Evolving Health

When fasting (meaning, in this case, not eating any carbohydrates), the pancreas releases a polypeptide hormone, glucagon , that stimulates ...

As evident by many sugar-laden soda pop "potbellies" of North America, lipogenesis can obviously occur from drinking and eating to...

Normally what you need before you can start up aerobic respiration in the mitochondria is a multienzyme complex known as pyruvate dehydrogen...

Almost half of us will die of a heart attack or stroke; in fact, it’s likely many of us have been developing a type of cardiovascular diseas...

It's interesting to note that contraceptives can increase risk of thrombosis. A report in 1980 showed that two women who died of myocard...

Next time you're on a long car trip, check your legs to see if one is redder or warmer than the other. Or if your calf or thigh begins t...

When a blood vessel is injured, a coagulation cascade is activated to form an organized clot to retain moisture and begin a healing process....

Unlike other nations where food and culture are intertwined and make up the diets of most people, here in the U.S. we have more diet books t...

Sickle cell anemia is a genetic blood disorder that occurs when production of red blood cells contain abnormally shaped hemoglobin that, in ...

Do you feel tired and weak all the time? You should find out if you have pernicious anemia. The blood disorder occures when you can't ma...

The last time my wife saw her father, she was nine years old. He left  to the hospital to have some general blood tests done. His doc had to...

In his thorough review of the Paleolithic origins of the human diet, Cordain et al may have missed iodine and its role, according to Stephen...

If you‘ve had children, chances are you’ve heard of a hemangioma. The fancy name may have sounded scary, but then you might have felt better...

What conventional cancer treatment has fewer side effects, is less expensive, and requires a shorter recovery time? Cryosurgery, or cryother...

Cancer treatment with vitamin C was first researched by Nobel-prize winner Linus Pauling in the 1970s. Massive oral doses, however, were not...

Soon we may see a new way to treat breast cancer. Cyclophilin B is a protein that was just uncovered by Northwestern University researchers ...

A review published in 2000 of four spontaneous cancer healing reports offered that the most likely event that occurred was immune modulation...

When you live in a sunny climate (like I do), your risk of colon cancer and other cancers drops. Scientists from Johns Hopkins University cr...

Now that I'm off antibiotics it's time for probiotics. Considering that there are around 500 species of bacteria in our guts, it...

My mother always used to tell me to chew my food. Did she know that salivary alpha-amylase was hydrolyzing carbohydrates in my mouth? She pr...