“How healthy bacteria can protect us from illness in the home.”

By Dr. Michael L. Johnson

In the 1800’s butter was made from cream using a device called a butter churn.  This simple wooden device would churn cream until it hardened into butter. Being made of wood, these devices were extremely porous and this allowed for the growth of bacteria, lots and lots of bacteria.  They were rarely washed and literally covered with bacteria.

Seeing how filthy these things were, would send a modern-day germophobe scrambling for the Purell and the Lysol.  But people were not dying from eating the butter from these horrifically dirty devices.  Why?

Many factors contribute to causing colon cancer (it is multifactorial) but diet is probably the most important factor. Certain diets promote colon cancer, such as diets high in fat and red meat. Other diets help prevent colon cancer, especially diets high in fiber, calcium, fruits, and vegetables…

Vitamin D In the Fight Against Colon Cancer

Scientists first discovered the possible importance of vitamin D in preventing colon cancer more than 20 years ago. Let’s review some selected studies from the scientific literature to see what clues exist about the role vitamin D may play in preventing, and treating, colon cancer.

Distracted? Angry? Envious? There’s growing evidence that attention, emotion regulation—even love—are skills that can be trained through the practice of meditation. Perhaps it’s time for you to become a high-performance user of your own brain.

Weather-related headaches are a common complaint, and several smaller studies have hinted that variables like temperature and barometric pressure may play a role in causing painful outbreaks.

Heart disease patients have long been encouraged to eat more fish or take fish oil supplements containing omega-3 fatty acids. The reason? People who do, tend to live longer.  Researchers have discovered a clue to slowing down the aging process.

Specifically, the researchers behind the study report that for heart disease patients, omega-3 fatty acids may protect against death and illness by slowing biological aging.

Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, claimed major firms organized a “campaign of panic” to put pressure on the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a pandemic.

He believes it is “one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century,” and he has called for an inquiry.

“How to Find Yourself Again After A Period of Extreme Stress”

By Dr. Michael Johnson

Take a second and breathe.  Take a deep breath in and exhale it slowly.  Do this again.  There, that’s better.  Have you noticed people’s breathing shallows when they are stressed? 

When people are stressed out, it also limits their vision.  It makes them narrowly focus on their current needs and makes it impossible for them to plan for the future.  They lack vision.  They are in a fight with whatever stressor they are dealing with. 

So let’s try a radically different approach to how you handle things.  Instead of focusing solely on getting through the grind.  How about you allow yourself some time to focus on things you actually like!  Novel idea isn’t it?  Actually thinking about things that make you happy or would enjoy doing.