Melissa Petersen

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• What Is it Like to Live with Celiac Disease?

  What it's like to live with Celiac DiseaseImagine what it would be like to live a life in which you couldn't eat a piece of bread without vomiting severely. A life in which you have to dodge the gluten bullet in restaurants, parties, or just any gathering where food is served on a daily basis. Here...

• What Is Myrrh Used For?

  What is myrrh?The word myrrh will probably not be a stranger to your ears. If you were raised in the Christian faith, it may be familiar to you since childhood. It was mentioned over 150 times in the Holy Bible. But what is it exactly?Myrrh is a resin or natural gum that is yellow to reddish-brown...

• Women Are Suffering Due to Lack of Genetic Testing

  There is a gene test that can help prevent and treat ovarian cancer with more success. This test is known as the BRCA gene test, which identifies a mutation that results in a dysfunctional enzyme whose job it to correct DNA mutations.Because cancer is due to mutations leading to unchecked tumor...

• What is HIV: Get the Facts

  Over the course of our four million or so years of evolution, we humans have developed a highly-specialized immune system that is quite a warrior in combating infections. We are bombarded daily by bacterial and viral pathogens which have the potential to cause us serious illness, but, completely...

• What Is Pulsatile Tinnitus: Symptoms and Causes

  What is pulsatile tinnitus?Pulsatile tinnitus is a rhythmical noise in the ears that is similar to the sound of a person's pulse or heartbeat. This sound may come and go and may be quite distracting to some people. In most cases, pulsatile tinnitus is related to blood flow disturbances, which is...

• Is Fibromyalgia Hereditary?

  While researchers have already connected the disease to stress, trauma, illnesses and certain substances, they are now starting to think that fibromyalgia may have more of a genetic link. This isn't exactly a new thought. Other studies have noticed this connection, but didn't yet expand on why or...