Can Burton Water Salts Cure Sensitive Teeth?

Basically, at one point, I was getting ~all my water from a highly-filtered source.

I soon found myself having very sensitive teeth.

I'd heard something awhile back about how even though it's sterile and clean, that actually drinking Distilled or Deionized Water is really bad for you.

And on another forum through some weird coincidence, it turns out a guy was killing his plants by watering them with distilled water.

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Posted by Will on 08/ 5/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Clay-Eating Cheeky Monkeys And The Elusive Stomach Flu / Viral Gastroenteritis Remedy

Like many brilliant men before me, such as Eddie Izzard, I believe that most problems and their solutions come down to Monkeys. -And The French.

Okay, I've had this more than once this year and it's been excruciating.
It's also No Fun to hear of your friends and relatives writing writhing in agony when waiting seems to be the only strategy & Advil + Pepto doesn't work that well.

So, with their bandmate Eddie, (he'd probably play bass) I'd like return to the Monkeys.

Animal Planet Moment: It turns out there are some

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Posted by Will on 07/25/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Review: Zevia, the Soda With Stevia

Track 4 from “Transistor”, by 311 -or a Star Wars Trilogy Sandwich

Okay, this one’s been on the shelf and now the hot weather is officially here, I thought it was time to send it out.

Awhile back, I noticed a google ad here on the site and thought, “Soda with Stevia? -NO WAY!” -I immediately shot out an email & Stacey Fujimura + the good folks at Zevia sent us out a sixpack of their soda.

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Posted by Will on 07/15/08 | Comments (2) | Email to a friend |

Cooking Sometimes Best Prep For Veggies -TAKE THAT, Natalie Portman!!!

Raw-Foodies... ...

-Sooooooo Burrrrrrrrned!!!

It's anathema for people like that to get over the "Eat it as I found it"-mantra, but various forms of cooking can help develop/change the amount of nutrients that actually make it into your bloodstream, instead of just passing through you.

One of the veggies that benefits is the tomato. Raw food studies have found people deficient in Lycopene if it's not cooked. ->Viva Italia!

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Posted by Will on 05/27/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Ben & Jerry's Wants Hormone Labeling on Ice Cream

If Al Gore, after inventing the internet without DARPA, Unix and Tim Berners-Lee, can get labels on food telling us what the Nutrition Facts are, wouldn't it be nice to know about the other stuff that goes into making it? -Like the chemicals and drugs

Now, I am never one to advocate looking into an Industrial Sausage Press, or a Hot Dog Factory. -Because sometimes, you really don't want to

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Posted by Will on 03/20/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

F-Cup Tea Makes Boobs Happy!

Eleven score and eleven years ago, our great Founding Fathers saw fit to burden themselves with throwing off the uncharitable chains of British colonialist hegemony.

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Posted by Will on 09/20/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

77 Deadly Ways to Learn Better & Bruce Lee Your Brain! -whaaaaaa!

Ok, this list is just too great to wait any longer to post.

The Online Education Database has come up with a Monster list of techniques (77?! -teh Pwnzz!!) to help you learn faster and better. Out-Standing! -Must pass on to all mV readers immed!

My habits for cognitive support have always been: oatmeal, high-protein diet, vitamins/supplements and physical activity. -When you're stag

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Posted by Will on 03/ 7/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Some Vitamins +/- Potency. Some Bite the Bullet; -Lead, that is.

Holy Worst-Case-Ever of "You got your chocolate in my peanut butter! -Hey; you got your peanut butter in my chocolate!",Batman!

It's just like the time when Spider-Man started wearing the black "Venom" suit. Do good is doing bad???!?!?! ---Snap!!

In a recently released study by Consumerlab.com, it turns out that some vitamin products may not be delivering exactly what their labels say.

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Posted by Will on 02/ 3/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Does the Weather / Jetstream Affect MS Rates in Scotland?

Recently, I was reading that the small country of Scotland has the highest Per Capita Rate of Multiple Sclerosis in the world. It got me thinking about some potential causes.

On Wikipedia, it said MS has some relation to the vitamins that one normally gets as a result of exposure to solar radiation.

-Could the high latitude be working in concert with Scotland's

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Posted by Will on 10/10/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Regrow Hair with Saw Palmetto

Our friends over at Hair Loss Buddy report on a Hair-Regrowth Contest held in England over the course of 1 year.

The winner of the contest was someone taking freeze-dried Saw Palmetto Berries.

And as only HLB seems to do, he takes it to the next level with another supplement even more powerful

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Posted by Will on 06/ 2/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Prevent Disease by Reducing Inflammation

(-not really an answer, but more of an idea to start a discussion; either here, or with your doctor-)

There are an increasing number of diseases and ailments that are linked to types of Inflammation. --Some cancers, diabetes, dementia, Alzheimer's, arthritis and others.

Since many people already take Aspirin on a daily basis

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Posted by Will on 03/ 7/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Tea Shows Promise in Alzheimer's Fight

Dr. Ed Okello and his team from Newcastle University, UK have found some encouraging results in preliminary tests on tea in slowing Alzheimer's Disease.

Their findings, published in the Journal 'Phytotherapy Research', show that black and green tea affect the actions of a few enzymes known to have involvement in the disease.

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Posted by Will on 08/31/05 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Selenium May Reduce Several Cancer Rates

Chief author Dr. Larry Clark, Bruce W. Turnbull and others at Cornell and the University of Arizona have written a study on Selenium and its effects on cancer. It was funded by the NIH and others.

The study was originally targeted at testing efficacy of Selenium on Skin Cancer in populations where the trace mineral content is lower in the local soil. These regions include the Upper Midwest, Northeast and Florida. ...[more]

Posted by Will on 05/20/05 | Comments (2) | Email to a friend |

Encouraging Research on Turmeric

Researchers at the University of Texas Anderson Cancer Center, Kumamoto University and the University of Rochester Cancer Center are finding some encouraging results in early tests involving the yellow spice, Turmeric.

Their early results suggest it may help slow multiple myeloma and possibly other types of

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Posted by Will on 05/ 9/05 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |