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The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
People often find it difficult to accept the idea that bacteria can be beneficial and improve health. Lactic acid bacteria are good, and when eaten, these bacteria improve health and increase longevity. These bacteria included in foods such as yogurt.
Historic treatments for rheumatoid arthritis have included gold salts, acupuncture, a diet consisting of apples or rhubarb, nutmeg, nettles, bee venom, bracelets made of copper, prayer, rest, tooth extractions, fasting, honey, vitamins, insulin, snow collected on Christmas, magnets, and electric convulsion therapy.
The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.