Cholesterol is one of those things that was pretty unheard of a few years ago and yet now it is a big deal and everyone seems to be at risk. Unfortunately most people still don’t really know what it is or how it happens… So let’s tackle that first.

First of all:
Cholesterol is a naturally occurring substance that your body can get from food or can produce. It insulates nerves and helps produce hormones and overall is a pretty helpful thing to have around. The issue that we have with modern diets is that anything that is found in abundance in our body will be converted to fats and Cholesterol and pretty soon we will have too much of it.

Drug treatments:
Statins are drugs which are designed to lower cholesterol (there are some other treatments too, but statins are the most common). Unfortunately statins are known to have to bad side effects are should generally be considered a last resort. At the very least, anything you can do to naturally lower your cholesterol and avoid drug options is going to be a good thing.

Winter is the season of runny noses, coughing and wheezy chests. Allergies, regardless of severity, can be uncomfortable, but in severe cases they can dramatically affect your lifestyle.

Both allergy testing and immunotherapy — helping you become immune to allergies — are in the news these days as discoveries emerge to finesse the system of “curing” allergies. Mahmoud al-Fouly, an ear, nose and throat doctor at Qasr al-Aini Hospital, sheds light on the medical breakthroughs.

According to Fouly, allergies or allergic rhinitis (nose allergies) result from a genetic predisposition. They occur when your body detects foreign substances (allergens).

“Allergies occur because your body’s defense system mistakes risk-free allergens for something potentially harmful (like bacteria),” he says.