Rocky Mountain Herbalist

02/14/2025

Recent evidence reveals that the combination of liver disease and type 2 diabetes has a multiplicative effect on cardiovascular disease and mortality

02/14/2025

12/04/2022

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/everyday-foods-and-cosmetics-that-use-wild-plants-may-be-harming-the-environment?rid=B85A9256C7D217AEC640EE3E3BB0BAB4&cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=Health_20221204

Shea, argan, licorice, and more: Behind products like lotion, shampoos, and tea, complex supply chains hide environmental and social risks.

11/17/2021

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/10/tibetan-caterpillar-fungus-trouble/573607/

And so are the livelihoods of the people who depend on it.

10/14/2021

Foods like yogurt, kimchi, sauerkraut and kombucha increased the diversity of gut microbes and led to lower levels of inflammation.

09/13/2021

https://peterattiamd.com/ns001/

Reporting relative risk values alone can be inappropriate and misleading for the individual and the public.

03/31/2021

https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/16-million-gift-columbia-establishes-treatment-center-and-clinical-trials-network-lyme-and-tick-borne-diseases?fbclid=IwAR3ZqvdkKQqovzxfEFh1iXlzRuTlnjmL70akNOZA_whwsGh31jAdPoC_ovI

With $16 million gift, Columbia will open a new center for Lyme and other tick-borne diseases this summer, offering patients specialized care and expanding research at a national level.

01/08/2021

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2021/02/these-painstakingly-preserved-plants-are-still-radiant-centuries-later/

12/27/2020

https://www.npr.org/2010/12/24/132260025/did-shrooms-send-santa-and-his-reindeer-flying

Long ago, shamans -- and reindeer -- in the Far East were known to eat red and white mushrooms. And then hallucinate. A Harvard biologist asks, is it possible this is the source of the "jolly" man in the red and white suit and his "flying" reindeer?

11/12/2020

Botanists have laid out evidence that dozens of North American trees, herbs, plants and shrubs have gone extinct since European settlers arrived.

10/15/2020

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.15.20209817v1

BACKGROUND WHO expert groups recommended mortality trials in hospitalized COVID-19 of four re-purposed antiviral drugs. METHODS Study drugs were Remdesivir, Hydroxychloroquine, Lopinavir (fixed-dose combination with Ritonavir) and Interferon-β1a (mainly subcutaneous; initially with Lopinavir, later...

10/10/2020

Don't Let your hopes overule youur brain. We often want to hear that something will help us ...so much so sometimes that we end up harming ourselves.

Oleandrin is an extract from the plant, Nerium oleander, which contains substances that are similar to the active chemical found in the heart medication, digoxin. The ornamental shrub is native to northern Africa, the eastern Mediterranean basin, and Southeast Asia and although it looks appealing, i...