Nothing really startling there. But you might be surprised to learn that there’s scientific evidence that barefooted is better. Among other things, it’s important to development of the nervous system and to optimal brain development as well! Turns out the feet are the most nerve-rich parts of the human body, which means they contribute to the building of neurological pathways in the brain. Covering them in shoes, therefore, means we’re eliminating all kinds of opportunities for children’s brains to grow new neural connections.
Scientists have found mounting evidence that Parkinson’s could start in the gut before spreading to the brain, with one study in 2017 observing lower rates of the disease in patients who had undergone a procedure called a truncal vagotomy.
The operation removes sections of the vagus nerve – which links the digestive tract with the brain – and over the course of a five-year study, patients who had this link completely removed were 40 percent less likely to develop Parkinson’s than those who hadn’t.
According to the team led by Bojing Liu from the Karolinska Instituet in Sweden, that’s a significant difference, and it backs up earlier work linking the development of the brain disease to something happening inside our bellies.
If we can understand more about how this link operates, we might be better able to stop it.
“These results provide preliminary evidence that Parkinson’s disease may start in the gut,” said Liu.
“Other evidence for this hypothesis is that people with Parkinson’s disease often have gastrointestinal problems such as constipation, that can start decades before they develop the disease.”
We all know the importance of regular exercise and the crucial impact it has on our mental, physical, and emotional health. Despite all of these benefits, some days you just don’t have time to squeeze in a workout.
Thankfully, new studies have shown that walking at least fifteen minutes every day can add seven years to your life. One study followed sixty-nine people between the ages of 30-60 and found that those who engaged in daily moderate exercise, such as walking, experienced anti-aging benefits. So, if you know you won’t be able to do your regular workout due to an early morning meeting, taking a 15-minute walk on your lunch break or after dinner could get you the same benefits.
The following findings are from three Harvard studies on walking and cardiovascular health:
Among 10,269 male graduates of Harvard College, walking at least nine miles a week was linked to a 22% lower death rate.
Among 44,452 male health professionals, walking at least 30 minutes a day was linked to an 18% lower risk of coronary artery disease.
Among 72,488 female nurses, walking at least three hours a week was linked to a 35% lower risk of heart attack and cardiac death and a 34% lower risk of stroke.
This plant, known as Cilantro, Chinese parsley or coriander, is often used in Mexican and Asian cuisine and offers innumerable health benefits. It is an excellent plant that can help prevent many diseases. It can reduce blood pressure, improve digestion and prevent inflammation. It has strong antibacterial properties, especially when it is in the form of oil, which is obtained from the seed of this plant (coriander oil).
It features lightly to heavily in my www.healthelicious.com.au recipes, depending on the purpose.
Did you have “wild measles” as a kid, not the measles strain found in Big Pharma measles vaccines?
I certainly did; that was in the 1940s, when Moms took their kids to “measles parties” so their children could contract a childhood “rite of passage,” immune system strengthening, infectious disease to acquire life-long immunity.
I had an itchy rash; looked like a polka-dotted kid; stayed home from school for a week of fun with board games, plus eating anything I wanted, so my little body could have enough nutrition to heal as quickly as possible. Proper nutrition, sewer sanitation, potable water and refrigeration were responsible for the demise of most communicable infectious diseases in the USA, since those diseases ‘disappeared’ before vaccines were invented. However, those diseases currently are ‘rampant’ in countries were those infrastructures are lacking. Thus the frightening disease statistics HHS/CDC/FDA like to scare people with.
By the way, most of those childhood diseases apparently were about fine-tuning kids’ developing immune systems, in my opinion. Nature obviously designed those diseases to provide life-long immunities, which could be passed down from Mother to Child during pregnancy and birth, something now denied due to what’s called “adaptive response immunity” supposedly provided by modern-day vaccines, which is an oxymoron.
As I write this Op-Ed, I checked the stats for measles in the USA, which were 981 cases as of June 3, 2019. Heck, 981 measles cases, back when I was a kid, was ‘nothing’. Almost every child contracted measles during the springtime of each year. It was expected; Moms prepared for it and knew how to treat it; not today!
“Before widespread use of the measles vaccine, an estimated 3 to 4 million people got measles each year in the United States, along with an estimated 400 to 500 deaths and 48,000 hospitalizations,” the CDC said. https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-06-03/number-of-measles-cases-in-us-981
[However, can we really trust and believe those CDC stats, when we know about CDC’s fraudulent practices involving consensus science; vested interest in the vaccine patents CDC and FDA own; and Big Pharma’s hoodwinking the U.S. Congress into passing the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which basically was a bailout from product liability lawsuits.]
“The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986 (42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-1 to 300aa-34) was signed into law by United States President Ronald Reagan as part of a larger health bill on Nov 14, 1986.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_Injury_Act
What’s happened?
What’s happened is Big Pharma has been able to bang their “kettle drums of propaganda” so as to drown out most real science as published in authentic medical journals, which never is taken seriously by federal health agencies, e.g., HHS, CDC and FDA, but in favor of consensus science, the current “gold standard” at CDC/FDA. Who are the CDC and FDA supposed to be working for: corporations or citizens’ wellbeing?
One of the more dramatically interesting vaccinology facts is the measles vaccine was ‘invented’
In 1963, John Enders and colleagues transformed their Edmonston-B strain of measles virus into a vaccine and licensed it in the United States. In 1968, an improved and even weaker measles vaccine, developed by Maurice Hilleman and colleagues [at Merck & Co.], began to be distributed.
However, two charts below graphically tell a dichotomous story when it comes to vaccines taking credit for eliminating various diseases.
