Gaia Health Tips

Health should be a simple thing, both for ourselves and the environment. Sadly, though, the world has become terribly complicated, with toxins in our bodies and poisons everywhere we turn. Food has been adulterated to serve the needs of agribusiness instead of our bodies and minds. Gaia, the earth that nourishes us, has been poisoned and scorched by greed. Our minds are cluttered with massive amounts of conflicting information promulgated by media dedicated to entertainment and selling products.

Gaia Health Tips will help you sort it out. Each Tip provides an accessible chunk of information that can help you make good health decisions and avoid tragic mistakes. They are brief and to the point, so you can get on with your busy life.




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Zebra losing stripes from stress Stress! How to Treat It. Why It Matters Even If You're Coping.—Did you know that stress makes you fat? It leads to a host of disorders, including heart attacks, and even cancer. Stress is insidious—and it's sucking the life out of us. You may think that you thrive on stress, but it's a mistaken notion. It will catch up with you. There's a physical cost, and avoiding it requires making some changes. They don't, though, have to be onerous.
Zebra losing stripes from stress Stress! How to Treat It. (Part 2)—Stress is rampant in today's world. Its effects are devastated immune and hormone systems, which lead to a host of health issues—not to mention the mental problems it causes. Here we discuss steps you can take to prevent adrenal burnout, and if you've reached the stage of damage, what natural things you can do to return to health.
Lemons Acidosis: The Modern Pandemic and Its Surprising Cure—Acidosis is a pandemic disease, one that was created by civilization, first through farming and growing grains, taking them from being rare foods in people's diets, and then becoming the basis of modern diets through Agribusiness. It is nearly always preventable and curable through the simple expedient of returning to a good and natural diet.
Lemons Acidosis: The Cure—Your body operates at its best when the food you eat keeps it slightly alkaline...Most fruits and vegetables are alkaline-producing, though...Acidosis is nearly always preventable and curable through the simple expedient of returning to a good and natural diet...Grains are nearly all severely acid-producing.
Chickens in pasture Eggs: Nutrition Comparison Between Factory Farmed and Free Range—Yesterday was Easter, with its egg symbolism of purity, health, and fertility. Sadly, that's been lost in the last few decades. Produced by contented hens, eggs are healthy and pose no risks. It's past time to tell the truth. Today, we discuss raw eggs and compare battery eggs with the real thing: eggs from pasturized chickens.
Easter eggs More Than a Symbol of Fertility, Eggs Help the Developing Fetus—The egg has been a much-maligned food in recent years, criticized as dangerous when eaten raw and unhealthy when cooked. Nothing could be further from the truth. Eggs are packed with nutrients. Pregnant women, women who might become pregnant, men who might become fathers, and nursing women can eat them regularly--if they're free range.
Schoolwork with apple Improving Food Quality of One Meal Improves Student Scores 3-8 Percent—What children eat directly affects how they do in school. A two-year study of chef Jamie Oliver's program to bring quality food to the school lunch program produced significant benefits to students, including significant improvements in their test results.
Cans of soda pop High Fructose Corn Syrup Associated With Liver Disease—Liver scarring is associated with consumption of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), according to a study at Duke University. The condition, dubbed non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), is present in about 30% of all American adults. Until recently, it was considered rare.
Cow in pasture Skip Pasteurized. Drink Milk From Pasturized Cows.—The only healthy milk comes from contented cows living natural cow lives in pastures. If you want milk that's full of pus resulting from the mastitis of sick cows, then drink pasteurized milk. Healthy raw milk comes from healthy cows. Sick pasteurized milk comes from sick cows living in sick environments.
Gaia Health Tip How to Identify and Avoid Trans Fats in Foods (Part 3 of a series on trans fats)—How can you avoid trans fats? In modern life, it can be a bit difficult to avoid trans fats. You have two choices. One is to eat only fresh and organic foods prepared from scratch. Your other option is to learn how to read labels - and then do so before buying any food.
