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Your kidneys are important. While you sit reading this, they are receiving 24% of your cardiac output. That fact tells you they are extremely important. Not only do they make urine, but they also help to balance your body's chemistry, produce the active form of...
Evidence is mounting that the microorganisms residing in your gut could help determine whether or not you develop hypertension.((Adnan S. Alterations in the gut microbiota can elicit hypertension in rats. Physiological Genomics>, 2016; physiolgenomics.00081.2016...
Reducing the Risk: Go Vegetarian Vegetarian and vegan diets offer significant benefits for diabetes prevention, treatment, and reversal of type 2 diabetes. In observational studies, individuals following vegetarian diets are about half as likely to develop diabetes,...
Scientific studies show that even mild dehydration from short periods of fluid restriction decreases alertness and ability to concentrate and impairs performance. German researchers have found that dehydration contributes to and exacerbates many chronic diseases. For...
Loneliness raises levels of circulating stress hormones and levels of blood pressure. It can gradually undermine regulation of the circulatory system so that the heart muscle works harder and the blood vessels are subject to damage by blood flow turbulence. Hawkley...