A. Wimmer
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Medizinjournalistin, Verlagshaus der Ärzte Wien

Vitamin D Could Bid Your Menstrual Pain Goodbye

Abdominal pain, abdominal cramps, migraine, and nausea: the accompanying symptoms of menstruation make a woman’s life very difficult every month.   Great suffering every month The contractions of the uterus that can cause menstrual pain (dysmenorrhea) in some women, especially…

Vitamin D Can Stop Asthma Before it Even Develops

Asthma is one of the most common chronic respiratory diseases. The estimated number of asthmatics in the western world has doubled in the last ten years, and children are particularly affected. Boosting the immune system early can prevent suffering from…

Curcuma – New Treatment Option for Bowel Diseases

Over 11 million people worldwide are affected by chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (CED) such as Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, and the number is rising. The pain can be terrible and the causes are still largely unknown. Studies now offer…

Curcuma Offers Hope in the Fight against Eye Disease

It has long been known about carrots that the orange colorants they contain, the carotenoids, are good for the eyes and promote vision. Now the yellow-orange colouring of curcuma is coming into the focus of research: the spicy root should…

Vitamin D Boosts Testosterone

Many studies confirm the importance of vitamin D for the human body. Now, the influence of sun vitamin on the production of the male sex hormone testosterone is coming to light. Erection and fertility thanks to testosterone Vitamin D is…

Vitamin D Can Shield Us from Hospital Infection

It is tragic that people who have to be treated in hospital due to a disease are also particularly susceptible to the pathogens circulating there. For example, at least 250 patients in Austria alone are infected daily with hospital germs…

Vitamin D Can Remedy Hypertension

One in five women and one in four men has high blood pressure and thus an increased risk of various diseases such as heart attacks and strokes. This makes it all the more important to get the risk factor under…

OPC (Grape Seed Extract) Reduces High Blood Pressure

Don’t spit it out. Eat it! The ingredients of grape seeds, especially the plant substances known as OPC, have vasodilatory properties that positively influence the cardiovascular system. In addition, these polyphenols in their concentrated form – especially as extracts in…

Vitamin D: How Much Do We Need?

In recent years everyone has been talking about vitamins we get from sunlight.  Unfortunately we are not getting these  in sufficient quantity, as new investigations suggest. So we are amending ongoing discussions about how much vitamin D one should actually…

Optimum effect: Why Vitamin D and Magnesium only work together

Together we can do better: This applies not only to the various challenges in professional and private life, but the human body also relies on synergies. New studies are focusing on the teamwork among team players in the body.  …