Home Remedies
Nighttime Restless Legs Wreck Lives, Sleep, and …
Have you ever heard of Willis-Ekbom disease? Most people haven’t—even though millions live with it every day. Better known as restless legs syndrome (RLS), this condition is frequently dismissed o…
How to Manage Your Heartburn Without Drugs
The American diet seems designed to create digestive problems. We love fast food, which is low in fiber and high in processed carbs and fat. We also eat on the run. As a result, many people suffer fro…
Which Diets Boost Longevity?
If you have been wondering what you should eat to improve your chance at a long healthy life, you are not alone. Curious nutrition scientists analyzed dietary data from more than 103,000 UK Biobank pa…
Quercetin Is a Natural Way to Relieve Spring All…
Spring brings warmer days, butterflies, blooming flowers and–pollen. If your spring allergies are bothersome, you might be looking for a natural approach to alleviate itchy eyes, sneezing, headach…
Do You Want a Natural Thyroid Treatment?
Thyroid problems are far more common than you might guess. Pharmacists dispense approximately 120 million prescriptions each year for levothyroxine (Levoxyl, Synthroid, Tirosint, Unithroid). People wh…
Can You Overcome Depression with Exercise?
Over 40 million Americans take antidepressant medications. Millions more take anti-anxiety agents. For many people, these drugs are lifelines. Studies suggest that regular physical activity can help o…
DMT and Psilocybin: New Faster Hope for Treating…
For decades, people struggling with major depression have been told to take antidepressants every day, often for years, hoping for modest relief and bracing for side effects. It can take several weeks…
Should You Take Supplements to Lower Cholesterol…
Is your cholesterol a bit too high? That wouldn't be surprising, since cardiologists keep making the criteria for acceptable cholesterol levels more stringent. Cholesterol can contribute to arterial p…
Afrin Nasal Spray Helped Stop Persistent Bleedin…
There are a number of home remedies that readers have found helpful in staunching bleeding from a simple cut. If you look this website over, you will find many testimonials to the ability of ground bl…
How to Make Thyme Cough Medicine
Have you ever found yourself coughing in the middle of the night and reached for the cough medicine? If your household is like ours, once in a while that bottle was emptied two months ago and not yet …
Which Coffee Compounds Protect the Brain?
If you, like many people, can’t face the day without a hot cup of coffee, there’s good news. Your daily habit may well be helping protect the brain. This has been a recurrent finding, but the late…
Will Hot Peppers Improve Your Health and Help Yo…
That headline that seems far too good to be true, I admit. Full disclosure, I must confess that I (Joe G.) am a pepperhead, ie, someone who loves (actually craves) hot chili peppers. That said, there …
How Can You Keep Plantar Warts from Recurring?
Plantar warts occur on the soles of the feet. At first, you might not notice a plantar wart. Most of us don't inspect our soles regularly unless they hurt. Plantar warts do often become painful to wal…
Will Certo and Grape Juice Help Your Sore Knees?
People with sore joints face a terrible dilemma. Pain interferes with quality of life. On the other hand, medications like diclofenac and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can make p…
Can You Boost Your Immune System with Extra Zinc…
Most people would like to improve their immune function at this time of year. Viruses that cause colds and influenza are everywhere and even vigorous hand washing may not protect you from coming down …
Will a Mediterranean Diet Benefit Your Brain?
The Mediterranean diet has earned a reputation for promoting heart health, as we discuss below. A Harvard study suggested it might also be good for the brain, especially for people with type 2 diabete…
How to Head Off a Migraine with a Supplement
Migraine headaches can have a dreadful impact on a person's quality of life. In addition to the pain, which can be debilitating if not excruciating, these episodes often bring on nausea, vomiting and …
What Is Blackseed Oil Good For?
As Americans grow disenchanted with pharmaceuticals, they have become interested in botanical medicines. Many of these come from different medical traditions. Scientists may not have devoted much time…
Coconut Defeats Daily Diarrhea
We were surprised back in 1998 when we got a letter from a reader about coconut. Donald Agar of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, had suffered with Crohn's disease for 40 years. He discovered through serendi…
Do Statins Lower CoQ10 Levels? Can Supplements C…
Doctors prescribe the cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins as an essential step in treating heart disease. Many physicians also prescribe them for prevention. While many people take these medicin…
Home Remedies That Work When Modern Medicine Fal…
Modern medicine has come a long way from bloodletting and lobotomies. The Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) movement got its start in Canada when physicians at McMaster University began asking tough quest…
The Cookie Cure: How Coconut Macaroons Became a …
Some home remedies refuse to fade away — not because anyone is promoting them, but because people keep writing to say, “This actually helped.” One of the most enduring examples we’ve encounter…
Will Garlic Ward Off Colds?
