This heart-helper can help your joints too

 Magnesium is a vital mineral for the prevention of heart disease, high blood pressure, insomnia, and a host of other problems. Nothing new there. But here’s something surprising. A new study shows that it also helps to protect your knees from arthritis.

Researchers from the University of North Carolina X-rayed the knees of 2,112 men and women. They found an amazing number of them, 36.7%, had X-ray evidence of osteoarthritis. Then they looked at how much magnesium they were getting in their diets. It turns out that those who were getting the least amount of magnesium were more than twice as likely to have arthritis in their knees.

Does this conventional cancer treatment cause cancer?

 I sincerely hope you never develop a life-threatening cancer. But if you do, there’s one thing you need to be aware of – your oncologist. It’s quite possible one of the treatments he recommends for you could actually CAUSE cancer.

That’s right! New evidence suggests that chemotherapy is a major carcinogen.

When treating cancer can destroy your neurons

If you have cancer and don’t want to end up with dementia too, then be careful about how you treat your cancer. Turns out one treatment in particular destroys your neurons.

For years medicine has taught that chemotherapy targets only dividing cells. Since your brain is considered stable, and slow to produce new cells, medicine considers it relatively immune from the toxic chemicals. But new research out of Indiana University adds to the growing list of toxicity caused by chemo.