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...