Your kidneys are a pair of small bean-shaped organs located in the middle of your back which also just happen to be one of the most important organs responsible for detoxing the body. The kidneys remove waste and extra water from the blood to form urine. If your kidneys were not able to do their job...
Sydney Towle, a vibrant Californian, was thrown into an unexpected battle with an aggressive form of cancer at the tender age of 23. Her journey began in early August when doctors stumbled upon a concerning revelation. A sizable mass lurking in her stomach, growing unchecked for four months. The signs were there, subtle yet insistent....
We’ve all heard people talk about the power of positivity. With a positive attitude, you can achieve anything! Likely, when it comes to cancer, you’ve heard about people who “stayed positive” and went on to beat their cancer. Many people are quick to attribute their positive attitude to their positive outcome. Are our emotions and...
Cancer is ultimately the result of cells that uncontrollably grow and do not die. Normal cells in the body follow an orderly path of growth, division, and death. Programmed cell death is called apoptosis, and when this process breaks down, cancer results. Pancreatic cancer cells do not experience programmatic death, but instead continue to grow and...
Stephen Huff, 28, grew up playing baseball in Tennessee. After earning a scholarship as a pitcher, Huff was drafted by the Chicago White Sox. He exercised every day, ate well, and even said he tried to eat organic. He could run eight miles at a time. Huff was the very picture of health—an athlete who...
A 21-year-old man from Paisley in Renfrewshire, Scotland, tragically lost his life just days after initially attributing his backache to a need for a new bed. Gerald Green’s health rapidly deteriorated, but he concealed his symptoms from his parents, Paula and Gerry, until he began coughing up blood. On January 19, Gerald’s mother took him...
Every day there seems to be new health or nutrition advice and quite often it conflicts with what we’ve already heard. This can be frustrating, but all we can do is try and cut through the chatter and do our best to keep ourselves healthy. We are exposed to a lot of harmful materials in our environment on...
A couple in Torrance, Los Angeles probably had the worst two weeks of their lives when both of their children were diagnosed with brain cancer. Duncan and Nohea Avery were terrified when their 6-year-old princess, Kalea was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a deadly and aggressive brain tumor. Two weeks after her diagnosis and surgery, the high...
With more than 99 percent of multicellular organisms reproducing through sex, it’s easy to think that sexual reproduction happens for reason [1]. There are, of course, organisms that reproduce asexually, which works as a type of cloning method and doesn’t require another organism’s DNA. Asexual reproduction, therefore, doesn’t need two organisms to reproduce, although some...
It’ll never happen to me, thinks everyone. No one thinks about cancer on a beautiful day at the beach with no sun protection, or relaxing in a sun bed, waiting for that perfect golden glow. There’s a false sense of security. Not me, they think. I’m safe. Cancer patients had thought the same thing, yet...
In a recent revelation, former Baywatch star Nicole Eggert shared her regret over getting breast implants at the young age of 18. This regret comes after her breast cancer diagnosis, raising questions about the potential link between breast implants and breast cancer. While breast implants are not directly associated with breast cancer, there is a...
If you are a cancer survivor or you know someone who has suffered from the disease, you know how terrible it is. The disease itself is awful, and often the treatments for it are equally as difficult. Though science and treatments are improving, they are unfortunately not improving at the rate in which cancer is...
