Health and Vitality Naturals

In my most recent post titled, “ Health and Survival Tips: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic” I focused my commentary on adverse effects of prescription drugs on the immune system in humans. The current post adds more facts to similar views, although this time around it tends to highlight  the fact that even commonly used over the counter pain medications have been found adversely affect  the immune system against viral infections. These include Aspirin, Acetaminophen and Ibuprofen, which have been studded at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Details of the study are available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2172402    With the awareness that such pain medications have adverse effects on our immune system, it’s time to look beyond  the medical model on management of pain using drugs, and give it a try for the Alternative Medical/Natural Health approach which uses healthy foods and nutritional supplements (e.g magnesium, zinc, vitamin D, vitami...

One of the most frequent question featuring on the internet on the coronavirus pandemic is: “” Why are some Covid-19 patients asymptomatic? ” See article at: ( https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/why-are-some-people-asymptomatic   ) To that question scientists and experts have two main opinions, one pointing to the characteristics of the virus(infectiousness and viral load) on old aged people and those with certain underlying chronic disease conditions, and the other pointing to the host ’s defense mechanism (innate immunity defense system ).   Most scientists and experts aligned to governments and policy making institutions lean towards the view of a focus on COVID-19 old-age related infectivity and underlying-disease related infectivity , as being most likely responsible for the variations in manifestations of the disease in people and/or populations, drive their interventions measures to focus on finding drugs and vaccines to fight the enemy (COVID-19).  I however tend...

In our modern world and health environment flooded with misinformation, cooked up health research evidence, misleading health research findings, false health intervention beneficial claims, speculative scientific views taken or believed to be proven facts when they are actually not, etc., comes as a challenge to most of us as we seek to obtain the much needed helpful information which enables us to achieve a healthful life and well-being. To navigate through and overcome these challenges, there is always a starting point, ie., getting back to the basics of life in health, illness and healing and/or recovery, getting back to nature. Simply put, as well expressed in the book by Ehret (1910), “ Simplicity and moderation, eating mostly fruits and vegetables, a few nuts and seeds, will have a more powerful impact on the health and vitality of a person than the latest million-dollar gadget”. Some of the thought-provoking questions posed by Ehret (1910), to help us think of the road-map t...

In order to keep ourselves healthy, we need to understand in totality the meaning of health. We can achieve this goal through a closer look at the definitions provided by various authorities in issues of health. The definitions are crafted to try to capture all that entails our health and/or the health of other living organisms ( health determinants). At individual level, digging deeper in understanding the meaning of health in its broadest perspective would help us to be conscious of what we can do for ourselves to maintain our own health and wellness, and where to get help were necessary. For a better understanding of health, it is quite helpful to clear the the confusion we often encounter with regard to the difference between health and medicine (with definitions also provided below). The World health Orginization (WHO) defines health as follows: “Health is a   state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the   absence of disease or infirmity.”...

Current facts about food/nutrition on our health, especially those used by policy makers in many countries to develop dietary guidelines do not step up to the plate on keeping us stay healthy. The current status of facts widely available to the public on food/nutrition and our health, makes it fairly complex to put to use, not only by the  ordinary layman, but also by people skilled in the nutrition science field. This is likely to be due to the fact that most of the theoretical foundations from which the nutritional facts are derived are based on the reductionist biomedical model of diseases or ill-health, which makes it a monumental task to apply in exploration of the complex nutritional science/medical field. One of the  areas of concern on this issue lies in undue attention given to macronutrients at the expense of micronutrients  in their roles to human health and disease. Such a scenario calls to attention, challenges of the usefulness of nutrition information for...