music calms the distressed dementia patient](https://www.wddty.com/news/dont-use-a-chemical-cosh-music-calms-the-distressed-dementia-patient/) - Distressed dementia patients are often sedated with powerful drugs—known as a chemical cosh—but music therapy can have the same calming effects. Patients feel calmer and even report an overall improvement in their quality of life after a musical therapy session, say researchers from the Anglian Ruskin University in the UK. The therapy, known as Melodic, - [Why you’re more likely to get a stomach bug from romaine lettuce](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-youre-more-likely-to-get-a-stomach-bug-from-romaine-lettuce/) - You’re more likely to get a nasty stomach bug from romaine lettuce than from any other salad produce or vegetable—and now researchers have figured out why. The lettuce is often the cause of an E.coli outbreak, and it’s down to the way it is irrigated and transported, say researchers from Cornell University. The lettuce is - [Sugar substitute increases stroke risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/sugar-substitute-increases-stroke-risk/) - Erythritol, one of the world’s most popular sugar substitutes, increases the risk of a stroke. Even small amounts can harm brain blood vessel cells, promoting constriction, clotting, and inflammation, and all of this raises the risk of stroke, say researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder. People have been consuming the artificial sugar since - [The world’s a mess because our leaders were mentally ill](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-worlds-a-mess-because-our-leaders-were-mentally-ill/) - As John Lennon once said, the world is in a mess because it’s run by psychopaths. He may have been closer to the truth than he realised, at least according to the findings of a new study that has investigated the physical and mental health of world leaders down the years. Many of the leaders - [Health hacks could be Medieval](https://www.wddty.com/news/health-hacks-could-be-medieval/) - Health hacks you see on social media platforms like TikTok aren’t so new after all—some are many hundreds of years old. Researchers have been digging through old manuscripts and books and found that people living in the 11th century—considered to be the ‘dark ages’—were as interested in their health as we are and were trying - [Dogs pick up Parkinson’s 20 years before symptoms appear](https://www.wddty.com/news/dogs-pick-up-parkinsons-20-years-before-symptoms-appear/) - Dogs trained to detect early signs of Parkinson’s disease can pick it up 20 years before symptoms become apparent. And they’re astonishingly accurate with a 98 percent success rate, even when a person has other health problems. Even at the very earliest phase of the disease, sufferers start releasing an odour that trained dogs can - [Don’t give your kids sugary foods—it speeds up puberty](https://www.wddty.com/news/dont-give-your-kids-sugary-foods-it-speeds-up-puberty/) - A sugary diet accelerates a child’s puberty, which can lead to serious health problems in later years. Children who eat drinks and foods that contain artificial sweeteners start puberty far earlier, say researchers from Taipei Municipal Wan Fang Hospital in Taiwan. Sweeteners like aspartame, sucralose, and glycyrrhizin cause hormonal changes and gut bacteria imbalances. Early - [Obesity linked to 40 percent of all cancer cases](https://www.wddty.com/news/obesity-linked-to-40-percent-of-all-cancer-cases/) - Obesity is usually a symptom of a bad diet—and it’s now directly linked to 13 different types of cancer that account for 40 percent of all cancer cases. Cancer deaths that are linked to obesity have trebled in the past 20 years, say researchers from Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Centre. They analysed more - [Intermittent fasting speeds up diabetes reversal](https://www.wddty.com/news/intermittent-fasting-speeds-up-diabetes-reversal/) - Eating a healthy diet can start reversing type 2 diabetes—but its benefits can be accelerated if you start to combine it with mini fasts. Following the 5:2 fasting diet—where you dramatically reduce the amount of food you eat two days a week—has the biggest impact on blood sugar levels and insulin sensitivity. It’s better than - [Major flaw in mRNA science](https://www.wddty.com/news/major-flaw-in-mrna-science/) - The science behind the new mRNA vaccines—which were introduced to combat the Covid-19 virus—is seriously flawed. The antivirals target an area of the coronavirus known as the NiRAN domain, which helps the virus replicate. Coronavirus vaccine design has been influenced by pivotal research by Chinese scientists in 2022, which focused on the domain as a - [Your brain keeps renewing itself, whatever your age](https://www.wddty.com/news/your-brain-keeps-renewing-itself-whatever-your-age/) - It doesn’t matter how old you are, your brain keeps renewing itself. Neurons are being formed all the time in the brain’s hippocampus, the area that controls memory, learning and emotions. It’s a process that continues into great old age, say researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. They assessed brain tissue taken from newborns - [Health alert for RSV jab](https://www.wddty.com/news/health-alert-for-rsv-jab/) - There’s a new health alert for the RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) vaccine, which is routinely offered to the over-75s. It can cause Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), the nerve disorder that can sometimes be fatal, the UK’s drug regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has announced. The RSV joins a growing list of vaccines—including - [Hate Mondays? You’re raising your risk of a heart attack](https://www.wddty.com/news/hate-mondays-youre-raising-your-risk-of-a-heart-attack/) - You’d better start loving Mondays. People who hate the first day of the working week retain stress levels that can lead to a heart attack. It’s something that especially affects older people who are 50 years and older, and it doesn’t matter whether you’re still working or not: hatred of the day itself seems to - [The four early-warning signs of Alzheimer’s](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-four-early-warning-signs-of-alzheimers/) - Alzheimer’s doesn’t just strike randomly. There are four distinct early warning signs that suggest if you are more likely to suffer from the disease one day. The good news is that identifying one or more of these signs early enough could reduce your chances of developing the disease. Researchers from University of California at Los - [How coffee could help you live longer](https://www.wddty.com/news/how-coffee-could-help-you-live-longer/) - Your morning coffee isn’t just perking you up—it could even help you live longer. Researchers have discovered that caffeine affects ageing by tapping into an ancient cellular energy system. A team from Queen Mary University in London have already discovered that caffeine helps cells live longer by acting on a growth regulator called TOR (Target of - [Avoid acidic foods to lose weight quickly](https://www.wddty.com/news/avoid-acidic-foods-to-lose-weight-quickly/) - Want to lose weight quickly? Then ditch foods that produce acid such as meat, eggs, and dairy and replace them with more vegetables, leafy greens and berries. Acidic foods increase inflammation, and this can disrupt our metabolism, causing us to put on the pounds. A research team from Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine tested the - [ADHD is seriously over diagnosed](https://www.wddty.com/news/adhd-is-seriously-over-diagnosed/) - ADHD (attention deficit, hyperactive disorder) could be dramatically over diagnosed, and many cases are instead another problem such as depression. Medical researchers have been too quick to make an ADHD diagnosis without first ruling out other possible possibilities, and these mistakes have been made even in the most influential studies that have guided drug and - [Yes, cheese can cause nightmares](https://www.wddty.com/news/yes-cheese-can-cause-nightmares/) - The old wives’ tale seems to be true: eating cheese late at night really can cause nightmares. In fact, it’s true for all dairy products which can be hard to digest when we eat them late in the evening. An upset stomach can cause us to have bad dreams and nightmares, say researchers from Montreal - [Toddlers have up to 96 toxic chemicals in their bodies](https://www.wddty.com/news/toddlers-have-up-to-96-toxic-chemicals-in-their-bodies/) - What are we doing to our children? They already have up to 96 different harmful toxic pollutants and chemicals in their bodies by the time they reach the age of four. These chemicals—which come from everyday objects, such as packaging, toys and toiletries—could be affecting their development and cause learning problems later on. Urine samples - [Drink your coffee black to protect your heart](https://www.wddty.com/news/drink-your-coffee-black-to-protect-your-heart/) - If you’re drinking your coffee black and without sugar, you are doing your heart a favour. People who drink their coffee as it comes reduce their chances of dying from a chronic disease by up to 17 percent compared to those who never drink the brew. But these health benefits disappear if you add sugar - [Sex after menopause helps women live longer](https://www.wddty.com/news/sex-after-menopause-helps-women-live-longer/) - Regular sex can counter some of the more uncomfortable symptoms of the menopause. Women who regularly have sex have fewer menopausal symptoms such as itching, burning, pain, decreased lubrication, and changes in skin appearance. But a more active sex life could also help women live longer. Estrogen deficiency during and after menopause may reduce the - [Vitamin C reverses skin ageing](https://www.wddty.com/news/vitamin-c-reverses-skin-ageing/) - Our skin naturally starts to thin as we get older—but vitamin C reprograms our DNA to thicken it, new research has discovered. It directly activates genes that control skin cell growth and development. Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Geriatrics and Gerontology found that the vitamin was reversing skin thinning within 14 days. Using models - [‘Unsafe’ heart drug may be a killer](https://www.wddty.com/news/unsafe-heart-drug-may-be-a-killer/) - Heart patients have been harmed—and some even killed—by a revolutionary drug whose safety trials have been thrown into question. The drug comes out of patent this year, which means that many more versions will be launched, putting even more heart patients at risk. For more than a decade, AstraZeneca’s ticagrelor (Brilinta in the US and - [Creatine is for all of us—not just bodybuilders](https://www.wddty.com/news/creatine-is-for-all-of-us-not-just-bodybuilders/) - Creatine isn’t a supplement that’s just for athletes and bodybuilders—it can help all of us age well, protecting muscle mass and keeping us mentally sharp. And forget the bad press. Stories about its safety or that it causes bloating and cramping don’t stand up to scientific scrutiny, says one of its biggest champions, Dr. Richard - [Our next great cancer fighter—the sea cucumber](https://www.wddty.com/news/our-next-great-cancer-fighter-the-sea-cucumber/) - Sea cucumbers—a simple marine life form that cleans the ocean floor—has sugars that stop cancer spreading. These sugars, known as fucosylated chondroitin sulfate, can block Sulf-2, an enzyme that cancer cells use in order to spread. The sugar could become a safer alternative to current carbohydrate-based drugs that interfere with the body’s blood-clotting abilities and - [The ginger that blocks cancer’s growth](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-ginger-that-blocks-cancers-growth/) - Ginger is a powerful cancer fighter—by disrupting the way tumours get their energy. Kencur, a type of ginger, blocks the major food source of cancer cells that gives them the fuel to grow and spread. As the German physiologist Otto Warburg recognised more than a hundred years ago, tumours feed off sugars while healthy cells - [One psychedelic trip keeps depression at bay for two years](https://www.wddty.com/news/one-psychedelic-trip-keeps-depression-at-bay-for-two-years/) - One psychedelic trip can keep depression at bay for up to two years. A single dose of psilocybin, a naturally occurring psychedelic compound in mushrooms, can reduce depression and anxiety, a new study has discovered. Researchers from Sunstone Therapies, which produces psychedelic-based therapies, gave one 25mg dose of psilocybin to a group of 28 cancer - [The airline industry’s big secret](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-airline-industrys-big-secret/) - The airline industry has been keeping a secret from you for years, and it’s one that can seriously affect your health. 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The more flavonoid-rich foods and drinks, such as apples, tea, dark chocolate and berries, in your diet, the greater your chances of living a long life and one that avoids chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease - [Vitamin D slows biological ageing](https://www.wddty.com/news/vitamin-d-slows-biological-ageing/) - Vitamin D—the sunshine vitamin—really can help combat ageing. Even if you can’t get out into the sun too often, taking a vitamin D3 supplement every day for four years slowed biological ageing by three years. The vitamin protects our telomeres, the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes that shorten as we get older. The - [People ‘hooked’ on antidepressants after two years](https://www.wddty.com/news/people-hooked-on-antidepressants-after-two-years/) - If you’ve been on antidepressants for more than two years, you could be hooked on them—because the withdrawal symptoms are so awful. But if you haven’t been taking the drugs quite so long, you may well suffer only mild effects when you try to come off them, say researchers at University College London. People who - [Eat less—throw some chillies on the plate](https://www.wddty.com/news/eat-less-throw-some-chillies-on-the-plate/) - We all know we should be eating less—but how do you cut back if you don’t have the willpower? Try throwing some hot chillies onto the plate. Plenty of people like to add spice to their meals—and it does reduce the amount you’re eating. Oral burn, as it’s known, really can help you cut down - [Cannabis is as bad for the heart as cigarettes](https://www.wddty.com/news/cannabis-is-as-bad-for-the-heart-as-cigarettes/) - Smoking cannabis is as dangerous for the heart as cigarettes—and that’s just as true if you’re consuming the edible form, which people chew to ease depression and anxiety. As with most things, the poison is in the dose. If you’re a ‘chronic’ user—you’re consuming it three days a week—your blood vessels are likely to show - [Poor sleep can lead to heart problems](https://www.wddty.com/news/poor-sleep-can-lead-to-heart-problems/) - We all know how important it is to get a good night’s sleep—but it may be even more significant than you realise and could be preventing heart disease. If quality sleep protects the heart, the reverse is also true: chronic insomnia increases the risk of a heart attack, stroke and AFib (atrial fibrillation), or irregular - [Floss your teeth to protect your heart](https://www.wddty.com/news/floss-your-teeth-to-protect-your-heart/) - Suffering from heart flutter or irregular heart rate? Then start flossing. Poor gum health—known as gingivitis, caused by the P. gingivalis bacteria—is an unlikely cause of irregular heartbeat, or atrial fibrillation (AFib). When the gums become infected and bleed, the body’s inflammatory responses don’t always stay in the mouth. Instead, they can get into the - [Yoga helps ease menopausal symptoms (other than hot flashes)](https://www.wddty.com/news/yoga-helps-ease-menopausal-symptoms-other-than-hot-flashes/) - Women can suffer a range of problems when they’re going through the menopause, from weight gain, sleeplessness and anxiety—and they can all be helped by yoga. Regular yoga sessions can improve common menopausal symptoms by as much as 73 percent, says a research team from the Xiangya School of Nursing in China. They analysed 24 - [Music can ‘reach’ children with severe brain damage](https://www.wddty.com/news/music-can-reach-children-with-severe-brain-damage/) - Music could be a way of communicating with children who have been severely brain damaged. Music therapy could be used to assess the consciousness levels of these children, say researchers from Anglia Ruskin University. A team from the university have developed MuSICCA (Music therapy Sensory Instrument for Cognition, Consciousness and Awareness), a technique that uses - [Eat berries and drink tea to age well](https://www.wddty.com/news/eat-berries-and-drink-tea-to-age-well/) - Foods that are rich in flavonoids—think berries, black tea, citrus fruits and apples—can help us stay healthy as we get older. They can combat the usual symptoms of ageing, such as frailty, mental decline, and general physical incapacities, say researchers from Edith Cowan University in Australia. To assess the benefits of flavonoids—antioxidants found in plants—the - [Stay curious to ward off Alzheimer’s](https://www.wddty.com/news/stay-curious-to-ward-off-alzheimers/) - Stay curious—it can keep you mentally sharp as you get older and could even ward off Alzheimer’s disease. Learning new things and skills and being engaged and interested in the world are a great antidote to dementia, say researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). They say there are two types of - [Stop partying when you reach 36](https://www.wddty.com/news/stop-partying-when-you-reach-36/) - You probably don’t need medical research to tell you that you need to slow up as you get older—but a new study has pinpointed the year when we need to live a more sober life. Our health starts to decline from the age of 36, and that’s when we need to cut back on the - [Time for governments to clamp down on processed food](https://www.wddty.com/news/time-for-governments-to-clamp-down-on-processed-food/) - It’s time governments got serious about processed food. It’s a major cause of premature death and chronic disease, a new study has found. Ultra-processed foods (UPFs)—which usually include five or more additives such as sweeteners, preservatives and colourants—are responsible for around 14 percent of premature deaths in the US and UK, where they form a - [Major danger alert for new menopause drug](https://www.wddty.com/news/major-danger-alert-for-new-menopause-drug/) - Veozah (fezolinetant) was the new hope for menopausal women who didn’t want to take HRT. It was approved in 2023 in the UK and the US as a way to reduce the frequency and severity of hot flashes. But less than two years since its release, the drug has been slapped with a ‘black box’ - [People who lose interest in life more prone to heart disease](https://www.wddty.com/news/people-who-lose-interest-in-life-more-prone-to-heart-disease/) - People who are irritable or have lost interest in life are much more likely to suffer cardiac arrest, a form of heart attack where the heart stops beating. The impact of mental wellbeing on heart health has been highlighted by researchers who have been exploring the many causes of cardiac arrest, which affects around 30,000 - [Forget 14, just eight units of alcohol is safe](https://www.wddty.com/news/forget-14-just-eight-units-of-alcohol-is-safe/) - How much alcohol can we drink before we do any serious harm to our health? Right now, the recommendation is 14 units a week—but make that eight, new research suggests. Fourteen units equates to around six medium-sized glasses of wine, or six pints of beer, or seven double measures of the hard stuff—and it should - [Depressed are self-medicating with magic mushrooms](https://www.wddty.com/news/depressed-are-self-medicating-with-magic-mushrooms/) - More and more people are turning to psilocybin, the hallucinogenic chemical in magic mushrooms, to treat their depression, anxiety and chronic pain. 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Instead, the new school of thought on diet and weight loss is far simpler: just cut back on the carbs. Researchers from Surrey University have tested three types of diet on a group of volunteers who were - [Get more of your proteins from nuts and peas if you want to live longer](https://www.wddty.com/news/get-more-of-your-proteins-from-nuts-and-peas-if-you-want-to-live-longer/) - Like your meat? You might want to get more of your proteins from plants if you want to increase your chances of a long life. People who eat more plant-based proteins, such as nuts, chickpeas, tofu and peas, generally live longer, researchers from Sydney University have discovered. But that’s true only for adults. Children under - [Pearl millet—a great gluten-free alternative](https://www.wddty.com/news/pearl-millet-a-great-gluten-free-alternative/) - Pearl millet could be a healthy alternative to wheat—and a good option for people on a gluten-free diet. Known as bajra in India, it’s been a staple in Africa and the Indian subcontinent for thousands of years but has never enjoyed the same status in the West, which is still dependent on wheat. But droughts - [How our diet increases our risk of chronic health problems](https://www.wddty.com/news/how-our-diet-increases-our-risk-of-chronic-health-problems/) - Inflammation is a key factor in many chronic diseases, from heart problems, arthritis to some cancers—and the typical Western diet is to blame. The good news is that it can be quickly reversed—often in a matter of weeks—if you switch from processed foods to eating more vegetables and fruits. Researchers at Radboud University Medical Center - [The 17 ways to reduce your risk of dementia and depression](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-17-ways-to-reduce-your-risk-of-dementia-and-depression/) - There are 17 ways you can reduce your risk of stroke, dementia and depression. These risk factors become ever more important as we get older, say researchers at Mass General Brigham—and the great news is that you can reduce your risk for all three conditions when you modify even one of the risks. The researchers - [You only have to exercise one (or two) days a week for optimum health](https://www.wddty.com/news/you-only-have-to-exercise-one-or-two-days-a-week-for-optimum-health/) - Here’s some good news for those of you who know you should exercise but get discouraged by the notion of sweating it out at the gym four or five days a week—you don’t have to. In fact, being a weekend warrior—being physically active for just one or two days a week—could be all it takes - [Eat these two power foods if you want to reach 100](https://www.wddty.com/news/eat-these-two-power-foods-if-you-want-to-reach-100/) - Want to live to a hundred? Then eat plenty of fruit and nuts every day. These are two of the power foods in the Mediterranean diet that have the biggest impact on longevity, say researchers at the Autonomous University in Madrid. Although all the foods associated with the diet—including lean meat, fish, grains and vegetables—influence - [The first warning signs of fatal cardiac arrest in young people](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-first-warning-signs-of-fatal-cardiac-arrest-in-young-people/) - Young people are dying suddenly from cardiac arrest—and there are a few tell-tale symptoms that happen before the fatal attack that could save lives if they’re acted on quickly. Typical symptoms include sudden heart palpitations, syncope—a fainting fit—nausea or vomiting and reactions that are more commonly seen with an infection. Recognising that these could be - [Too many omega-6 acids raises breast cancer risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/too-many-omega-6-acids-raises-breast-cancer-risk/) - We need our omega-6 fatty acids—healthy sources include nuts and eggs—but you can have too much of a good thing: a new study has found the polyunsaturated fats can accelerate the growth of an aggressive type of breast cancer. Omega-6, or linoleic acid, can activate growth pathways for the ‘triple negative’ form of breast cancer, - [Antidepressants increase risk of fatal heart problems](https://www.wddty.com/news/antidepressants-increase-risk-of-fatal-heart-problems/) - Taking antidepressants? Then keep a close eye on your heart health if you’re a longtime user. The drugs can increase the risk of sudden cardiac death, and the chances increase with the amount of time you’ve been taking them. People taking antidepressants for between one and five years have a 50 percent increased risk of - [Hair loss is down to a molecule you’ve never heard of](https://www.wddty.com/news/hair-loss-is-down-to-a-molecule-youve-never-heard-of/) - Losing your hair? Blame it on a molecule you’ve probably never heard of. The molecule, MCL-1, helps keep our hair on. But lose it, and you lose your hair, say scientists at the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. In mice experiments, the researchers discovered there’s a link between MCL-1 and p53, the daddy of all - [Intermittent fasting beats calorie-counting for losing weight](https://www.wddty.com/news/intermittent-fasting-beats-calorie-counting-for-losing-weight/) - What’s the best way to lose weight? Eat less seems to be the obvious thing to do, but there are ways of eating less, and two diets have just been tested against each other. 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They tested the theory on 33 volunteers, aged 20 to 65 years, who were asked to eat slices of pizza under different conditions. Researchers - [Microplastics could be triggering heart disease](https://www.wddty.com/news/microplastics-could-be-triggering-heart-disease/) - Microplastics—microscopic pollutants in our atmosphere—could be driving the epidemic of chronic disease. They’ve been linked to a rising number of cases of high blood pressure (hypertension), diabetes and stroke, say researchers from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in Ohio. They measured microplastic levels in bodies of water along America’s East, West and Gulf coasts, - [Here’s why not to chew gum](https://www.wddty.com/news/heres-why-not-to-chew-gum/) - Teachers and parents are always telling kids not to chew gum—and now there’s a good health reason to support their protests. 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The problem is that cannabidiol (CBD), the non-psychoactive compound found in the cannabis plant, is poorly absorbed and its effectiveness is lessened. Scientists at the University of South Australia think they may - [Less than 10 percent of over-70s are healthy](https://www.wddty.com/news/less-than-10-percent-of-over-70s-are-healthy/) - Fewer than one in 10 people reach their 70th birthday fit and healthy, and free of disease. More than 90 percent suffer from at least one chronic health problem or are already cognitively impaired, showing signs of dementia or Alzheimer’s. A healthy diet is the one thing that separates the healthy agers from the vast - [Car exhaust fumes and tuna could cause benign tumours](https://www.wddty.com/news/car-exhaust-fumes-and-tuna-could-cause-benign-tumours/) - Mercury and other heavy metals in the environment could be the unrecognized cause of a range of women’s health problems. Mercury—which comes from car exhaust fumes and industrial waste, and from regularly eating big fish such as tuna and swordfish—has already been linked to reproductive and developmental abnormalities. But now researchers have discovered that it - [The molecule that can combat lupus](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-molecule-that-can-combat-lupus/) - A natural molecule that’s also available as a supplement can reverse some of the worst symptoms of Lupus, the autoimmune disease. The molecule, gluconolactone, rebalances the immune system and stops it attacking the body’s tissues and organs. It helps promote regulatory T-cells, or Tregs, that control the immune system’s responses, researchers from the University of - [Retiring abroad? Don’t forget to make new friends](https://www.wddty.com/news/retiring-abroad-dont-forget-to-make-new-friends/) - Many of us dream of retiring to a sunnier country—but there’s a real risk of living a lonely life there. 