Posts in Integrative Medicine

A woman in a knit beanie and green jacket choosing kale at an outdoor farmers market on an overcast day, with baskets of blueberries and walnuts in front, illustrating the MIND diet for Alzheimer's.

The Brain Diet With the Best Data Isn’t Keto, and Its Big Trial Didn’t Go the Way the Headlines Expected

Key Takeaways In the Rush Memory and Aging Project, older adults whose eating most closely matched the MIND diet had a 53 percent lower rate[…]

A full moon over the ocean at night as a soft tide washes across smooth, glassy wet sand, a symbol of the nightly cleanup linking sleep and Alzheimer's risk.

Your Brain Takes Out the Trash at Night: Sleep and Alzheimer’s Risk

Key Takeaways: After a single night without sleep, 20 healthy adults showed a measurable rise in beta-amyloid, the protein that clumps into plaques in Alzheimer’s[…]

An open blank journal with a pencil and a steaming cup of herbal tea on a rustic wooden desk beside a rain-streaked window overlooking autumn hills, illustrating a diary for tracking migraine triggers.

Identifying Migraine Triggers: When the Culprit Is Really the First Symptom

Key Takeaways: In a survey of 1,207 people with migraine, 75.9 percent reported triggers, most often stress (79.7 percent), hormonal changes in women (65.1 percent),[…]

A crimson maple leaf resting on wet river stones beside a sunlit autumn stream, an image for an article on the psoriatic march from skin inflammation to heart disease.

The Psoriatic March: How a Skin Disease Reaches the Heart

The psoriatic march links severe psoriasis to insulin resistance, artery damage and heart attack. Here is the evidence and what it means for your heart.

Three small bioluminescent mushrooms glowing blue-green in moss at the base of a tree at sunset, an image for an article on low-dose naltrexone and the brain's microglia.

Low-Dose Naltrexone and Microglia: A Different Drug at a Different Dose

Low-dose naltrexone may calm microglia via Toll-like receptor 4 rather than blocking opioid receptors. Here is what the fibromyalgia trials actually show.

A woman wearing over-ear headphones reclines in an armchair under a knit blanket beside a window at autumn dusk, seen from behind, listening to binaural beats to wind down.

Tuning the Brain by Ear: Binaural Beats and Brainwave Entrainment

Binaural beats are a beat your brainstem builds from two tones. They may ease anxiety modestly, but whether they entrain brainwaves is still unsettled.

An unlabeled amber glass bottle of pale yellow capsules on a linen cloth beside a glass cup of herbal tea and a bowl of almonds, illustrating magnesium and riboflavin for migraine prevention.

The Quiet Migraine Combination: Magnesium, Riboflavin, and the Mitochondrial Theory of Headache

Magnesium and riboflavin carry a Level B guideline rating for migraine prevention, and trials show fewer attacks after about three months of daily use.

A woman singing joyfully with her eyes closed in the driver's seat of a car, sunlit coastline behind her, illustrating how singing builds vagus nerve tone.

Tuning the Vagus: Why Humming, Singing, and Gargling Are Workouts for Recovery

Key Takeaways: The vagus nerve carries roughly eighty percent afferent and twenty percent efferent fibers between the brainstem and nearly every visceral organ, and its[…]

A researcher in a white lab coat, seen from behind, looks into a microscope at a sunlit laboratory bench, illustrating the evidence on antiparasitic drugs for cancer.

Ivermectin, Fenbendazole and Mebendazole in Cancer: The Evidence and the Protocols

Key Takeaways: Mebendazole is the only one of the three with completed cancer trials; its strongest result is a 40-patient randomized trial in metastatic colorectal[…]

Overhead arrangement of fiber-rich whole foods on dark charcoal linen, accompanying an article on gut origins of juvenile arthritis.

Licensed in the Gut: The Microbiome Hypothesis in Juvenile Arthritis, and Where the Evidence Actually Stops

Key Takeaways: In children with enthesitis-related arthritis, Faecalibacterium prausnitzii is depleted and butyrate producers are reduced; human evidence remains associative.

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