Published June 23, 2010

A surprising treatment for summer colds

It seems like a lot of people are suffering through summer colds this year. When you have a cold, all you feel like doing is lying down and resting. While rest is important, colds shouldn’t keep you down all day. That’s because you need to do something else to treat the cold — and you can’t do it in bed.

This treatment might come as a surprise to you. But it confirms what I noticed when I was a youth. When I had a cold, I would often go over to a friend’s house where the neighborhood boys would play a vigorous game of basketball. I got a whopping work out. But I noticed that it seemed to burn out the cold. Now research has confirmed what I observed at age 13.

Investigators found results so much in favor of exercise in two little known studies, that they were totally surprised. Cold symptoms got much better with exercise; however, the time to full recovery from the cold was the same. So it lessened the strength, but not the duration, of the cold.

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Published June 18, 2010

Unlike pain drugs, this spice can relieve pain
and restore your liver

On Wednesday, I showed you a popular prescription pain killer kills more than pain. It can destroy your liver and kill you too. But you don’t have to suffer through Big Pharma’s so-called medicine. You can relieve your pain and even restore your liver with the same herb.

If you have inflammatory liver disease, your best friend might be the colorful curry pigment curcumin. I’ve written lots about it. It’s a near miracle anti-inflammatory. So it’s great for pain. But it’s also great for liver inflammation, which can lead to cirrhosis, scarring, blockage, and even cancer. Some of the worst effects of liver inflammation are primary sclerosing cholangitis and primary biliary cirrhosis. These can lead to terrible blockages and scarring.

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Published June 17, 2010

Is there any truth to the “Acid-Ash” diets?

You may have heard that as people grow older, and especially when they become sick, their bodies become progressively more acidic. You may have even heard about some new diets on the market called “Acid-Ash” diets. Should you be on one of these diets?

Early in my alternative medical career, someone told me it’s the foods we eat that cause this acid accumulation. They said certain foods, known as acid foods, leave an acidic residual when your body metabolizes them. Other foods leave an alkaline (opposite of acid) residual. Therefore, the reason that people become acidic is because they eat too many acid foods and not enough alkaline foods. But is there any truth to this theory?

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