Dr. Joseph Mercola's Natural Health Articles
Get a healthy dose of natural health news that you can actually use! In this podcast, Dr. Joseph Mercola provides you with practical lifestyle tips and important health alerts.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Episodes
- 49
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2010
Enormously Popular Drug Used to Treat this Harmless Condition Can be Addictive, Trigger Hip Fractures, and Spark Intestinal Infection
Here are some of the side-effect free methods U.S. News & World Report lists as ways to relieve heartburn:
Avoid heartburn-triggering foods
Stay upright for a few hours after you eat
E…
Sat 05 Jun 2010
Healthier Men Want More Sex for More Years
According to a new study, healthier men, no matter their age, have better sex more frequently and desire it more often than healthier women -- and a healthier sex life could mean a longer life.
The p…
Sat 03 Apr 2010
Experts Say U.S. Doctors Overtesting, Overtreating
Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggests that many Americans are being overtreated.
New evidence and updated guidelines are reco…
Thu 01 Apr 2010
How to Prevent Lower Back Pain
Back pain affects about 8 out of 10 people. But there are many steps you can take to avoid it. One of the best things you can do to prevent back pain is to exercise regularly and keep your back and a…
Tue 30 Mar 2010
Central Figure in Vaccine Cover-Up Absconds With $2 Million
Dr. Poul Thorsen, a central figure behind the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) claims disputing the link between vaccines and autism and other neurological disorders has disappeared after officials…
Tue 30 Mar 2010
New Research Finds Most Slippery Non-Stick Surface
Scientists have obtained the first glimpse of miniscule air bubbles that keep water from wetting a super non-stick surface. The non-stick material was created by “pock-marking” a smooth material with…
Tue 16 Mar 2010
Omega-3 Boosts Brain Function in Boys
The omega-3 fat DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) may alter the function of the brain associated with working memory, according to results of a new study with healthy boys.
Scientists showed, for the first…
Tue 16 Mar 2010
Fructose: This Common Food Ingredient Is as Addictive as Cocaine?
By Dr. Mercola
The interview above is with Dr. Richard Johnson, a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado, where he runs the kidney division and is in charge of transplantation and res…
Sat 13 Mar 2010
Is Vitamin D the New Silver Bullet for Cancer?
Doctors have known that low levels of vitamin D are linked to certain kinds of cancers as well as to diabetes and asthma, but new research also shows that the vitamin can kill human cancer cells.
Re…
Thu 11 Mar 2010
Do Not Take The Deadly Diabetes Drug "Avandia" -- Two Reasons Why
Hundreds of people taking Avandia, a controversial diabetes medicine, needlessly suffer heart attacks and heart failure each month.
Confidential government reports say that about 500 heart attacks an…
Tue 09 Mar 2010
Why Anxiety Drugs are Addictive
Valium-like drugs use the same potentially addictive "reward pathways" in the brain as heroin and cannabis, according to new research.
Researchers found that so-called benzodiazepine drugs, such as A…
Thu 04 Mar 2010
Top 8 Foods That Slow Your Aging
By Dr. Mercola
Healthy foods not only provide you with life-giving nutrients and fuel for all the organs in your body, they also help you keep an ideal weight. And as study after study proves, and re…
Sat 27 Feb 2010
HFCS: This Common Food Ingredient Can Really Mess Up Your Metabolism
By Dr. Mercola
Continued from Part 1.
What if you were to learn that every day, 25 percent of your calories came from a poison, disguised as a food?
And what if you discovered that this chemical i…
Tue 26 Jan 2010
Why Your DNA Isn’t Your Destiny
You have had a long-standing deal with biology: whatever choices you make during your life might ruin your short-term memory or make you gain weight t or could hasten death, but they won't change you…
Sat 23 Jan 2010
How to Lick Bad Breath Fast -- as Easy as 1, 2, 3...
Bad breath is often a symptom of dry mouth -- a condition known as “xerostomia.” Other symptoms of this problem include saliva that seems thick, sores or split skin at the corners of your mouth, and…
Tue 12 Jan 2010
Which Organic Label Should You Trust?
By Dr. Mercola
Many "health" experts continue to argue that there is little difference between organic and conventionally raised produce, but the scientific evidence -- and common sense -- says oth…
Thu 01 Oct 2009
Your Habits Are More Important Than Your Genes
The risk of becoming obese is 2.5 times higher for those who have double copies of a particular gene. However, a good diet neutralizes the harmful effects of the gene. This means that the critical fa…
Tue 29 Sep 2009
Secret Link Between Cigarettes and Cell Phones?
Cell phones are used by an estimated 275 million people in the United States and 4 billion worldwide.
A recent review of studies assessed whether there was epidemiologic evidence for an association b…
Tue 29 Sep 2009
Despite Anti-Vitamin D Bias, CDC Stumbles on Deficiency Link to H1N1 Deaths
So far, Swine flu, H1N1, has killed thirty-six children in U.S. and analysis of CDC data indicates Vitamin D deficient children at higher risk of death.
The CDC did not realize they discovered this.…
Tue 22 Sep 2009
Simple Inexpensive Solution to Radically Lower EMF Exposure
Vicki Warren, an electrical engineer and former executive director of the Building Biology Institute specializes in creating healthy and environment-friendly homes and workspaces, explains that howev…
Tue 25 Aug 2009
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