Shutting Down Seasonal Allergies

What can you do when allergies are causing you to have itchy eyes, wheezing, running noses and coughs besides turn to drugs? Here are a number of natural options you can take to stop your allergy reactions.

1. MSM (methylsulfonylmethane) is one of them. A study published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine found that subjects who took 2600 mg of MSM found their upper and total respiratory symptoms significantly reduced within seven days and improvement continued for the 30 days of the study. It’s best to start taking it before the allergy season begins .
2. Butterbur can really help allergies as validated in six double-blind-placebo-controlled studies. One well-known brand is Petadolex.  
3. Rosemarinic acid relieves allergy symptoms by dampening the immune response. It is available in supplement form from LEF.org.
4. Tinospora cordifolia showed relief from sneezing in 83% of the patients, nasal discharge in 69% and nasal obstruction in 61% as reported in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology. It can be found in the herbal supplement Immune Modulator with Tinofend from Life Extension Foundation and HistaEze from Designs for Health.
    

So…don’t suffer, experiment with these alternatives and see how allergy free you can become.

(Reported The Alliance for Natural Health May 6, 2014)

Free Knee And Hip Replacements

Several large companies, including Walmart and Lowes, are offering employees free hip and knee replacements. The employee can either get the replacement done in a local hospital and pay their regular copays and deductibles or they can travel to one of 4 top of the line hospital facilities in the country and not pay a cent including all travel expenses.

So how can they do this? What the companies are doing is paying a “bundled payment,” which promotes streamlined efficiency and safety. Since these four facilities do a high volume of these operations, they have above average patient outcomes and low rates of complications. Because of these factors, the companies actually expect to save money even by giving the replacements for free.

So instead of having to fly to another country to receive reasonably priced health care, this approach let’s you stay in this country and not even pay a penney. Hopefully, this will become a trend that ups the level of expertise and success in a wide range of treatments.

(Reported aarp.org/bulletin January-February 2014)

So Why Are Leafy Greens So Good For You?

A study published in Nature Immunology goes beyond the notion that vitamins and minerals are the reason leafy greens are good for you. The researchers explored how leafy greens can boost gut immunity by activating an immune gene called T-bet. The T-bet gene then turns on vitally important immune cells called innate lymphoid cells that protect the body from infection by monitoring the harmful bacteria in your gut. This leads to the production of interleukin-22, which can protect the body from invading bacteria.

So, please pass the leafy green salad.

 
The Amount Of Food Dye In Your Food

Food dyes are found in all kinds of processed food from salad dressings, to cheeses, soups and chips. Some children are more sensititve to these dyes and eating over 30 mg of dye can cause behavorial problems in these kids.

So, how much dye is in our foods? It turns out the first study to ever be done measuring the amount of dye in foods was conducted by Purdue University scientists. The researchers discovered that single servings of some foods are higher than the 30 mg limitation for avoiding behavorial issues.

To give you some examples, General Mill’s Trix cereal has 36.4 mg per serving, Cap’n Crunch All berries has 441 mg and Kool-Aid Burst Cherry has 52.3 mg. So… it wouldn't take long for a child to hit a 100 mg of the dye and to go much higher every day. Read your labels and eliminate artificial coloring as much as you can from your kids diet.

  
Early Detection Of Pancreatic Cancer
 

A 15-year-old, Jack Andraka, has invented a test for early and reliable detection of pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer is deadly because it is usually diagnosed so late that current treatments have a very low level of success. The boy developed a dipstick-type sensor to detect pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancer that is 168 times faster, 26,000 times less expensive and 400 times more sensitive than the current methods of detection. In addition, the test costs three cents, takes five minutes and has a 90% accuracy rate. The test is being evaluated for approval by the FDA.

How did he figure all this out? He did it using Google and Wikipedia. So…maybe the drug companies should turn over their research arms to kids – they can probably do a better job than the companies are currently doing.

A Dogs Nose Knows

The ability of dogs to sniff bombs, drugs, and survivors in disasters has just expanded.  Researchers in Italy have trained two dogs to sniff out the scent of prostate cancer in urine samples with a 98 percent success rate. The dogs did this from a pool of 677 people some of whom were cancer-free, others had low risk tumors and others had cancer that had metastasized.

The current medical test for prostate cancer have a false positive rate as high as 80%. Dogs have also successfully sniffed out lung tumors, colon cancer, melanoma and ovarian cancer. So, let the nose that knows sniff away.

(Reported blogs.discovermagazine.com May 19, 2014)

Computers vs Written Note Taking In Classrooms

How can we grow crops and preserve our soil? Crops that are planted annually, which are most crops, leave fields nutrient-poor , resulting in reduced future productivity. There’s a better option reported by Jerry Glover. Glover is a senior sustainable agricultural systems research advisor for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Professors at Northwestern University decided to conduct an experiment on the impact of how using computers to take notes in classrooms compared to taking handwritten notes affected academic performance and comprehension. The Professors band the use of electronic devices for one quarter and then allowed it the next.

The Professors found that students who used only paper and pen to take notes during the lectures earned the highest average grade for the quarter. The students using computers to take notes also reported that they were   multitasking by scanning Facebook, shopping and even watching sports. These students scored an average of four points lower than the paper and pen note takers. The Professors describe the importance of these 4 points as the difference between getting into medical school or not.

In another experiment they conducted, an immediate quiz was given following a live or recorded lecture. They found that the students taking written notes outperformed the computer note takers.

From the work that I do with Brain Gym®, I realized that writing lecture notes is a much more complex task for the brain to perform verse pressing a letter on a key board or screen. You are also including more of your senses in the process as you are looking at what you are writing and using a variety of muscles to make the letters. Could it be that schools that are eliminating the teaching of cursive writing may be putting students at a disadvantage in their ability to learn and think? Now that’s something to think about!

(Reported Northwestern Spring 2014)

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