Harvard researchers have shown that decreasing rates of vitamin D could have been a part of the increasing rates of asthma and allergies. Rates of allergy and asthma has directly increased in parallel with the decrease in vitamin D levels in the general population; the connection is so significant that ...

If your child has a peanut allergy in addition to asthma, it's likely that their asthma attacks are worse, according to a new study. In a study of 160 children between the ages of 5 and 18, children with peanut allergies had both more hospitalizations for asthma and a higher ...

One of the primary drug treatments for asthma is inhaled corticosteroids. New research indicates that vitamin D may actually improve the effectiveness of your inhaled corticosteroid. The specific corticosteroid studied was dexamethasone. Taking vitamin D boosted the performance of dexamethasone more than ten times. This could mean that simple vitamin ...

A new study shows that rising rate of asthma is now almost 8 per cent of the total US population. However, while asthma rates are going up in general, some US states have much lower rates than other states. Some individual states have either much higher or much lower asthma ...

Leaky gut refers to a condition of the intestines, where there are "leaks" in the intestinal lining that allows substances from the intestines to get into the body. While this may sound like a good thing, it is not: it means we are absorbing things that a healthy gut would ...