Posted on: February 4, 2025 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

‘Miracle weight loss drugs’ may be shrinking hearts

Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonists such as Ozempic and Wegovy are often considered miracle weight loss medications. However, there’s a catch… While the drugs are effective in weight loss, they come with significant side effects that should not be overlooked. These include pancreatitis, gastroparesis, and bowel obstruction, as well as nausea, vomiting, and extreme acid reflux. It’s important to note that the medications could cause a loss of skeletal muscle mass,…

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Posted on: February 4, 2025 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

How 43 years of eating meat affects your brain

Red meat. Talk about a love-hate relationship. Red and processed meat consumption has been linked to everything from diabetes to heart disease to colon and breast cancer. So, it shouldn’t surprise you to hear that it’s also been linked to the risk of dementia and cognitive decline. Here’s what researchers have found, including how much your daily intake can negatively impact your brain health and what you can eat to…

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Posted on: February 1, 2025 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

NAC: The liver’s ally for healthy aging

Every organ in the human body is miraculous. Although each has a specific function, they work together as a remarkable team. But just like on the football field, you have your MVPs — and you have those players that, if they spent the entirety of the game on the sidelines, the season would go on. Your appendix might be a bench sitter. Even your spleen and gallbladder could sit the…

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Posted on: January 31, 2025 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

19 disease risks that disappear with one habit

Every January, gyms are crowded with people who have vowed to exercise more as one of their New Year’s resolutions. But come March, those crowds have often all but disappeared. People get busy and distracted, and when that happens, the gym is often the first thing to fall off the priority list. This is a shame, because exercise is the one activity that has been proven time and again to…

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Posted on: January 31, 2025 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

Forever chemicals: Hijacking genes to kill brain cells

Forever chemicals… two words we’ve all become intimately familiar with, whether we wanted to or not. These manmade substances, found in practically everything, never degrade in the environment and end up contaminating our water, soil, air and even our food. They can build up in our bodies, disrupting hormones and leading to a host of health problems including obesity, celiac disease, liver damage and decreased fertility. Studies have shown that they…

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Posted on: January 30, 2025 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

An important caveat for coffee’s heart-healthy benefits

Your first cup of morning coffee may be doing a lot more for you than helping you wake up and face the day. For my part, I make it a habit not to drink coffee after around noon, so the lingering effects of caffeine won’t keep me from sleeping that night. So I was excited to learn that my devotion to this morning habit could be a big part of…

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Posted on: January 29, 2025 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

The superhealthy diet that slows hair growth

When you read about the benefits of intermittent fasting, they sound almost too good to be true… It can help you lose weight and belly fat. It can slow aging. It can reduce your risk of diabetes, heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer’s and is linked to a longer lifespan. How exactly can the simple act of timing your meals so you may go hours without eating, or even skipping a…

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Posted on: January 28, 2025 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

Planning a family? Avoid this robber of male fertility

When couples planning a family decide to use in vitro fertilization (IVF) to conceive, giving the procedure as much of a chance to work as possible is a priority. That’s because IVF isn’t just time-consuming and expensive, it could be their last chance. During IVF, mature eggs are collected from ovaries and fertilized by sperm in a lab. So it makes sense to want them to be in tip-top shape.…

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Posted on: January 28, 2025 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

How red light signals ‘stop’ to reduce blood clot risk

Of all the things that can go wrong with your health, blood clots are probably not top of mind for the average person. But the risk is higher for most of us than we realize, and if just one sneaks past, the results can be swift and deadly. Here’s a quick overview, and information on a new therapy you’ll want to know about, especially if your lifestyle, genetics or other…

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Posted on: January 25, 2025 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

Walk this way to add 11 extra years to your life

More and more, research is proving that living healthy into your 90s and beyond is not only possible, but it’s often far more in your control than you might think. In fact, studies have shown that doing something as simple as eating an optimal diet (one with more legumes, whole grains and nuts and less red and processed meat) can add six to seven years to your life. And if…

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