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Only men in their fifties should consider treating the cancer; by comparison, an 80-year-old who is diagnosed - [GSK knew drug caused sexual deviancy—and said nothing](https://www.wddty.com/news/gsk-knew-drug-caused-sexual-deviancy-and-said-nothing/) - Drug giant GSK has known for more than 20 years that one of its drugs causes sexual deviancy—and hasn’t come forward to defend victims who have gone to prison or faced restraining orders. The drug, Requip (ropinirole), a dopamine agonist to treat restless leg syndrome (RLS) and Parkinson’s symptoms, can cause deviant sexual and impulsive - [Feeling depressed? Do something creative—in a group](https://www.wddty.com/news/feeling-depressed-do-something-creative-in-a-group/) - If you’re feeling depressed or anxious, don’t suffer on your own. Instead, start being creative—and in a group. 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Astaxanthin supplements could help relieve eye strain, a new study has found. Astaxanthin is a red fat-soluble pigment with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties—and it’s also good for our eyes, it seems. Researchers gave 64 schoolchildren, aged between 10 and 14, a 4mg astaxanthin supplement every day for 84 - [Teabags filter out heavy metals in the water](https://www.wddty.com/news/teabags-filter-out-heavy-metals-in-the-water/) - You don’t need to filter water when you drink tea—the teabag is doing it for you. The teabag absorbs heavy metals such as lead and cadmium that are in the water, providing a natural filter. Heavy metal ions stick to the tea leaves in the bag, and they stay there until it’s taken out once - [Painkiller could be behind ADHD epidemic](https://www.wddty.com/news/painkiller-could-be-behind-adhd-epidemic/) - The common painkiller paracetamol could be an unsuspected factor in the ADHD (attention-deficit, hyperactive disorder) epidemic in our children. 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Don’t look to the longevity of your parents and grandparents to figure out how long you’ll live: your genetic inheritance has a measly 2 percent influence on your own lifespan. Instead, a healthy lifestyle is the key determinant to - [Antidepressants speed up cognitive decline](https://www.wddty.com/news/antidepressants-speed-up-cognitive-decline/) - Antidepressants could accelerate cognitive decline and dementia in older people. The SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), the most common type of antidepressant, accelerate memory loss in those who are already displaying the early signs of dementia, a new study has found. Researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden noticed that older people who were taking - [Childhood trauma is a cause of endometriosis](https://www.wddty.com/news/childhood-trauma-is-a-cause-of-endometriosis/) - Women suffering from life-debilitating endometriosis have been poorly served by medicine. 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It’s a better strategy than avoiding any contact with peanuts as any accidental encounter could be fatal, say researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. Micro-dosing—and slowly increasing the amount—is an effective therapy for people who can tolerate - [Mum, let your newborn sunbathe for 30 minutes a day](https://www.wddty.com/news/mum-let-your-newborn-sunbathe-for-30-minutes-a-day/) - Mums like to keep their newborns in the shade when the sun is shining. It’s a natural instinct, but just 30 minutes of sun on baby’s face every day could make a big difference to their health. Getting some sunshine in the first year of life is key, and the same goes for the mum-to-be - [Probiotics help combat UTIs](https://www.wddty.com/news/probiotics-help-combat-utis/) - If you’re prone to urinary tract infections (UTIs)—those nasty bacterial infections that typically cause burning pain when urinating—give probiotics a go to stop them coming back. A new study has found that probiotics containing Lactobacillus, taken orally or vaginally, reduce the incidence of recurrent UTIs and prolong the time between infections. Researchers from the Government - [Change your diet to improve PCOS symptoms](https://www.wddty.com/news/change-your-diet-to-improve-pcos-symptoms/) - Many women suffer from PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome)—and medicine’s response can be brutal. Oral contraceptives and the anti-diabetes drug metformin are standard treatments—but a change of diet can be just as effective, and without life-debilitating side effects. As metformin typically causes gastro-intestinal problems, the drug adds to the problems caused by PCOS, such as insulin - [21 days to change a habit? It’s more like two months and counting](https://www.wddty.com/news/21-days-to-change-a-habit-its-more-like-two-months-and-counting/) - It’s something every self-development guru likes to tell us—do something for 21 days and you’ll start a new, and hopefully better, habit. But the truth is that it takes a lot longer, and new habits start to develop only after two months or more, say researchers from the University of South Australia. They can take - [Heart disease is still the major killer in the US](https://www.wddty.com/news/heart-disease-is-still-the-major-killer-in-the-us/) - Nobody is getting the memo: heart disease is still the major killer in the US, and that’s down to poor diets and lifestyle choices. Heart disease is killing more Americans than the combined deaths from cancers and accidents. Every 34 seconds, an American dies from heart disease, which is responsible for around 2,500 deaths every - [Young people can age biologically on a poor diet](https://www.wddty.com/news/young-people-can-age-biologically-on-a-poor-diet/) - A poor diet makes us biologically older than our actual age. Biologically ageing can start early in life and could begin when we are just 20 years old, say researchers from the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland. They have carried out a unique study that has assessed the impact of a poor diet on sets - [Floss to reduce your risk of stroke](https://www.wddty.com/news/floss-to-reduce-your-risk-of-stroke/) - Flossing your teeth lowers your risk of stroke. Even flossing just once a week reduces the chances of ischemic stroke—when a blood clot reaches the brain—by 22 percent, and of cardioembolic stroke—blood clots that travel from the heart—by as much as 44 percent. Good dental hygiene, which includes flossing and regular brushing, also reduces the - [Ventilators are spreading viruses in hospitals](https://www.wddty.com/news/ventilators-are-spreading-viruses-in-hospitals/) - Ventilation systems in hospitals are spreading viruses to other patients. Patients who weren’t infected when they were admitted are catching viruses such as the SARS-CoV-2 virus—responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic--and seasonal flu during their hospital stay. Researchers from University College London tracked the spread of viruses around a typical clinic that was using mechanical ventilators - [Visit a friend and reduce your risk of dementia](https://www.wddty.com/news/visit-a-friend-and-reduce-your-risk-of-dementia/) - Get out and meet people—it can help ward off dementia and could add three years to your life. People who socialise—such as visiting friends, going to church or being part of a social group—are 38 percent less likely to develop dementia, and they reduce their risk of mild cognitive decline by 21 percent. Every five-year - [Ice-cold bath benefits last just 12 hours](https://www.wddty.com/news/ice-cold-bath-benefits-last-just-12-hours/) - Ice-cold baths and cold-water therapy might be good for us—but the effects are fleeting. Cold-water immersion reduces stress levels, as its advocates avow, but it lasts for only 12 hours. The health benefits of a cold shower—such as fewer coughs and colds—can last longer, and for up to three months, say researchers from the University - [Thinking about being alone triggers depression](https://www.wddty.com/news/thinking-about-being-alone-triggers-depression/) - There’s being alone—and then there’s always thinking about being alone, and it’s the latter that can cause depression. Lonely people who didn’t have constant negative thoughts about being alone were far less likely to develop depression than those who did, say researchers from the University of Hong Kong. They studied the effects of Covid lockdown - [Processed red meat increases your dementia risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/processed-red-meat-increases-your-dementia-risk/) - If processed red meat—such as bacon and sausages—is a staple of your diet, you’re more likely to suffer from cognitive decline and dementia when you’re older. The good news is that it’s never too late, and replacing the meats for nuts, fish and poultry can reverse some of the damage, say researchers from Brigham and - [Measles a disease of malnutrition that MMR can’t stop](https://www.wddty.com/news/measles-a-disease-of-malnutrition-that-mmr-cant-stop/) - Measles is a disease of malnutrition—and especially inadequate levels of vitamin A—that vaccination can’t prevent, a new study has discovered. Children who are malnourished don’t have the antibodies to protect them from measles—even though they have been vaccinated. Researchers from McGill University analysed measles antibodies in 600 children in South Africa who had all been - [Dementia risk twice as high as everyone thought](https://www.wddty.com/news/dementia-risk-twice-as-high-as-everyone-thought/) - Dementia is on the rise in the US, and the risk is twice as high as medicine had believed. People have a 42 percent risk of dementia once they reach 55, say researchers at New York University’s Langone Health. The risk—double the estimates predicted by earlier studies—translates into around 500,000 new cases of dementia each - [New suicide warnings on SSRI antidepressants after Royal Family death](https://www.wddty.com/news/new-suicide-warnings-on-ssri-antidepressants-after-royal-family-death/) - Warnings about the risk of suicide from a SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) antidepressant could be strengthened after a relative of the UK’s Royal Family took his own life while on the drug. Coroner Katy Skerrett, who was investigating the death of Thomas Kingston, said that people should be better informed about the dangers of - [Compensation boards not paying out on Covid vaccine injuries](https://www.wddty.com/news/compensation-boards-not-paying-out-on-covid-vaccine-injuries/) - Compensation boards aren’t paying out to those who have been permanently injured from one of the Covid-19 vaccinations. In the UK, around 17,500 people have applied to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) for compensation, but just 188 have received payments. Even those whose claims are believed still must demonstrate at least a 60 percent - [Eat calcium to reduce your bowel cancer risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/eat-calcium-to-reduce-your-bowel-cancer-risk/) - People who have plenty of calcium in their diet are less likely to suffer from bowel cancer. Consuming around 300mg every day from dark green leafy vegetables or milk lowers the risk of the cancer by around 17 percent, researchers from Oxford University have discovered. It was one of the standout ingredients with the greatest - [Reach 90, and all the usual health risks disappear](https://www.wddty.com/news/reach-90-and-all-the-usual-health-risks-disappear/) - Something strange happens to us if we’re lucky enough to reach the grand age of 90—all the usual health risks seem to disappear. High blood pressure and diabetes—usually linked to cardiovascular disease (CVD)—don’t seem to be risk factors anymore once we reach our nineties. Researchers from the University of California at Irvine discovered the phenomenon - [Loneliness is an unrecognised health risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/loneliness-is-an-unrecognised-health-risk/) - Loneliness is one of the biggest health risks—it increases our chances of heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes, a new study has found. It’s an overlooked cause of chronic illness, and social contact is as important as a healthy diet and exercise. Researchers from the University of Cambridge looked at the impact of social - [The best time of the day to drink coffee](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-best-time-of-the-day-to-drink-coffee/) - A cup or two of coffee may do us good—but it also depends on when you drink it. Drinking your brew in the morning seems to be the best time of the day to reap the health benefits that seem to disappear if you drink coffee in the afternoon or evening. Morning coffee drinkers were - [At the desk all day, sleep poorly at night](https://www.wddty.com/news/at-the-desk-all-day-sleep-poorly-at-night/) - Sitting around all day doesn’t do us much good—and it could also be affecting our sleep. Around 80 percent of us sit at a desk to do our work, and it makes it harder to get to sleep at night, say researchers from the University of South Florida. Deskwork increases the risk of insomnia by - [How to reduce the microplastics in the fish we eat](https://www.wddty.com/news/how-to-reduce-the-microplastics-in-the-fish-we-eat/) - Microplastics—the tiny particles from our clothing, packaging and plastic products—are in the fish we eat. But, come to that, they’re in bottled water, beer, meat and veggie burgers. What we put out into the environment ends up back on our plates, says Summer Traylor at Portland State University who has analysed the level of microplastics - [Next-generation weight loss drug fails](https://www.wddty.com/news/next-generation-weight-loss-drug-fails/) - World domination plans of drug giant Novo Nordisk have hit a bump in the road. The Danish company has become of the world’s fastest growing corporations with its weight loss drug sensation, Wegovy—but results from trials of its next generation obesity therapy, CagriSema, have been disappointing. The news wiped $125 bn from the value of - [Meat alternatives can make you depressed](https://www.wddty.com/news/meat-alternatives-can-make-you-depressed/) - Vegetarians who crave meat should steer clear of plant-based alternatives. Plant-based meat alternatives (PBMAs) are ultra-processed foods that could cause a host of health problems, and especially depression. Researchers from the University of Surrey reckon PBMAs increase the risk of depression by 42 percent, and vegetarians who regularly eat the meals also have higher blood - [No such thing as good and bad cholesterol, scientists discover](https://www.wddty.com/news/no-such-thing-as-good-and-bad-cholesterol-scientists-discover/) - Doctors have for years been prescribing statins in order to promote ‘good’ HDL cholesterol—but scientists have discovered it’s not so good after all and may be a cause of heart disease. For decades, medicine has believed that only ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol causes heart disease by building up around artery walls. But scientists from Houston Methodist - [Shiitake mushrooms stop liver disease](https://www.wddty.com/news/shiitake-mushrooms-stop-liver-disease/) - Add some shiitake mushrooms to your daily diet—your liver will thank you. Compounds in the mushrooms stop a process known as steatotic liver disease, which around one in three of us have and never know it, researchers from Osaka Metropolitan University have discovered. The compounds, Lentinula edodes mycella, protect the liver and stop the disease - [A failed heart can heal itself](https://www.wddty.com/news/a-failed-heart-can-heal-itself/) - The heart can heal itself and regenerate new muscle and tissue. Scientists have been astonished to witness the heart’s own recuperative powers after heart failure. “Heart muscle cells can actually regenerate, which is really exciting because it solidifies the notion that there is an intrinsic capacity of the human heart to regenerate,” said Hesham Sadek, - [Entrepreneur ‘proves’ vaccines cause autism](https://www.wddty.com/news/entrepreneur-proves-vaccines-cause-autism/) - Entrepreneur Steve Kirsch—who is offering $1 million to any scientist who can establish childhood vaccines don’t cause autism—has carried out his own research study that establishes an association, he says. Up to 60 percent of children suffer rapid onset autism (ROA) within seven days after having a vaccination, he says. He has collated 62 responses - [New drugs—great for the drug company, less so for the patient](https://www.wddty.com/news/new-drugs-great-for-the-drug-company-less-so-for-the-patient/) - Drug companies love new drugs—that’s where their profits come from. But when it comes to value for money and even extending life, they often fall short. Researchers from the London School of Economics have been looking at the benefits of new drugs that have been approved for use in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) - [Most children are suffering from depression and anxiety](https://www.wddty.com/news/most-children-are-suffering-from-depression-and-anxiety/) - Around 75 percent of adolescents are suffering from chronic depression and anxiety. Girls are especially at risk, with up to 84 percent aged from 10 to 18 years likely to suffer at least one bout of depression or anxiety, while it affects around 60 percent of boys. For 64 percent of children, the problem is - [Eat more fish to stop prostate cancer growing](https://www.wddty.com/news/eat-more-fish-to-stop-prostate-cancer-growing/) - Men whose prostate cancer is in its early phase should start taking omega 3 supplements and eating more fish—it can stop the cancer cells growing. At the same time, they should be cutting back on the omega-6 fats, which are found in processed foods such as chips, cookies, and fried food. The combined effect can - [Aromatherapy makes birth easier](https://www.wddty.com/news/aromatherapy-makes-birth-easier/) - Aromatherapy can ease labour pains, and even make the birth easier. Women who used aromatherapy that contained sweet orange oil (Citrus sinensis L) during labour reported “significantly reduced pain” and it helped improve dilation during the first stages of labour, especially for women who were having their first child. The oils also reduced the women’s - [Processed food is a major cause of colon cancer](https://www.wddty.com/news/processed-food-is-a-major-cause-of-colon-cancer/) - Colon, or colorectal, cancer is the second deadliest after lung cancer—and it could be driven by a diet of processed food. The diet causes chronic inflammation, and this triggers the cancer, say researchers from the University of South Florida. They have even seen the inflammation in the cancer cells. “Cancer is like a chronic wound - [Learning difficulties caused by car exhaust fumes](https://www.wddty.com/news/learning-difficulties-caused-by-car-exhaust-fumes/) - Lead from car exhausts is the cause of learning difficulties and mental health problems in our young, a major new study has concluded. More than 150 million cases of psychiatric disorders over the past 75 years in the US alone can be directly attributed to car exhaust fumes, say researchers from Duke University. Problems include - [Feel sharp the next day by being physically active today](https://www.wddty.com/news/feel-sharp-the-next-day-by-being-physically-active-today/) - Feel sharper after some physical activity? That buzz of feeling more alive and aware can last the next day too, say researchers from University College London (UCL). Although we can sense a feeling of being more cognitively aware after exercise, nobody has tracked just how long the feeling lasts. The UCL researchers tested a group - [Keto diet boosts new cancer therapy](https://www.wddty.com/news/keto-diet-boosts-new-cancer-therapy/) - A new type of immunotherapy to fight cancer is boosted by a ketogenic diet. The therapy, CAR T, which genetically modifies samples of the patient’s blood, gains potency when it feeds off the metabolite BHB (beta-hydroxybutyrate), which is produced by the liver during a keto diet. CAR T cells prefer BHB as a food source - [Eat dark chocolate every day to reduce diabetes risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/eat-dark-chocolate-every-day-to-reduce-diabetes-risk/) - Eating a portion of dark chocolate every day can reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes. You’re around 20 percent less likely to develop the condition if you eat five portions every week, researchers from Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health have discovered. They looked at the health benefits of dark chocolate in a - [New cancer therapy can trigger heart attack or stroke](https://www.wddty.com/news/new-cancer-therapy-can-trigger-heart-attack-or-stroke/) - A new cancer therapy can trigger a heart attack and stroke—and researchers have worked out why it happens. The therapy, immune checkpoint inhibitors, harnesses the immune system’s responses to bacteria and viruses to attack tumors, but the medication also interferes with the body’s regulation of the largest blood vessels, increasing the risk of a heart - [Walk up a hill for four minutes to halve heart disease risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/walk-up-a-hill-for-four-minutes-to-halve-heart-disease-risk/) - Short bursts of vigorous activity can almost halve the chances of a heart attack—and that’s especially true for middle-aged women. Just 90 seconds of vigorous exercise every day can protect the heart, and that’s great news for people who don’t go to the gym, say researchers from the University of Sydney. Simple tasks such as - [Conspiracy theorists were right about Covid jabs and lockdowns, say Senate subcommittee](https://www.wddty.com/news/conspiracy-theorists-were-right-about-covid-jabs-and-lockdowns-say-senate-subcommittee/) - Every so-called conspiracy theory about the Covid-19 pandemic was pointing at the truth, a US Congressional committee has ruled. The rushed vaccines were every bit as dangerous and ineffective as ‘conspiracy theorists’—including WDDTY—were warning, and the pandemic did originate from a Wuhan laboratory leak, while health agencies, in collusion with social media platforms such as - [Covid-19 vaccine increases heart problems in adolescents](https://www.wddty.com/news/covid-19-vaccine-increases-heart-problems-in-adolescents/) - Adolescents are at the greatest risk of heart problems after a mRNA Covid-19 vaccination. Teenagers up to 19 years can suffer heart inflammation problems such as myocarditis or pericarditis after vaccination, and especially after a second jab. Researchers from BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute in Canada tracked the health of around 390,000 young people aged - [Additive in processed food increases inflammatory bowel risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/additive-in-processed-food-increases-inflammatory-bowel-risk/) - One additive used in processed foods is alone responsible for chronic inflammatory bowel disease, ulcers and raises blood sugar levels that can be the precursor of type 2 diabetes. The additive, E 407 or carrageenan, can pass through the gut wall, and makes the small intestine more permeable, probably because it triggers an inflammatory response. - [HRT doubles blood clot risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/hrt-doubles-blood-clot-risk/) - HRT can double the risk of a blood clot and increase the chances of heart disease. Most of the seven different forms of HRT (hormone replacement therapy) increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, but one drug, tibolone, has been singled out as the most dangerous. People taking sequential pill therapy double their risk of thromboembolism, - [Thyroid drug can cause osteoporosis](https://www.wddty.com/news/thyroid-drug-can-cause-osteoporosis/) - People taking one of the world’s top-selling drugs for an underactive thyroid are at risk of developing osteoporosis. The drug, levothyroxine, is the standard remedy to treat hypothyroidism, but it’s also prescribed to people with normal thyroid activity. But anyone who takes it raises their risk of developing osteoporosis, the disease that weakens bones, say - [Cancer-causing chemical found in chlorinated water](https://www.wddty.com/news/cancer-causing-chemical-found-in-chlorinated-water/) - Scientists have discovered a new chemical in chlorinated water that could be cancer-causing. The compound, chloronitramide anion, is like other agents that are known to be toxic, and it could be putting public health at risk, say researchers from the University of Arkansas. The scientists are the first to isolate it, although its existence has - [High-dose vitamin C helps the cancer patient live longer](https://www.wddty.com/news/high-dose-vitamin-c-helps-the-cancer-patient-live-longer/) - High doses of vitamin C can combat even the deadliest cancers. The vitamin can double the survival time of patients with late-stage pancreatic cancer that’s spread, researchers have discovered. It’s one of the deadliest cancers, and the patient has a life expectancy of just eight months, even after having conventional treatment. But this doubles to - [The heart can heal itself after a heart attack](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-heart-can-heal-itself-after-a-heart-attack/) - The heart has its secrets—and one of its biggest is that it can repair itself after a severe heart attack. Normally, the heart cannot regenerate its cells, but this all changes after it’s suffered catastrophic damage from a bad heart attack. It repairs itself by creating new myocyte muscle cells, and this extraordinary healing is - [Every can of tuna contains mercury](https://www.wddty.com/news/every-can-of-tuna-contains-mercury/) - There’s mercury in every can of tuna—and the fish has three times the level of the neurotoxin as other varieties, such as cod. Bloom, the environmental pressure group, discovered mercury in each of the 150 cans of tuna they purchased in five European countries—from England, Germany, Italy, France and Spain. The highest level was in - [Walk in the morning and evening to reduce cancer risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/walk-in-the-morning-and-evening-to-reduce-cancer-risk/) - Taking an early morning stroll and another in the evening can reduce your risk of bowel cancer. Although walking is good for you, the time you do it could also be important—and the best times are around 8am in the morning and again at around 6pm in the evening. Researchers from Regensburg University assessed the - [Vitamin D lowers blood pressure](https://www.wddty.com/news/vitamin-d-lowers-blood-pressure/) - Taking a vitamin D supplement every day can lower blood pressure—even if you’re older or overweight. Calcium and D3 supplements taken every day for a year achieved a “significant decrease” in both the systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP) readings, say researchers from the