Alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer’s disease (AD), also known simply as Alzheimer’s, is a neurodegenerative disease that, in its most common form, is found in people over age 65.

Approximately 24 million people worldwide have dementia of which the majority (~60%) is due to Alzheimer’s. Clinical signs of Alzheimer’s disease are characterized by progressive cognitive deterioration, together with declining [...]

What Is Anxiety?
Most people experience feelings of anxiety before an important event, such as a big exam, business presentation, or first date. Anxiety disorders, however, are illnesses that load people’s lives with overwhelming anxiety and fear that are chronic and unremitting, and that can grow progressively worse. Tormented by panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, flashbacks of [...]

Few symptoms are more alarming than chest pain. In the minds of many people, chest pain equals heart pain. And while many other conditions can cause chest pain, cardiac disease is so common – and so dangerous – that the symptom of chest pain should never be dismissed out of hand as being insignificant.
The purpose [...]

Diabetes is a chronic (lifelong) disease marked by high levels of sugar in the blood.
Causes
Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas to control blood sugar. Diabetes can be caused by too little insulin, resistance to insulin, or both.
To understand diabetes, it is important to first understand the normal process by which food is broken [...]

This article describes some observations about a possible connection between not drinking enough water and suffering from back pain. The guest author is James Lehman, DC, who is a professor of orthopedics and neurology at the University of Bridgeport College of Chiropractic.
Five years ago, during a very hot spell in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I discovered [...]