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Diabetes (Type 2) · January 12, 2014
Foods with Fat do NOT Make You Fat!! 7 Reasons to Eat MORE Fat
A decade of brainwashing by the USDA’s food guide pyramid putting “fats and oils: use sparingly” at the top of the diagram is hard to undo. So hard that, despite continual reminders at holiday gatherings, even my own…
Autoimmunity · January 11, 2014
Simple Approach Cuts Inflammation in Rheumatoid Arthritis: 3 Key Factors
Rheumatoid arthritis can be debilitating as well as disfiguring. The heavier duty treatments try to reign in critical elements of the immune system. When it comes to the immune system, balance is key. You may also hear…
Cholesterol · January 8, 2014
Statin Side Effects Solved with an Apple a Day
Sometimes the old adages contain much deeper wisdom than many given them credit for. “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” may prove more accurate than previously thought. Apples are a rich source of polyphenols; plant…
Drug Research · January 4, 2014
Are Drug Companies Really This Crooked??
I think we can all agree that Western medicine is built upon a foundation of drugs and surgery. Without either, most doctors would truly be lost as to what to do with a patient. That’s not to say that we actually help…
Cancer · January 3, 2014
How Much Cancer Survival are We Getting for our Buck?
It is no secret that I have been a vocal critic of national cancer organizations like the American Cancer Society and the Komen organization because of the focus on a cure instead of prevention. The money we spend on…
Influenza · December 30, 2013
How Much Vitamin D Do I Need to Take to Stop Infections?
Before we answer to question of how much, we should probably look at whether or not vitamin D can help with infections in the first place. While vitamin D supplementation has been attributed to any number of health…
Obesity and Weight Loss · December 28, 2013
Lost Weight with a Very Low Calorie Diet? What Now??
I’m a very big fan of low calorie lifestyles and using very low calorie diets to lose weight and rapidly manage diabetes. The problem, however, is what to do after the weight loss program. Our office offers two very low…
Heart Disease · December 27, 2013
Live Longer with a Single Nutrient
I am NOT a single nutrient for a single disease person. I leave that up to the drug companies. Instead, an overall approach to lifestyle is the answer to today’s chronic disease disaster. But sometimes single nutrients…
Breast Cancer · December 24, 2013
Multivitamins: Waste of Money or Saving Lives in Breast Cancer?
The saga continues. Studies showing no effect from vitamins get promoted, while the powerful ones get shoved aside. First of all, nothing will ever replace a good quality diet and lifestyle. This is NOT the goal of a…
Vitamin B12 · December 23, 2013
The Multivitamin Report You DIDN’T Hear About: 6 Important Facts
The news has been a blur with recent highlights from 2 studies looking at the benefits of multivitamin use. If you took the uneducated viewpoint, you’d throw out those bottles now. Before I get into the gist of this…
Diabetes (Type 2) · December 18, 2013
Diabetes & Heart Disease–Are They Separate? 4 Things to Know
Diabetes and Heart disease. Sounds like a stupid question, right? One is the domain of a cardiologist and the other an endocrinologist. Sure, the two are linked and having diabetes greatly increases your risk of having…
Prostate Cancer · December 17, 2013
Watermelon Increases Concentrations of Lycopene, beta-Carotene – (04-23-03)
Watermelon Increases Concentrations of Lycopene, beta-Carotene What more could we ask for? Personally I could eat watermelon 24 hours a day. Recall that lycopene has strong evidence supporting its use for prevention and…
Heart Disease · December 17, 2013
Uric Acid and Survival in Chronic Heart Failure – (04-23-03)
Uric Acid and Survival in Chronic Heart Failure I don’t always include articles about new lab values for prognostication of disease until be know how to modify the risk factor, but here we see that, in patient with…
Heart Disease · December 17, 2013
Study provides new evidence that cranberry juice may help fight CVD – (04-16-03)
Study provides new evidence that cranberry juice may help fight CVD. This is good news to know. 2-3 glasses per day lowered CVD risk by 40% and contains some of the highest levels of protective compounds among its…
Miscellaneous · December 17, 2013
Plasma ghrelin following cure of Helicobacter pylori – (04-16-03)
Plasma ghrelin following cure of Helicobacter pylori. Occasionally I come across an article that gets me so excited that I have to hurriedly explain to my wife the findings. Needless to say she just gives me that “I…
Diabetes and Obesity Tips · December 17, 2013
Magnesium Improves Insulin Sensitivity, Metabolic Control in Diabetes – (04-23-03)
Magnesium Improves Insulin Sensitivity, Metabolic Control in Diabetes. If I’m reading this right (and someone please correct me if I am!!) it looks like these patients got 2.5 grams of magnesium per day in this study…
Miscellaneous · December 17, 2013
Lutein and Zeaxanthin Raise Macular Pigment Density – (04-23-03)
Lutein and Zeaxanthin Raise Macular Pigment Density and Serum Concentrations of these Carotenoids It is surprising how many elderly patients I see in my office that are affected by AMD. Many of them would do just about…
Inflammation · December 17, 2013
Long-Term alpha-Tocopherol and Vit C Have No Detectable Anti-Inflammatory Effects in Healthy Men – (04-16-03)
Long-Term alpha-Tocopherol and Vit C Have No Detectable Anti-Inflammatory Effects in Healthy Men Thought I would comment on this one in case any readers come across this article first. Basically, Vit E and C had no…
Tumors and General Cancer Tips · December 17, 2013
Induction of tumors in mice by genomic hypomethylation – (04-23-03)
Induction of tumors in mice by genomic hypomethylation If you wish to fully understand the folic acid cycle and its contribution to the methylation process and how this drastically impacts our current health and disease…
Anti-Aging · December 17, 2013
Growth Hormone Replacement Therapy Induces Insulin Resistance – (04-16-03)
Growth Hormone Replacement Therapy Induces Insulin Resistance. While this article address growth hormone as used for true deficiency states, this illustrates one of the primary dangers with many so called “anti aging”…
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