Its earthy flavor can definitely be an acquired taste. But if you’re trying to get back into shape — especially following a heart-related scare — it’s a flavor you’ll quickly learn tastes a lot like relief mixed with a powerful dash of get-up-and-go.

Next time you see your doctor about aches and pains, be very careful if he hands you a prescription for painkillers and says “take two of these and call me in the morning.” There’s a chance you may not wake up.

The cold conditions that would kill other germs are no match for listeria. Where other germs die, it thrives. In fact, this potentially lethal bacteria is quite at home in your refrigerator.

In the lab it killed 70 to 80 percent of cancerous head and neck tumor cells in just nine weeks — in rats. It also fights deadly MRSA — and wins. It sounds like a miracle cure — and it’s completely natural.

There are places in the world where common diseases actually rarely occur. Why? The jury is still out, but maybe we can adopt their disease-free principles and live longer and healthier too.

Smokers are ditching old-fashioned cigarettes for electronic ones. Additionally, a lot of young people are taking up the habit because, like their older counterparts thought decades earlier, they’re operating under the misguided opinion that smoking is cool.

According to published research, millions of medical diagnoses, procedures and treatments are based on questionable scientific evidence and that in some cases the “risk of harm exceeds its potential for benefit.” I’m not surprised. Worse, these medical mistakes and frauds keep safer alternatives suppressed.

Can you exercise too much? That is the question that a group of researchers set out to answer by reviewing several studies — and what they found is surprising.

Although many men worry about diminshing testosterone (low T), they should be just as concerned about striking a balance with estrogen. Here’s an easy guide to understanding the hormone interplay and what estrogen dominance means for them…