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9 sun-protective foods

You may be surprised to learn that many common foods offer some protection to your skin from the potentially damaging rays of the sun, from the inside out. This SPF or sun protective factor aspect of foods has to do…

Quillaja: Coming to your beer, soda and shampoo

Sustainable quillaja harvesting in Chile (Chris Kilham) Two men with chain saws stand in the warm Chilean sun, cutting branches from trees. There are plenty of bees here buzzing around in the central valley, especially in this part where pesticides…

The plant that gives you a better night’s rest

Drinking chamomile tea can calm you down and get you ready for bed, but there are some other natural ways to help you get some zzz’s. Here’s a question we received from a viewer: Dear Dr. Manny,I’ve heard that there…

Psychedelics not linked to mental disorders, study finds

(Chris Kilham) In the ever-changing health landscape, sometimes methods and medicines are vilified for a time, only to emerge anew, bolstered by science. Such is the case with psychedelics, those potent mind-manifesting drugs that caused a furor in the 1960s…