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Heart Disease · June 20, 2013
Cardiovascular Morbidity, Mortality with the Metabolic Syndrome – (06-04-01)
Cardiovascular Morbidity, Mortality with the Metabolic Syndrome The metabolic syndrome, or Syndrome X, is a state of insulin resistance that leads to a wide variety of other signs and symptoms in the patient. It is well…
Insulin · June 20, 2013
Caffeine Ingestion Decreases Glucose Disposal – (10-01-01)
Caffeine Ingestion Decreases Glucose Disposal Not that coffee is a part of any healthy lifestyle, but this is another reason to avoid it. This study finds that coffee inhibits insulin’s ability to clear glucose from the…
Breast Cancer · June 20, 2013
Bisphenol A Detected in Canned Food in UK – (05-31-01)
Bisphenol A Detected in Canned Food in UK This substance acts as a xenoestrogen…mimicking the effect of estrogen in the body. These class of substances have been linking to many diseases, including breast cancer, PMS…
Inflammation · June 20, 2013
Bacterial Regulation of Epithelial Responses – (10-05-00)
Bacterial Regulation of Epithelial Responses This is another article presenting evidence that beneficial bacteria can help reduce inflammation in the GI tract. It’s a little technical, but the take home message is that…
Heart Disease · June 20, 2013
Assessment of Cognitive Function after Bypass Surgery – (05-31-01)
Assessment of Cognitive Function after Bypass Surgery Just in case you needed another reason to take better care of your heart and avoid heart surgery. A large chunk of patients in this study who underwent coronary…
Vitamin C · June 20, 2013
Ascorbic acid and mortality – (03-18-01)
Ascorbic acid and mortality This rather large study looked at the effects of vitamin C levels in the blood and all-cause mortality. Ascorbic acid was shown to protect against all causes of death. Quite a feat for…
Chiropractic Care · June 20, 2013
Arthroscopic Sx for Knee OA No More Effective Than Sham Sx – (03-18-01)
Arthroscopic Sx for Knee OA No More Effective Than Sham Sx Think the surgeons are going to like this one? With more and more studies coming out on the effectiveness (or lack of) of surgery we are starting to see that…
Cholesterol · June 20, 2013
ApoB is inhibited by the flavonoids, naringenin and hesperetin – (05-31-01)
ApoB is inhibited by the flavonoids, naringenin and hesperetin This japanese sounding title refers to the ability of certain natural compounds found in various fruits, to lower cholesterol levels. Ironically, naringenin…
Cholesterol · June 20, 2013
Apo e2 Allele and Anti-atherogenic Lipoprotein Profile in Children – (10-05-00)
Apo e2 Allele and Anti-atherogenic Lipoprotein Profile in Children This is another example of “new” markers that can affect our cardiovascular health. Running an isolated cholesterol level without the other markers such…
Allergies · June 20, 2013
Allergy Reports of Dubious Value in Pediatric Asthma – (03-18-01)
Allergy Reports of Dubious Value in Pediatric Asthma In my opinion, the authors of this article have it all backwards. They compare the parents’ and childrens’ report of allergies to skin prick testing and found poor…
Kidney Problems · June 20, 2013
Acetaminophen, Aspirin, and Chronic Renal Failure – (12-31-01)
Acetaminophen, Aspirin, and Chronic Renal Failure This study confirms previous studies on the increase in risk for renal failure with use of pain-modulating drugs. I would add to this list the use of NSAIDs as well, as…
Anti-Aging · June 19, 2013
Can Vibration Plate Exercises Keep You Strong In Later Years?
As a disclaimer, I need to tell you I’m a little biased. I have recommended vibration plate exercises in my office for about 7 years now. For starters, there are some things that whole body vibration is not effective…
Inflammation · June 17, 2013
Weight Loss Increases Adipose-Derived Anti-Inflammatory Adiponectin – (08-20-01)
Weight Loss Increases Adipose-Derived Anti-Inflammatory Adiponectin Two things here. First, keep your ears open for adiponectin. It is a newly identified protein that may play a key role in hormone modulation of obesity…
Colon / Colorectal Cancer · June 17, 2013
Vitamin D Receptor As an Intestinal Bile Acid Sensor – (05-23-02)
Vitamin D Receptor As an Intestinal Bile Acid Sensor This article suggests a mechanism for the observed effects of Vit D lowering risk of colon cancer. Vit D upregulates production of an enzyme system needing to…
Drug Research · June 17, 2013
UK Group Sees Disaster in Direct-To-consumer Drug Advertising – (07-23-01)
UK Group Sees Disaster in Direct-To-consumer Drug Advertising So they could see it in England but not here in America…direct to consumer advertising, while a major source of funding for newspapers, magazines and TV, has…
Type 1 Diabetes · June 17, 2013
TNF in type 1 diabetics and glucose control and cardiovascular risk – (08-21-00)
TNF in type 1 diabetics and glucose control and cardiovascular risk This study points to TNF-alpha as a contributor to the damage done to the pancreas in Type I diabetes. Recall that TNF inhibitors are the new…
Diabetes and Obesity Tips · June 17, 2013
The hormone resistin links obesity to diabetes – (01-25-01)
The hormone resistin links obesity to diabetes This is really an exciting new discovery in human health. Just a few years back the hot hormone was leptin, and the discovery of leptin helped to clarify a little further…
Testosterone · June 17, 2013
The Andro Project – (12-07-00)
The Andro Project I just find this so entertaining. The use of androstenedione supplements (i.e. Mark McQuire) shows no evidence of increasing testesterone levels. On the contrary, many studies have now confirmed that…
Inflammation · June 17, 2013
Tender points are not sites of ongoing inflammation – (02-24-03)
Tender points are not sites of ongoing inflammation -in vivo evidence in patients with chronic tension-type headache Wow!! What an insightful article!! There has been much debate currently about the use of “itis” when…
Heart Disease · June 17, 2013
Tea and Heart Disease – (08-20-01)
Tea and Heart Disease This is an editorial that covers some of the metabolism that is involved with quercetin; don’t chew gum while trying to comprehend it. What this article does point out is that there are several…
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