What happened when topical olive oil was pitted against an ibuprofen-type drug for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis? Fifty million Americans suffer from arthritis, and osteoarthritis of the knee…
Read more Can Olive Oil Compete with Arthritis Drugs? | NutritionFacts.orgThe Buchinger-modified fasting program is put to the test. A century ago, fasting—“starvation, as a therapeutic measure”—was described as “the ideal measure for the human hog…” (Fat shaming…
Read more The Largest Study on Fasting in the World | NutritionFacts.orgAlternate-day modified fasting is put to the test for lifespan extension. Is it true that alternate-day calorie restriction prolongs life? Doctors have anecdotally attributed improvements in a variety…
Read more Is Our Life Expectancy Extended by Intermittent Fasting? | NutritionFacts.orgSome 24 years ago, Diana Bianchi peered into a microscope at a piece of human thyroid and saw something that instantly gave her goosebumps. The sample had come…
Read more The Most Mysterious Cells in Our Bodies Don’t Belong to UsPain, swelling, and stiffness – things you’re familiar with if you have rheumatoid arthritis (RA) . You may wonder what causes these symptoms, how…
Read more Ins and Outs of Rheumatoid ArthritisRheumatoid arthritis can take a toll on your mental health. Jennifer Holder, community leader of Webmd’s Facebook RA group, talks about how her friends…
Read more Taking Care of Your Mental Health When You Have RAUp until a few years ago, Heather Sullivan’s 14-year-old son, Sawyer, had struggled with eczema his entire life. When he was just a baby, most of his body…
Read more Doctors Suddenly Got Way Better at Treating EczemaFor the first decade of her life, Saada Branker enjoyed a normal, active childhood in Montreal. But after a year of unexplained pain in her shoulders, hands,…
Read more Life With RA: You Are Your Best AdvocateLast week, just a couple of hours into a house-sitting stint in Massachusetts for my cousin and his wife, I received from them a flummoxed text: “Dude,” it…
Read more It’s Gotten Awkward to Wear a MaskOur Medieval ancestors left us with a biological legacy: Genes that may have helped them survive the Black Death make us more susceptible to certain diseases today. It’s…
Read more Genetic twist: Medieval plague may have molded our immunity
