Do you enjoy a shampoo with a rich lather? A shaving cream that really foams? Relaxing in a tub full of bubbles?
These may seem like some of life’s simple, innocent pleasures — until you look at what is causing all that foam and lather. Once you find out, you may decide it’s not so simple or pleasurable after all.
Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) and Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES), and their cousins like Ammonium Lauryl Sulfate and Sodium Myreth Sulfate produce a lot of foam very inexpensively. But SLS is so strong that it’s also used to scrub garage floors. And it has been proven to cause cancer in the long run.
SLS stays in the body up to five days. Other studies show it easily penetrates the skin and enters and maintains residual levels in the heart, liver, the lungs, and the brain. Yet SLS is found in most cleansing, foaming products — and even in some toothpastes.
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Researchers have used nanomaterials to develop a microchip sensitive enough to quickly determine the type and severity of a patient’s cancer, so that the disease can be detected earlier for more effective treatment.
The new device can sense the signature biomarkers that indicate the presence of cancer at the cellular level, even though these biomolecules are generally present only at low levels. Analysis can be completed in 30 minutes, a vast improvement over the existing diagnostic procedures that can take days.
It has been tested on prostate cancer and head and neck cancer models. It could potentially be used to diagnose and assess other cancers, as well as infectious diseases such as HIV, MRSA and H1N1 flu.
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Before I get into the pros and cons of colon cleansing, let me say that I did not include anything about parasites. Two things. First, in the USA parasites are rather unusual, estimated in the 5% range in the general population and mainly being a problem if you live under conditions known as “waste (more…)
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The Mediterranean Diet has survived the ages as being one of the healthiest diets you could possibly consume….and actually enjoy doing so. In pictorial format it is often presented as a pyramid by food groupings as you can see:
Inhabitants of the Mediterranean region continue to enjoy the lowest rates of chronic diseases and high life (more…)
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