Are you experiencing signs of menopause? Occasional hot flashes, mood swings and problems sleeping?

While there are all manner of modern pharmaceutical interventions, there is a gentler and more natural way to address these issues.

According to Maharishi Ayurveda, menopause is not a disease; it is a natural progression from childbearing years. If this is true, what causes such uncomfortable symptoms?

Accumulated toxins can prevent your body from adjusting to hormonal changes of midlife. The key to a comfortable, easy transition is to cleanse the body of impurities that build up before and during menopause.

It is these toxins that lead to uncomfortable and often more serious consequences, such as loss of bone density that most women accept as a normal part of menopause. …read more of Ayurveda and Menopause here

A disturbing analysis of mortality and morbidity was recently published in the Journal of Gerontology. Americans are living longer but sicker lives. We’re now living fewer healthy years.

Compared to a decade ago, we live about a year longer, but develop a serious disease like a stroke, cancer or diabetes two years earlier. One step forward, two steps back.

The researchers at UCLA also tracked capacity to function, for example, the ability to walk up ten steps or to kneel without using special equipment and found a similar trend.

In just one decade, we now live more years with serious illness and disability, meaning we’re living longer in sickness, not in health; a longer lifespan, but a shorter health span. …read more of Watermelon for Erectile Dysfunction? here

Cleaning the house can certainly be a chore, but it shouldn’t expose you to health risks and foul the earth.

The issues associated with toxic chemicals found in household cleaning products that line store shelves across America are a concern to health conscious consumers.

A recent Product Report from the Organic Consumer’s Association stated that the chemicals in many cleaners that foam, bleach and disinfect to make our dishes, bathtubs and countertops gleaming and germ-free, also contribute to indoor air pollution.

Fragrances added to many cleaners may cause acute reactions such as respiratory symptoms, allergy and asthma, headaches, sneezing and eye irritation.

Oftentimes common household cleaners contain substances that are poisonous if ingested and/or harmful if inhaled or touched and many are among the most toxic products of any found in the home. …read more of Tea Tree Oil: Effective Alternative to Hazardous Household Cleaners? here

In announcing the detection of a new case of mad cow disease in California, the USDA emphasized that her carcass never made it into the food supply. The fact that the infected animal was a dairy cow, though, raises the question about the disposition of her milk.

While, currently there is no direct evidence that cow’s milk poses any mad cow risk, when it comes to this mysterious class of diseases, we have learned time and time again that absence of evidence of risk, does not equal evidence of absence of risk.

The USDA flatly declared that milk does not transmit mad cow disease, but that’s what we used to think about scrapie, the parallel disease in sheep.

Research in the last five years unequivocally demonstrated that milk could indeed become contaminated with prions, which are the infectious proteins that cause these transmissible sponge-like (spongiform) brain diseases (encephalopathies). …read more of Mad Cow California – Is the Milk Supply Safe? here

Although DDT has not been used in the U.S. since 1972, traces have been found in human breast milk, even today.  That is not to say that you should stop breastfeeding.

On the contrary, breastfeeding is the best possible nourishment, however you should be aware of the potential sources of this deadly pesticide that still exist.  Besides, if DDT is in human breast milk, it most certainly can be found in cow’s milk.

DDT (Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) is a banned organochlorine pesticide used heavily from the 1960’s up to and including the 1980’s in some western countries. Originally used to treat malaria and typhus during wartime years, DDT was then later used to kill insects on agricultural crops.

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The persistent nature and bioaccumulation of pesticide residue was only detected some time after mass worldwide use had occurred.  This pesticide has been associated with numerous harmful health issues including, neurotoxicity, reproductive disorders, lowered levels of immunity and cancer.^[1] …read more of DDT – Persistent Pesticide Still a Threat here