health briefs

This is smart health for real life. Short reads, clear science, practical moves. I show you where better energy, focus, and resilience come from. Follow along for data-driven insights, clinical strategies, and behind-the-scenes perspective on strategic health for individuals and companies.

Anti-Bacterial, Plant Medicine Christina Santini Anti-Bacterial, Plant Medicine Christina Santini

How to treat superbugs

There's a superbug called MERS spreading fast across Saudi Arabia and Northern Africa. Here's my emergency advice on what to do to keep safe from this antibiotic and vaccine resistant superbug. Western medicine has ZERO solutions for this superbug - no vaccines, no treatment whatsoever, so being knowledgable of other time-proven remedies that have broad spectrum effect can prove life saving.

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Superfoods, Good vs. Bad Fats Christina Santini Superfoods, Good vs. Bad Fats Christina Santini

Government dietary guidelines takes cholesterol OFF the "bad list"

Every five years, the Department of Health and Human Services, along with the Department of Agriculture, issues "Dietary Guidelines for Americans". This Federal Publication Determines How We Will Be Nudged Into Eating From Marketing, Food Labeling And Most Doctor/Nutritionist's Office. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee issues 2015 scientific report is groundbreaking in one way - it is taking cholesterol off the bad guys food list. Kinda sad, though, that something we have known for decades to be a biochemical indisputable fact - humans NEED cholesterol to thrive - is now finally going mainstream.  

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6 nutrition strategies to aid fracture healing

So, last year I fractured my right elbow in a mountain bike incident; too bad cause I have always wanted to pick up skateboarding. However, I can honestly say that this broken bone incident has put me off risking breaking anything else, which inevitably happens on a skateboard. This regardless of bone density level; bones tend just not to like kissing the asphalt at full speed very much. Super annoying, it makes you realize you are not Batman afterall.

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Cancer Christina Santini Cancer Christina Santini

Here is the issue with Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is a chemical carpet-bombing used in conventional medicine that poisons the entire body. The theory is that because the tumor shrinks during chemo, the survival rate should increase. Statistics is not clear: there is no scientific data to support using chemo for all cancer types, on the contrary. Much of chemotherapy today is done at experiential level, meaning it is not evidence-based yet. Unless the tumor stem cells are removed or destroyed, the tumor often grows back.

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Should you take zinc and magnesium together?

When you take supplements you need them to also be actually ABSORBED to benefit from them. Unfortunately, it is not as simple as buying a mineral tablet, as many companies have not bothered looking into the bioavailability, nor how minerals compete for absorption. Minerals that compete for absorption should quite obviously NOT be taken at the same time, because you will not absorb them fully then. So what about zinc and magnesium - two crucial minerals for brain, muscle, hormone and male sexual health - should you take them together or apart to benefit from them?

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