It may come as a surprise to find an article about something as commonplace as soap in our drug-free lifestyle series but if you read the advertising materiel for many skin-cleansing products, they make as many therapeutic claims as most licenced medications, and like medications, soap has side effects.  Most commercially available products including body-wash, shampoo and shower-gel work in the same way as soap and so should be considered to be the same.

We buy soap to remove our natural skin oils, then moisturisers to put them back!  Read on to reduce soap use and enahance your skin health naturally.

Drug Free Heart Disease

Vascular disease is one of the leading killers worldwide.  Blood vessels throughout the body narrow and harden as cholesterol plaques build up and accrete calcium.  It happens to one degree or other in almost everyone, but there are things you can do about it.

Is it possible to live without pills?

In the past, doctors were very good at diagnosis but not really able to do much about disease.  We could tell you you had pneumonia, a stroke or a heart attack but the treatments of the day were generally ineffective and none were based on any good level of evidence. 

These days, we are fortunate indeed to have potent effective medications available that can prevent or treat diseases but might it be possible to live without them?

Hypertension

High blood pressure has been called the silent killer.  Slowly, year on year, blood vessels become thicker and hardened until they either block or rupture. 

Some simple lifestyle choices can reduce your blood pressure and the risk of disease with them.