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Why has the decision of whether a healthy individual should be required to wear a face mask become a totem of public health controversy in the United States? Yet, a mere few months ago, numerous health officials advised against this same action.

Regardless of what people want to believe, cell phones emit microwave radio-frequency radiation, and that radiation can penetrate our body’s cells. Although governments mainly do nothing to protect people from these possible dangers, there is strong, clear evidence and numerous published, peer-reviewed studies that illustrate and explain that cell phones can cause cancer, among other diseases.

“Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.”

- Oscar Wilde

Many women are cautious about taking testosterone supplements. Others are either not aware or do not have access to information that explains the importance of such hormones since most mainstream doctors still deeply believe testosterone is a man’s hormone and women should not supplement with it. However, there is a growing abundance of scientific evidence showing testosterone does play a role in women’s health.

According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), more than 100 million United States adults are living with diabetes or prediabetes [1]. Further, the CDC also estimated that 80 million Americans are insulin-resistant, which is a precursor to diabetes [2].

Nigella sativa, also known as black seed or black cumin seed, has been exalted. The seed has been found in the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb, which dates back 3,000 years [1, p. 204]. Mohammad also praised the seed as the cure for anything but death.

If you ever cook with mushrooms, you may be familiar with several types, such as white button, crimini, portobello, and shiitake mushrooms. Chances are, though, you have never heard of lion’s mane, and that is because lion’s mane mushrooms, or Hericium erinaceus, play more of a supplemental and nutrient function than a cooking and culinary purpose.

In most simplified terms, antioxidants are molecules that fight free radicals in the human body. If free radicals outnumber antioxidants, it can lead to a scenario called oxidative stress.

In this article, we will examine the basic properties of antioxidants and free radicals. *

Antibiotic medications are some of the most commonly prescribed pharmaceuticals. According to a Pew research center, in 2015, there were nearly 270 million antibiotic prescriptions, which does not include the 18.4 million pounds of antibiotics that were used in agriculture [1]. Remember, antibiotics are live organisms, and when they are dumped into the environment, they become part of the environment and have the potential to change the world’s microbiome.