Cats are often infected with a parasite called Toxoplasma. They get it from rodents that they eat as prey. The rodents, when infected with Toxoplasma, become fearless of cats, which increases their chance of being eaten. This is due to a sophisticated molecular mechanism the parasite uses to improve its chance of survival.
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When you take supplements, you would like to know that you are taking the most effective supplements. On the one hand, you want to be sure that our supplements are pure and do not contain any harmful substances, and we work every day to make this a reality. On the other hand, the substances you […]
In the past year or two you have heard me talk about gut health and probiotics a lot more frequently. That is because it becomes more and more clear how pivotal a good microbiome is for human health.
It is known that the liver has great regenerative capacities. What we do not know yet is how these regenerative abilities work. Knowing this could affect the lives of those who have severely damaged livers, for example, those who suffer from hepatitis C, cirrhosis or liver cancer. Many proteins that induce the regeneration of organs […]
Our kidneys are not regenerative like other organs and kidney damage can be difficult to correct. When we consider that kidneys excrete about 6 to 7 times more body water than all other excretory organs and most toxins have to pass through them, we can understand how important the cleansing of the kidneys is.
Fauja Singh, born April 1st, 1911, took part in the London Marathon in 2012 at the ripe age of 101 years. He ran 42 km in 7 hours and 49 minutes, an extraordinary undertaking within the reach of only a few people.
Holistic medicine has long focused on intestinal health as one of the core concerns for general health. There may be many ways that the digestive system plays a pivotal role in overall health. One of them is its involvement in the body’s immune response. A new study shows that the intestinal flora plays a key […]
The study of intestinal flora has been plagued by a bias: namely, that the studies were done on an already “industrialized” population with eating habits that could hardly be called “natural” Now a research team has studied the African Hanza hunter-gatherers and has drawn important conclusions for what a health gut flora would be.
Dr. Clark said that our white blood cells (WBCs) are our immune system. With a strong immune system, we should not get sick because the task of our WBCs is to protect us.
A recent release by the Cancer Prevention Coalition points out the dangers of formaldehyde in clothes and cosmetics. Especially wrinkle free clothing is burdened with formaldehyde. But Prof. Epstein also points out that though one finds formaldehyde in cosmetics only occasionally, that can be deceptive because there are at least eight common ingredients of cosmetics […]