Diseases

Celiac Disease – An Intestinal Problem

September 5, 2021 by Esther Neumann

Celiac disease is a condition like a chameleon. The symptoms are very versatile and the number of unreported cases is high. About one in every hundred is affected. It can take years for the correct diagnosis to be made. If the disease is not detected in time, it leads to severe malnutrition with many secondary […]

What You Ought to Know about the COVID-19 Vaccines

July 23, 2021 by Martin Neumann

On December 2 the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency of the United Kingdom gave temporary authorization for the application of the Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine. Between 8 and 15 of December the first dose of the vaccine was applied to 137,897 people in the country. The United States followed soon after, approving the […]

How Do Emotions Influence Cancer Treatment?

July 2, 2021 by Dr. Cesar Vascconcellos de Souza

Have you ever noticed that some people with cancer die unexpectedly, but others with less favorable diagnosis survive? Perhaps this can often be explained by the relationship between cancer and the mind, emotions and cancer. Is there any scientific basis for us to believe that positive emotions have specific physiological effects? About negative emotions, we […]

Pancreas, Diabetes and Meal Frequency

May 30, 2021 by Esther Neumann

There’s something else behind the stomach – and that’s the pancreas. That’s how we learned it at school. In its first role, the pancreas is a vital digestive gland. In the unborn fetus, it is already developing on the 28th day and the Langerhans islet cells can be seen in the 8th and 9th week. […]

Acne – Battle of Hormones

May 15, 2021 by Esther Neumann

Acne takes worldwide the top position of all dermatological diagnoses. 80 – 85% of all teenagers suffer from acne to a greater or lesser extent. Inadequate treatment in more severe cases can lead to physical and psychological consequences. It is generally believed that acne is a disease of puberty. But adults and already toddlers can […]

Prevent a Deadly Clot

April 30, 2021 by Elizabeth Hall and Poliana V. Vale

Someone in the United States dies from a blood clot every five minutes! One in four people worldwide dies from conditions caused by thrombosis (blood clot). Clots are common in persons who have severe COVID-19. Most clots are preventable. Unfortunately, sudden death is the first symptom in about 25% of the individuals who have a […]

Effective Treatment of COVID-19

April 10, 2021 by Martin Neumann

In the beginning of March the Brazilian doctor Luiz Cristiano Maciel Cardoso published a video on Facebook and declared the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Supposedly he had found out that the cancer drug flutamide would be an effective treatment and declared that he has conquered the pandemic with this miraculous treatment option. On March […]

Stones at the Wrong Place

April 4, 2021 by Esther Neumann

Stones can really be in the wrong place. But today we are not concerned with stumbling blocks, but with stones deep in our body. Often they do not cause us any complaints and are only discovered by chance. But they can also cause painful colics. We are talking about kidney stones. Two to five percent […]

Echinacea – An Old Medicinal Plant

February 21, 2021 by Esther Neumann

They are here again, the cold, wet days when we long for the hot summer days. And with them come colds, coughs and sore throats, the uninvited companions of the cold season. But we are not at their mercy for better or worse, we can strengthen our immune system. And if we do catch a […]

Can Vitamin D Prevent COVID-19?

February 13, 2021 by Martin Neumann

In the beginning of last year, I was reading the news that a Chinese hospital in Shanghai was successful in treating COVID-19 patients with high doses of vitamin C. Not much attention was given to the subject, but evidence is increasing recently that vitamin D supplementation could be crucial in the prevention and treatment of […]

The Metabolic Syndrome

January 15, 2021 by Esther Neumann

Obesity, high blood pressure, elevated blood sugar and increased triglycerides with simultaneously decreased HDL are the precursors of a heart attack. In the US, one third of the adult population suffer from metabolic syndrome, and in women at the age of 70 and over, the prevalence rises to about 60%. Even in the so-called developing […]

Does the Pandemic Stress You Out?

August 16, 2020 by Martin Neumann

Almost half of the Americans report that the pandemic is affecting their mental health. A federal disaster distress hotline ha seen a more than 10x spike in incoming text messages during the pandemic. In the UK a study ascertained the anxiety level of the population on a scale of 1 to 10. They found out […]