University of Beirut Medical Centre. The researchers gave the supplements to - [There’s a 10-minute window to give CPR after a heart attack](https://www.wddty.com/news/theres-a-10-minute-window-to-give-cpr-after-a-heart-attack/) - If someone has a heart attack, you have up to 10 minutes to start CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation). Of course, the sooner you do CPR the better, but the window is bigger than many think and full recovery is still possible even if it is administered up to 10 minutes after the heart attack. “The longer - [Beta blockers making heart patients depressed](https://www.wddty.com/news/beta-blockers-making-heart-patients-depressed/) - People who’ve had a heart attack are routinely prescribed a beta blocker, which helps slow the heart—but often the drugs aren’t doing any good and can make the patient depressed. The drugs aren’t helpful if the heart attack survivor’s heart has a normal pumping action and isn’t likely to suffer from heart failure, and they - [Prostate cancer patients being overtreated](https://www.wddty.com/news/prostate-cancer-patients-being-overtreated/) - Oncologists are opting for aggressive treatments for prostate cancer even when there’s no benefit to the patient. Instead, monitoring the progress of the cancer would be a better approach—but surprisingly few doctors are following it, a new study has found. Most older men have slow-growing prostate tumours that haven’t spread, but they are still having - [Five minutes of exercise a day reduces blood pressure levels](https://www.wddty.com/news/five-minutes-of-exercise-a-day-reduces-blood-pressure-levels/) - Adding just five minutes of activity to your day could help keep your blood pressure in check. Even walking up or down the stairs or up a hill could be enough, say researchers from the University of Sydney. And replacing up to 27 minutes of sedentary living—such as sitting at a computer or watching television—with - [Symptoms of ageing could be more to do with the drugs the elderly take](https://www.wddty.com/news/symptoms-of-ageing-could-be-more-to-do-with-the-drugs-the-elderly-take/) - Typical symptoms of ageing—such as incontinence, poor physical function and being unsteady and more likely to fall—could be as much to do with the multiple pharmaceuticals older people are taking. Around a third of all over-65s are taking five or more medications a day, a phenomenon known as polypharmacy, and one in five are swallowing - [Eat more fatty acids to reduce your cancer risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/eat-more-fatty-acids-to-reduce-your-cancer-risk/) - We really need to be consuming more omega-3 oils—whether it’s from fish, nuts or as supplements. It’s already known that the fatty acids keep the cardiovascular system healthy, but researchers have now discovered they protect against cancer. Researchers from the University of Georgia reckon they reduce the chances of 14 different cancers, including colon, stomach, - [Mum, why you shouldn’t give sugar to your toddler](https://www.wddty.com/news/mum-why-you-shouldnt-give-sugar-to-your-toddler/) - Don’t give toddlers too much sugar—they’ll thank you when they grow up. Restricting the amount of sugar in the diet in the first two years or more of life reduces the risk of chronic health problems as an adult. In fact, it starts from the moment of conception: pregnant women should also look to reduce - [Alternative health group sues FDA over plan to block homeopathic remedies](https://www.wddty.com/news/alternative-health-group-sues-fda-over-plan-to-block-homeopathic-remedies/) - An alternative health group has filed a lawsuit against the US’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over its new regulations that could take homeopathic remedies off the shelves. Under the new ruling, the FDA is treating homeopathic remedies as ‘new drugs’ that need to pass through safety trials before they can be offered to the - [Why patient support groups favour drugs over alternative remedies](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-patient-support-groups-favour-drugs-over-alternative-remedies/) - Patient support groups are influenced by Big Pharma donations and will often recommend a drug over alternative remedies. A recent study revealed that 83 percent of the largest support groups in the US were receiving substantial contributions from drug companies, often without revealing the donations. From 2010 to 2022, drug companies donated over $6 bn - [How long will you live? Stand on one leg to find out](https://www.wddty.com/news/how-long-will-you-live-stand-on-one-leg-to-find-out/) - Want to know how long you’ll live? Then stand on one leg. If you can balance on one leg—and ideally on your non-dominant leg—for 30 seconds or more, then you’re likely to live a good few years to come. The exercise gives an indication of muscle strength, and it tests visual abilities, say researchers from - [Keto diet regularises your menstrual cycle](https://www.wddty.com/news/keto-diet-regularises-your-menstrual-cycle/) - Eating a keto diet can normalise an irregular menstrual cycle. The ketones the diet releases can even kickstart a period that seems to have stalled for good, say researchers. Women who followed the diet or took ketone supplements—and achieved nutritional ketosis—said they saw their menstrual frequency become more regular or intense, or both. The high-fat - [Eat some pistachios to improve your eyesight](https://www.wddty.com/news/eat-some-pistachios-to-improve-your-eyesight/) - If your eyesight is starting to fail as you get older, start eating some pistachios every day. The nuts contain lutein, an antioxidant that protects the eyes against age-related damage. It also helps increase the eye’s macular pigment optical density (MPOD), which filters blue light from sunlight, smartphones and computer screens. Eating just 2 ounces - [Doctors win substantial damages after being branded ‘statin deniers’ who endangered lives](https://www.wddty.com/news/doctors-win-substantial-damages-after-being-branded-statin-deniers-who-endangered-lives/) - A major UK newspaper has paid out ‘substantial damages’ to two doctors after it had claimed their questioning of statins would lead to many deaths. Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Mail on Sunday—one of the world’s leading news websites—has issued an apology and paid all costs and damages to Drs Malcolm Kendrick and Zoe Harcombe. - [Why your high blood pressure reading is probably wrong](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-your-high-blood-pressure-reading-is-probably-wrong/) - Have you been told you have high blood pressure (hypertension)? Get a second opinion—the reading could well have been wrong. Blood pressure (BP) screening can “substantially overestimate” levels, and it’s all down to the positioning of the patient’s arm when the reading is done. Researchers from John Hopkins assessed the different blood pressure readings that - [Eat an early dinner to lose weight](https://www.wddty.com/news/eat-an-early-dinner-to-lose-weight/) - If you want to lose the pounds, have an early dinner and an early breakfast the following morning. An early dinner gives the body enough time to burn off the calories, and also extends the time you’re fasting, a new study has discovered. But skipping breakfast completely, and fasting for around 17 hours before you - [Doctor said you don’t have long to live? He’s probably wrong](https://www.wddty.com/news/doctor-said-you-dont-have-long-to-live-hes-probably-wrong/) - If the doctor has told you that you don’t have long to live, take the prognosis with a pinch of salt—they’re wrong half the time, a new study has discovered. Researchers have discovered that half the patients who were given six months to a year to live confounded their doctors’ expectations. A 10-year study reviewed - [California bans smartphones in schools](https://www.wddty.com/news/california-bans-smartphones-in-schools/) - California is banning the use of smartphones in schools; it is the fourteenth US state to ban, or limit the use of, the phones in the classroom. School boards in California have until July 2026 to develop a policy that prohibits the use of smartphones on campus. The move follows growing evidence that the phones - [Gum disease could kickstart neck cancer](https://www.wddty.com/news/gum-disease-could-kickstart-neck-cancer/) - Bacteria in the mouth could be causing head and neck cancer. Around a dozen types of bacteria in the mouth could increase the chances of the cancers by around 50 percent, say researchers from NYU Langone Health. The bacteria are associated with periodontal disease, serious gum infection that can eat away at the jawbone and - [Vegetarians: add fish to your diet when you get old](https://www.wddty.com/news/vegetarians-add-fish-to-your-diet-when-you-get-old/) - It isn’t just about what you eat—it’s also when, in your life, you eat it. Vegetarians generally live longer and healthier lives than meat-eaters, but that benefit disappears in older age, say researchers from Loma Linda University Health in California. In old age, adding fish to a mainly vegetarian diet helps you live longer, and - [Concentrate—sugary fruit juices raise stroke risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/concentrate-sugary-fruit-juices-raise-stroke-risk/) - Read the label: many ‘healthy’ fruit juices are anything but, and they could be bad for your brain. Fruit juices that are made from concentrates and added sugars and preservatives increase the risk of stroke by around 37 percent, and the risk triples when you drink two or more of them a day. Women are - [Most Americans are eating their way to cancer](https://www.wddty.com/news/most-americans-are-eating-their-way-to-cancer/) - Most Americans are eating a diet that can cause heart disease and cancer. Around 60 percent consume a diet that is primarily made up of processed food and sodas that increase levels of inflammation, say researchers from Ohio State University. They analysed the diets of 34,500 people who participated in the National Health and Nutrition - [Mother’s milk protects the baby’s gut](https://www.wddty.com/news/mothers-milk-protects-the-babys-gut/) - A mother’s breast milk can protect her baby against rotavirus, a gastrointestinal infection that causes diarrhea, vomiting and fever. Babies whose mothers had high levels of antibodies in their breast milk were able to fend off infection far longer than infants whose mothers had lower levels, researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Centre have - [Moderna offers £1,500 to children to test its Covid mRNA vaccine](https://www.wddty.com/news/moderna-offers-1500-to-children-to-test-its-covid-mrna-vaccine/) - Drug company giant Moderna offered cash inducements to children to test its mRNA Covid-19 booster jab. Children as young as 12 were offered £1,500 each to participate in the company’s NextCove trial of its booster vaccine through WhatsApp messages. When an ethics committee questioned the large sums being offered, Moderna reduced the inducement to £185. - [Med diet slows cognitive decline by up to seven years](https://www.wddty.com/news/med-diet-slows-cognitive-decline-by-up-to-seven-years/) - Eating a Mediterranean diet of fruits and vegetables could slow cognitive decline by as much as seven years. A new study has assessed the impact of the MIND diet—a modification of the Mediterranean diet—on the risk of dementia. Strangely, the diet seemed to benefit women but not men, researchers from the University of Cincinnati’s College - [AI beats doctors to reduce death in the wards](https://www.wddty.com/news/ai-beats-doctors-to-reduce-death-in-the-wards/) - An AI (artificial intelligence) system has reduced the rate of unexpected death in a hospital ward by up to 26 percent. 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Researchers from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Barcelona wanted to find out why it works only for some patients, and not - [Women really do have ‘baby brain’ when they become pregnant](https://www.wddty.com/news/women-really-do-have-baby-brain-when-they-become-pregnant/) - ‘Baby brain’ is a real thing—women’s brains do change during pregnancy. Cortical gray matter—the wrinkly outer part of the brain—decreases as hormone levels rise when a woman becomes pregnant, researchers from the University of California at Santa Barbara have discovered. The loss isn’t necessarily a bad thing, the researchers say, and it could indicate a - [IBS? Just cut out the sugars and starch](https://www.wddty.com/news/ibs-just-cut-out-the-sugars-and-starch/) - If you suffer from IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), you may have been recommended the FODMAP diet. But there’s another diet that isn’t so restrictive and is easier to follow—and it’s more effective. FODMAP stands for fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols, which are short-chain carbohydrates that are poorly absorbed by the small intestine. They are found in - [Blackcurrants reduce osteoporosis risk after menopause](https://www.wddty.com/news/blackcurrants-reduce-osteoporosis-risk-after-menopause/) - Osteoporosis, or bone weakening, is one of the biggest worries for women after they’ve gone through the menopause—but there’s a simple and inexpensive way to combat it. Blackcurrant supplements protect the bones after the menopause, keeping them strong and reducing the chances of fracture. Taking two 392 mg supplements a day is enough to combat - [The veritas about vino](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-veritas-about-vino/) - Science writer and broadcaster and regular WDDTY contributor Tony Edwards, who published his book The Good News about Booze in 2013, didn’t plan to write another book about alcohol, let alone wine. 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Scientists have been observing the self-medicating habits of western lowland gorillas in Gabon that regularly eat the bark of four native plant species that are - [How antibiotics mess up the gut](https://www.wddty.com/news/how-antibiotics-mess-up-the-gut/) - We all know antibiotics can mess with our gut—and now scientists have discovered how it happens. The drugs wreck the gut’s mucus barrier, a protective shield that stops unwanted bacteria from reaching the intestinal lining. Once bacteria get through the mucus barrier, they can trigger inflammatory responses that can be precursors to a range of - [Experts still ignore nutrition to prevent dementia](https://www.wddty.com/news/experts-still-ignore-nutrition-to-prevent-dementia/) - A major review body into dementia has been accused of ‘bad science’ for ignoring nutrition—and especially high doses of the B vitamins and omega-3 fish oils—as a way to prevent the condition. 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Brain imagery has revealed the positive effects the meditation has on neural patterns and areas that control pain, researchers from the University of California at San Diego have discovered. People who meditated reported significant reductions in the intensity of their pain, and their positive - [More than half the world malnourished—and that includes the wealthy West](https://www.wddty.com/news/more-than-half-the-world-malnourished-and-that-includes-the-wealthy-west/) - More than half the world is malnourished—and that includes people living in the wealthy nations of the West. People are not consuming enough micronutrients that sustain health, a major review of 185 countries has discovered. Most people have low levels of around 15 micronutrients, including calcium, iron and vitamins C and E, and the level - [Peeing when you don’t want to? Try yoga](https://www.wddty.com/news/peeing-when-you-dont-want-to-try-yoga/) - Gentle yoga exercises can combat urinary incontinence in older women. It can reduce embarrassing incidents—such as bed wetting—by as much as 65 percent. Women who followed a 12-week programme of low-impact exercise, yoga or stretching and strengthening, reported big improvements in rates of incontinence. Researchers from Stanford Medicine tested the two types of exercise on - [Cases of dementia that could be reversible](https://www.wddty.com/news/cases-of-dementia-that-could-be-reversible/) - Some cases of dementia may be reversible—because they aren’t dementia at all. Dementia is defined as an inexorable decline of cognitive powers, but in at least 16 percent of cases the symptoms are caused by liver disease. 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Health agencies such as the World Health Organization recommend that we do up to 300 minutes a week of moderate exercise—that’s around 42 minutes a day—but - [Weight loss drugs increase risk of suicide—if you’re also taking an antidepressant](https://www.wddty.com/news/weight-loss-drugs-increase-risk-of-suicide-if-youre-also-taking-an-antidepressant/) - Taking a weight loss drug with an antidepressant could be a lethal combination. Together, the drugs increase the risk of suicide and having suicidal thoughts, a major new study has discovered. Up to 88 percent of people taking Ozempic (semaglutide) along with an antidepressant had suicidal thoughts, and 6.5 percent had attempted suicide, researchers from - [The wonder Alzheimer’s drug that isn’t](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-wonder-alzheimers-drug-that-isnt/) - The ‘wonder drug’ for Alzheimer’s disease probably isn’t. 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Dr Peter McCullough, chief scientific officer with the Wellness Company in Florida, says that three natural substances—nattokinase, bromelain and curcumin—can work together to help the body clear the spike protein from cells and tissues. - [People in vegetative state still respond to simple commands](https://www.wddty.com/news/people-in-vegetative-state-still-respond-to-simple-commands/) - People who’ve suffered severe brain injury still know what’s going on. Even though they may be in a coma or even a vegetative state, they can understand and follow simple commands. 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The thymus is an important organ in our immune response, and yet it shrinks as we get older and stops producing T lymphocytes, white blood cells that combat pathogens and eliminate cells that start to become cancerous. It’s a - [Why you need to keep magnesium levels high](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-you-need-to-keep-magnesium-levels-high/) - Keep your magnesium levels high. The mineral helps ward off chronic disease and protects your DNA. Magnesium keeps in check levels of homocysteine, an amino acid that damages our genes and makes us more susceptible to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, gastrointestinal problems, a range of cancers and diabetes. We need to be consuming more than - [Why Americans don’t live as long as Australians](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-americans-dont-live-as-long-as-australians/) - Americans have a thing or two to learn from Australians when it comes to living a long life: their counterparts Down Under are outliving them by an average of five years. In fact, Americans had a shorter life than any of the six English-speaking nations—the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand—that researchers - [Turbocharge your yoghurt breakfast with honey](https://www.wddty.com/news/turbocharge-your-yoghurt-breakfast-with-honey/) - If you want to turbocharge your gut-friendly yoghurt at breakfast, add a dollop of honey. The honey will sweeten the yoghurt, and it will also boost its probiotic cultures, according to two studies carried out by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Adding honey to the morning yoghurt is traditional in the Mediterranean, and the researchers - [Cancer is now a disease of the young](https://www.wddty.com/news/cancer-is-now-a-disease-of-the-young/) - Cancer is no longer a disease of the elderly, it’s now affecting more and more young people. More millennials—people aged between 28 and 43—are developing cancers that were once the preserve of the elderly. The same phenomenon is being seen in the previous Generation X, which covers those born between 1965 and 1980. Seventeen of - [It’s a nightmare if you don’t meet people](https://www.wddty.com/news/its-a-nightmare-if-you-dont-meet-people/) - Get out and meet people—or you might have nightmares. Lonely people seem to have more bad dreams and nightmares than people who are more social, researchers have found. Spending a lot of time alone can raise your stress levels, and you could worry more about problems, say researchers from Oregon State University. All this worry - [Seaweed gives your nervous system a boost](https://www.wddty.com/news/seaweed-gives-your-nervous-system-a-boost/) - Eat more seaweed or take supplements—your nervous system may thank you one day. Seaweed contains antioxidants, known as Ecklonia cava polyphenols, that support neuron activity and dopamine, a neurotransmitter that controls motor skills and cognitive function. The supplements can also protect against Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative disease that’s triggered by the loss of dopamine, say - [A high risk for diabetes? Healthy diet switches off the genes](https://www.wddty.com/news/a-high-risk-for-diabetes-healthy-diet-switches-off-the-genes/) - Type 2 diabetes is a very preventable disease, even in people who have ‘bad genes’. There are 76 gene variants that raise the risk of diabetes—but a healthy diet and exercise can switch them off, new research has established. People with the variants have the same risk of developing diabetes as those without the genetic - [How to be biologically younger than your actual age](https://www.wddty.com/news/how-to-be-biologically-younger-than-your-actual-age/) - Your physical age is one thing—but your biological can be something different, and it’s the more important of the two. Our biological age can be years younger than our actual age, and that’s the result of a healthy life, and especially a good diet that’s rich in vitamins and minerals, and low in sugar. Sugar - [NSAIDs can be killer drugs for around 20 percent of arthritis sufferers—but they’re still prescribed them](https://www.wddty.com/news/nsaids-can-be-killer-drugs-for-around-20-percent-of-arthritis-sufferers-but-theyre-still-prescribed-them/) - If you develop osteoarthritis, your doctor will automatically prescribe an NSAID (non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory) painkiller. But around one in five people shouldn’t be given the drug because they can suffer dangerous reactions, a new study has discovered. They could also be prescribed opioids, which have a high risk of addiction. 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The biggest risk in older age is social isolation—which increases our risk by around 5 percent—and - [Don’t doomscroll—it just makes you anxious](https://www.wddty.com/news/dont-doomscroll-it-just-makes-you-anxious/) - Stop doomscrolling—it’s messing with your mental wellbeing, not surprisingly perhaps. Doomscrolling is when we scroll through traumatic news on social media sites, and it’s something most of us do—and it’s very addictive, say researchers from Flinders University. It doesn’t do us any good. 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Researchers - [Daily exercise could help beat breast cancer](https://www.wddty.com/news/daily-exercise-could-help-beat-breast-cancer/) - Daily exercise of just 30 minutes could boost a woman’s chances of beating breast cancer. Exercise increases the level of white blood cells that kill tumours, as well as viruses and bacteria, say researchers from the University of Turku in Finland. In particular, exercise increases cytotoxic T cells and natural killer cells. The researchers tested - [Take supplements to slow failing eyesight](https://www.wddty.com/news/take-supplements-to-slow-failing-eyesight/) - Older people whose eyesight is starting to fail should start taking supplements. Antioxidant supplements and minerals can slow the progress of dry AMD (age-related macular degeneration), a common sight problem as we get older. Researchers from the National Eye Institute assessed the effects of the daily supplements on 1,209 AMD sufferers, and discovered they slowed - [Your pooping habits tells you a lot about your health](https://www.wddty.com/news/your-pooping-habits-tells-you-a-lot-about-your-health/) - How often do you poop? It may not be a subject we like to talk about, but the number of times a day we go to the toilet is an indicator of our overall health and can even affect our wellbeing. Researchers at the Institute for Systems Biology asked a group of healthy people about - [Cancer is often a lifestyle disease](https://www.wddty.com/news/cancer-is-often-a-lifestyle-disease/) - We’re frightened of getting that dreaded cancer diagnosis—but the disease is often avoidable. Nearly half of all cancers among the over-30s are the direct result of a poor lifestyle—such as cigarette smoking, being overweight or obese, drinking too much alcohol, and eating a diet of processed food. Poor lifestyle choices are responsible for 713,000 new - [Who’s afraid of holes? Pretty much everyone](https://www.wddty.com/news/whos-afraid-of-holes-pretty-much-everyone/) - What scares you the most? High places? Spiders? No, it’s holes. Trypophobia—a fear of small holes clustered together in a pattern, such as in honeycombs, sunflowers, and fruit containing small seeds, such as strawberries and kiwis—is the most searched phobia. Every month, more than 500,000 Americans carry out a web search for the phobia, according - [An alcohol mouthwash could increase GI cancer risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/an-alcohol-mouthwash-could-increase-gi-cancer-risk/) - Using an alcohol-based mouthwash, such as Listerine, could increase the risk of gastro-intestinal (GI) cancers. Although the mouthwash is supposed to cleanse the mouth and gums, it encourages the growth of common oral bacteria that are associated with periodontal disease, and oesophageal (gut) and colorectal cancers. Researchers from the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Belgium - [Parkinson’s starts in the gut](https://www.wddty.com/news/parkinsons-starts-in-the-gut/) - Parkinson’s disease—which affects the nervous system and our movement—could start in the gut, and can be treated by taking B vitamin supplements. The disease starts and progresses because the gut is losing its ability to process vitamins B2 and B7, say researchers from Nagoya University in Japan. A reduction in the bacteria in the gut - [Blood oranges are good—but keep them cool](https://www.wddty.com/news/blood-oranges-are-good-but-keep-them-cool/) - Oranges are good—but blood oranges are even better for your health, just as long as you keep them in a cool place. The oranges are rich in anthocyanins, flavonoid chemicals that give dark fruit their colour and are good for heart health—and storing them in a cool environment of between 40 degrees F (4 degrees - [Loneliness is an unrecognised cause of stroke](https://www.wddty.com/news/loneliness-is-an-unrecognised-cause-of-stroke/) - Loneliness could be a major cause of stroke in older people. Those who were always alone or felt isolated from others are around 56 percent more likely to suffer a stroke, say researchers from T H Chan School of Public Health. They analysed data on more than 12,000 people over the age of 50 registered - [Tattoos increase cancer risk—a little](https://www.wddty.com/news/tattoos-increase-cancer-risk-a-little/) - A tattoo increases your chances of lymphoma, a cancer of the blood—but it’s nowhere near as risky as the media is suggesting. It can raise the risk by 21 percent, and the risk increases if you have another tattoo within two years, researchers from Lund University in Sweden have calculated. In one of the biggest - [How fasting kills cancer](https://www.wddty.com/news/how-fasting-kills-cancer/) - Fasting can help kill cancer. It reprograms the immune system’s ‘natural killer’ (NK) cells to combat cancer’s spread, and it also starves cancer cells of the nutrients they need to grow. Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre have discovered in lab tests how fasting kickstarts the NK cells into action. NK cells are - [Animal testing is cruel—and pointless](https://www.wddty.com/news/animal-testing-is-cruel-and-pointless/) - Animal testing is cruel and pointless, with just 5 percent of drugs tested on animals ever getting approval, new research has discovered. Every drug regulator demands that new pharmaceutical agents are tested on animals for their safety before they are given to small groups of people—but they tell us surprisingly little, researchers at the University - [High-dose vit C makes your hair healthier](https://www.wddty.com/news/high-dose-vit-c-makes-your-hair-healthier/) - High-dose vitamin C can reduce hair loss and make your hair healthier. Taking 2000 mg of the vitamin every day for three months reduces hair loss by more than a third and can even help hair regrow. Researchers from Princeton Consumer Research tested Altrient Liposomal Vitamin C sachets on a group of 15 women, aged - [Why you should use a wooden chopping board](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-you-should-use-a-wooden-chopping-board/) - We’ve all become more conscious of viruses since Covid, but using more wood in our lives—such as swapping the plastic chopping board for a wooden one—reduces transmission. Wood contains natural antiviral qualities that quickly kill viruses. Pine is the most effective, and starts killing the virus after just five minutes, researchers from the American Chemical - [Walk your back pain away](https://www.wddty.com/news/walk-your-back-pain-away/) - If you often suffer from back pain, bed rest is one of the worst things you can do. Instead, going for a gentle stroll five times a week improves the problem, and reduces the chances of it coming back. Low back pain that doesn’t have an obvious cause is a common scourge and around 70 - [Internet addiction is changing the brains of the young](https://www.wddty.com/news/internet-addiction-is-changing-the-brains-of-the-young/) - Internet addiction is changing the brains of adolescents, a new study has found. Regions of the brain are being altered and neural networks are also rewiring, say researchers from University College London. These changes can increase the risk of further addictive behaviour. The researchers analysed 12 previously published studies that used brain imaging technology to - [Start drinking beetroot juice after the menopause](https://www.wddty.com/news/start-drinking-beetroot-juice-after-the-menopause/) - If you’ve just gone through the menopause, start drinking a glass of beetroot juice every day—it could keep your cardiovascular system healthy. Women are at a much higher risk of heart disease after the menopause because the sudden drop in estrogen also causes nitric oxide levels to fall, and it’s essential for keeping the heart - [Xylitol increases risk of heart attack and stroke](https://www.wddty.com/news/xylitol-increases-risk-of-heart-attack-and-stroke/) - Xylitol—the sugar substitute in cakes, sweets and toothpastes—can increase the risk of heart attack and stroke. The sugar alcohol ingredient that’s added to processed food as a ‘healthy’ alternative causes blood to clot, say researchers from Cleveland Clinic. They analysed more than 3,000 people in the US and Europe for three years and discovered that - [Veggie burgers increase heart risk—a little bit](https://www.wddty.com/news/veggie-burgers-increase-heart-risk-a-little-bit/) - Eating a veggie burger increases your risks of heart disease—but only slightly. Vegans and vegetarians who regularly eat meat-free sausages and burgers are up to 15 percent more likely to develop cardiovascular disease (CVD) than someone who only eats vegetables. These ready meals are ultra-processed, and so come with a health risk, warn researchers from - [No, doctors are still not being taught nutrition](https://www.wddty.com/news/no-doctors-are-still-not-being-taught-nutrition/) - Doctors still aren’t learning about nutrition at medical school. Although weight gain and BMI (body-mass index) have been added to the syllabus, good nutrition is at the heart of health and yet is getting hardly a mention, say researchers from the University of Georgia. Instead, doctors are only being taught about weight gain and techniques - [Sadness and depression could be down to a bad diet](https://www.wddty.com/news/sadness-and-depression-could-be-down-to-a-bad-diet/) - Feeling sad? It may not be anything to do with something that’s happened—it could just be down to a poor diet. A diet of processed food can affect the brain, and this can bring on feelings of sadness, anxiety and depression. Researchers at the University of Reading have studied the effects of a diet of - [3 million excess deaths could be caused by Covid vaccines](https://www.wddty.com/news/3-million-excess-deaths-could-be-caused-by-covid-vaccines/) - There have been 3 million ‘excess deaths’ around the world since the Covid epidemic—and researchers are suspecting the experimental vaccines could be partly to blame. They are asking governments to investigate why so many more people than expected are dying, a trend that has carried on after the epidemic ended. Researchers from Vrije University in - [Cardiologist lodges legal testament for the vaccine-damaged to use in claims](https://www.wddty.com/news/cardiologist-lodges-legal-testament-for-the-vaccine-damaged-to-use-in-claims/) - Leading cardiologist Aseem Malhotra has lodged a testimony about the dangers of the Covid-19 vaccines that others can use as evidence if they are seeking damages after being harmed by one of the vaccines. In his testimony, which has been lodged in the Helsinki District Court, Dr Malhotra cites research that demonstrates that the vaccine - [Fasting is one of the best ways to lose weight](https://www.wddty.com/news/fasting-is-one-of-the-best-ways-to-lose-weight/) - Intermittent fasting is one of the best ways to lose weight. It helps restore the ‘good’ bacteria in the gut that reduce inflammation and break down food. Researchers from Arizona State University put 41 obese people on an intermittent fast for eight weeks, which was made up of days of calorie-restriction and normal eating. By - [Forgetting things? Try eating a pomegranate](https://www.wddty.com/news/forgetting-things-try-eating-a-pomegranate/) - If you are forgetting things or struggling to find the right word, start eating pomegranate. The fruit contains the compound urolithin A, and this can help improve memory and ward off symptoms of cognitive decline that are usually associated with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, say researchers from the University of Copenhagen. Strawberries and walnuts also - [Matcha tea can reverse gum disease](https://www.wddty.com/news/matcha-tea-can-reverse-gum-disease/) - Matcha tea can keep gum disease at bay. It can combat the bacteria in the mouth that can cause periodontitis, an inflammatory gum disease that can cause tooth loss, and even diabetes, heart disease, arthritis and cancer. In laboratory tests, the tea extract had killed most of the P. gingivalis bacteria that causes periodontitis, and - [A Mediterranean diet wards off dementia](https://www.wddty.com/news/a-mediterranean-diet-wards-off-dementia/) - The Mediterranean diet isn’t just good for you, it’s good for your brain, too, and can keep you mentally sharp into old age. People who follow the diet have all the nutritional biomarkers, including fatty acids, that slow cognitive decline. Researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln tested the effectiveness of the diet on brain - [Plant-based diet could slow breast cancer](https://www.wddty.com/news/plant-based-diet-could-slow-breast-cancer/) - Eating a healthy wholefoods and plant-based diet could help women with breast cancer. The diet reduces levels of IGF-1, a growth factor that helps cancers spread and raises inflammation levels. It also helps the women lose weight and improves metabolic markers, say researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Centre. Thirty women with stage 4 - [12 percent of US children have ADHD](https://www.wddty.com/news/12-percent-of-us-children-have-adhd/) - Nearly 12 percent of children in the US have been diagnosed with ADHD—and more than half are given a drug to control the symptoms. Cases have risen by more than a million in just six years, and 7.1 million children—one in nine children or 11.4 percent—had been diagnosed with the condition up to 2022. Nearly - [Feed your baby peanuts to avoid life-threatening allergy](https://www.wddty.com/news/feed-your-baby-peanuts-to-avoid-life-threatening-allergy/) - Treat like with like—the cornerstone of homeopathy could be used to reduce peanut allergy in children. Feeding children up to the age of five with small amounts of peanut could reduce the extent of the life-threatening allergic response by as much as 71 percent. Parents have been warned not to give peanuts to their babies, - [How light therapy heals brain injury](https://www.wddty.com/news/how-light-therapy-heals-brain-injury/) - Light therapy can help heal brain injuries—and it could also be harnessed as a treatment for PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), depression and autism. Low-level light therapy restores connections in the brain following traumatic injury, say researchers who have tested it on 38 patients whose cognition had been affected, and damage was visible on scans. The - [Why heat therapies could treat depression](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-heat-therapies-could-treat-depression/) - Depressed people have higher body temperatures—suggesting that heat therapies can help ease the problem. The therapy forces the body to modulate to a lower core temperature, and this seems to relieve the symptoms. Body heat is determined by the severity of the depression, and those with greater depression also had a higher body temperature, researchers - [Why you shouldn’t have life support switched off so quickly](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-you-shouldnt-have-life-support-switched-off-so-quickly/) - It’s a decision nobody should have to face—but if you’re asked to switch off life support for a loved one, think twice. Families of victims with severe traumatic brain injury are often asked for their permission to switch off life support within 72 hours—but up to 40 percent of patients could have recovered sufficiently to - [Dementia can be prevented with one simple vitamin](https://www.wddty.com/news/dementia-can-be-prevented-with-one-simple-vitamin/) - Up to 80 percent of cases of dementia could be prevented just by taking a simple supplement. Taking B vitamins can mop up excess levels of homocysteine, an amino acid that can attack the arteries, says Food for the Brain, a charity that helps people maintain cognitive function into old age. Taking omega-3 fats from - [Common antibiotic that can be a killer](https://www.wddty.com/news/common-antibiotic-that-can-be-a-killer/) - A common antibiotic that is routinely used in hospitals can sometimes be a killer. Zosyn (piperacillin/tazobactam) is usually given to patients with sepsis, a life-threatening autoimmune response to infection—but researchers have found that it raises the chances of death and organ failure by 5 percent. Doctors discovered its dangers only when supplies of the antibiotic - [There’s no one-size-fits-all for our vitamin D dose](https://www.wddty.com/news/theres-no-one-size-fits-all-for-our-vitamin-d-dose/) - We all know we need to top up on our vitamin D levels, especially if we’re living in the West—but how much do we need? Researchers at Trinity College Dublin say one size doesn’t fit all: the dose depends on our body-mass index (BMI) and age. For instance, as we get older, our body doesn’t - [The bad diet eaters die younger](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-bad-diet-eaters-die-younger/) - Want to live a long life? Then don’t consume processed meats and drinks—they increase the risk of a premature death. Regularly eating processed meats, such as sausages or ham, raises the risk of an early death by 13 percent, and drinking sugary drinks by 9 percent. Researchers from Harvard University tracked the health and diets - [Fasting reverses liver disease—and a bad diet](https://www.wddty.com/news/fasting-reverses-liver-disease-and-a-bad-diet/) - Intermittent fasting can reverse liver disease. The 5:2 fast—where you don’t eat, or eat only small amounts, two days a week—is the most effective to halt fatty liver disease, a chronic condition that can lead to cirrhosis and even liver cancer. It’s invariably the result of an unhealthy diet, but it can be reversed by - [AstraZeneca pulls its Covid vaccine after damage claims](https://www.wddty.com/news/astrazeneca-pulls-its-covid-vaccine-after-damage-claims/) - AstraZeneca has pulled its Covid-19 vaccine after admitting in court papers that it could cause life-threatening blood clots. The company said it was withdrawing its Vaxzevria vaccine from the global market for commercial reasons, but critics believe the decision was made after it attracted mounting legal claims, including from families of 81 Britons who died - [AstraZeneca admits its Covid jab causes life-threatening blood clots](https://www.wddty.com/news/astrazeneca-admits-its-covid-jab-causes-life-threatening-blood-clots/) - AstraZeneca has finally admitted its Covid vaccine can cause life-threatening blood clots. It made the admission in papers presented to a coroner’s court that was investigating the death of a 28-year-old man, Alex Reid, who died from a blood clot on the brain after receiving a second Covid jab. The coroner recorded the death as - [How a keto diet supercharges prostate cancer treatment](https://www.wddty.com/news/how-a-keto-diet-supercharges-prostate-cancer-treatment/) - A keto diet could supercharge prostate cancer treatment. Immunotherapy is becoming the treatment of choice for the cancer, but it’s not very effective. But start eating a low-carb, high-fats ketogenic diet at the same time you’re having the treatment, and the results are startling. The combination ‘cured’ 23 percent of sufferers—which means they were completely - [Eggs and nuts are the ultimate brain food](https://www.wddty.com/news/eggs-and-nuts-are-the-ultimate-brain-food/) - Choline—the nutrient in eggs, vegetables, meat, nuts and beans—is the ultimate brain food. It is essential for healthy brain development, including cell regeneration and signalling between neurons. We need to be consuming around 500 mg of choline every day to support our brain, say researchers from the University of Queensland. Choline is like a transporter - [A healthy diet and a healthy brain](https://www.wddty.com/news/a-healthy-diet-and-a-healthy-brain/) - You are what you eat—and that’s especially true about our mental health. People who eat a healthy diet that’s low in processed foods have better brain health, cognitive function and mental wellbeing, a major new research study has found. They even have more ‘grey matter’ which is thought to be a representation of intelligence. Researchers - [Cranberries are the super food for the gut](https://www.wddty.com/news/cranberries-are-the-super-food-for-the-gut/) - Be kind to your gut—and one of the best ways is with cranberry supplements. They counter the inflammatory effects of the standard Western diet that can lead to diabetes and heart disease. Taking two supplements a day—equivalent to 60 g of fresh cranberries—restores the ‘good’ bacteria in the gut, reduces gut inflammation and strengthens the - [Magic mushrooms are the way to treat depression](https://www.wddty.com/news/magic-mushrooms-are-the-way-to-treat-depression/) - Magic mushrooms really can treat depression, as yet another medical study has confirmed. Psilocybin—the active ingredient in more than 200 varieties of fungi—can have a mind-altering effect after just one session and could be more effective than antidepressant drugs. Older people and those with a life-threatening health condition could especially benefit from psilocybin, say - [Why you shouldn’t take antibiotics for a persistent cough](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-you-shouldnt-take-antibiotics-for-a-persistent-cough/) - If you have a persistent cough, don’t take antibiotics—even if there is a bacterial infection. It’s a routine prescription for a cough, but it doesn’t reduce its duration or severity, say researchers at Georgetown University Medical Centre. Doctors often assume a cough—a lower tract infection—is the result of a bacterial infection, and so hand - [Treat IBS with diet changes—not drugs](https://www.wddty.com/news/treat-ibs-with-diet-changes-not-drugs/) - If you suffer from IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), don’t bother with the drugs—they don’t work. Instead, a more effective approach is a change of diet, say researchers at the University of Gothenburg. Several dietary approaches were tested against the best medication for some of IBS’s worst symptoms on a group of around 300 IBS sufferers. - [Slow cancer by speeding it up](https://www.wddty.com/news/slow-cancer-by-speeding-it-up/) - Don’t try this at home—but one researcher is trying to knock out cancer by encouraging it to grow and spread. Medicine is focused on inhibiting cancerous cells, but medical researcher Matheus dos Santos Dias at the Netherlands Cancer Institute believes a better approach is to overstimulate them and then exhaust them. It’s a little like - [Is chemical intolerance a driver of the autism epidemic?](https://www.wddty.com/news/is-chemical-intolerance-a-driver-of-the-autism-epidemic/) - Is there a link between the epidemic of autism and ADHD (attention deficit, hyperactivity disorder) and pollutants in the environment? Parents with a chemical intolerance are 5.7 times more likely to have a child with autism compared to those who don’t have any intolerance. They are also twice as likely to have an ADHD child. - [Chemical cosh drugs are far more dangerous than everyone thought](https://www.wddty.com/news/chemical-cosh-drugs-are-far-more-dangerous-than-everyone-thought/) - ‘Chemical cosh’ antipsychotics—drugs that subdue dementia patients in care homes and hospitals—are far more dangerous than everyone thought. The drugs increase the risk of stroke, heart attack, heart failure, fractures and acute kidney injury, and nobody seemed to know it. Although it’s common knowledge the drugs are dangerous and were supposed to be used sparingly, - [If you’re a woman, don’t drink too much booze](https://www.wddty.com/news/if-youre-a-woman-dont-drink-too-much-booze/) - Drinking too much alcohol isn’t good for any of us, but it’s particularly bad for women. Women who drink eight or more glasses of alcohol a week are much more likely than men to develop coronary heart disease. Both men and women increase their risk of heart problems if they ‘binge drink’—heavy drinking in one - [Why you should cut back on eating shellfish](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-you-should-cut-back-on-eating-shellfish/) - Eating fish is good for us—but you can have too much of a good thing. People who eat a lot of seafood—and especially shellfish and lobster—could have high levels of PFAS, human-made toxins that are known as ‘forever chemicals’ because the body can’t shed them. Although we don’t yet know what effects PFAS could have - [Why you need to check your home for radon gas](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-you-need-to-check-your-home-for-radon-gas/) - It’s worth checking your home for levels of radon, an odourless gas that is emitted from the breakdown of radioactive material that may lie beneath your property—and here’s why. Although we think of lung cancer as ‘the smoker’s disease’, up to 20 percent of cases happen to people who have never smoked—and scientists suspect they - [Take supplements to reverse ageing process, say researchers](https://www.wddty.com/news/take-supplements-to-reverse-ageing-process-say-researchers/) - Antioxidants slow the ageing process, as we know—but researchers have now seen them in action. They gave laboratory mice an antioxidant supplement, and saw how it significantly improved their spatial cognition, short-term memory, and muscle strength. Antioxidants such as vitamins C and E combat cell damage that is at the heart of the ageing process, - [Beta blockers not helping half of heart attack survivors](https://www.wddty.com/news/beta-blockers-not-helping-half-of-heart-attack-survivors/) - Beta blockers are routinely prescribed after a heart attack—but they are doing nothing for half the patients. Heart attack survivors are being lulled into a false sense of security by the drugs, which are actually doing nothing to protect them from a second heart attack, say researchers from Lund University in Sweden. Not only are - [PSA test for prostate cancer doing more harm than good](https://www.wddty.com/news/psa-test-for-prostate-cancer-doing-more-harm-than-good/) - The standard prostate cancer screening test is doing more harm than good, a new study has found. The PSA (prostate-specific antigen) test is producing false-positives—‘seeing’ a cancer that’s not there—in one in six screenings, or around 17 percent of the time. Not only is the test producing high numbers of false-positives, but it’s also missing - [Pfizer fined 0.00005% of revenues for marketing unlicensed Covid jab](https://www.wddty.com/news/pfizer-fined-0-00005-of-revenues-for-marketing-unlicensed-covid-jab/) - Drugs giant Pfizer has been fined a paltry £34,800 for marketing its Covid jab before it had been licensed. The fine represents just 0.00005% of Pfizer’s 2021 revenues, which mainly came from the experimental mRNA vaccine. The UK’s Prescription Medicine Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA) imposed the fine and accused Pfizer of “bringing discredit” on - [Sugar rush? No, sugar causes depression](https://www.wddty.com/news/sugar-rusk-no-sugar-causes-depression/) - Some consume sugar as a guilty pleasure to get an instant boost—but it could be doing the very reverse. New research has discovered that sugar increases the chances of depression, and for every 100g of sugar we consume a day, we raise the risk by 28 percent. Overall, major sugar consumers were a third more - [Check your eye drops—they could contain a superbug](https://www.wddty.com/news/check-your-eye-drops-they-could-contain-a-superbug/) - If you’re using eye drops, check the label—it could be contaminated with a ‘superbug’. Batches of AaCarb, Aacomer and Puroptics drops—all manufactured by Indiana Ophthalmics in India—contain an antibiotic-resistant bug that could be lethal in someone who is immuno-compromised. One person in the UK has died after using the drops, and around 50 more have - [ADHD drugs can weaken the heart](https://www.wddty.com/news/adhd-drugs-can-weaken-the-heart/) - Young people taking ADHD (attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder) medication are at risk of developing cardiomyopathy, or a weakened heart muscle. ADHD stimulants such as Adderall and Ritalin increase the risk by 17 percent in the first year and by 57 percent if they are taken for eight years or longer. Researchers at the University of Colorado - [ChatGPT better than doctors at diagnosing](https://www.wddty.com/news/chatgpt-better-than-doctors-at-diagnosing/) - ChatGPT, the AI (artificial intelligence) bot, is better than doctors at diagnosing health conditions. It outperformed a group of interns and physicians in processing medical data and demonstrating clinical reasoning. In each of the three stages of diagnosis—triage, system review and physical exam—the bot achieved the highest marks when it was pitted against 21 physicians - [Keto diet better than drugs for schizophrenia and bipolar](https://www.wddty.com/news/keto-diet-better-than-drugs-for-schizophrenia-and-bipolar/) - A keto diet can help improve the symptoms of serious mental problems, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. The low-carb diet can be more effective than powerful drugs, researchers from Stanford Medical have discovered, improving symptoms by around 30 percent. The researchers recruited 21 people with schizophrenia or bipolar who were already taking antipsychotic drugs, - [Birth control pills raise brain tumour risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/birth-control-pills-raise-brain-tumour-risk/) - Birth control pills could increase the chances of a rare form of brain tumour. Longterm use of birth control drugs that include human progestogen increase the risk of meningioma by up to five times, a new study has found. This means that for every 10,000 women who are aged 30 on birth control, around 40 - [Covid vaccines for sale to the young and healthy](https://www.wddty.com/news/covid-vaccines-for-sale-to-the-young-and-healthy/) - Covid-19 vaccines are being made available over-the-counter to anyone over the age of 12 who doesn’t qualify for a free booster shot. The UK is trialling the scheme in 50 pharmacies who will be operating a private vaccination service, costing £99 a shot. The experimental Pfizer mRNA vaccine is available at 50 outlets of Boots - [Younger people are dying in rich countries—but why?](https://www.wddty.com/news/younger-people-are-dying-in-rich-countries-but-why/) - Why are younger people suddenly starting to die—even in wealthy countries? There’s been a steep increase in the rate of deaths in the 25 to 44 age group in the US—and it’s even outstripping rates in countries in Central and Eastern Europe, which was recording high rates of working-age mortality in the 1990s. Compared to - [A keto diet keeps your memory sharp](https://www.wddty.com/news/a-keto-diet-keeps-your-memory-sharp/) - A keto diet could reduce your chances of developing Alzheimer’s disease. The high-fats, low-carbs diet helps the body produce a molecule that combats early memory decline, one of the early warning signs of Alzheimer’s. Levels of the molecule, beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB), increase seven-fold when people eat the diet. Researchers at the University of California at Davis - [Antidiabetes drug in pregnancy harms the baby](https://www.wddty.com/news/antidiabetes-drug-in-pregnancy-harms-the-baby/) - Metformin is routinely given to women suffering from diabetes during pregnancy—but the drug could be harming the unborn child. It’s known the drug passes through the placenta, but nobody was sure what affect this was having on the growing fetus. Researchers from the German Institute of Human Nutrition have discovered the drug interferes with brain - [An avocado a day is the start to a healthy diet](https://www.wddty.com/news/an-avocado-a-day-is-the-start-to-a-healthy-diet/) - An avocado a day can play a key role in making your diet healthier. It’s a great substitute for refined grains and sodium—and people who eat one for breakfast seem to make healthier food choices throughout the day, say researchers from Penn State’s Department of Nutritional Sciences. Only 2 percent of Americans regularly eat an - [Coffee could keep Alzheimer’s at bay](https://www.wddty.com/news/coffee-could-keep-alzheimers-at-bay/) - Coffee and fenugreek—the plant