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From Toxic Herb To Anti-Aging Wonder Drug – A Cinderella Story
Written by Wellness Club on April 26, 2016 – 4:55 pm -By Nurse Mark How a toxic plant may have become the anti-aging, anti-cancer wonder-drug of the near future. Ancient middle-eastern sheep and goat-herders couldn’t help but notice that when their animals ate a certain plant they produced more milk. The pretty, summer-flowering Galega officinalis was known variously as galega, goat’s-rue, French lilac, Italian fitch, […]
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Seven Not-Surprising Health Updates From 2015
Written by Wellness Club on January 13, 2016 – 4:45 pm -As many of you know, Nurse Mark and I read the medical news every single day. There isn’t much in the way of a “breakthrough” that we’d ever miss. We even know about the “pseudo-breakthroughs” — those lab rat studies that are over-hyped in importance. Because of this, some of these hot-off-the-press findings you have […]
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Vitamin K – A Longevity Vitamin
Written by Wellness Club on November 5, 2015 – 10:59 am -By Nurse Mark Vitamin K is well known for its role in blood clotting. So much so that otherwise well-meaning but under-informed doctors sometimes warn their patients away from Vitamin K and from foods containing Vitamin K out of fear that it might somehow make them have blood clots. Those are invariably the doctors […]
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How To Reduce Your Risk Of Death By Over 22%
Written by Wellness Club on October 28, 2013 – 8:57 pm -By Nurse Mark Imagine a drug that could reduce overall risk of death by 22 percent – and even better, reduce the risk of death from cardiovascular disease, infectious disease, and respiratory diseases by 24% to 56% in men and by 34% to 59% in women. A drug that could do that amount of […]
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This Simple Activity Cuts Diabetes Risk 40%
Written by Wellness Club on September 11, 2013 – 5:24 pm -By Nurse Mark I remember my grandfathers – both of them. My maternal grandfather was a watchmaker. The old-fashioned kind of watchmaker, who could actually make a functioning watch out of brass and steel – not just a fumble-fingered clerk who might not be able to replace the battery in your new electronic watch […]
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