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Vitamin C · December 4, 2013
Six-Year Effect of Vit C, E on Atherosclerotic Progression – (03-04-03)
Six-Year Effect of Vit C, E on Atherosclerotic Progression. Whenever a study comes out showing no benefit of antioxidants on progression/prevention of CVD, one has to look at the totality of the evidence. The evidence…
Diabetes and Obesity Tips · December 4, 2013
Short-Term Fasting and Refeeding on Transcriptional Regulation of Metabolic Genes in Skeletal Muscle – (03-04-03)
Short-Term Fasting and Refeeding on Transcriptional Regulation of Metabolic Genes in Skeletal Muscle. I know this title is a bit too long, but let me see if I can distill the results down. Basically, after a 20 hour…
Insulin · December 4, 2013
Monounsaturated Fatty Acids Prevent the Deleterious Effects of Palmitate – (03-04-03)
Monounsaturated Fatty Acids Prevent the Deleterious Effects of Palmitate and High Glucose on Human Pancreatic Beta-Cell Turnover and Function. This article finds that monounsaturated fatty acids (i.e. olive oil, nuts…
Miscellaneous · December 4, 2013
L-5-methyltetrahydrofolate vs folic acid on plasma homocysteine – (03-04-03)
L-5-methyltetrahydrofolate vs folic acid on plasma homocysteine. Oral folic acid needs to be converted by the enzyme MHTFR to 5-MTHF before it can be used by the body in the methylation pathways. As has been previously…
Vitamin D · December 4, 2013
Four monthly oral vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) supplementation on fractures and mortality – (03-04-03)
Four monthly oral vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) supplementation on fractures and mortality. This is an interesting concept–giving a weekly dosage of Vitamin D (a fat soluble vitamin that gets stored rather than washed…
Urinary Tract Infections · December 4, 2013
Dietary factors protecting women from urinary tract infection – (03-04-03)
Dietary factors protecting women from urinary tract infection. This article finds that dietary habits can have an impact on UTIs in women. Cranberry juice has been used for UTIs and it is believed that D-mannose, the…
Breast Cancer · December 4, 2013
Diet More Powerful for This Type of Breast Cancer Type
I have certainly written about the powerful effects of lifestyle choices on the risk of breast cancer, but rarely do studies look at the type of breast cancer. First, a primer on the types of breast cancer as it relates…
Allergies · December 4, 2013
Biotin and Allergies – (03-04-03)
Biotin and Allergies. Biotin is one of those nutrients that nutrition textbooks say there is no known deficiency, and yet it is popping up in numerous places with positive effects on health. Here we see that high dose…
Asthma · December 4, 2013
Aldehydes, Glutathione in Exhalation of Kids with Asthma Exacerbation – (03-04-03)
Aldehydes, Glutathione in Exhalation of Kids with Asthma Exacerbation. I can follow along with the idea that oxidative stress and lowered glutathione levels are noted in children with asthma flare ups. However, the…
Vitamins · December 4, 2013
’5-a-day’ fruit and veggies or folic acid-fortified foods on plasma folate and homocysteine – (03-04-03)
’5-a-day’ fruit and veggies or folic acid-fortified foods on plasma folate and homocysteine. This study is an important idea for the clinicians who have said that multivitamins were unnecessary because we get all the…
Miscellaneous · December 2, 2013
WHO’s diet report prompts food industry backlash – (05-05-03)
WHO’s diet report prompts food industry backlash. Not really much to comment on on this one, but I feel everyone should know about the backroom politics that go into the making of policy. This is one of the reasons I do…
Obesity and Weight Loss · December 2, 2013
Tryptophan concentrations and ratios below normal in obese subjects – (05-05-03)
Tryptophan concentrations and ratios below normal in obese subjects. As a background, tryptophan crosses the blood-brain barrier and gets converted to serotonin. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter used for many purposes…
Type 1 Diabetes · December 2, 2013
The importance of the GI tract – (05-05-03)
Increased intestinal permeability as a cause of fluctuating postprandial blood glucose levels in Type 1 diabetic patients. This article really reminds us of (or should wake others up to…) the importance of the GI tract…
Diabetes (Type 2) · December 2, 2013
Prospective Study of Sugar and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Women – (05-05-03)
Prospective Study of Sugar and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Women. Don’t you just love articles that throw a wrench in the works of what we commonly believe? Personally, I find that I really have to think more precisely…
Vitamins and Supplements 101 · December 2, 2013
how to use nutrition and nutritional supplements effectively – (05-05-03)
Nutrition proficiency positively correlated w/ perceived quality of nutrition training of family physicians. Learning how to use nutrition and nutritional supplements effectively is something that really does require…
Influenza · December 2, 2013
Fatty acid composition and measures of immune cell function – (05-05-03)
Fatty acid composition and measures of immune cell function. With so much worry out today about the SARS virus and the flu and West Nile Virus we are looking for emergency cures when we seem to forget that a healthy…
Neck Pain · December 2, 2013
Cost effectiveness of physiotherapy, manual therapy, and general practitioner care for neck pain – (05-05-03)
Cost effectiveness of physiotherapy, manual therapy, and general practitioner care for neck pain. Being that manual therapy is the bread and butter of my practice, I had to add this one into the Update… bmj.com…
Breast Cancer · December 2, 2013
BRCA1, BRCA2 and Breast Cancer Risk; Are You Doomed?
The answer to the above question is, of course, a strong yes. After all, if Angelina Jolie decided to have her breasts removed and the medical community performed the procedure, it must be that severe. In addition, if…
Health · December 2, 2013
Baclofen on 24 hour pH metry and symptoms in GERD – (05-05-03)
Baclofen on 24 hour pH metry and symptoms in GERD. Okay, so it is interesting that a muscle relaxer such as baclofen has a beneficial effect on reflux disease. However, what I find particularly disconcerting is that…
Insulin · December 2, 2013
Arterial Stiffness Increases With Deteriorating Glucose Tolerance Status – (05-05-03)
Arterial Stiffness Increases With Deteriorating Glucose Tolerance Status. More and more evidence is mounting for the contribution that insulin resistance plays in vascular dynamics, both directly and indirectly. Insulin…
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