used in Asian cooking—can help maintain muscle mass and strength as we get older. They contain compounds that counter sarcopenia, a condition where muscles weaken as we age. Trigonelline, which is in coffee and fenugreek, increases levels of the co-enzyme NAD+, vital for metabolism and DNA repair, and improves activity of - [Microplastics linked to Alzheimer’s disease](https://www.wddty.com/news/microplastics-linked-to-alzheimers-disease/) - Microplastics in the environment could be a cause of Alzheimer’s disease and heart problems, including stroke. Although we can’t be sure of the damage that microplastics and nanoplastics are doing to our health, new research fears they could be linked to a wide range of chronic problems. Scientists at the University of Health Sciences - [Why we need to be eating more fibre](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-we-need-to-be-eating-more-fibre/) - We’re not eating enough fibre—and our guts are suffering, Fibre, which we get from vegetables and whole grains, is the starting point for a healthy gut microbiome, the universe of bacteria that controls our health. Fibre is cellulose, but bacteria that breaks it down are disappearing from the gut in industrialized countries, where fibre-rich diets - [How a healthy diet slows your biological clock](https://www.wddty.com/news/how-a-healthy-diet-slows-your-biological-clock/) - A healthy diet slows down your biological clock. You age slower and you’re less likely to develop dementia. Although it’s not news that a healthy diet—essentially the Mediterranean diet with little or no processed food—is good for us, scientists haven’t measured its impact on our body’s markers of the ageing process. A research team from - [Walk 10,000 steps? No, make that 2,000](https://www.wddty.com/news/walk-10000-steps-no-make-that-2000/) - Walk 10,000 steps a day to live longer; no, make that just 2,000 steps. In the same week, two separate studies have come up with wildly different step counts needed to live longer and reduce the risk of chronic health problems such as heart disease. Researchers from the University of Sydney say that walking up - [Apple cider vinegar really does help you lose weight](https://www.wddty.com/news/apple-cider-vinegar-really-does-help-you-lose-weight/) - Want to lose a little belly fat? Try sipping a splash of apple cider vinegar every day—this age-old remedy really does work, scientists have confirmed. It will help you lose weight and reduce your BMI (body-mass index) score, your waist measurement, and the waist-to-hip ratio—and those changes can be seen after drinking the vinegar for - [Why mushrooms are a superfood](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-mushrooms-are-a-superfood/) - Mushrooms are one of the great superfoods—and scientists are a step closer to understanding their secret. They’ve isolated a powerful antioxidant—known as Inaoside A—from a variety of Laetiporus cremeiporus mushrooms, commonly known as sulphur shelf or chicken of the woods. The mushrooms typically grow on tree trunks and roots. Scientists from Shinshu University in China - [Why you should put lettuce in the fridge](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-you-should-put-lettuce-in-the-fridge/) - Put lettuce in the fridge—the cold air will help kill off any nasty bugs on the leaves. Lettuce has often been the culprit when there’s been an outbreak of foodborne illness; its leaves are natural homes for pathogens such as E.coli, a common cause of food poisoning. Any form of lettuce—romaine, green-leaf, spinach, kale and - [Seven-day fast triggers dramatic changes throughout the body](https://www.wddty.com/news/seven-day-fast-triggers-dramatic-changes-throughout-the-body/) - Fasting for seven days has a dramatic impact on every part of the body, but major changes aren’t seen until after the first three days. The benefits go way beyond weight loss, and a fast achieves a whole-body response, including major changes to all the major organs. Even neurons in the brain are affected. The - [CBD is a safe alternative to killer anti-anxiety drug](https://www.wddty.com/news/cbd-is-a-safe-alternative-to-killer-anti-anxiety-drug/) - An anti-anxiety drug has become one of the most dangerous prescription medications in the UK as doctors try to tackle the ongoing fallout from the Covid lockdowns. It’s estimated that around 8 million Britons are living with some anxiety disorder since the Covid pandemic. The death rate from Pregabalin—marketed as Lyrica—increased a hundred-fold in the - [Ginseng could be better than drugs to treat osteoporosis](https://www.wddty.com/news/ginseng-could-be-better-than-drugs-to-treat-osteoporosis/) - Female ginseng is a popular remedy in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for osteoporosis—and it really does work. Scientists have identified two compounds in female ginseng (Angelica sinensis) that can combat osteoporosis, a bone-weakening condition that becomes more common as we get older. Researchers from the American Chemical Society isolated the two compounds and tested - [Say something sweet when we sleep to stop our heart racing](https://www.wddty.com/news/say-something-sweet-when-we-sleep-to-stop-our-heart-racing/) - Does your heart race when you’re asleep? Try getting someone (or something) to say some calming words, and it should slow down. Although we may be in deep sleep, our body is still aware of its environment and responds to stimuli. To test the theory, researchers from the University of Liege spoke calming, and neutral - [Red light therapy could combat diabetes](https://www.wddty.com/news/red-light-therapy-could-combat-diabetes/) - Red light therapy can give your energy a boost, and reduce the levels of sugars in your blood, suggesting it could be used by people with type 2 diabetes or are pre-diabetic. LED red light stimulates our mitochondria, the power houses in our cells, which also makes them more efficient consumers of glucose, or blood - [10,000 steps? 3000 could be enough by the time we hit 60](https://www.wddty.com/news/10000-steps-3000-could-be-enough-by-the-time-we-hit-60/) - We have to keep moving, especially as we get older—but we don’t have to hit the mythical 10,000 steps-a-day mark to stay healthy. Walking just over 3,000 steps every day by the time you reach 60 is enough to reduce the risk of heart failure by 26 percent, researchers have discovered. The risk starts to - [Covid jabs increase risk of heart and neurological disorders](https://www.wddty.com/news/covid-jabs-increase-risk-of-heart-and-neurological-disorders/) - The Covid-19 vaccines have been linked to a significant increase in heart, blood and neurological disorders, according to a new study that has tracked 99 million vaccinated people. People who have had one of the main Covid jabs—made by Pfizer, Moderna or AstraZeneca—are much more likely to suffer from a serious health problem, including a - [The cheat’s way to fast—and it works](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-cheats-way-to-fast-and-it-works/) - We all know fasting is something we should be doing every so often—it’s good for us and kickstarts our immune system—but it’s just so difficult to fit into our busy lives. For reluctant fasters, the solution could be the FMD, or fasting-mimicking diet, and it gives us all the health benefits of a real fast. - [Microplastics detected in the placenta](https://www.wddty.com/news/microplastics-detected-in-the-placenta/) - Microplastics are everywhere—even in the human placenta. Tiny particles of microplastics have been detected in all 62 placenta samples tested by researchers at the University of Mexico Health Sciences Centre. Polyethylene—used to make plastic bags and bottles—was the most common polymer detected in the samples, and it made up 54 percent of all the plastics - [Processed food, the new silent killer](https://www.wddty.com/news/processed-food-the-new-silent-killer/) - Life expectancy in the US has dropped for the first time in over a century, and it’s down to a new ‘silent killer’. No, it’s not heart disease anymore, it’s processed food. Around 60 percent of the average American’s diet contains additives and chemicals that the human body has never encountered before and has no - [The best diet for the menopause](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-best-diet-for-the-menopause/) - What’s the best diet to get through the menopause? Eat more protein and fewer carbs, a new research study maintains. The key is to lose a little weight, and this makes typical menopausal symptoms more bearable. Losing five kilograms can reduce the severity of hot flashes by as much as 30 percent, say researchers from - [Fortified food increase heart disease risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/fortified-food-increase-heart-disease-risk/) - Fortifying foods such as flour, cereal and oats with niacin (vitamin B3) could be causing heart disease—the very thing the practice is supposed to be preventing. Food manufacturers add niacin to their produce to help lower cholesterol levels, but researchers have discovered a mechanism from an excess of the nutrient that triggers cardiovascular disease. When - [Women can exercise less than men for the same health benefits](https://www.wddty.com/news/women-can-exercise-less-than-men-for-the-same-health-benefits/) - Great news for women (for once)—they can exercise less often than men and still get the same benefits, especially when it comes to heart health. Men need to exercise for 300 minutes a week to achieve maximum health benefits—but women reach the same level after just 140 minutes. The exercises were ‘moderate to vigorous’ and - [You don’t need drugs to sleep well at night](https://www.wddty.com/news/you-dont-need-drugs-to-sleep-well-at-night/) - The elderly don’t need to turn to drugs to get a good night’s sleep. A simple set of activities that take just an hour to carry out every day can improve the quality of sleep at night, especially for elderly people who may be suffering from memory problems or depression. The protocol—known as the Healthy - [A better way to clean your contact lens](https://www.wddty.com/news/a-better-way-to-clean-your-contact-lens/) - A natural antibacterial that’s already being used to combat malaria could soon be cleansing your contact lens. Hydroquinine, an organic compound in tree bark, kills almost all bacteria that accumulates on the contact lens, and protects against microbial keratitis, a serious infection that can cause permanent sight loss. Most solutions on the market aren’t so - [You can’t outrun the health risks of cola drinks](https://www.wddty.com/news/you-cant-outrun-the-health-risks-of-cola-drinks/) - You can’t run off a sugar-laden cola drink. People who think they can ‘exercise out’ the effects of sugary drinks are just kidding themselves, say researchers. Drinking two or more cola drinks a week raises your risk of heart disease—irrespective of the amount of exercise you do. Exercise can offset some of the harm - [Depressed? Sniff your way to happier thoughts](https://www.wddty.com/news/depressed-sniff-your-way-to-happier-thoughts/) - If you’re suffering from depression, perhaps you can sniff your way to happier thoughts. Using a scent that helps depressed remember better and recall happier times could be an untapped way to ease depression, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh are suggesting. Familiar scents work better than words to help people recall a specific event, - [Sandalwood can combat prostate cancer](https://www.wddty.com/news/sandalwood-can-combat-prostate-cancer/) - Sandalwood oil could combat prostate cancer and stop it spreading. The oil is usually used as a perfume for soaps and candles, but it also has cancer-fighting properties, especially against prostate cancer, a new study has discovered. It can help prevent the cancer and slow its spread once it has been diagnosed, and it may - [Why rheumatoid arthritis sufferers should start taking fish oils](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-rheumatoid-arthritis-sufferers-should-start-taking-fish-oils/) - If you have rheumatoid arthritis (RA), start taking omega-3 fish oils. The supplements combat atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, which is common in RA sufferers. The fish oils contain a molecule, RvT4, that boosts our body’s ability to reduce localised inflammation and remove blockages in the blood vessels, say researchers from Queen Mary University - [Depressed? Then you need to chill—quite literally](https://www.wddty.com/news/depressed-then-you-need-to-chill-quite-literally/) - Lowering your body temperature could ease bouts of depression, new research suggests. People with depression tend to have a higher temperature, and one that doesn’t self-regulate and cool down, say researchers at the University of California at San Francisco. They analysed data from more than 20,000 participants from 106 countries who wore a device that - [Food preservatives could be messing with our gut](https://www.wddty.com/news/food-preservatives-could-be-messing-with-our-gut/) - Common preservatives in processed food could be messing with your gut—and that could lead to bigger health problems. Preservatives that are usually listed in small print on food labels—such as sodium benzoate, calcium propionate and potassium sorbate—could be upsetting the delicate balance of bacteria in our gut microbiome. These preservatives are called ‘lantibiotics’—a portmanteau term - [Ginkgo biloba counters brain damage after a stroke](https://www.wddty.com/news/ginkgo-biloba-counters-brain-damage-after-a-stroke/) - If you’ve suffered a stroke, start taking ginkgo biloba. The herb can speed recovery and repair cognitive problems, especially following ischemic stroke, the type that is caused by a blood clot in the brain. It’s routinely given to stroke victims in China, especially by TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) practitioners who recognize its antioxidant qualities - [Feed your brain if you have PCOS, women told](https://www.wddty.com/news/feed-your-brain-if-you-have-pcos-women-told/) - As if they didn’t have enough to worry about, women with PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome)—a hormonal disorder that causes irregular periods—should be looking to bolster their mental health. Researchers have found a link between PCOS and cognitive decline, which includes memory and thinking problems that may start in middle-age. PCOS may not cause cognitive decline, - [Try kimchi to get rid of the belly fat](https://www.wddty.com/news/try-kimchi-to-get-rid-of-the-belly-fat/) - Got a fat tum? Eating kimchi—fermented vegetables, such as cabbage—three times a day could get rid of it. The food counters belly fat, and three servings reduces levels of abdominal fat, say researchers from the Chung Ang University in South Korea. Regular kimchi eaters are 11 percent less likely to be overweight. The greatest effects - [Fasting reverses inflammation linked to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s](https://www.wddty.com/news/fasting-reverses-inflammation-linked-to-alzheimers-and-parkinsons/) - Inflammation is the key to many chronic health problems, including heart disease, diabetes and arthritis—but it can be countered by going on a fast. Fasting reduces inflammation levels in the body, and researchers at the University of Cambridge have studied its effects and come to an understanding of the biological mechanisms that happen when we - [Tomato juice counters Salmonella poisoning](https://www.wddty.com/news/tomato-juice-counters-salmonella-poisoning/) - Reach for the tomato juice if you have Salmonella poisoning. The juice is an unlikely antidote to the bacteria that can cause violent digestive reactions. It’s also effective against the deadly typhi strain that causes typhoid fever, say researchers from Cornell University. Tomatoes could be just as effective as tomato juice, the researchers discovered when - [A keto or vegan diet kick starts your immune system](https://www.wddty.com/news/a-keto-or-vegan-diet-kick-starts-your-immune-system/) - Coming down with too many colds? Switching to a vegan or keto diet can quickly boost your immune system, a new study has found. Major changes in immune responses happen after eating either diet for just two weeks, say researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the US. The diets triggered - [The EU bans amalgam fillings—but the US and UK hold back](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-eu-bans-amalgam-fillings-but-the-us-and-uk-hold-back/) - The European Union is set to ban the use of amalgam in dental fillings—but the UK is still digging in its heels and maintains that the material, which is 50 percent mercury, is safe. The UK and the US is out of step with many other countries in banning, or part banning, amalgam. Aside from - [Covid jab victims start £80m legal battle](https://www.wddty.com/news/covid-jab-victims-start-80m-legal-battle/) - Thirty-five people who suffered life-changing reactions to AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine are suing the company in what has been described as one of the biggest legal cases of its kind. Another 40 claims are expected to follow. The claims already amount to around £80 million in damages, and the figure is expected to rise dramatically. The - [Breast is best—and now we know why](https://www.wddty.com/news/breast-is-best-and-now-we-know-why/) - We all know breast is best for giving a baby a healthy start in life—and now scientists are a little closer to understanding why. It’s all to do with milk’s complement system, which is an immune-building component that protects babies from bacterial infection. Although these discoveries have been made with laboratory mice, researchers say human - [A multivitamin is a ‘no-brainer’ when it comes to mental health](https://www.wddty.com/news/a-multivitamin-is-a-no-brainer-when-it-comes-to-mental-health/) - Taking a multivitamin every day can ‘significantly’ improve memory and slow cognitive ageing—and it should be taken by older people who are worried about dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. The supplement can make your brain two years younger, say researchers in the Cosmos (Cocoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study) trial. A multivitamin, containing around 20 essential - [Three cups of tea a day keep you young](https://www.wddty.com/news/three-cups-of-tea-a-day-keep-you-young/) - Drinking three cups of tea every day can slow biological ageing. Regular tea-drinkers are ageing slower than non-tea drinkers, at least according to the standard biological markers such as blood pressure levels, cholesterol, and their body-fat ratio. And these markers start to accelerate when they stopped drinking tea. Researchers at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China - [Mindfulness is better than drugs for relieving IBS symptoms](https://www.wddty.com/news/mindfulness-is-better-than-drugs-for-relieving-ibs-symptoms/) - No, IBS (irritable bowel disorder) isn’t all in the mind, despite what some doctors still maintain—but mindfulness meditation can relieve some of the symptoms. Any therapy that improves mood, such as mindfulness or ‘talking therapies’ like CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy), seems to reduce inflammation by around 20 percent. IBS conditions such as Crohn’s disease and - [Feeling menopausal? Take a cold-water plunge](https://www.wddty.com/news/feeling-menopausal-take-a-cold-water-plunge/) - Women are going for an outdoors swim in cold water to relieve their menopausal symptoms—and according to one survey, it works. The women have said that the severity of typical symptoms such as hot flushes, anxiety, mood swings and brain fog has halved after a dip in freezing water. Although the women reported immediate improvement - [Eating vegetables reduces your chances of catching Covid](https://www.wddty.com/news/eating-vegetables-reduces-your-chances-of-catching-covid/) - People who eat plenty of vegetables are up to a third less likely to catch Covid-19. Vegetarians and vegans are the best protected, but anyone whose diet is mainly made up of vegetables, legumes and nuts also reduces their chances of catching the Covid virus. Scientists from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil think - [Antipsychotics double the chances of a fatal heart attack](https://www.wddty.com/news/antipsychotics-double-the-chances-of-a-fatal-heart-attack/) - Two of the world’s most prescribed antipsychotics double the chances of a fatal heart attack. Seroquel (quetiapine) and Haldol (haloperidol)—which are prescribed to treat schizophrenia and psychosis—causes serious, and sometimes fatal, heart problems in around 10 percent of patients. It’s been known for more than 30 years that antipsychotics can cause heart problems, and several - [Why fasting improves longevity and brain health](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-fasting-improves-longevity-and-brain-health/) - Fasting—or restricting the calories in your diet—seems to improve your health and help you live longer, but scientists have only recently discovered why it has such a positive impact. It all seems to be do with a gene, OXR1, that influences longevity and brain health. Although fasting may affect the gut, it’s also helping genes - [HRT raises rheumatoid arthritis risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/hrt-raises-rheumatoid-arthritis-risk/) - Why do so many middle-aged women develop rheumatoid arthritis (RA)? Women are three times more likely to develop the condition—and researchers have identified a series of risk factors, including HRT (hormone replacement therapy), and starting menopause early. 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The group’s co-founder Charlet Crichton said, “We very - [One bottle of water has around 240,000 plastic fragments](https://www.wddty.com/news/one-bottle-of-water-has-around-240000-plastic-fragments/) - A typical litre bottle of water could contain up to 240,000 plastic fragments. This latest estimate is up to 100 times greater than scientists had reckoned back in 2018—but nobody has a clue what this could be doing to our health. Scientists at Columbia Climate School tested three popular brands of bottled water and discovered - [The area of the brain that’s key to a long life](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-area-of-the-brain-thats-key-to-a-long-life/) - One area of the brain is the key to a long and healthy life. Scientists have identified the hypothalamus—the control centre that keeps everything in balance—as the part of the brain that can help us live longer, and they’ve seen in experiments with laboratory mice what can happen if it starts to malfunction. People with - [Doctors really don’t know best](https://www.wddty.com/news/doctors-really-dont-know-best/) - Doctors don’t always know best—even if they still think they do. Too many doctors are paternalistic and don’t listen to patients’ concerns about their symptoms, a survey of 676 patients and 400 doctors discovered. The patients said they felt ‘degraded and dehumanised’, according to researchers from the University of Cambridge, who carried out the survey, - [Aspirin is making it more difficult to get pregnant](https://www.wddty.com/news/aspirin-is-making-it-more-difficult-to-get-pregnant/) - Women who want to get pregnant should check out the levels of phthalates they’re exposed to—and that includes the drugs they’re taking. Phthalates are chemicals that are found in household products, such as shampoo, makeup, vinyl flooring and toys, and from drugs such as aspirin. Phthalates are endocrine disruptors which interfere with our hormones—and make - [A new wound healer—and it includes seaweed](https://www.wddty.com/news/a-new-wound-healer-and-it-includes-seaweed/) - Hydrogels have become the standard for wound healing—but there’s a real problem with them. They absorb fluids from the wound while keeping it protected, hydrated and oxygenated, but they can stretch and expand the wound, causing pain and increasing the risk of bacterial infection. Now, researchers from Tokyo University of Science have come up with - [How breastfeeding makes your baby smart](https://www.wddty.com/news/how-breastfeeding-makes-your-baby-smart/) - Breastfeeding helps a baby develop a healthy gut—and that improves brain development, too. A breastfed baby could even score higher marks in tests by the time it is a child, say researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Mothers who can’t breastfeed all the time can still help their baby if they occasionally breastfeed - [A yoga that helps sleep and mental powers](https://www.wddty.com/news/a-yoga-that-helps-sleep-and-mental-powers/) - Yoga nidra—a guided meditation while the person is lying down—improves our mental abilities, and even creates a better quality of sleep. The meditation can start having dramatic effects after just two weeks, and even for those who have never tried it before. A small group of volunteers had their cognitive skills measured before and after - [Americans are snacking an extra meal every day](https://www.wddty.com/news/americans-are-snacking-an-extra-meal-every-day/) - One of the golden rules for weight loss is never to snack—but the average American is consuming up to a quarter of his daily calorie intake from sugary treats between meals. An average American adult is eating around 500 calories a day from unhealthy snacks alone, and that’s often more than he’ll consume for breakfast. - [Flaxseed could reduce breast cancer risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/flaxseed-could-reduce-breast-cancer-risk/) - Add some flaxseed to your daily diet and you could reduce your risk of breast cancer. Flaxseed includes lignans, compounds that help the gut communicate with mammary gland RNA and stop breast cells proliferating and migrating, a process that’s needed for cancer to start and spread. As with almost every disease, breast cancer starts in - [Is MS another name for B12 deficiency?](https://www.wddty.com/news/is-ms-another-name-for-b12-deficiency/) - Is multiple sclerosis (MS) another name for B12 deficiency? There are a lot of similarities between the two—a B12 deficiency produces MS-like symptoms, such as numbness or tingling in the hands and feet, vision loss, walking problems, slurring words and cognitive issues such as memory loss. The vitamin, also known as cobalamin, is essential for - [Too much ‘good’ cholesterol raises dementia risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/too-much-good-cholesterol-raises-dementia-risk/) - You can have too much of a good thing—assuming you believe there is such a thing as ‘good’ and ‘bad’ cholesterol. People who have too much HDL (high-density lipoprotein) cholesterol—the ‘good’ sort—are much more likely to develop dementia in older age. People who are 75 and older with high levels run a 42 percent increased - [Cocoa supplements ward off dementia](https://www.wddty.com/news/cocoa-supplements-ward-off-dementia/) - Start taking cocoa supplements to ward off cognitive decline and dementia—especially if you are eating a poor diet. A 500mg cocoa extract supplement slows the loss of cognitive functions, such as memory and problem solving, but the benefits have been seen only in people who have an unhealthy diet. People who eat healthily don’t - [Even more bad news about processed food](https://www.wddty.com/news/even-more-bad-news-about-processed-food/) - In case you didn’t get the memo, processed foods are bad for you—and new research has added to the bad news by discovering they can also cause throat and mouth cancers. Every extra serving of processed