Topic: Health & Healing

The study findings show that sulforaphane, a chemical in broccoli, switches on a set of antioxidant genes and enzymes in specific immune cells, which then combat the injurious effects of molecules known as free radicals that can damage cells and lead to disease.

Eat your broccoli! That's the advice from UCLA researchers who have found that a chemical in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables may hold a key to restoring the body's immunity, which declines as we age.

Traditional Martial Arts is principally a healing system that provides practitioners specific methods to improve health and build a foundation for longevity. Training techniques consider age, body type and condition, and provide a road map for the middle-aged student to purify mind and body, resulting in remarkable improvements.

After her stroke four years ago, Sylvia Smith, 62, thought many activities she had taken for granted would forever be beyond her reach. At the urging of her son, she began practicing Oom Yung Doe, a traditional martial art that has helped her, like many others, bring back much of her lost condition.

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"I feel better physically, mentally and surely spiritually than I did when I was 30 or 40." Oom Yung Doe practitioner Nancy Heilman, as seen on the Oprah Winfrey Show.

As consumers spend more time using hand-held electronics, tinnitus (ringing in the ears) is becoming more widespread.

An estimated 50 million people suffer from some degree of tinnitus that ranges from mild to severe -- so severe that it can have a huge impact on one's life. While the cause of tinnitus is not fully understood, experts say that it may be the result of an injury to the hearing mechanism caused by a sudden loud noise/explosion or repeated and prolonged exposure to loud noises (loud music, occupational exposure, etc.) Until recently, tinnitus was experienced mostly by those over 50.

Children who are spanked or victims of other corporal punishment are more likely to have sexual problems as a teen or adult, according to research presented by Murray Straus of the University of New Hampshire.

Children who are spanked or victims of other corporal punishment are more likely to have sexual problems as a teen or adult, according to new research presented last week by Murray Straus, co-director of the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire.

Music therapy seems to work best when combined with a well designed treatment program that includes traditional therapy. Just listening to some Mozart doesn't seem to be very effective.

Music therapy might help ease the symptoms of depression, though its effectiveness as a stand-alone intervention is not certain, according to a recent review of five small studies.

"Practicing Medicine Without A License? The Story of the Linus Pauling Therapy for Heart Disease by Owen Fonorow with Sally Snyder Jewell will be available this month. This book by the co-founder of the Vitamin C Foundation covers the greater than 50-year history of the vitamin C theory of heart disease as well as the 12-year history of a therapy for cardiovascular disease invented by the American scientist, Linus Pauling.

Heart patients who decided to follow Linus Pauling's advice recovered in approximately 30 days, and many experienced significant relief in as little as 10 days. The recoveries only occurred after these former patients adopted the Pauling-therapy, usually without their doctor's knowledge or consent.

Pregnant women who perceive having a well-balanced relationship with their parents during their childhood will experience fewer difficulties in the transition to motherhood, as opposed to women whose relationship with their parents was characterized by unresolved anger or rejection – reveals a new study conducted at the University of Haifa.

Pregnant women who perceive having a well-balanced relationship with their parents during their childhood will experience fewer difficulties in the transition to motherhood, as opposed to women whose relationship with their parents was characterized by unresolved anger or rejection – reveals a new study conducted at the University of Haifa. The study also found that women who tend to deny negative experiences in early childhood relationships expected to experience a relationship with their future children characterized by less warmth compared to other women who participated in the study.

Taking the supplement ginkgo biloba had no clear-cut benefit on the risk of developing memory problems, according to "Neurology," the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

A three-year study involving 118 people age 85 and older with no memory problems has shown no clear-cut benefit from using ginkgo biloba for keeping memory problems at bay, according to the February 27, 2008, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

The theory behind binaural beats is used in many high tech meditation and self improvement tapes and CDs. It's all part of the brain's ability to bring about healing.

Binaural beats are perceived sounds; in other words, they are not real, except to your brain. How do they work if they are unreal, then? It triggers the brain responses at a irresistible level, and can train your brain to do anything that it might otherwise find difficult to accomplish on its own. To sum it up, binaural beats are like the brain's imaginary little friend who cannot be 'seen' or rather, cannot be heard but still is able to stimulate your mind better than many other things.

Eating curcumin, a natural ingredient in the spice turmeric, may dramatically reduce the chance of developing heart failure, researchers at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre of the Toronto General Hospital have discovered.

In a study entitled, “Curcumin prevents and reverses murine cardiac hypertrophy,” published in the February edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers found when the herb is given orally to a variety of mouse models with enlarged hearts (hypertrophy), it can prevent and reverse hypertrophy, restore heart function and reduce scar formation.