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Methylene blue (MB), also known as methylthioninium chloride, is a medication that is mainly used to treat methemoglobinemia—a condition caused by elevated levels of methemoglobin in the blood. For this type of treatment, the medication is administered intravenously. There’s a reason methylene blue got its name. The stuff is blue. It has been used as a textile dye since the ... Continue Reading
It may shock you to find out that those “random” symptoms you’re experiencing are due to nutrient deficiencies. In this day and age, when every food and supplement is available to us at the click of a button, how could it be that we’re missing out on important vitamins and minerals? Yet most women are deficient in specific nutrients. Whether you’re experiencing headaches, ... Continue Reading
Extra pounds from too much sugary stuff is the least of your worries now: sugar may be truly rotting your brain. This post from Big Think shares the research that found so. Time to lower your sugar intake. Scientists from the University of Bath have just found the first connection between excess blood sugar glucose and Alzheimer's disease. Researchers in this unprecedented ... Continue Reading
Drinking a can of diet soft drink a day, flavored with artificial sweeteners, is associated with almost three times higher risk of stroke and dementia, say researchers – but critics warn against the causal connection. Discover more in this post from The Guardian. Consuming a can a day of low- or no-sugar soft drink is associated with a much higher risk of having a stroke ... Continue Reading
A papaya represents a vision of lush, exotic environments: palm trees, tropical birds, and an overwhelming sense of health and fertility. If you’ve never seen one before, they are large (up to 10 or more pounds), oblong and vary between shades of green to peachy. Their flesh is dense, like a cantaloupe melon, but their interior contains a dense mesh of black gelatinous seeds, ... Continue Reading
