Health
Finding good health news amidst a pandemic can be quite daunting. That’s not the case with The Optimist Daily, where positive news is in high supply. Our Health section covers the latest good news from the health sector, featuring solutions ranging from mental and physical health to immunity, nutrition, and cutting edge medical research.
Scientists developed AI that predicts kidney illness two days before it occurs
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is a major killer in the US and the UK, but if it could be detected earlier, doctors would be able to prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths. That could soon be possible after DeepMind, an AI company owned by Alphabet, developed an algorithm that can predict the presence Read More...
Healthy Habits, Healthy Brains: Dale Bredesen on the Alzheimer’s Protocol
To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. - Buddha By Kristy Jansen Last month, my mother’s 75-year-old boyfriend, Walt, was officially diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. It’s a terrifying diagnosis. In America today, Read More...
The alt-milk family now has a new member: banana milk
First there was cow’s milk. Then soy milk, nut milk, pea milk, and oat milk—and the dairy industry’s war over alternatives even using the term “milk” to begin with. Depending on your worldview, all of these might have some ethical, environmental, dietary, or pricing drawbacks. So in Read More...
Sri Lanka becomes measles-free after successful immunization scheme
The comeback of measles in recent years has become a significant threat to global health. The highly contagious viral disease has made its way across the globe fueled in part by a lack of access to vaccines, and complacency. In a landmark achievement, Sri Lanka defied the world trend in the Read More...
MIT researchers have created a sensor that could detect deadly sepsis in minutes
Sepsis (where your immune system starts a chain of inflammation reactions) is potentially deadly, especially if septic shock leads your organs to fail, but diagnosing that in a timely fashion is still difficult or requires an unwieldy device. Thankfully, MIT researchers might have a way to Read More...
For the first time since 1990, drug overdose deaths have dropped in America
While the fight to end deaths from drug overdoses is far from over, at the very least there’s some good news to the drug epidemic. According to preliminary government data made public this week, the total number of deaths from drug overdoses declined by around 5 percent last year after three Read More...
Only 5% of Americans eat enough fiber. That’s a huge problem
When we fret about the deterioration of the American diet, we tend to focus on the excessive amounts of sugar, salt, and calories we’re now eating. What we don’t talk about: an important ingredient that’s gone missing as we’ve been filling our plates with more chicken and cheese. Fiber. Read More...
New hydrogel could make bone marrow transplants more successful
Bone marrow transplants are a common treatment for certain conditions related to the blood, but the patient's immune system can often react badly to the foreign cells and attack them. Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) may help, but they too can be cleared out by immune cells. Now, a Harvard team has Read More...
Scientists have now created lab-grown ice cream that requires nothing from cows
By now you’ve probably heard about lab-grown meat (if not, check out Monday’s daily), but have you heard about lab-grown ice cream? Apparently, lab-grown ice cream is here that is made from a whey protein that is produced by genetically modified yeast rather than cows. In fact, not a single cow Read More...
Give your body a boost with this tasty wheatgrass shot
Wheatgrass is known for its nutrient-dense and powerful antioxidant properties. Many of these purported benefits come from the fact that it’s made up of 70 percent chlorophyll. The idea is that by consuming wheatgrass, you will get many of chlorophyll’s benefits, including detoxification, Read More...