Author name: Schei, MD

Dr. Nima Schei is a medical doctor, entrepreneur, and co-founder of PositiveMed. Besides medicine, he's been studying mathematics and neuroscience at Rutgers University. He's passionate about alternative medicine, startups and animal rights. He's a proud vegan, living with his wife and two rescue dogs in Miami Beach, FL.

3 Major Health Benefits of Wasabi

[Last Updated: April 1st 2013] Wasabi is difficult to cultivate and real wasabi is quite expensive ($70 to $100 per pound). Due to its high cost, a common substitute is a mixture of horseradish, mustard, and green food coloring. Although the taste is quite similar they are easily distinguished. Outside Japan, “real” wasabi is rare,

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RUNNING PROTECTS LUNGS FROM POLLUTION

A new study published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise by Brazilian researchers provide new insight about running in poluted-air environments: Polluted air is believed to be harmful to the lungs, since it passes through the nose filtering and penetrates through the lungs and causing inflammation. Therefore, it may be a cause for respiratory diseases such

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Junk food or healthy food? Which one is more expensive?

There’s a misconception that healthier foods are more expensive than junk food. But this is not true. If you calculate the cost of preparing a healthy food and compare the cost with the amount of money you may pay for junk foods, you’d see that healthier options are often much cheaper. One of the examples

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Cancer-battling kids sing “STRONGER”

If you ask us what’s going on in the Hematology-oncology ward at Seattle Children’s Hospital, we’d answer a huge positive vibe from children warriors. Watch this amazing and heart-warming video and you’d see what we’re talking about: The song of the video is “stronger” from Kelly Clarkson. Also watch This video for behind the scenes

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