Praktikos Institute

A randomized, controlled study involving 16 patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) found that mild and moderate CKD was associated with chronic inflammation and low antioxidant activity.

The popularity of boswellia, a botanical medicine discovered more than three millennia ago, is experiencing a resurgence. Long recognized for its anti-inflammatory benefits, this oleogum resin also has anti-cancer and immunomodulatory properties.1 Boswellia, or frankincense, harkens back to ancient India and Egypt.

Consumers who switched from polycarbonate-plastic water bottles to metal ones in hopes of avoiding the risk that bisphenol A will leach into their beverages arent necessarily any better off, a new study finds. Some metal water bottles leach even more BPA an estrogen-mimicking pollutant than do ones made from the now-pariah plastic.