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News & Notes: Antioxidants for Relief from Tinnitus; Lutein and Zeanthin for Healthy Eyes; Fish Oils for Seniors
Tinnitus and Oxidative Stress by Jule Klotter Oxidative stress is a major factor underlying the ringing, roaring, or other annoying (even debilitating) sounds that characterize...
Ask the Doctor: Are Covid Vaccines Risky for Men Receiving Hormone Injections?
Question for Dr. Rona: If a man in his early to mid 60’s takes a testosterone shot once a month, is it dangerous to take...
News & Notes: Vitamin D and C for Covid; A Cause of Colorectal Cancer; Heart Attack Risk Post-Vaccine
Study Shows Vitamin D Deficiency is Strong Risk Factor for COVID Severity, Mortality In a retrospective analysis of 646 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, researchers found that...
Life After Sugar: A Consumer’s Guide to Alternative Sweeteners
Updated January 1st, 2022 Refined carbohydrates are often called empty calories. Actually, they’re worse than “empty” – they’re comparable to credit cards that create nutritional...
Lavender Essential Oil ~ For Relief from Depression, Pain, and Burns
Soon after I moved to British Columbia, Canada, I went for a leisurely drive to a town about an hour away, down a winding, scenic...
Mending Our Spiritual Fabric: 3 Indigenous Practices for Healing Mental Health Issues
Many moons ago, Aboriginal and Indigenous cultures lived off the land and were connected to the spirit of all living things. They believed that the...
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: Inside the World of Environmental Illness
(Correction: In the print version of this article published in Vitality’s Winter 2021 issue, it was incorrectly stated that Covid vaccines contain heavy metals. However,...
Nourish Your Mental Health with 14 Brain-Loving Herbs and Nutrients
We have just gone through an unparalleled year of severe stress with the pandemic. Many have lost their jobs or have had threats to their...
Homeopathic Medicine for Hair Loss in Women
The hair on our head is like a vegetable garden. How well it flourishes depends on what is happening beneath the surface. Just as poor...
Purple Goddess Online Pilgrimage™ – A 12-Month Spiritual Journey
Pilgrimage is about longing — longing for connection, longing for source, longing to “come home.” Phil Cousineau describes it beautifully in his book The Art...
Twelve Intervention Trials Conclude that Vitamin C Works for Covid
So why are hospitals prohibited from using it? Everyone knows that vitamin C is important for immunity. Sales of both oranges and vitamin C tablets...
Fire Up Your Winter Meals with Immune Boosting Chile Peppers
Chile Pepper Medicine Turns Up the Heat The mighty capsicum (botanical name for pepper) has been named 2016 Herb of the Year by the International Herb Association.
Top 10 Supplements for Preventing & Reversing Alzheimer’s, Dementia, and More
(Endorsed by the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition) If you are 65 years old, you have a one in eight chance of suffering from significant...
Beyond Topical Steroids: Chinese Medicine for Childhood Eczema
(Updated Nov. 3, 2021) Skin conditions are difficult to ignore. Atopic dermatitis is a common, chronic, life-altering disease that affects the skin. Atopic dermatitis is...
Fall Harvest: Edible Wild Plants
(Updated Nov 1st, 2021) I grew up in the countryside, where eating locally was as simple as going out to the garden to pick a...
Change of Season Soup: Hearty Lung-Cleansing Food as Medicine
(Updated October 30, 2021) Our public health care system, which is largely influenced by its profit-driven suppliers, is based on the paradigm of treating the...