food increases the risk of head and neck cancers by 23 percent, and esophageal cancer by 24 percent, say - [Heat up those coffee grounds to reduce Alzheimer’s risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/heat-up-those-coffee-grounds-to-reduce-alzheimers-risk/) - Don’t throw away the coffee grounds after you’ve had your breakfast cup—they might help ward off neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntingdon’s diseases. The grounds contain compounds that protect brain cells, especially if they’re being damaged by obesity, age and pesticides. Specifically, caffeic acids in coffee grounds have small carbon nanoparticles known as - [What’s good for your hair may be bad for the lungs](https://www.wddty.com/news/whats-good-for-your-hair-may-be-bad-for-the-lungs/) - Be careful what you put on your hair. Oils and gels may make it shiny, but it may not be doing any favours to your lungs. Popular hair products often contain VOCs (volatile organic compounds) that quickly evaporate and can be inhaled. The heat from styling tools that straighten or curl the hair can increase - [Antibiotics increase sepsis risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/antibiotics-increase-sepsis-risk/) - Sepsis—the life-threatening condition that happens when the immune system over-reacts to an infection—has been linked to antibiotics. People who have taken the drug in the past year are 70 percent more likely to develop sepsis, and those who have taken four or more courses have triple the risk. The drugs interfere with the bacteria in - [Psychedelics ease depression after just one session](https://www.wddty.com/news/psychedelics-ease-depression-after-just-one-session/) - Psychedelics can ease depression and anxiety and improve cognitive function—and they can have a big impact on PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) after just one session. A group of 86 Army vets with PTSD reported major improvements in their symptoms after they were given a mix of two psychedelic substances at a Mexico clinic. The - [Give your kids sprouts for a healthy gut](https://www.wddty.com/news/give-your-kids-sprouts-for-a-healthy-gut/) - Give your kids plenty of broccoli sprouts—they’ll thank you later, or at least their guts will. Eating sprouts and other cruciferous vegetables will reduce the risk of IBD (inflammatory bowel disease), colitis and Crohn’s disease. The diet helps the body produce sulforaphane, an anti-inflammatory metabolite, that protects against the worst symptoms of gut disorders, such - [Pregnant women should take high-dose vitamin D to reduce child’s asthma risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/pregnant-women-should-take-high-dose-vitamin-d-to-reduce-childs-asthma-risk/) - Women should be taking high-dose vitamin D supplements to reduce the chances of their child developing asthma and wheezing. Supplementing can halve the risk, especially in women with a family history of asthma and allergy, say researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital. They recommend pregnant women take up to 150mg of the vitamin every day, - [Children given CT scan have a higher risk of blood cancers](https://www.wddty.com/news/children-given-ct-scan-have-a-higher-risk-of-blood-cancers/) - Young people who have a CT (computed tomography) scan have a much greater risk of developing blood cancers later. One scan triples the risk of myeloid and lymphoid cancers, but that was at the higher ionising radiation dose of 100 mGy (milligray) which used to be routinely given. Today, typical CT scans emit around 8 - [The pill’s blood clot risk disappears after a month](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-pills-blood-clot-risk-disappears-after-a-month/) - The contraceptive pill triples the risk of dangerous blood clots—but the dangers disappear in just four weeks after women stop taking it, new research has discovered. The pill causes blood clots in 10 out of every 10,000 women taking it, but it had never been calculated just how long the risk remained after women stop - [Hot yoga combats depression](https://www.wddty.com/news/hot-yoga-combats-depression/) - If you suffer from depression, try a few sessions of hot yoga. It could halve the severity of symptoms, especially if you suffer from moderate to severe depression, a new research study has discovered. Hot, or Bikram, yoga takes place in a room heated to around 105 degrees F (40 degrees C). Taking part in - [Why toddlers need to eat plenty of fruit and vegetables](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-toddlers-need-to-eat-plenty-of-fruit-and-vegetables/) - Babies and toddlers need to be eating plenty of fruit and vegetables to give their immune system the start it needs and boost ‘good’ bacteria in the gut. Parents should be making the foods central to the diets of their children for at least the first three years, say researchers from Graz University of Technology. - [Quarter of Americans know someone who died from a Covid vaccine](https://www.wddty.com/news/quarter-of-americans-know-someone-who-died-from-a-covid-vaccine/) - A quarter of Americans say they know someone who died from reactions to one of the Covid-19 vaccines. Another 7 percent say they aren’t sure if the vaccine was responsible for the death of a family member, friend or colleague. Polling group Rasmussen Reports surveyed 1110 Americans about Covid and vaccines, and 42 percent also - [Statins increase dementia risk as they target brain-protecting fats](https://www.wddty.com/news/statins-increase-dementia-risk-as-they-target-brain-protecting-fats/) - Cholesterol-lowering statins could be increasing our risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and cognitive decline, especially as we get older. The drugs reduce levels of triglycerides, a lipid or type of fat that protects the brain. Low levels of the fat double the risk of dementia, researchers from Monash University in Australia discovered when they - [Cut down on red meat to reduce your diabetes risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/cut-down-on-red-meat-to-reduce-your-diabetes-risk/) - Cut down on the red meat you’re eating, and you could also be reducing your risk of type 2 diabetes. Eat meat just twice a week and instead eat more plant-based proteins and you’ll lower your diabetes risk by 30 percent, say researchers from Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health. They assessed the - [‘Baby broccoli’ packs a big health punch, too](https://www.wddty.com/news/baby-broccoli-packs-a-big-health-punch-too/) - Everyone knows about the health benefits of broccoli, but the vegetable’s ‘baby’ offshoot—broccoli sprouts—also pack a health punch. They are full of polysulfides, compounds that reduce the risk of diabetes, heart disease and cancer. But don’t eat the sprouts straight away; let them germinate for five days and their polysulfide content increases 20-fold, say researchers - [Tai Chi slows Parkinson’s progress](https://www.wddty.com/news/tai-chi-slows-parkinsons-progress/) - Tai Chi—the ‘slow motion’ exercise from China—can combat the worst symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and slow its progress. PD patients who practise the exercise for around four years improve their motor skills and have fewer symptoms than non-exercisers. Researchers from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine in China have tested the merits - [Israel’s Covid vaccine ‘poster boy’ dies from cardiac arrest, aged just 8](https://www.wddty.com/news/israels-covid-vaccine-poster-boy-dies-from-cardiac-arrest-aged-just-8/) - Israel’s ‘poster boy’ for the mRNA Covid-19 vaccine died suddenly last month, aged eight. Yonatan Moshe Erlichman suffered cardiac arrest on the eve of Yom Kippur and died several days later in hospital. Yonatan, the son and grandson of prominent Israeli doctors, appeared in a promotional video in 2020, urging Israelis to have the vaccination. - [Americans spend half their lives on prescription drugs](https://www.wddty.com/news/americans-spend-half-their-lives-on-prescription-drugs/) - Americans will spend half their lives taken prescription drugs. The average American male will be on drugs for 48 percent of his life, and this rises to 60 percent in American women. Most women start taking drugs from the age of 15, while men begin medicating from the age of 40, say researchers from Penn - [Cutting your calorie intake just a little has a big impact](https://www.wddty.com/news/cutting-your-calorie-intake-just-a-little-has-a-big-impact/) - Cutting back on your calorie intake by as little as 12 percent every day could have a big impact on your longevity and health. 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It boosts the power of neutrophil white blood cells and makes them more resistant to inflammatory processes known as NETosis (neutrophil extracellular trap), say researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. They gave 20mg ginger supplements to healthy volunteers - [Nearly half of people who ‘died’ had a near-death experience](https://www.wddty.com/news/nearly-half-of-people-who-died-had-a-near-death-experience/) - Around 40 percent of people have reported having lucid experiences and heightened awareness while they were ‘dead’. 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Gum disease—known as periodontitis—causes areas of the brain to shrink, and researchers suspect it could be a trigger for Alzheimer’s disease. Gum inflammation and tooth loss are linked to shrinkage in the hippocampus region of the brain, which is - [Batches of Covid-19 vaccines were a placebo, scientists suspect](https://www.wddty.com/news/batches-of-covid-19-vaccines-were-a-placebo-scientists-suspect/) - Scientists suspect that most batches of the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA Covid-19 jabs that were used in European Union (EU) countries were a placebo—in other words, they were useless and didn’t protect anyone against the virus. Scientists were alerted after discovering that around 800,000 doses of the vaccine that were used in Denmark caused fewer than 2000 - [Diet Coke sweetener could cause cancer](https://www.wddty.com/news/diet-coke-sweetener-could-cause-cancer/) - Aspartame, the artificial sweetener used in Diet Coke, Snapple drinks and NutraSweet, could cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization. The WHO is changing its classification of aspartame to ‘a possible carcinogen’ based on the findings of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). The IARC, the WHO’s cancer-research arm, reviews published studies - [HRT increases chances of Alzheimer’s after just a year](https://www.wddty.com/news/hrt-increases-chances-of-alzheimers-after-just-a-year/) - Women who take HRT (hormone replacement therapy) for just a year increase their risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s. They are 24 percent more likely to suffer from the disease later in life, researchers from Copenhagen University Hospital estimate. The researchers are the first to discover that short-term use of HRT—even for less than a year—increases - [High-dose vitamin D reduces heart attack risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/high-dose-vitamin-d-reduces-heart-attack-risk/) - Taking a high-dose vitamin D supplement every day reduces your risk of a heart attack and bypass surgery. Researchers have discovered that people who take 60,000 IUs of the vitamin a month—which is three times the RDA (recommended daily allowance)—reduce their chances of a heart attack by around 20 percent. They are also 11 percent - [Omega acids could slow progress of ALS](https://www.wddty.com/news/omega-acids-could-slow-progress-of-als/) - Omega-3 fatty acids could slow the progress of ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), a fatal neurodegenerative disease. Eating foods that are rich in the acids—including walnuts, canola oil, pumpkin seeds and flaxseed oil—could also help the sufferer live longer, say researchers from Harvard University. They monitored the impact of the acids on a group of 449 - [Native plants treat ataxia—and could help with epilepsy](https://www.wddty.com/news/native-plants-treat-ataxia-and-could-help-with-epilepsy/) - Simple plants used by Native Americans help treat ataxia, a range of conditions that affect co-ordination and mobility. Researchers from the University of California at Irvine are hopeful the plant extracts could also slow the development of epilepsy. They have been investigating the properties of nettle, bladderwrack kelp and Pacific ninebank, which are traditional medicinal - [New type of depression discovered—and it’s not helped by drugs](https://www.wddty.com/news/new-type-of-depression-discovered-and-its-not-helped-by-drugs/) - When it comes to depression, there’s no one-size-fits-all. 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Researchers from Monash University in - [A drink a day keeps heart attack and stroke at bay](https://www.wddty.com/news/a-drink-a-day-keeps-heart-attack-and-stroke-at-bay/) - Having one alcoholic drink a day could lower your stress levels—and reduce your risk of a heart attack, a new study has concluded. Light drinking—one glass of alcohol a day for women, and two for men—reduces stress signals from the brain, and this could explain why cardiovascular disease is less prevalent among moderate drinkers, say - [Pill raises risk of depression, especially in teenage girls](https://www.wddty.com/news/pill-raises-risk-of-depression-especially-in-teenage-girls/) - Around a quarter of women will suffer from depression—and an unsuspected cause could be the contraceptive pill. The pill increases the risk of depression by 130 percent if the woman starts taking the contraceptive when she’s a teenager, and by 92 percent in older women—and, overall, by 73 percent in the first two years or - [The best type of intermittent fasting](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-best-type-of-intermittent-fasting/) - Intermittent fasting comes in several shapes and sizes—but the most effective could be the time-restricted approach. It means eating your last meal early enough to allow for up to 14 hours without eating before having breakfast. It’s the diet that is most likely to reduce your chances of developing type 2 diabetes and improve your - [Keto diet starves cancer tumors—but at a price](https://www.wddty.com/news/keto-diet-starves-cancer-tumors-but-at-a-price/) - A low-carb keto diet can starve pancreatic and colorectal cancer tumours—but there’s no such thing as a free lunch, even when it comes to keto. The diet can also speed up cachexia, a lethal wasting disease, in the cancer patient, new research suggests. Cachexia is common in people with advanced cancers, and it can make - [Yoga could stop cancer spreading](https://www.wddty.com/news/yoga-could-stop-cancer-spreading/) - Gentle yoga could slow the spread of tumours in cancer patients and increase the chances of survival. Hatha yoga reduces inflammation, which is linked to tumour growth and spread. Just two 70-minute sessions started to reduce inflammatory markers in a group of 600 cancer patients, researchers from the University of Rochester discovered. High levels of - [Beetroot juice keeps your arteries healthy](https://www.wddty.com/news/beetroot-juice-keeps-your-arteries-healthy/) - Drinking a glass of beetroot juice can halve your risk of a heart attack if you’re already suffering from angina. Nitrates in the juice keep blood vessels clear and healthy, say researchers from St Bartholomew’s Hospital, who tested the drink on 300 angina patients who had a stent fitted to stop their arteries from closing. - [Covid virus manufactured in Wuhan as a bioweapon](https://www.wddty.com/news/covid-virus-manufactured-in-wuhan-as-a-bioweapon/) - The Covid-19 virus was manufactured in the Wuhan laboratories as part of a bioweapons programme funded by the Chinese military, a new investigation has discovered. Research into mutated bat viruses started around 2003 when the US’s National Institutes for Health began funding the programme, but research findings were kept secret from 2016 when Wuhan scientists - [Covid lockdowns saved 4000 lives—and not 2 million](https://www.wddty.com/news/covid-lockdowns-saved-4000-lives-and-not-2-million/) - Lockdowns during the Covid-19 epidemic saved just 1700 lives in the UK and 4000 in the US—a far cry from the 2.4 million deaths predicted to happen if we hadn’t locked down. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University have discovered that lockdowns—which had a devastating effect on people’s lives, education, businesses, and the economy—had a modest - [Taurine—the elixir of life that could help us live longer](https://www.wddty.com/news/taurine-the-elixir-of-life-that-could-help-us-live-longer/) - Taurine, an amino acid in meat, fish and eggs, could help us live for up to eight years longer. Our taurine levels naturally drop as we age—but boosting them through diet or supplements could increase our lifespan by around 10 percent, which could add seven to eight years to our life. Scientists from Columbia University - [Our protein needs change as we get older](https://www.wddty.com/news/our-protein-needs-change-as-we-get-older/) - How much protein should we be eating? That all depends on our age, a new study has concluded. When we reach middle age, a low-protein diet isn’t a good idea, and could cause fatty liver disease, while a diet that is made up of between 25 percent and 35 percent protein is better for young - [Long-haul air passengers exposed to cabin fumes that cause heart problems](https://www.wddty.com/news/long-haul-air-passengers-exposed-to-cabin-fumes-that-cause-heart-problems/) - Long-haul air passengers and crew are regularly exposed to ‘fume events’—where the cabin fills with fumes from engine oils—which can cause neurological, cardiac and respiratory problems, a new report has discovered. Although it’s been happening for 70 years, fume events are still not recognised by medicine and doctors haven’t prepared any treatments for sufferers, says - [One treatment bowel cancer sufferers don’t need to have](https://www.wddty.com/news/one-treatment-bowel-cancer-sufferers-dont-need-to-have/) - Bowel cancer patients go through a rigorous programme of chemotherapy and radiation before they undergo surgery—and much of it is unnecessary, a new study has found. Less could be more, and radiation can be dropped from the pre-op protocols without endangering the life of the patient. As radiation therapy can cause pelvic fractures and bladder - [Flavanols—the secret to staying sharp as we get older](https://www.wddty.com/news/flavanols-the-secret-to-staying-sharp-as-we-get-older/) - Flavanols, anti-inflammatory nutrients in vegetables and fruits, can reverse ‘cognitive aging’ and memory loss as we get older. Consuming around 500 mg of flavanols every day—the equivalent of drinking a cup of tea, and eating two servings of berries or apples, and six squares of dark chocolate—can reverse the neurological damage that can happen as - [ChatGPT will see you now for your scan](https://www.wddty.com/news/chatgpt-will-see-you-now-for-your-scan/) - ChatGPT has just passed the medical tests to become a radiologist. It got 81 percent of questions right—and sailed through the pass rate level of 70 percent. It was even able to correctly interpret imaging findings around 85 percent of the time, which suggests it had special radiology training. More worryingly, ChatGPT learns, and quickly. - [A healthy diet is cheaper than buying processed food](https://www.wddty.com/news/a-healthy-diet-is-cheaper-than-buying-processed-food/) - The idea that the Mediterranean diet is too expensive for most people to adopt has been laid to rest—in fact, it’s cheaper than the standard Western diet of processed food. People who follow the diet—which includes eating fresh vegetables and fruits, nuts, seafood and extra virgin olive oil—are spending $28 less every week on their - [Walking slows mental decline](https://www.wddty.com/news/walking-slows-mental-decline/) - Start walking if you’re worried about mental decline and Alzheimer’s disease. It can slow memory loss, and could even reduce the risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s, researchers say. Walking is even more important for people who are already starting to suffer mild cognitive decline, such as not being able to remember things or understand everything - [Exercise in the afternoon if you have diabetes](https://www.wddty.com/news/exercise-in-the-afternoon-if-you-have-diabetes/) - Exercising first thing in the morning is usually considered the best time to be active—but that’s not true if you suffer from type 2 diabetes. Diabetics who are active in the afternoon see the biggest drop in blood sugar levels, say researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The researchers wanted to know the most - [It’s healthier to be by the seaside](https://www.wddty.com/news/its-healthier-to-be-by-the-seaside/) - We all like to be by the seaside—and now scientists have discovered why: it’s better for our health. People who live near the sea are generally healthier, new research involving more than 15,000 people from 14 European countries has discovered. But don’t despair if you live miles from the coast. Visiting the seaside can also - [Take a multivitamin to slow memory loss](https://www.wddty.com/news/take-a-multivitamin-to-slow-memory-loss/) - Taking a multivitamin every day can slow memory loss once you’ve reached the age of 60. It’s possible the supplements even prevent memory loss, and people who take them every day could experience very little if any cognitive decline, although researchers would need to dig deeper to establish that. Right now, they know people who - [Manage your daily challenges in a more relaxed way](https://www.wddty.com/news/manage-your-daily-challenges-in-a-more-relaxed-way/) - There are lots of ways that experts suggest we can help to minimise life’s daily challenges and try and protect ourselves from stress, take a look at some here. - [Covid adviser takes top job with mRNA vaccine manufacturer](https://www.wddty.com/news/covid-adviser-takes-top-job-with-mrna-vaccine-manufacturer/) - The UK’s top health adviser during the Covid-19 pandemic, who sanctioned the purchase of the mRNA vaccines, has taken a top job with the drug’s manufacturer. 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Almost all the 60 drinks tested contained some metals, but five had levels that were far above safety guidelines, say researchers from Tulane University. Two mixed juices had large amounts of arsenic, and a cranberry juice, a mixed - [Towns block 5G masts until they’re proven to be safe](https://www.wddty.com/news/towns-block-5g-masts-until-theyre-proven-to-be-safe/) - Two towns in Massachusetts have blocked the installation of 5G cell towers until independent research has confirmed the new high-powered technology is safe. The US’s Federal Communications Commission has not acted on court orders issued in 2019 and 2021 to review its health and safety guidelines for RF (radiofrequency) exposure. Until the FCC carries out - [Don’t stress—it speeds up your internal clock](https://www.wddty.com/news/dont-stress-it-speeds-up-your-internal-clock/) - We biologically age when we’re stressed. Our biological age doesn’t always mirror our chronological age. 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Older people have been warned to eat less saturated fats as they’ve been linked to ‘bad’ HDL cholesterol, which is supposed - [Electro-sensitive at greater risk from 5G network](https://www.wddty.com/news/electro-sensitive-at-greater-risk-from-5g-network/) - People who are electro-sensitive could be especially affected by the superfast 5G mobile phone network. One woman, who had not been affected by 4G, has reported serious reactions after a 5G base station was installed 60 metres from her apartment. She has reported having headaches, fatigue, arrythmia, skin burning and nose bleeds. Lennart Hardell, from - [Covid vaccine interrupts the menstrual cycle](https://www.wddty.com/news/covid-vaccine-interrupts-the-menstrual-cycle/) - The Covid-19 vaccine disrupts the normal menstrual cycle in around 25 percent of vaccinated women. Irregular menstruation was the most common complaint, affecting around 43 percent of the 545 young women who were monitored, and increased menstrual symptoms were reported by 34 percent of them. Increased pain and cramping affected around one-third, and a similar - [Eating fruit reduces miscarriage risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/eating-fruit-reduces-miscarriage-risk/) - Eating plenty of fruit and vegetables every day dramatically reduces the risk of miscarriage. Women can reduce the risk by as much as 61 percent, researchers from the University of Birmingham have discovered. Conversely, women who eat a junk food diet of refined carbohydrates and processed meats double their risk of miscarriage. It’s all to - [Poor diet is the major cause of type 2 diabetes](https://www.wddty.com/news/poor-diet-is-the-major-cause-of-type-2-diabetes/) - More than 70 percent of new cases of type 2 diabetes are caused by a poor diet. Processed carbohydrates—including refined rice and wheat—are the biggest culprit and were responsible for most of the 14.1 million new cases reported around the world in 2018, say researchers from Tufts University. A poor diet—which also includes eating - [Yes, cranberry juice really does prevent UTIs](https://www.wddty.com/news/yes-cranberry-juice-really-does-prevent-utis/) - It’s not an urban myth after all: drinking cranberry juice really does prevent UTIs (urinary tract infections). Cranberries—either as a juice, supplements or capsules—can reduce the risk of a recurring UTI by as much as 53 percent, say researchers from the Cochrane Collaboration. Although a UTI can be treated with antibiotics, the infection often recurs, - [One thing you must do if you wear gel nail polish](https://www.wddty.com/news/one-thing-you-must-do-if-you-wear-gel-nail-polish/) - Wearing gel nail polish? 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The foods improve brain functioning—such as problem solving and memory—and help reduce stress, say researchers from University College Cork. Fermented foods contain tryptophan, amino acids that help produce serotonin, which are important messengers in the brain that - [Fasting may not be so good if you’re trying to conceive](https://www.wddty.com/news/fasting-may-not-be-so-good-if-youre-trying-to-conceive/) - There’s plenty of evidence to suggest intermittent fasting is a great way to reboot your health—but it’s not for everyone. The elderly should think twice before embarking on the diet, which restricts the time you eat, and it may also not be good for couples who are trying to conceive. 