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Could Eating More Fermented Foods Help Improve Mental Health?

Fermented foods like sauerkraut and kimchi are powerful allies to your mental health, courtesy of the neuroactive microbes and molecules they contain.1 Microbes and their metabolites, created during fermentation modulate the microbiota-gut-brain axis, which involves neural, immune, endocrine and metabolic pathways.2 Writing in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, researchers with University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland… Read More: Could Eating More Fermented Foods Help Improve Mental Health? »

What Is Aloe Vera Good For?

Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published August 14, 2017. When you think of aloe vera, you may remember it as a spiky plant with tiny spines along both sides of the thick, variegated leaves that fan out from their base. A succulent plant that grows wild in tropical regions, including… Read More: What Is Aloe Vera Good For? »

Is Histamine to Blame for Your Headache, Hives and Heartburn?

Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published January 25, 2017. If you’ve ever had allergies with hives, nasal congestion, headaches or coughing, you may already know histamine, a chemical neurotransmitter your body produces, is what drives the most common allergy symptoms. However, in around 1% of the population, histamine overload may… Read More: Is Histamine to Blame for Your Headache, Hives and Heartburn? »

Six “Grow Younger” Nutrients I Take Every Day

By Dr. Mercola Nutritionists have long been interested in the dynamics of telomere length in the body, and how telomeres figure in to human health and life expectancy. Telomeres were first discovered in 1973 by Alexey Olovnikov. He found that the tiny units of DNA at the very end of each chromosome—the telomere—shorten with time… Read More: Six “Grow Younger” Nutrients I Take Every Day »