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Fibromyalgia is a common, but still too little discussed, condition characterized by chronic, widespread musculoskeletal pain, sleep problems, fatigue, mental distress and cognitive impairment. This new study suggests a safe, natural solution that might help. Fibromyalgia affects between 2% and 8% of all people and probably about 2%-3% of people in the United States and Canada. For some reason, fibromyalgia favours women: in adults, women are twice as likely to have fibromyal

Though it gets a lot less attention than calcium or vitamin D, without vitamin K, your bones would be like chalk. This new study helps explain why. Your bones need calcium, but they also need a hormone called osteocalcin. Osteocalcin helps attract and bind calcium to your bones. And osteocalcin is produced by vitamin K. This new systematic review and meta-analysis of the role of vitamin K included 9 controlled studies of 2,570 postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. The form

There are many important traditional herbs for calming and sleep. A new study has put the science behind the tradition for this sleep herb. Skullcap has an important history as a versatile and effective nervine. It has been used for stress, tension, anxiety and insomnia and is often taken throughout the day to prepare you to ease into a good night’s sleep. This new double-blind study gave 66 people with moderate insomnia either a placebo or 400mg of skullcap extract standardi

With screen time becoming greater and greater, around half of all children and adolescents experience computer vision syndrome (CVS), or digital eye strain. In this double-blind study, 64 children were given either a placebo or 4mg of the carotene astaxanthin for 84 days. There was a significantly better 20% improvement on CVS scores, a validated questionnaire for measuring CVS. In addition to significantly improved eye strain, astaxanthin also led to significantly greater im

Some herbs don’t get the attention they deserve despite an impressive body of research. One of them is olive leaf extract, a powerful herb for high blood pressure. It’s hard to believe, but 22.6% of Canadian adults have high blood pressure. Harder still to believe is that nearly half of Americans over the age of 20 do. Worse, only 24% of Americans with high blood pressure have it under control. Impressive research is piling up that olive leaf extract is an effective herb for