Let’s Tell the Truth About Marijuana for Cancer Patients

In nature, nearly everything can be a medicine or a poison, depending on how and when it is used. Antidotes to snake venom are often derived from the venom itself. Sugar in its natural form within a piece of fruit can be nourishing for our brains, but deadly when extracted and consumed in large quantities….

Do Mammograms Increase the Chances of Developing Cancer?!

Breast cancer is a devastating illness that claims the lives of over 500,000 women every year, with nearly 2 million new cases diagnosed annually. Over the past 50 years, breast cancer rates have risen dramatically all over the world, though so have survival rates. The stance of the conventional medical community is that early detection…

Cancer Beware… Are You Killing Yourself With Sugar?

From the smallest cell to the largest organism, when a segment of life is no longer filling its role as part of a healthy collective, it is cancerous. Cancer in a body occurs when cells become diseased, feed on wasteful metabolic processes, procreate, and refuse to die according to the normal schedule. When cancer overtakes…

10 Ways Yoga Can Help Addicts

Of the many ways that we limit ourselves, addiction can be the saddest and most frustrating. It is one thing to be in the throes of a degenerative disease or virus. It is a whole other to know that we are basically killing ourselves because of our choices or inability to make choices. But the…

Borderline Personality Disorder In a Loved One

We live in a world where we are challenged to maintain our mental health everyday. It can be hard to know where we end and the next person begins, even if we are relatively balanced people. This is especially true in cases of mental illness. When someone has a distorted view of reality that causes…

Why Did I Create My Disease?

There is so much illness in the world today that modern medicine is one of the most profitable industries that has ever existed. Industrialized nations spend billions of dollars each year treating diseases that, in some cases, are preventable. Though conventional wisdom has long believed that the body and mind are separate and that we…

Yoga Therapy for Cancer: Will It Help?

Alternative therapies for cancer treatment are being explored in a variety of settings. Even some conventional doctors are beginning to recommend complementary health practices like meditation, art therapy, prayer, and yoga to support people living with cancer. Yoga therapy is a relatively new modality that is based on and derived from the ancient practices of…

What Is Ebola?

While we usually prefer to focus on cultivating a healthy lifestyle here at MHLC, sometimes it helps to know what illnesses are out there to be able to protect ourselves. The best health care is prevention, after all. A relatively recently identified disease that has been making headlines all over the world is Ebola. There…

Suffering from Diabetes? Stem Cells May Be Your Solution

Diabetes is a condition that affects millions of people all over the world. It kills more people than most other types of disease, and has few treatment options. Treatments for the two types of diabetes vary, but they usually are very time consuming and exhausting. But the emerging field of stem cell therapy may offer…

What Is Colloidal Silver and How Can It Help Me?

New supplements are popping up all the time. Many of them come with extreme health claims of how they can cure cancer, make bald heads grow hair again, and turn your skin into gold. Okay, I havent actually seen a product with a claim that it gives you the Midas touch, but there is another…