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Researchers from the University of Adelaide have discovered that intermittent - [Tackling the pain and inflammation of every day soft tissue injuries naturally but with clinical efficacy](https://www.wddty.com/news/tackling-the-pain-and-inflammation-of-every-day-soft-tissue-injuries-naturally-but-with-clinical-efficacy/) - Numerous clinical studies show that that 100% natural Traumeel® ointment and gel are as effective as topical NSAIDs for the treatment of pain and restoration of function associated with minor injuries. - [Psyllium protects the gut from IBD and Crohn’s](https://www.wddty.com/news/psyllium-protects-the-gut-from-ibd-and-crohns/) - Psyllium, a type of soluble fiber derived from the Plantago plant, can protect the gut from inflammation, such as in IBD (inflammatory bowel disease). Psyllium fiber activates bile acid that dampens inflammation in the gut, a common characteristic of IBD, say researchers from Georgia State University. They tested different types of fiber on laboratory mice. - [Young women three times more likely to die from heart problems after AstraZeneca Covid jab](https://www.wddty.com/news/young-women-three-times-more-likely-to-die-from-heart-problems-after-astrazeneca-covid-jab/) - Young women are three times more likely to die from heart problems after being given just one dose of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine. New statistics from the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveal the devastating effects of the jab on young females aged between 12 and 29, with cardiac deaths spiralling three and a - [US has highest death rates—despite spending the most on medical care](https://www.wddty.com/news/us-has-highest-death-rates-despite-spending-the-most-on-medical-care/) - Despite spending more on medicine than any other country, America has the highest death rates across all age groups. 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People who consume more than 550 mg of magnesium every day have a brain age that’s around one year younger by the time they reach the age of 55 compared to someone taking the recommended dose of 350 mg. - [MitoQ supplements reverse HIV organ damage](https://www.wddty.com/news/mitoq-supplements-reverse-hiv-organ-damage/) - The dietary supplement MitoQ can reverse damage to internal organs that’s caused by HIV (human Immunodeficiency syndrome) and the antiretroviral therapy (ART) to manage it. The supplement restores the healthy function of the mitochondria, the cell structures that regulate immune cells in organs such as the brain, heart, liver and kidneys. HIV triggers chronic inflammation - [New form of omega-3 protects against blindness](https://www.wddty.com/news/new-form-of-omega-3-protects-against-blindness/) - A form of omega-3 can protect against the most common causes of blindness. Commercially-available DHA omega-3 fish oils are great for almost every part of the body—except the eyes. They can’t travel from the bloodstream into the retina. Scientists at the University of Illinois have developed a new form of omega-3, which they call lysophospholipid - [How cancer starts](https://www.wddty.com/news/how-cancer-starts/) - Cancer is typically seen as a disease that is more likely to affect the elderly—and now scientists have figured out why. Cancerous cells don’t get the memo to die—and they somehow bypass inflammatory processes that would usually kill them off. But how do they do it? Researchers at the Salk Institute have discovered that cancer - [No, being obese doesn’t protect your heart](https://www.wddty.com/news/no-being-obese-doesnt-protect-your-heart/) - The ‘obesity paradox’—which suggests that people who are overweight have greater protection against serious heart problems—has finally been put to rest. The paradox comes about because the BMI (body mass index) score—routinely used to assess obesity—is inexact and misses key features such as the time someone has been obese and muscle mass. A better predictor - [Why women shouldn’t panic about the latest pill alarms](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-women-shouldnt-panic-about-the-latest-pill-alarms/) - Women have naturally been spooked by recent press reports that contraceptives such as the pill and coil raise the risk of breast cancer by 25 percent—but here’s why they shouldn’t panic. The increased risk seems alarming, and it makes for arresting headlines—but that’s not the true risk. Researchers from Oxford University have applied the measure - [Make nuts and seeds your snack for a healthier heart](https://www.wddty.com/news/make-nuts-and-seeds-your-snack-for-a-healthier-heart/) - Making nuts and seeds your go-to snack of the day will make your heart healthier. Eating a handful every day almost halves your risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), say researchers at the University of Oslo. A 30g (1 oz) serving every day seems to be the minimum amount needed to have a positive effect on - [Sweets rewire the brain](https://www.wddty.com/news/sweets-rewire-the-brain/) - Why do you keep reaching for sweets and processed foods when you know they’re bad for you? Foods and drinks that are high in sugars and fats change your brain and it ‘learns’ to expect them, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne have discovered. The brain starts to rewire itself - [Staying optimistic keeps you young](https://www.wddty.com/news/staying-optimistic-keeps-you-young/) - Staying optimistic and cheerful can help keep you fit and mentally sharp into old age. Researchers have discovered that people suffering from depression as they get older age faster. Their biological age is older than their actual age, and they are more likely to have worse heart health. Depression also raises the chances of high - [Lonely? Then go to a football game](https://www.wddty.com/news/lonely-then-go-to-a-football-game/) - It can be a bit of dilemma. To offset the harmful effects of loneliness, we’re encouraged to join social groups, such as the local drama society, but for the socially awkward and introverts, there’s another way we can be around others—going to a sporting event. Being in the crowd at any sporting occasion increases ‘life - [Add milk to your coffee to supercharge your immune system](https://www.wddty.com/news/add-milk-to-your-coffee-to-supercharge-your-immune-system/) - Coffee seems to be good for us—and adding milk to the brew makes it an even healthier drink. The combination gives the drink anti-inflammatory properties that help boost our immune cells, and especially our white blood cells that fight bacterial and viral infections. 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The berries are high in anthocyanins, which reduce oxidative stress—when free radicals and antioxidants get out of kilter—and encourage fat burning. Anthocyanins are antioxidants - [Longterm insomnia is a killer](https://www.wddty.com/news/longterm-insomnia-is-a-killer/) - Around 8 percent of premature deaths are linked to longterm insomnia. Even though the deaths may be attributed to known life-threatening conditions such as heart disease, poor sleep patterns could be the underlying cause, say researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre in Boston, USA. The quality of the sleep also matters, they concluded after - [Walk 11 minutes a day, and you’ll still live longer](https://www.wddty.com/news/walk-11-minutes-a-day-and-youll-still-live-longer/) - Taking a brisk walk every day for just 11 minutes lowers your risk of cancer, stroke and heart disease. 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The nutrient changes the brain that seems to protect it from cognitive decline—and the effect is greater in women and those who don’t carry the APOEe4 gene, which seems to increase the risk of Alzheimer’s and dementia. In a new study of - [Have SSRI antidepressants caused the autism explosion?](https://www.wddty.com/news/have-ssri-antidepressants-caused-the-autism-explosion/) - Pregnant women should avoid taking SSRI antidepressants. The drugs increase the risk of lifelong neurodevelopment problems in the child, such as autism, say researchers from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. The SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) interact with any inflammation in the mother’s body, such as from infections, and the combination has a - [Antibiotics increase IBD risk in over-40s](https://www.wddty.com/news/antibiotics-increase-ibd-risk-in-over-40s/) - If you’re over 40, think twice about taking courses of antibiotics. 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Researchers from the Institute of Medical Psychology in Berlin tracked the health of 4300 American mothers and their - [Mistletoe does combat even late-stage cancers](https://www.wddty.com/news/mistletoe-does-combat-even-late-stage-cancers/) - Alternative medicine has known it for ages, and now conventional medicine agrees—mistletoe can combat cancer. Mistletoe extract, known as Helixor M, has slowed or stopped the spread of cancer in 21 patients with advanced and treatment-resistant cancers. Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Centre gave the patients 600 mg of mistletoe three times a - [Covid probably leaked from Wuhan lab, says US intelligence](https://www.wddty.com/news/covid-probably-leaked-from-wuhan-lab-says-us-intelligence/) - The Covid-19 virus did most likely leak from a lab in Wuhan, China, US intelligence agencies have concluded. 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Researchers have identified four types of healthy diet—Healthy Index 2015, Alternate Mediterranean Diet, Healthful Plant-Based Diet Index and Alternate Healthy Eating Index—that all share the same key elements of - [Send an email to reduce your dementia risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/send-an-email-to-reduce-your-dementia-risk/) - Texting and emailing people can reduce your risk of developing dementia if you live alone. Social isolation has been recognised as a “substantial risk factor” for dementia—but even texting and sending emails can combat the damaging effects of loneliness, say researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. They estimate that social isolation raises - [Walk for five minutes can keep your heart healthy](https://www.wddty.com/news/walk-for-five-minutes-can-keep-your-heart-healthy/) - Getting up from your computer screen for a five-minute walk every half-hour can help keep your heart healthy. 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Cutting your daily calorie intake by as much as 25 percent could reduce your risk of dying prematurely by as much as 15 percent—and that has the same impact as giving up smoking, say researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. They - [Three cups of coffee is the sweet spot for your heart](https://www.wddty.com/news/three-cups-of-coffee-is-the-sweet-spot-for-your-heart/) - There’s a sweet spot when it comes to drinking coffee—certainly as far as the health of your heart is concerned. Drinking three cups a day lowers your systolic blood pressure—the one that measures your cardiovascular system when your heart beats—by as much as 9.7mmHg. Two cups a day lowers it by 5.2mmHg compared to non-coffee - [Long Covid could be down to a poor lifestyle](https://www.wddty.com/news/long-covid-could-be-down-to-a-poor-lifestyle/) - A healthy lifestyle dramatically reduces the risk of long Covid. More than a third of all cases would never have happened if the sufferers had adopted a series of healthy lifestyle habits before they had the infection, say researchers from Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. People who live healthily halve their chances of - [Two amino acids that support our nervous system](https://www.wddty.com/news/two-amino-acids-that-support-our-nervous-system/) - We’ve all heard about the essential nutrients—but spare a thought for two ‘unessential’ ones that support our nervous system. Serine and glycine are amino acids that are very essential for diabetics, who are more likely to suffer from nerve damage in the hands and feet, which results in weakness, numbness and pain. Diabetics who are - [Car pollution affects our memory](https://www.wddty.com/news/car-pollution-affects-our-memory/) - Get out into the countryside and take in giant gulps of pollution-free air—your brain will thank you. Breathing even moderate levels of traffic pollution for a few hours starts to affect the way our brain functions. Exposure to diesel exhaust changes the way the brain’s neural pathways connect, and this affects our memory and ability - [Feeling alone can break your heart](https://www.wddty.com/news/feeling-alone-can-break-your-heart/) - Being socially isolated and alone are the unacknowledged risk factors for heart failure—but there’s another level that researchers have just discovered. It’s not just being alone—it’s about feeling alone that really matters. When you live alone—and you feel alone—your risk of heart failure rises by as much as 20 percent. The feeling of loneliness even - [Vitamin D halves the risk of dying from Covid](https://www.wddty.com/news/vitamin-d-halves-the-risk-of-dying-from-covid/) - Vitamin D halves the risk of dying from Covid-19 or suffering a life-threatening infection. 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It’s been developed by the University of Michigan, and is being tested in the Hope4Liver clinical trial and has been successfully used alongside - [Allicin and Long Covid: study showed positive results when taken daily](https://www.wddty.com/news/allicin-and-long-covid-study-showed-positive-results-when-taken-daily/) - Following on from the pandemic, Allicin International were regularly contacted by consumers who used the allicin supplement as part of their recovery from Long Covid. - [Injuries heal slower after we argue](https://www.wddty.com/news/injuries-heal-slower-after-we-argue/) - When we row with our partner, we lower our immune system’s ability to heal wounds. Wounds take an extra day to heal after we’ve argued with someone close to us, a new study has discovered. A heated argument also increases levels of inflammation in our body, say researchers at Ohio State University. The stress from - [Statins increase osteoporosis risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/statins-increase-osteoporosis-risk/) - Taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs can increase the risk of osteoporosis. The poison is in the dose, say researchers from the Medical University of Vienna. Low doses lower the risk of the bone-wasting disease—but it dramatically increases with high doses of the drug. The researchers had noticed the effects of high-dose statin therapy in a study - [Don’t drink coffee if you have high blood pressure](https://www.wddty.com/news/dont-drink-coffee-if-you-have-high-blood-pressure/) - Avoid coffee if your blood pressure is sky high; drinking two or more cups a day doubles your chances of dying from heart disease. Those at risk had ‘severe’ hypertension, categorised as a reading that’s 160/100 mm Hg or higher, say researchers from Osaka University in Japan. The risk seems to be in drinking two - [Walk 8000 steps a day to halve heart disease risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/walk-8000-steps-a-day-to-halve-heart-disease-risk/) - Walk up to 8000 steps a day and you’ll halve your chances of heart disease. That’s good advice for anyone, but it is especially important if you’re 60 or older, say researchers from the University of Massachusetts. If you’re sedentary and walking fewer than 2000 steps a day, you need to be aiming for at - [Start singing after a stroke](https://www.wddty.com/news/start-singing-after-a-stroke/) - If you know someone who’s had a stroke, get them to start singing—it will help their recovery. Singing helps counter aphasia, which affects the stroke sufferer’s ability to speak and understand what is being said. 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They start raising our blood-sugar (glucose) levels only when we have fried potatoes. But then, the potato - [Whatever exercise you do, add yoga](https://www.wddty.com/news/whatever-exercise-you-do-add-yoga/) - Whatever exercise you do, add yoga to the mix—it power-boosts the benefits. It amplifies the good effects of most exercises and helps prevent cardiovascular disease, say researchers from Laval University in Canada. They monitored the good effects of yoga on a group of 60 volunteers with hypertension (high blood pressure). All of them did 30 - [The three supplements scientifically proven to reduce heart risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-three-supplements-scientifically-proven-to-reduce-heart-risk/) - Three supplements are scientifically proven to reduce heart disease, researchers have concluded. 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People with the highest amount of the vitamin in their brain tissue are up to 33 percent less likely to suffer from dementia, a condition that affects around 55 million people around the world today. Researchers from Tufts University analysed levels of the vitamin - [Is CBD the key to relief that doctors won't tell you about?](https://www.wddty.com/news/is-cbd-the-key-to-relief-that-doctors-wont-tell-you-about/) - So much attention, in fact, some analysts predict the CBD market to grow to a value that exceeds $22 billion by 2020. Why is something natural like CBD not the first treatment option for things such as anxiety, depression, addiction instead of harmful and potentially deadly pharmaceuticals? Because it works. CBD has been extensively researched - [The myth of ‘good’ cholesterol](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-myth-of-good-cholesterol/) - Still think we have ‘good’ and ‘bad’ cholesterol? It’s a theory that has fuelled the statin drug industry for years—but it’s simplistic. 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There are three things you can do to beat that groggy feeling first thing, scientists reckon. You need to have exercised the day before, or you should sleep in longer and later, or your - [How Buddhism is good for your health](https://www.wddty.com/news/how-buddhism-is-good-for-your-health/) - Buddhism is good for you—especially if you’re stressed or depressed. Following the religion’s five major ethical principles can counter feelings of depression, and the more closely you follow the precepts, the less depressed you may feel, say researchers from the Chiang Mai University in Thailand. They surveyed 644 adults about their levels of stress, depression - [People can sue the Covid vaccine manufacturers](https://www.wddty.com/news/people-can-sue-the-covid-vaccine-manufacturers/) - Worrying news for the manufacturers of the Covid-19 vaccines—they’re not indemnified against individual claims from people whose health has been damaged. Even then, the government will still ultimately pay the claimant, at least in the UK. The government has clarified the legal position on drug company indemnity after a petition called for it to be - [‘No evidence’ red meat is bad for us](https://www.wddty.com/news/no-evidence-red-meat-is-bad-for-us/) - Is red meat bad for our health? You’d think so from the headlines—but the evidence isn’t there to support the claim. - [Vit D supplements reduce risk of Covid](https://www.wddty.com/news/vit-d-supplements-reduce-risk-of-covid/) - Taking vitamin D supplements reduces your chances of Covid-19 infection—and if you’re unlucky enough to catch the virus, it also means you’re less likely to die from the disease. - [Aerobic exercise reduces lethal cancer risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/aerobic-exercise-reduces-lethal-cancer-risk/) - Aerobic exercise dramatically reduces your chances of dying from cancer. - [Least amount of exercise a day? Around two minutes](https://www.wddty.com/news/least-amount-of-exercise-a-day-around-two-minutes/) - When it comes to exercise, what’s the least amount we can get away but still see some health benefits? - [Post-stroke therapy is dangerous](https://www.wddty.com/news/post-stroke-therapy-is-dangerous/) - A standard treatment for stroke patients is dangerous and should be stopped immediately, researchers are saying. - [Vitamin D is essential for a long life](https://www.wddty.com/news/vitamin-d-is-essential-for-a-long-life/) - Vitamin D—the ‘sunshine vitamin’—could be the key nutrient that’s needed for living a long life. - [Covid vaccines never tested for stopping viral spread](https://www.wddty.com/news/covid-vaccines-never-tested-for-stopping-viral-spread/) - Covid vaccines were never tested for their ability to stop the virus spreading, a senior Pfizer executive has admitted. - [Dementia could be caused by polypharmacy](https://www.wddty.com/news/dementia-could-be-caused-by-polypharmacy/) - Polypharmacy—taking three or more medications at the same time—could be increasing the chances of dementia. - [Family meals de-stress everyone](https://www.wddty.com/news/family-meals-de-stress-everyone/) - Eating together as a family reduces everyone’s stress levels. - [Chemical hair straighteners increase uterine cancer risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/chemical-hair-straighteners-increase-uterine-cancer-risk/) - Women who use chemical-based hair straighteners are twice as likely to develop uterine cancer. - [Almonds improve your gut health](https://www.wddty.com/news/almonds-improve-your-gut-health/) - Munching on a few almonds every day can improve your gut health. - [‘Safe’ painkiller for pregnant women linked to ADHD in the child](https://www.wddty.com/news/safe-painkiller-for-pregnant-women-linked-to-adhd-in-the-child/) - A common painkiller is supposed to be safe for pregnant women to take—but it could cause classic symptoms of ADHD (attention-deficit, hyperactive disorder) in the child by the time it’s three. - [Young men urged not to have the mRNA Covid jab](https://www.wddty.com/news/young-men-urged-not-to-have-the-mrna-covid-jab/) - Florida is urging young men not to have the mRNA Covid vaccine. - [It’s proteins, and not plaques, that cause Alzheimer’s](https://www.wddty.com/news/its-proteins-and-not-plaques-that-cause-alzheimers/) - The theory that plaques in the brain cause Alzheimer’s disease has taken another hit with the discovery that it’s more to do with a lack of protein. - [Chocolate and red wine is good—in moderation](https://www.wddty.com/news/chocolate-and-red-wine-is-good-in-moderation/) - Eating chocolate and drinking red wine may be good for us—but you can have too much of a good thing. - [Stroke a dog and you’ll be more intelligent](https://www.wddty.com/news/stroke-a-dog-and-youll-be-more-intelligent/) - Be kind to dogs—it could make you smarter. - [Fish gives you a smarter—and bigger—brain](https://www.wddty.com/news/fish-gives-you-a-smarter-and-bigger-brain/) - Eating fish and taking omega-3 fatty acid supplements is good for your memory and general cognition—and the diet even creates healthy structures in the brain. - [Reusable contact lenses increase risk of serious eye infection](https://www.wddty.com/news/reusable-contact-lenses-increase-risk-of-serious-eye-infection/) - Wearing reusable contact lenses almost quadruples the risk of a serious eye infection that can even cause blindness. - [An icy bath is good for you](https://www.wddty.com/news/an-icy-bath-is-good-for-you/) - It’s not everyone’s idea of fun—but taking a dip in icy water is good for us. - [Loneliness more damaging than smoking for your health](https://www.wddty.com/news/loneliness-more-damaging-than-smoking-for-your-health/) - Loneliness is more damaging for your health than smoking, a new study has concluded. - [Low-carb diet the best way to reduce heart disease risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/low-carb-diet-the-best-way-to-reduce-heart-disease-risk/) - If you’re eating a low-carb diet, you don’t need to take a cholesterol-lowering statin drug—even if you have high levels of the ‘bad’ LDL type, a group of scientists is saying. - [Drinking four or more cups of tea a day reduces your risk of type 2 diabetes.](https://www.wddty.com/news/drinking-four-or-more-cups-of-tea-a-day-reduces-your-risk-of-type-2-diabetes/) - It doesn’t matter much what type of tea you drink—black, green or Oolong—or whether you add milk or not, but the key is to drink at least four cups every day. Drinking less doesn’t seem to protect against diabetes, say researchers from the Wuhan University of Science and Technology in China. - [Eat your big meal in the evening and you’ll still lose weight](https://www.wddty.com/news/eat-your-big-meal-in-the-evening-and-youll-still-lose-weight/) - If you want to stay healthy and lose weight, you should breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dine like a pauper. In other words, eat most of your calories at the start of the day, and not the end. - [Holding and walking baby stops the night-time crying](https://www.wddty.com/news/holding-and-walking-baby-stops-the-night-time-crying/) - Don’t listen to mothers—scientists think they know best when it comes to soothing a crying baby. - [A multivitamin a day reduces dementia risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/a-multivitamin-a-day-reduces-dementia-risk/) - Taking a multivitamin every day could reduce your risk of developing Alzheimer’s or dementia. - [Natural immunity as effective as vaccine against Covid](https://www.wddty.com/news/natural-immunity-as-effective-as-vaccine-against-covid/) - Vaccinating children against the Omicron variant of Covid-19 may be unnecessary—they get almost as much protection from catching the virus itself, researchers have discovered. - [Processed food a major cause of colorectal cancer](https://www.wddty.com/news/processed-food-a-major-cause-of-colorectal-cancer/) - Processed food and ready-to-eat meals increase the risk for colorectal cancer by around 30 percent. - [Manuka honey kills lethal lung virus](https://www.wddty.com/news/manuka-honey-kills-lethal-lung-virus/) - Manuka honey is a great wound healer—and it can even combat a lethal lung infection that’s resistant to powerful antibiotics, researchers have discovered. - [Healthy diet beats drugs to combat heart disease](https://www.wddty.com/news/healthy-diet-beats-drugs-to-combat-heart-disease/) - Adopting a healthier lifestyle is a more effective way to prevent heart disease than taking pharmaceuticals. - [Feeling blue? Blame that processed meal](https://www.wddty.com/news/feeling-blue-blame-that-processed-meal/) - Processed foods could be the reason why people sometimes feel mildly depressed or anxious. - [Steroids change the brain and increase risk of depression](https://www.wddty.com/news/steroids-change-the-brain-and-increase-risk-of-depression/) - If you’re suddenly feeling depressed or tired, it could be the prescription steroids you’re taking. The drugs—commonly prescribed for arthritis, eczema and asthma—change the structure of the brain and increase the risk of mental health problems. - [Keep walking—even when you reach your eighties](https://www.wddty.com/news/keep-walking-even-when-you-reach-your-eighties/) - As we get older, we might start to slow up. But we need to keep moving, even when we reach our eighties, researchers say. - [Staring at our screens could be making us older](https://www.wddty.com/news/staring-at-our-screens-could-be-making-us-older/) - We all got the memo that staring at our screens—whether smartphone, PC or tablet—is bad for us. It can lead to psychological problems and even obesity—and now researchers fear it could accelerate the ageing process. - [Pesticides a major cause of thyroid cancer](https://www.wddty.com/news/pesticides-a-major-cause-of-thyroid-cancer/) - Pesticides sprayed on farmland are a major cause of thyroid cancer. - [Getting a good night’s sleep stops you putting on weight](https://www.wddty.com/news/getting-a-good-nights-sleep-stops-you-putting-on-weight/) - Want to lose weight? Then respect your natural body clock—that means sleeping when it’s night and waking up when it’s light. - [The drinks that counter Covid](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-drinks-that-counter-covid/) - Green tea, olive oil and red wine all contain compounds that can fight Covid-19. - [Why you need supplements if you’re taking medication](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-you-need-supplements-if-youre-taking-medication/) - You should be taking nutritional supplements if you’re on prescription medication—most drugs will drain your body of essential