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08/15/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Protect your eye health with Korean starwort — especially if you’re diabetic

These days, Korean starwort extract makes a living as a dietary supplement. But back in the day, the flowering plant served as a reliable medicinal herb in East Asia. Korean researchers drew upon this healing past when testing its effects on diabetics who suffered from diabetes-induced retinopathy. Diabetes affects many parts of the body. In […]

02/13/2017 / By Amy Goodrich

Beware: Dangerous pharmaceuticals are sometimes hiding in nutritional supplements, making them unsafe

Herbal food supplements are supposed to be potent natural plant medicines to improve our health. Unfortunately, dangerous chemical-tainted supplements have flooded the market, undermining the credibility of companies who are producing safe and pure solutions to treat our health issues. Next to making unproven health claims, these fake supplements may do more harm than good. While they […]

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