Baby, naked, with amazed expression The Truth About the Mumps Outbreaks, Not the Hype (Part 1)—Reports of mumps outbreaks are breaking out all over, along with fear mongering and pushes to get vaccinated...reports are rife with flaws. Unvaccinated are blamed for outbreaks. Severity is grossly distorted. Nothing is as it seems, if you take your guidance from news media.
Baby, naked, with amazed expression The Truth About the Mumps Outbreaks, Not the Hype (Part 2)—The real risks are associated with having mumps vaccinations. If the vaccine actually is preventive, the disease it's preventing is clearly not often serious. Yet, in exchange for this highly questionable protection, the risks from the vaccination are significant.
Woman making heart shape with hands How to Safely Take Vitamin B3 (Niacin) for Heart Health—Vitamin B3 is a safe supplement that can do wonders for heart health. Although it's often deemed unsafe, it's actually a necessary nutrient. Gross deficiency results in pellagra, a disease that leads to dementia and death. Amounts of B3 that can prevent pellagra are inadequate to protect the heart. This is a guide to supplementing B3.
Woman making heart shape with hands Vitamin B3, Niacin, Can Help Prevent Heart Disease—Vitamin B3, once well-known to medicine as a superb treatment for heart disease, fell out of favor when pharmaceutical drugs, especially statins, were introduced. The results have been dismal...demonized as dangerous...researchers tried to turn it into a drug...doctors usually tell people to stay away from it.
Bowl of Miso Soup Prevent Heart Disease With Nattokinase or Miso Soup—That delicious bowl of Japanese miso soup might be the key to a healthy heart and circulatory system...a derivative from miso soup, nattokinase, will do your heart a world of good, and will do it without risk.
Can of Flu Repellant Being Sprayed Strategy to Prevent or Minimize Swine Flu Without Vaccinations or Drugs—With all the hype and fear mongering surrounding swine flu, you might be tempted to surrender to vaccinations or drugs. Does getting the flu seem like a crap shoot, spin the wheel and maybe you'll get lucky, but maybe you'll lose? That may not be true. Let's get to the bottom of the issue.
Mouse in Petrie Dish Cowering from Looming Tamiflu and Hypodermic Needle Summary of Flu Vaccine and Treatment Risks—The risks of new flu vaccines and treatments are significant. Before rushing into a vaccination or taking Tamiflu, be sure you know what harm they can do. Should we put our faith in a lack of proof of risks, or should we be more cautious?
No! on Cancer What Steps to Take If You Do Find Yourself Diagnosed with Cancer—There are no easy answers. The first reality of life is that each one will end. Cancer is merely one way it happens. Life also ends by heart attacks, infections, accidents, and a host of other ways. No one can promise a cure. Nonetheless, there are things that may help when cancer strikes too early.
No! on Cancer The Best Tips for Avoiding Cancer—The most important factor in preventing cancer is a strong immune system. Unfortunately, we're bombarded with toxic products and toxic medical advice, both of which conspire to harm our body's defences against all diseases. So, by following the suggestions offered here, you'll be doing wonders towards bringing yourself to optimal health - and that, in fact, is the key to preventing cancer.
Gaia Health Tip Gymnema-A Herb to Control Diabetes—You have diabetes. You take good care of yourself, eating well and exercising. But you still have blood sugar problems and the doctors are saying that you must take drugs. Gymnema sylvestre is a herb noted for its ability to lower blood sugar levels—and that, of course, is the goal of diabetes drugs. Since the only known negative effect of Gymnema is to lower blood sugar, and that's the desired effect when you've been labeled as diabetic, it seems rather silly to take risky drugs before trying it.
Gaia Health Tip Beta Carotene Is the Safe Way to Get Your Vitamin A—You may have seen reports that vitamin A supplementation is dangerous. Gaia Health's response to that is, "So?" Yes, it is dangerous—but that's not news. It's been well known for eons. The bottom line on this is that it sounds like so much of the current hysteria around vitamin supplementation, most of which is promulgated by Big Pharma and Agribusiness.
Gaia Health Tip Treat Asthma Naturally With Khella—Asthma is a heartbreaking condition that is becoming frighteningly common among children today. Standard medical treatment uses harsh drugs carrying enormous health risks. Before taking such a gamble with your child's health, perhaps it would be wise to try the little-known herb called khella.