After a number of alerts about carrageenen recently, I researched several web sources to collect a few simple facts for VitaminAgent. This write-up from Dr. Wiel’s staff is nice and concise: “What about carrageenan? I know that it is widely added to foods like ice cream and yogurt, but I’ve heard that it isn’t good for you and should be ...

What is MSM (methylsulfonylmethane)? It’s an organic sulfur compound that’s used to improve immune function, lower inflammation and help restore healthy bodily tissue. The reason so many benefits are attributed to the MSM supplement is because MSM provides biologically active sulfur, which is the fourth most plentiful mineral in the body and needed for many different critical bodily functions every single ...

Why Tea? Back when Europe was stone huts and the Mayans were playing soccer, the Chinese were drinking tea. Tea goes back at least 5,000 years as medicine and more than 1,000 years as a simple beverage. Made from the leaves of a bush related to flowering camellia, tea has had a role in major features such as the American ...

Mucoid plaque, which is known in medical literature as Biofilm (1), Intestinal Metaplasia, Mucin (abnormal kind) and others, can grow inside the intestines on the mucosa walls. The presence of this substance inhibits the proper absorption of nutrients and provides a breeding ground for unfriendly bacteria, fungi and parasites. The presence of this substances has been associated with a whole ...

There are few medical recommendations which can be safely recommended for children. Alongside of including a physician or pediatrician’s consult it is up to the parent’s discretion to determine what they can do for an ill child.  For the majority of illnesses, parents wait until significant signs of distress such as dehydration, difficulty breathing, rash, injury or high fever alert ...

Where inflammation is a chronic problem, as we find effects most Westernized societies – all diseases originate from chronic reduction of healthy system capacity and therefore all roads lead to Rome – the inflammation leads to disease, not the cause of insult bringing the harm but the inflammatory response causing a cascade of dysfunction in many possibly tissues, lesions and ...

There have been a number of recent publications in the realm of alternative medicine which bring alarm to the Side Effects (SE) and Adverse Effects (AE) of statin drugs.  The Red Yeast Rice (Monascus purpurus) fungus statins, originally known as Lovastatin (and taken many names afterward, are basically the same) do carry some risk. In 2005, the Journal of the ...

10 Ways Suger should be limited Added sugar is the single worst ingredient in the modern diet. It can have harmful effects on metabolism and contribute to all sorts of diseases. Here are 10 disturbing reasons why you should avoid added sugar like the plague. 1. Added Sugar Contains No Essential Nutrients and is Bad For Your Teeth You’ve probably heard ...

This article is mostly from the Grace Communications Foundation.  We summarize the CAFO situation: Industrial animal agriculture farms, also called factory farms or confined / concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO) pollute the air, water and soil in many ways. In air there are emissions of greenhouse gases, particles and foul odors and numerous toxic chemicals. In the United States and ...

Prologue by Benefits of Honey: Discover the enormous host of honey benefits; the myriad floral tastes and countless health applications. The versatility of honey and the goodness it can bring into your everyday practical life is WOW! Just a Sweet Placebo? Not only does this delectable liquid stimulate your taste buds and whet your appetite, its unique taste and aroma ...