When days are short and the weather is cold, many of us look for ways to ward off colds. Some families have strong traditions that they have used to try to avoid sniffles and sneezes. Perhaps your gre…
Show 1420: The Cooking Oil Controversy Spotlight…
This week, we dig into the cooking oil controversy. For decades, we’ve heard that we should be using vegetable oils rather than butter, lard or other fats (possibly even olive oil). Oils from corn, …
What Can Vitamin K2 Do for You?
The early 20th century was the Golden Age of vitamin research. Scientists identified previously unknown compounds and named them in order: vitamins A, B, C and so on. The B vitamins turned out to be a…
What Can You Do for a Kitchen Burn?
A kitchen burn or other minor household burn is painful. Such burns usually cause redness and sometimes blistering. Cold water is the standard first aid recommendation. In fact, cold tap water is just…
Can You Use Oil of Oregano with Confidence?
For years, readers have been telling us that they use oil of oregano as an antifungal or antimicrobial agent. Scientists have found data to support this use. For example, oregano oil applied topically…
Solutions For Split Fingertips
Cracked, split fingertips are more often a problem when the weather is cold and the air is dry. Warm weather poses different sorts of challenges for the skin. Sometimes, however, the solutions can be …
Saturated Fat Reconsidered: New Research Challen…
Have you ever heard the saying "you can't teach an old dog new tricks"? It's not true. Many old dogs learn new tricks with the right training and motivation. It turns out that it could be a lot harder…
Can You Ease Sinus Woes Without Decongestants?
Hay fever and other seasonal allergies can cause a lot of discomfort. The congestion such allergic reactions cause can lead to sinus woes that seem to last a long time. Usually, medication choices are…
Can You Take Quercetin for Your Allergies?
Quercetin is a flavonol, an antioxidant compound many plants make. Scientists have been studying this compound since 1857. Within the last decade, they have identified a number of health benefits it c…
Does Dark Chocolate Provide Healthful Cocoa Flav…
Whenever a new study comes along to demonstrate that yes, chocolate does have health benefits (see one here), nutrition experts step forward to caution people not to start gobbling chocolate under th…
Can Restricting Eating Time Help Control Blood S…
People at risk of developing type 2 diabetes may be able to reverse this process by restricting eating time to a nine-hour period every day. Other approaches that seem to rely on the same body process…
Natural Approaches for Arthritis May Provide Rel…
Many readers have noticed that as they add more candles to their birthday cakes, their joints may get stiffer and become painful. Although over-the-counter pain relievers are popular, they do have sid…
How to Brew Green Tea for Maximum Benefit
You can brew green tea simply by plopping a tea bag in a cup and pouring hot water over it. Or you can make it into a complex ritual such as a Japanese tea ceremony. When it comes to getting the most …
How to Eat for Better Blood Glucose Control
When public health experts point out that nearly one-third of American adults have prediabetes, we figure that we could all benefit from an appropriate diet for better blood glucose control. After all…
Why Don’t Doctors Like to Prescribe Desicc…
The thyroid gland is small and unassuming, so it doesn't usually command a lot of attention. When it misbehaves, though, its owner suffers. That happens more often than you might imagine. The American…
Are There Natural Remedies for Constipation?
Constipation is a very common complaint. While doctors rarely become concerned about constipation unless the patient seems to have obstructed bowels, sufferers find that this problem really affects th…
What Are Pros and Cons of Cinnamon for Blood Sug…
Millions of American adults have prediabetes. The CDC defines this as having fasting blood sugar over 100 but less than 126 mg/dL, the cut-off for a diagnosis of diabetes. Learning that you have predi…
Can Elderberry Juice Really Fight Flu Virus?
Elderberries and elderberry juice have long had a reputation for fighting the flu. Most physicians undoubtedly have considered this just another old wives’ tale. One reader remembers how her family …