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Diarrhea / Constipation / Irritable Bowel · September 10, 2013
Public Citizen Urges FDA Not to Approve Tegaserod For IBS – (04-30-01)
Public Citizen Urges FDA Not to Approve Tegaserod For IBS There have been numerous attempts by the pharmaceuticals to tap into the irritable bowel syndrome market. The first attempt was pulled off the market for safety…
Hormone · September 10, 2013
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Is Associated With Endothelial Dysfunction – (04-09-01)
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Is Associated With Endothelial Dysfunction In view of recent findings that insulin resistance can be a contributor to endothelial dysfunction; and knowing that high insulin levels can shunt…
Asthma · September 10, 2013
Oxidant stress in allergic asthma measured w/ urinary F2-isoprostane – (04-19-01)
Oxidant stress in allergic asthma measured w/ urinary F2-isoprostane I know this article appears to be a highly technical one (and it is…), but the take home message is that any asthmatic (in particular those with…
Heart Disease · September 10, 2013
Novel Common Genetic Risk Factor for Lumbar Disk Disease – (05-10-01)
Novel Common Genetic Risk Factor for Lumbar Disk Disease With the completion of the human genome project there seems to have been this burst of wanting to blame genetics for the chronic diseases of today’s society. With…
Hypertension · September 10, 2013
Na+/H+ exchanger w/ hyperinsulinemia in borderline hypertensive rats – (04-19-01)
Na+/H+ exchanger w/ hyperinsulinemia in borderline hypertensive rats Here is another article (albeit a rat study) that begins to dispell the idea of most cases of hypertension being “essential.” Hyperinsulinemia is…
Healthy Living in a Toxic World · September 10, 2013
Mortality Lower Among Immigrants Than Those Born in the US – (04-19-01)
Mortality Lower Among Immigrants Than Those Born in the US Do we need any more evidence that our lifestyle here in the US is killing us? American Public Health Association – APHA – Singh and Siahpush abstract Read…
Hormone · September 10, 2013
Maternal essential fatty acid deficiency depresses serum leptin levels – (04-09-01)
Maternal essential fatty acid deficiency depresses serum leptin levels While this is a trial done in rats, if the same holds true in humans it puts even more responsibility on the mother to be to live a healthy…
Anti-Aging · September 10, 2013
Markers of cumulative biological risk: studies of successful aging – (05-10-01)
Markers of cumulative biological risk: studies of successful aging This article reviews the use of allostatic load (AL) to determine biological risks of aging. AL is an index that uses 10 parameters of biological…
Mediterranean Diet · September 10, 2013
Lyon Diet Heart Study – (05-03-01)
Lyon Diet Heart Study This is a wonderful article outlining very nicely what a Mediterranean diet consist of. I am a big, big fan of the Mediterranean diet and feel that, for most patients, it is probably one of the…
Chiropractic Care · September 10, 2013
Is the Chiropractic Subluxation Theory a Threat to Public Health? – (05-03-01)
Is the Chiropractic Subluxation Theory a Threat to Public Health? It still amazes me that articles like this show up in medical journals. We have pharmaceutical drugs responsible as the 4th to the 6th leading cause of…
Heart Disease · September 10, 2013
Insulin Therapy A Predictor of Mortality in Coronary Artery Disease – (05-03-01)
Insulin Therapy A Predictor of Mortality in Coronary Artery Disease I’ve touched on this many times before–insulin is really not a friendly hormone to the body. It is designed to be short acting and then cleared from…
Hormone · September 10, 2013
Influence of melatonin on glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity – (04-09-01)
Influence of melatonin on glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity I’ve always been a little nervous about using any type of hormone replacement therapy be it estrogen, growth hormone, testesterone, insulin or…
Asthma · September 10, 2013
Heart Disease Risks Higher for All Asthma Patients – (04-09-01)
Heart Disease Risks Higher for All Asthma Patients Still think our life expectancy is going to increase? Look at the number of children developing asthma and how much those numbers are increasing. No we see that…
Inflammation · September 10, 2013
Green Tea Preparations Protect Skin From UV Radiation Damage – (04-19-01)
Green Tea Preparations Protect Skin From UV Radiation Damage This article looks at topically applied green tea extract on UV associated skin damage. It would be interesting to see if oral preparations would have a…
Miscellaneous · September 10, 2013
Gene transfer of C elegans n3 fatty acid desaturase and fatty acids – (04-30-01)
Gene transfer of C elegans n3 fatty acid desaturase and fatty acids At first this article sounds very technical. I’ll try to boil it down and explain how scary the implications are and how far science will go to try to…
Arthritis · September 10, 2013
Frequency of triggering bacteria in patients with reactive arthritis – (04-09-01)
Frequency of triggering bacteria in patients with reactive arthritis The well known fact that certain organisms infecting the GI tract can cause systemic arthritic symptoms becomes lost on most clinicians when they…
Breast Cancer · September 10, 2013
Fluorescent Marker w/ Hand-Held Sensor Can Detect Breast Malignancy – (04-19-01)
Fluorescent Marker w/ Hand-Held Sensor Can Detect Breast Malignancy We are starting to see many alternatives to mammograms; many of which have a much better false positive rate. Given the high number of false positives…
Alzheimer's · September 10, 2013
Estrogen Replacement Therapy Does Not Reduce Alzheimer’s Risk – (05-03-01)
Estrogen Replacement Therapy Does Not Reduce Alzheimer’s Risk Strike off yet another excuse for HRT. Want to lower your risk of Alzheimers? Identify and avoid food allergens, lower your overall inflammatory burden…
Alzheimer's · September 10, 2013
ERT Does Not Reduce Alzheimer’s Risk – (04-30-01)
ERT Does Not Reduce Alzheimer’s Risk I frequently have patients asking me if they should go on or stop taking HRT. My first question is to find out why the patient has an interest in taking it in the first place. Hot…
Vitamin B12 · September 10, 2013
Empiric Folate Therapy Over Testing for Folate Levels in Macrocytosis – (04-09-01)
Empiric Folate Therapy Over Testing for Folate Levels in Macrocytosis This is really a progressive article with a concept that I support wholeheartedly. Many times I can look at a CBC of a patient who has abnormally…
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