DIY Health

Joyce Hollman

4+ reasons diabetics should be eating mushrooms

If the mushroom’s only “gold star” was that it benefited your immunity, or helped lower blood pressure or inflammation, it would still be a superior natural remedy. But mushrooms can do much more, like helping you process glucose and possibly preventing diabetes altogether…

Jenny Smiechowski

How to use the placebo effect for IBS, back pain, migraines and more

What if you could knowingly take a sugar pill and still experience real healing power? It sounds far fetched but there’s proof it works. In fact, chronic low back pain sufferers knowingly taking a placebo pill had far less pain than people taking painkillers. We think we know why…

Dr. Michael Cutler

An M.D.’s suggestions for difficult to treat conditions

Even though people don’t always respond predictably to every kind of treatment, there are clear patterns of how your body works. Sometimes standard treatments and prescriptions work, and sometimes they don’t. You’ll be lucky to know those avenues are not your only choices…

Dr. Adria Schmedthorst

The box of cancer killing powder in your refrigerator

As if the worry that you or a loved one could end up with cancer isn’t enough, the costs and side effects of cancer treatment are enough to send anyone running for the hills. Luckily, researchers are looking into a new way to not only fight off cancer but also improve the success of some treatments…

Jenny Smiechowski

The vitamin that undoes the heart damage air pollution does

Air pollution increases your risk of heart attack, stroke, arrhythmias and heart failure. These risks are especially high when you’re exposed to seriously polluted air. Or when you’re already at risk for heart problems due to age or poor health. But here’s the scary thing…

Joyce Hollman

7 things that make quitting smoking easier

Smoking causes nearly half a million deaths a year. That means that about one in every five deaths can be attributed to the dangerous habit. You know you need to quit. You know you want to. So here are some things to help you along…