micronutrients that can prolong the disease and affect your quality of life. - [Leaving a 14-hour gap between meals best way to lose weight](https://www.wddty.com/news/leaving-a-14-hour-gap-between-meals-best-way-to-lose-weight/) - People wanting to lose weight should limit the time they eat to an eight-hour window.The ideal is to have breakfast at 7am and eat your last meal as early as 3pm, say researchers from the University of Alabama. - [Low vitamin D levels the key to diabetes and heart disease](https://www.wddty.com/news/low-vitamin-d-levels-the-key-to-diabetes-and-heart-disease/) - Low levels of vitamin D—the ‘sunshine’ vitamin—is one of the keys to type 2 diabetes, heart disease and auto-immune diseases. - [Nordic walking the best exercise for heart patients](https://www.wddty.com/news/nordic-walking-the-best-exercise-for-heart-patients/) - Nordic walking—where walkers use poles—is one of the best types of exercise for improving overall health and wellbeing. - [Family dog reduces stress in children better than meditation](https://www.wddty.com/news/family-dog-reduces-stress-in-children-better-than-meditation/) - Having a family dog helps lower stress levels in your children—and it’s more effective than other approaches that have been tried in the classroom, such as meditation and yoga. - [Why red meat is bad for the heart (and, no, it’s nothing to do with cholesterol)](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-red-meat-is-bad-for-the-heart-and-no-its-nothing-to-do-with-cholesterol/) - Too much red meat may be bad for our hearts—but it’s got nothing to do with fats and cholesterol. - [Start moving to keep your brain healthy](https://www.wddty.com/news/start-moving-to-keep-your-brain-healthy/) - Any type of exercise—even walking up the stairs—has a positive impact on the brain. - [Why breast is best for preemies](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-breast-is-best-for-preemies/) - Breast is best—and that’s especially true when it comes to feeding a ‘preemie’. - [Quinoa reverses early type 2 diabetes](https://www.wddty.com/news/quinoa-reverses-early-type-2-diabetes/) - It’s a trendy food—and it can also be good for you. Quinoa can reverse the progress of type 2 diabetes, which itself can be a precursor of heart problems. - [Dementia is about a bad lifestyle, not age](https://www.wddty.com/news/dementia-is-about-a-bad-lifestyle-not-age/) - Forget age, dementia is everything to do with bad lifestyle choices. Someone with a healthy lifestyle—a good diet, doing regular exercise and not smoking—has the brain health of someone 20 years younger who has fallen into bad habits. - [WHO policies ‘influenced’ by big business](https://www.wddty.com/news/who-policies-influenced-by-big-business/) - The World Health Organization (WHO) is seen by many as a trusted and independent voice—but many of its public health edicts are influenced by commercial interests. - [Cranberries reduce your dementia risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/cranberries-reduce-your-dementia-risk/) - Add cranberries to your daily breakfast and you’ll help keep your memory sharp as you get older. - [High-dose vitamin B12 lowers anxiety in a month](https://www.wddty.com/news/high-dose-vitamin-b12-lowers-anxiety-in-a-month/) - Taking very high doses of B12 supplements lowers anxiety in a month. - [Healthy lifestyle trumps genetics to reduce stroke risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/healthy-lifestyle-trumps-genetics-to-reduce-stroke-risk/) - A healthy lifestyle can almost halve the chances of a stroke even in those whose genetic makeup puts them at a far higher risk. - [No evidence depression caused by chemical imbalance](https://www.wddty.com/news/no-evidence-depression-caused-by-chemical-imbalance/) - Depression isn’t caused by a chemical imbalance—and any benefits from taking a SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) antidepressant are a placebo effect, a major review has concluded. - [Fraudulent research throws into question plaque theory of Alzheimer’s origins](https://www.wddty.com/news/fraudulent-research-throws-into-question-plaque-theory-of-alzheimers-origins/) - The major theory of the cause of Alzheimer’s disease—that it’s caused by plaques in the brain—has been thrown into question following concerns that the originating research may have been fraudulent. - [Alcohol is good for you—as long as you’re over 40](https://www.wddty.com/news/alcohol-is-good-for-you-as-long-as-youre-over-40/) - A little alcohol is good for you—but only if you’re over the age of 40. If you’re younger, no amount is safe, a new study has claimed. - [Avocado is great, but not super](https://www.wddty.com/news/avocado-is-great-but-not-super/) - Avocados may not be quite the superfood that some claim—but eating one a day does lower levels of the ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol. - [Long Covid not all in the mind](https://www.wddty.com/news/long-covid-not-all-in-the-mind/) - No, long Covid isn’t ‘all in the mind’. There’s a biological factor at play that saps your energy, ruins your sleep quality and causes brain fog—and it’s the same for CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) and ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis). - [Fasting reduces severity of Covid](https://www.wddty.com/news/fasting-reduces-severity-of-covid/) - Intermittent fasting—going without food or water for at least 14 hours—can reduce the severity of Covid-19 symptoms. - [Elderly who had active lives still the beat the youngsters](https://www.wddty.com/news/elderly-who-had-active-lives-still-the-beat-the-youngsters/) - Use it or lose it—people who were physically active throughout their lives still had better muscles when they were elderly than young people who didn’t exercise. - [One in five hospital admissions caused by polypharmacy](https://www.wddty.com/news/one-in-five-hospital-admissions-caused-by-polypharmacy/) - Nearly 20 percent of people needing hospital care have reacted badly to taking multiple prescription drugs. - [Covid vaccines more dangerous than the virus](https://www.wddty.com/news/covid-vaccines-more-dangerous-than-the-virus/) - A Covid-19 vaccine is supposed to keep you out of hospital—but it could be more dangerous than the virus itself. - [Meditation reduces the feeling of pain](https://www.wddty.com/news/meditation-reduces-the-feeling-of-pain/) - Mindfulness meditation can help ease your pain. The technique can reduce pain intensity by as much as 32 percent, a new study has discovered—and even people who haven’t meditated before can quickly achieve these benefits. - [Have a spiritual belief and live longer](https://www.wddty.com/news/have-a-spiritual-belief-and-live-longer/) - Having a spiritual belief keeps you healthy. People with religious and spiritual beliefs will live longer, and are less likely to get ill, suffer from depression or become suicidal. - [The best diet if you’re prediabetic](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-best-diet-if-youre-prediabetic/) - If you’re prediabetic, or even if you already have type 2 diabetes, what’s the best low-carb diet to reverse the problem? - [Heart surgeon warns about Covid vaccine damage](https://www.wddty.com/news/heart-surgeon-warns-about-covid-vaccine-damage/) - Covid-19 vaccines are causing unusual infections, and increasing the number of deaths, in critically ill patients, a leading heart specialist has revealed. - [Cannabis that gets you high could also relieve pain](https://www.wddty.com/news/cannabis-that-gets-you-high-could-also-relieve-pain/) - Cannabis therapies for pain relief have often been described as ‘the hippie’s disappointment’ because the psychoactive chemical that gets people high has been removed. - [Homeopathy better treatment for ringworm than antibiotics](https://www.wddty.com/news/homeopathy-better-treatment-for-ringworm-than-antibiotics/) - Homeopathy is more effective than standard antibiotics for treating ringworm (tinea), the infectious skin condition that’s common in children living in humid climates. - [Take a walk to beat osteoarthritis pain](https://www.wddty.com/news/take-a-walk-to-beat-osteoarthritis-pain/) - Taking a walk is one of the best ways to counter osteoarthritis knee pain. - [Have your breakfast at 11am to lose weight](https://www.wddty.com/news/have-your-breakfast-at-11am-to-lose-weight/) - Having our breakfast at 11am may the new best time for our first meal of the day. - [Sleeping alone increases your risk of insomnia](https://www.wddty.com/news/sleeping-alone-increases-your-risk-of-insomnia/) - A good night’s sleep is essential for our health, as everyone knows—and one of the best ways to achieve it is to share your bed with a partner. - [Being optimistic can help you live longer](https://www.wddty.com/news/being-optimistic-can-help-you-live-longer/) - Having a positive outlook increases your chances of living beyond the age of 90 by 10 percent, say researchers from Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health. Overall, the most optimistic have a 5.4 percent longer lifespan than pessimists. - [Aromatherapy reduces need for painkillers after surgery](https://www.wddty.com/news/aromatherapy-reduces-need-for-painkillers-after-surgery/) - Patients should be given aromatherapy treatment before surgery. It halves the risk of post-op painkillers such as opioids, new research has found. - [Cancer patients taking 10 or more different drugs every day](https://www.wddty.com/news/cancer-patients-taking-10-or-more-different-drugs-every-day/) - Around 15 percent of cancer patients are taking 10 or more medications even before they start chemotherapy. - [Vaccinated children are still getting measles](https://www.wddty.com/news/vaccinated-children-are-still-getting-measles/) - Vaccines are supposed to protect us from getting a disease. But that hasn’t been the case with Covid-19, and the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) jab isn’t always preventing children from contracting measles, a new study has discovered. - [Being tall is another health risk](https://www.wddty.com/news/being-tall-is-another-health-risk/) - As if we didn’t have enough health risks to contend with, researchers have come up with another one—being tall. - [The seven key lifestyle changes to prevent dementia](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-seven-key-lifestyle-changes-to-prevent-dementia/) - There are seven key lifestyle changes you can make to lower your chances of developing dementia. - [Why eggs are good for your heart](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-eggs-are-good-for-your-heart/) - Eating an egg a day is officially good for you. Once demonised as a major cause of heart disease, eggs in fact prevent the problem by raising levels of the ‘good’ HDL cholesterol. - [America spends twice as much on cancer care—and has the same level of deaths](https://www.wddty.com/news/america-spends-twice-as-much-on-cancer-care-and-has-the-same-level-of-deaths/) - Cancer care isn’t working in America. Although the US spends twice the amount on treating the disease as other wealthy nations, the rate of people dying from cancer is the same as everywhere else. - [Double the recommended intake of fish oils to prevent heart disease](https://www.wddty.com/news/double-the-recommended-intake-of-fish-oils-to-prevent-heart-disease/) - We need to be consuming around 3g of omega-3 oils every day to reduce our risk of heart disease—that’s double the amount recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). - [Common painkillers triple risk of stroke](https://www.wddty.com/news/common-painkillers-triple-risk-of-stroke/) - Common painkillers such as aspirin and ibuprofen double the risk of a heart attack, and triple the chance of stroke.Two of the less common painkillers - Arcoxin (etoricoxib) and Voltarol (diclofenac) - were the most dangerous, quadrupling the chances of a fatal heart attack, say researchers from the University of Bern, Switzerland.The researchers were alerted - [X-rays are a major cause of childhood leukemia](https://www.wddty.com/news/x-rays-are-a-major-cause-of-childhood-leukemia/) - X-rays are a major cause of leukemia in children, the most common form of cancer in the under-fifteens. Those who have had three x-rays or more double their chances of developing the cancer - although their risk increases after even just one scan.Chest x-rays carry the greatest risk, say researchers from the University of California, - ['Just-in-case' statin drug use is dangerous](https://www.wddty.com/news/just-in-case-statin-drug-use-is-dangerous/) - Many people who reach their mid-fifties will be on a cholesterol-lowering statin drug, often as a 'just-in-case' measure. But the practice offers no benefits, and it could even be harmful, a new study suggests. People who don't have heart problems shouldn't be taking a statin drug, which can cause liver problems, kidney failure and muscle - [You won't lose weight by eating a big breakfast](https://www.wddty.com/news/you-wont-lose-weight-by-eating-a-big-breakfast/) - Starting the day with a big breakfast won't necessarily help you lose weight. The theory has it that eating a large breakfast means you eat less during the day, thus reducing your calorie intake.Researchers who examined the eating habits of around 300 people discovered that they also had a big lunch and a big dinner, - [New hope for memory loss and stress as meditators change the physical brain](https://www.wddty.com/news/new-hope-for-memory-loss-and-stress-as-meditators-change-the-physical-brain/) - In an extraordinary development that offers hope for people suffering from memory loss or stress, a group of meditators has changed the physical make-up of their brains just through focus and attention.Scientists who monitored the group noted "measurable changes" in areas of the brain associated with memory, empathy and stress.The meditators - who practised mindfulness - [$10bn of antipsychotic drugs wrongly prescribed every year](https://www.wddty.com/news/10bn-of-antipsychotic-drugs-wrongly-prescribed-every-year/) - People suffering from a range of problems - from autism, depression, and dementia - have been wrongly prescribed a class of drugs for more than 20 years that do more harm than good.Atypical antipsychotics - which include Seroquel (quetiapine), Abilify (aripoprazole) and Risperdal (risperidone) - cause weight gain, diabetes and heart disease, and yet do - [Medical journal falsely accuses MMR doctor of fraud](https://www.wddty.com/news/medical-journal-falsely-accuses-mmr-doctor-of-fraud/) - One of the world's most prestigious medical journals has falsely accused Dr Andrew Wakefield - the man at the centre of the MMR-autism controversy - of fraud. The British Medical Journal recently claimed that Wakefield had deliberately fabricated the evidence to suggest that a small group of children were displaying autism-spectrum disorders after having the - [How to double the positive effects of broccoli](https://www.wddty.com/news/how-to-double-the-positive-effects-of-broccoli/) - Broccoli is one of the healthiest vegetables - even eating just three servings a week can lessen your chances of cancer. But you can double its cancer-fighting properties when you add a second vegetable to the mix.Broccoli's magic ingredient is the enzyme myrosinase, say researchers from the University of Illinois - and its health-giving qualities - [Training works better for tennis elbow than drugs](https://www.wddty.com/news/training-works-better-for-tennis-elbow-than-drugs/) - If you are suffering from tennis elbow, don't take anti-inflammatory drugs or cortisone injections. Training and some advice in muscle use work far better, and without nasty side effects. Researchers from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden made the discovery when they tried various treatments on groups of 78 and 297 patients with tennis elbow. - ['Safe' low-dose x-rays cause cancer](https://www.wddty.com/news/safe-low-dose-x-rays-cause-cancer/) - There's no such thing as a safe x-ray. Even low doses of radiation, which are emitted during routine screening tests, increase your risk of cancer, new research has discovered. Doctors have assumed that standard x-ray technology, including CT (computed tomography) and angiograms, were safe because they used very low levels of radiation. As a result, - [Dog is better than medical tests at discovering early-stage cancer](https://www.wddty.com/news/dog-is-better-than-medical-tests-at-discovering-early-stage-cancer/) - If you want an early warning system that alerts you when you are just starting to develop cancer, get yourself a dog.Dogs can accurately sniff out the early signs of bowel and prostate cancers, as two separate studies have found.In the first, dogs successfully sniffed out early signs of bowel cancer from breath and stool - [Why so many people suffer side effects from drugs](https://www.wddty.com/news/why-so-many-people-suffer-side-effects-from-drugs/) - If you've ever wondered why it is that so many people suffer side effects from prescribed drugs, here's the reason. Pharmaceuticals are usually prescribed to the over-65s, and yet they are the one group that is almost never included in trials to test if the drug is safe and effective. Instead, new drugs are invariably - [Mother's right, smarter kids eat their vegetables](https://www.wddty.com/news/mothers-right-smarter-kids-eat-their-vegetables/) - Mothers have been saying it for years, and now doctors agree: smarter kids eat their vegetables. Children who eat a nutritious diet of fruits and vegetables have higher IQ levels, while a diet of processed and sugary foods has the opposite effect. And it seems the earlier you start your child on a healthy diet, - [Fish oils reduce your chances of Alzheimer's](https://www.wddty.com/news/fish-oils-reduce-your-chances-of-alzheimers/) - If you want to reduce any chance of developing Alzheimer's in older age, start eating oily fish and supplementing with omega-3 fish oils. The disease is mainly the result of poor diet and environmental factors, and you can lessen your risk by eating better, new research has revealed this week. The advice comes from Prof - [It's nurture, not nature, when it comes to living a long life](https://www.wddty.com/news/its-nurture-not-nature-when-it-comes-to-living-a-long-life/) - Think you'll live a long life because your parents and grandparents did? Think again - longevity is much more to do with the way you live your life than the healthy genes you inherited. If you're relatively healthy and a non-smoker at the age of 50, you stand a reasonable chance of reaching 90, say - [Household sprays affect children's learning and behaviour](https://www.wddty.com/news/household-sprays-affect-childrens-learning-and-behaviour/) - Common insect sprays we use in the home could be affecting the development and learning abilities of young children, a new study has found. Even newer products - which supposedly contain 'safer' compounds - are affecting children, and can even do so while they are still in the womb. One study, which tracked 725 pregnant - [Homeopathy under new threat in the UK](https://www.wddty.com/news/homeopathy-under-new-threat-in-the-uk/) - People in the UK have until tomorrow (February 18) to help safeguard homeopathy and homeopathic remedies. The UK's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is canvassing opinions about a measure that would restrict the use of homeopathic remedies and the role of homeopaths. Right now, homeopathic remedies are freely available and can be purchased - [Herbal remedies to disappear from shelves as new EU law bites](https://www.wddty.com/news/herbal-remedies-to-disappear-from-shelves-as-new-eu-law-bites/) - Most herbal remedies will disappear from stores in the UK and across Europe from May when new EU legislation comes into force. Every single remedy from the Indian Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) traditions will also be barred.Popular herbal remedies - including red clover and chasteberry for PMS, hawthorn for cardiovascular health and meadowsweet - [Zinc really does fight the common cold](https://www.wddty.com/news/zinc-really-does-fight-the-common-cold/) - At last - someone has figured out a way of beating the common cold. Zinc supplements reduce its severity and duration, provided you catch it in its earliest stages. And those who regularly take zinc supplements lessen their chances of catching a cold in the first place. The discovery isn't exactly new. Back in 1984, - [New uses for a dead vaccine, part 967](https://www.wddty.com/news/new-uses-for-a-dead-vaccine-part-967/) - What do governments do with a vast and expensive stockpile of vaccines that they bought in anticipation of one of the annual health pandemics that never happened? Easy - you show that they are just as effective against any new flu scare doing the rounds today.Almost every year governments are caught out by the latest - [Fruits that protect against Parkinson's](https://www.wddty.com/news/fruits-that-protect-against-parkinsons/) - People who eat berries - and men who also eat apples and oranges - are far less likely to develop Parkinson's disease, new research has discovered. The fruits are rich in flavonoids, and these have a protective effect against Parkinson's. Those who ate the most fruit were 40 per cent less likely to develop the - [Diet cola drinks cause stroke and heart attack](https://www.wddty.com/news/diet-cola-drinks-cause-stroke-and-heart-attack/) - Diet soda - such as sugar-free cola drinks - could be responsible for stroke and heart attacks, a new study has found.The study, based on the lifestyles of around 2,500 adults living in the New York City area, discovered that the drink dramatically increases the risk for stroke or heart attack.Diet drinks use artificial sweeteners - [Osteoporosis drugs cause fractures they're supposed to prevent](https://www.wddty.com/news/osteoporosis-drugs-cause-fractures-theyre-supposed-to-prevent/) - Women going through the menopause may take a bisphosphonate to ward off osteoporosis and bone fracture - but researchers have discovered this week that the drug increases the chances of some fractures.The drugs, which prevent bone mass loss, increase the risk of 'atypical' fractures - these are fractures to the femoral bone, which extends from - [Prostate test is seeing too many cancers that aren't there](https://www.wddty.com/news/prostate-test-is-seeing-too-many-cancers-that-arent-there/) - Many men have been wrongly diagnosed with prostate cancer - because one of medicine's key markers is unreliable, researchers have discovered this week. The rate that PSA levels change over time - known as PSA velocity - has always been one of the tests that doctors have used to determine if a man is developing - [One of the healthiest fruits? It's chocolate, say researchers](https://www.wddty.com/news/one-of-the-healthiest-fruits-its-chocolate-say-researchers/) - What's one of the healthiest fruits, delivering high levels of antioxidants, and beneficial polyphenols and flavanols? Surprisingly, it's chocolate, say researchers.While you may not think of chocolate as a fruit, it is derived from the cacao seed, which is described as a 'super fruit' by researcher Debra Miller.When she compared the antioxidant activity in cocoa - [Half of Alzheimer's patients don't have the disease](https://www.wddty.com/news/half-of-alzheimers-patients-dont-have-the-disease/) - Up to half of elderly people being diagnosed with Alzheimer's don't have the disease at all - which means they are getting the wrong drugs and treatment.Researchers in Hawaii uncovered this dramatic over-diagnosis when they carried out autopsies on 426 residents who had died, on average, at the age of 87. Of these, 211 had - [Kidney patients on dialysis exposed to cancer-causing levels of radiation](https://www.wddty.com/news/kidney-patients-on-dialysis-exposed-to-cancer-causing-levels-of-radiation/) - Kidney patients on dialysis are being exposed to extremely high levels of radiation that is dramatically increasing their risk of cancer. An average kidney patient is receiving the equivalent of 1000 chest x-rays a year - and around 17 per cent are receiving doses so high that they are very likely to contract a fatal - [Pecan nut is one of the healthiest snacks for the heart](https://www.wddty.com/news/pecan-nut-is-one-of-the-healthiest-snacks-for-the-heart/) - The pecan nut is one of the best snacks to eat to keep your heart and arteries healthy - and it may even lower your chances of cancer. The nut is rich in a form of vitamin E that reduces inflammation, one of the main causes of many chronic illnesses.Eating the nuts could reduce your - [Children on farms don't get asthma, researchers discover](https://www.wddty.com/news/children-on-farms-dont-get-asthma-researchers-discover/) - Children who are raised on farms and with animals are far less likely to develop asthma. The children on farms seemed to have greater protection than their friends who lived in the same village, but not on a farm. Exposure to a far greater variety of micro-organisms could be giving the farm-living children a natural - [Cancer-blocking herb to be taken off shelves in Europe](https://www.wddty.com/news/cancer-blocking-herb-to-be-taken-off-shelves-in-europe/) - A herb used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) can block cancer growth, researchers have discovered this week - and it's about to disappear from stores throughout Europe.The herb, thunder god vine (lei gong teng), has been used for centuries by TCM as a remedy for rheumatoid arthritis. But researchers from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine - ['Little and often' alcohol protects against heart disease and dementia](https://www.wddty.com/news/little-and-often-alcohol-protects-against-heart-disease-and-dementia/) - When it comes to alcohol, how much should you drink - if at all? According to two new studies, little and often could be the best policy to help ward off dementia and heart disease.People who drink one glass of wine a day, or less, reduce the risk of heart disease by around 25 per - [EFAs reduce premenstrual symptoms](https://www.wddty.com/news/efas-reduce-premenstrual-symptoms/) - Essential fatty acid (EFA) supplements are one of the best ways of treating PMS (premenstrual syndrome) symptoms. Just one or two grams can make all the difference, say researchers. They discovered that PMS sufferers noticed a significant reduction in their symptoms after three months of taking an EFA supplement every day. The supplement they used - [Doctors frightened to report incompetent colleagues](https://www.wddty.com/news/doctors-frightened-to-report-incompetent-colleagues/) - Think your doctor will be reported if he makes a terrible - even life-threatening - mistake? Think again. Doctors don't always like 'shopping' other doctors, a new study has found.Around 25 per cent of doctors say they would never report another doctor, even if their colleague's performance was a danger to patient health, a survey - ['Abnormal' blood pressure is not a health threat, new research discovers](https://www.wddty.com/news/abnormal-blood-pressure-is-not-a-health-threat-new-research-discovers/) - Doctors have been getting it wrong for decades about high blood pressure (hypertension). Although millions of people are taking expensive medications every day, new research has discovered there is nothing dangerous about an 'abnormal' blood pressure reading.Doctors tell us that a 'normal' reading is anything below 120/80 (the first number relates to systolic pressure when - [The seven myths about living longer](https://www.wddty.com/news/the-seven-myths-about-living-longer/) - Living