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Alzheimer's · March 4, 2012
DIETARY PATTERNS AND RISK OF DEMENTIA – (05-26-08)
Dietary patterns and risk of dementia While some information about dietary links to altered mental capacity has come out, the strength of these associations just hasn’t been given the press it deserves. In this study, a…
Miscellaneous · March 4, 2012
DECLINING WILD SALMON POPULATIONS IN RELATION TO PARASITES (08-04-08)
Declining Wild Salmon Populations in Relation to Parasites from Farm Salmon. It is very rare that a server in a restaurant understands that there is a significant difference between farm raised and wild caught salmon…
Heart Disease · March 4, 2012
CONTROVERSIES OVER VITAMIN E AND HEART DISEASE – (04-28-08)
Effect of high-dose gamma-tocopherol supplementation on biomarkers of oxidative stress and inflammation and carotid atherosclerosis in patients with coronary artery disease There has been much controversy lately over…
Cancer · March 4, 2012
CHILDHOOD DAIRY INTAKE TRIPLES RISK OF COLORECTAL CANCER IN ADULTS – (05-26-08)
Childhood dairy intake and adult cancer risk: 65-y follow-up For those of you still brainwashed into believing that “milk does a body good” you’d better sit down. In this trial, which looked at the adolescents’ dairy…
Osteoporosis Cures and Bone Health · March 4, 2012
BEST DEPOT OF CALCIUM IN THE BODY IS BONE – (08-25-08)
Extracellular pH and Bone It has been known for some time that acid base balance plays a large role in bone metabolism. At the heart is the fact that our bodies use calcium as a buffer for acids in the blood. When…
Environmental · March 4, 2012
BABY CARE PRODUCTS: POSSIBLE SOURCE OF INFANT PHTHALATE EXPOSURE – (08-25-08)
Baby Care Products: Possible Source of Infant Phthalate Exposure Environmental Working Group (www.ewg.org) is unquestionably at the forefront of identifying and educating the public on environmental exposures. I use and…
Autoimmunity · March 4, 2012
ASSOCIATION BETWEEN HYPOTHYROIDISM AND SMALL INTESTINAL BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH – (04-28-08)
Association between Hypothyroidism and Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth Talk about the complicated web that makes up our physiology!! In this small study, it was determined that 54% patients with hypothyroidism due…
Stress · March 4, 2012
ARE YOU AWARE OF THE BENEFITS OF DARK CHOCOLATE? – (05-26-08)
Dark Chocolate Improves Coronary Vasomotion and Reduces Platelet Reactivity Some people are still not aware of the benefits of dark chocolate. It contains high levels of flavonoids, which puts it in the same category as…
Digestive Complaints · March 4, 2012
ARE WE OVERPRESCRIBING ANTIREFLUX MEDICATIONS FOR INFANTS WITH REGURGITATION? – (04-28-08)
Are We Overprescribing Antireflux Medications for Infants With Regurgitation? I still remember vividly the first time I had a patient come in and say their newborn was place on acid suppressive therapy for reflux. I was…
Allergies · March 4, 2012
ANTIBIOTIC USE IN MOTHER’S AFFECTS THE RISK OF ALLERGIES IN INFANTS – (05-26-08)
Maternal breast-milk and intestinal bifidobacteria I cannot begin to describe my awe with the fact that bacteria shows up in breast milk. The physiological steps that would be needed to occur for active bacteria to be…
Arthritis · March 3, 2012
PULLED A MUSCLE? WHY POPPING THAT ALEIVE IS A VERY BAD IDEA
Obviously, this article is going to sound a little self serving since I am, after all, a chiropractor in Mesa with a vested interest in my patients not taking drugs of any kind unless absolutely necessary. My more…
Healthy Pregnancy and Women's Health · March 3, 2012
PROTEIN INTAKE AND OVULATORY INFERTILITY – (08-25-08)
Protein intake and ovulatory infertility Assisted reproductive technologies in this country are big business. We won’t go into the ethics of physicians providing ART to force a woman into a pregnancy that her body is…
Type 1 Diabetes · March 2, 2012
CAN WE PREVENT TYPE 1 DIABETES?
Can we prevent the onset of Type 1 diabetes in our children? Like everything else, I suppose the answer to this depends on who you ask. This person’s answer, in turn, will result in what they read to stay current. I…
Diabetes (Type 2) · March 1, 2012
DIABETES, OBESITY, FIBER, ANTIBIOTICS…BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER IN 3 STEPS
In all my years of reading, there have only been a few articles that were truly pivotal. When I first flagged this article I thought it was neat. But the more I thought about it, the more this article resonated with…
Stress · February 29, 2012
L-CARNITINE TREATMENT REDUCES SEVERITY OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL FATIGUE – (08-04-08)
L-Carnitine treatment reduces severity of physical and mental fatigue and increases cognitive functions in centenarians. While the results of this study seem pretty amazing, the bottom line is that L-carnitine is…
Hypertension · February 29, 2012
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN OXIDATIVE STRESS AND INFLAMMATION IN SALT-SENSITIVE HYPERTENSION -(08-04-08)
Interactions between oxidative stress and inflammation in salt-sensitive hypertension. While this was a rat study, it does raise the question of whether salt, by itself, is truly an issue at all with hypertension. And…
Insulin · February 29, 2012
INSULIN METABOLISM IS ALTERED IN MIGRAINEURS – (08-04-08)
Insulin Metabolism is Altered in Migraineurs: A New Pathogenic Mechanism for Migraine? One of the major problems with the way we treat headaches in this system of medicine is that we never step back and ask “why” this…
Heart Disease · February 29, 2012
HEART PROBLEMS? ARE YOU TAKING THIS SUPPLEMENT?
There are a few situations that produce a knee-jerk reaction when it comes to supplements matched to conditions. Milk thistle and liver issues. Vitamin D and bone health. Magnesium and fish oils for diabetes. But what…
Anxiety · February 29, 2012
HEALTH FOCUS OF CONTROL IN PATIENTS WITH EPILEPSY – (08-04-08)
Health focus of control in patients with epilepsy and its relationship to anxiety, depression, and seizure control. This article gets into some touchy, but very important, aspects of health. The bottom line, regardless…
Gastric Cancer · February 29, 2012
GASTRIC CANCER RISK AND ERYTHROCYTE COMPOSITION OF DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID – (08-04-08)
Gastric Cancer Risk and Erythrocyte Composition of Docosahexaenoic Acid with Anti-inflammatory Effects. Just in case you think I’m making all this “cancer diet” stuff up, here’s another study strongly linking the highly…
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