In a word, vitamin D3 is the one you want. Vitamin D2 is basically a waste of your time and money. Here’s what we know: Vitamin D is not actually a vitamin. It’s a fat-soluble hormone. Vitamin D has a multitude of effects in the human body, including absorbing calcium from the gut and the … Read more
I’ve been a yoga teacher for more than 30 years. I’ve taught yoga breathing techniques to hundreds of students. I know the importance of the breath for health. But the teacher can always be taught. In this case, Dr. Andrew Weil showed me a new/old breathing technique that is a powerful health enhancer, stress reducer … Read more
Note from Kathleen: Earlier this week, I posted an article on aluminum toxicity from Dr. Joseph Mercola and it generated some discussion and thoughts I’d like to expand upon here. Follow me on Facebook and Twitter if you don’t already. The link between aluminum exposure and Alzheimer’s disease has definitively confirmed what has long been … Read more
This article originally appeared on this website in November of 2014. Chalk up another of the impressive benefits of vitamin D: It can prevent Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases. Several new studies confirm that people with the lowest vitamin D levels are at dramatically increased risk of dementia. (Alzheimer’s is the most common form of … Read more
Kate Stockman is an old friend of Kathleen’s who has found some keys to staying young through the Ageless Grace program. This is a guest post from Kate. I turned 60 years young this year, and while 60 is the new 40, I am still recognizing differences in my body and brain, both of which … Read more
Statin drugs are among the most frequently used popular prescription drugs in the world, raking in sales of over $35 billion—that’s right billion—a year. For what? They purport to lower cholesterol and thereby prevent heart attacks. In fact they do lower cholesterol, but the evidence linking statins to heart attack prevention has been called into … Read more
<<< Click the book cover to find out more. We were talking about diabetes in the last chapter, and before we entirely leave there, it’s important to know that Alzheimer’s disease has sometimes been called “diabetes of the brain.” Even in the earliest stages of the devastating memory-destroying disease, the brain’s ability to metabolize sugar … Read more
Our American culture pre-programs people to believe that cognitive function declines as we age. There are countless jokes, even television sitcoms that exploit Grandma leaving the car keys in the freezer or Grandpa getting lost on the way home from the grocery or groping for a word or name. While we may chuckle at the … Read more
by Dr. Robert Thompson and Kathleen Barnes Do older men who take testosterone therapy risk having a heart attack, stroke or to die in the next couple of years? That’s the conclusion of a widely publicized =– and exceptionally flawed — study from the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System in Denver. This one study, … Read more
HEADACHE, MIGRAINE Your Garden RX: garlic, spinach, sunflower seeds, feverfew, mint, valerian Migraines are debilitating forms of headache that affect about 10 percent of us and are more common in women than in men. It has long been suggested there is a hormonal component to migraines, although the headache pattern is highly individual. Known migraine … Read more