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Arthritis · June 27, 2013
Coffee consumption and the risk of rheumatoid arthritis – (08-17-00)
Coffee consumption and the risk of rheumatoid arthritis This is a small study suggesting that coffee may be a risk factor for development of RA. Considering that coffee has many other effects that are not so friendly to…
Cholesterol · June 27, 2013
Chromium Supplementation Lowers Glucose, Lipid Levels – (12-14-00)
Chromium Supplementation Lowers Glucose, Lipid Levels Chromium has been recommended for years for sugar handling problems, and is nicknamed GTF, glucose tolerance factor. It is not a stretch to believe that it can lower…
Vitamins · June 27, 2013
Calcium Citrate Shown to Have Superior Bioavailability – (12-14-00)
Calcium Citrate Shown to Have Superior Bioavailability Calcium carbonate has been recommended by many doctors who are not informed on the latest research, with many patients taking Tums and other calcium carbonate…
Asthma · June 27, 2013
Breastfeeding Linked to Increased Risk of Atopy and Asthma – (04-23-01)
Breastfeeding Linked to Increased Risk of Atopy and Asthma This is one of those articles that the media will love to use to try to scare the heck out of mothers. However, much like the vitamin C research that shows an…
Stroke · June 27, 2013
Aspirin for the Heart May Be Unsafe for Low-Risk Individuals – (03-05-01)
Aspirin for the Heart May Be Unsafe for Low-Risk Individuals I come across many people in the community who have self-prescribed aspirin to protect against heart attacks. Many of them are unaware that the evidence is…
Miscellaneous · June 27, 2013
Approach to Upper Respiratory Tract Infection Care for This Century – (08-17-00)
Approach to Upper Respiratory Tract Infection Care for This Century This is an interesting article delving into why antibiotics are still used for URT infections despite the evidence suggesting that there are no…
Allergies · June 27, 2013
Antibiotics Losing Their Power Against Acne – (06-14-01)
Antibiotics Losing Their Power Against Acne Is this any big surprise? Forget acne–how about the long term damage to normal flora when a patient is put on long term broad spectrum antibiotics for a condition such as…
Obesity and Weight Loss · June 27, 2013
A Transgenic Model of Visceral Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome – (12-10-01)
A Transgenic Model of Visceral Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome This article takes a new look at an old problem–visceral abdominal fat is the fat that creates the increased disease risk seen with obesity. Although…
Depression · June 26, 2013
Teenage Depression Treatment w/ Drugs? 3 Things You Need to Know
Somewhere along the way someone decided that teenage depression treatment using antidepressants was ok. I understand that there are challenges and there may actually be a time and place for medicating our kids for…
Drug Research · June 24, 2013
Up to 5% of Clinical Trials May Be Fraudulent – (01-24-02)
Up to 5% of Clinical Trials May Be Fraudulent Now doesn’t this make things a little scary? Articles like this do put things into perspective in two ways. First, money always talks. If you have the money there’s a good…
Vitamins and Supplements 101 · June 24, 2013
Some Supplements Found to Exceed Safe Levels of Vitamin B – (01-17-02)
Some Supplements Found to Exceed Safe Levels of Vitamin B This is an important news release in that it brings to light a whole plethora of issues and concerns. First, the recommended dosages of many nutrients is…
Heart Disease · June 24, 2013
Infectious Burden and Long-Term Prognosis of Atherosclerosis – (01-03-02)
Infectious Burden and Long-Term Prognosis of Atherosclerosis I think it is safe to add an infectious mechanism to the list of contributors to cardiovascular disease. A few interesting things here. H. pylori is included…
Vitamin B12 · June 24, 2013
High dose folic acid and gastric carcinogenesis in beagles – (01-03-02)
High dose folic acid and gastric carcinogenesis in beagles As more and more research piles on, Vitamin B12 and folic acid are arising as some of the most incredibly important nutrients in health and disease. Affecting…
Osteoporosis Cures and Bone Health · June 24, 2013
Fatty Acids as Biochemical, Molecular Modulators of Bone – (01-03-02)
Fatty Acids as Biochemical, Molecular Modulators of Bone This article gives some physiological background for the finding that omega-3 fatty acids protect against osteoporosis. While this article does not have me…
Chiropractic Care · June 24, 2013
Could Your Anti-Inflammatory Destroy Your Brain?
I was teaching a class to doctors this weekend and, on a break, heard one of the doctors on the phone talking about a patient with costochondritis and telling the person on the other end to take an anti-inflammatory to…
Strengthen Your Immune System · June 24, 2013
Could TH1 and TH2 diseases coexist? – (01-03-02)
Could TH1 and TH2 diseases coexist? This is a concept that can shake many of our foundations. TH1 immune response is the “killer attack dog” system, while the TH2 is the “killer guard dog” system. TH2 keeps things…
Arthritis · June 24, 2013
A 10 Year Prospective Followup of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis – (01-03-02)
A 10 Year Prospective Followup of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Let’s look at this…very toxic drugs, significant side effects, and NOW we find out that drugs for RA actually make the patient worse in the long run?…
Heart Disease · June 23, 2013
Is Your Doctor Happy With Your State of Health?
Cardiovascular disease is a lifestyle disease. Genetics are a minor player. The day in, day out decisions you make guide your health outcomes. In today’s society, all of the known risk factors for heart disease can (and…
Chiropractic Care · June 22, 2013
Trends in Surgery for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
Technically, “stenosis” is shrinking of an opening. When we refer to “spinal stenosis” this means a shrinking of the openings of the spinal column where your nerves run through it. There are two flavors: lateral recess…
Arthritis · June 20, 2013
Why do Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis use Alternative Treatments? – (05-31-01)
Why do Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis use Alternative Treatments? I hope there are no patients with RA reading this, because they may get very offended by this study. Basically, this study try to evaluate why…
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