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Heart Disease · May 5, 2013
Antioxidant benefits of grapes and their derivatives – (04-17-00)
Antioxidant benefits of grapes and their derivatives (i.e. wine…) Comparison of Antioxidant Potentials of Red Wine, White Wine, Grape Juice and Alcohol. Current Medical research and Opinion 15(4):316-320 …not only red…
Inflammation · May 5, 2013
Anti-Inflammatory Treatment of Soft-Tissue Sports Injuries – (10-23-00)
Anti-Inflammatory Treatment of Soft-Tissue Sports Injuries This article is a review of standard pharmaceutical approaches to chronic and acute sports injuries. As many of us in the manual medicine side of things have…
Childhood Obesity · May 4, 2013
High Powered Diabetic Drugs to Prevent Diabetes in Kids
In a previous blog article, we established the fact that less than 1% of adolescents were maintaining ideal cardiovascular health. In another previous blog article, we looked at the fact that 1/3 of the US population is…
Healthy Kids · May 3, 2013
Heart Disease Prevention: Is Your Teen in the 1%?
Cardiovascular disease is a lifestyle disease. Period. Genetics play a very small role. Period. In almost all cases, if you have heart disease it is due to choices you made. Hard to swallow, but it’s the truth. We don’t…
Heart Disease · May 2, 2013
Abdominal Fat Measurements = Heart Fat
There is nothing good about visceral fat. Many just worry about the aesthetics of it, but the reality is that visceral fat wreaks havoc on long term health. The current model of visceral adipose tissue puts this type of…
Prediabetes · May 1, 2013
Think You’re NOT Prediabetic? Better Think Again
It’s pretty clear that the percentage of the US population that is prediabetic is startlingly high. But of course, this does not apply to you, right? Better rethink that. I won’t repeat my belief that the diabetic…
Obesity and Weight Loss · April 30, 2013
Can Bacteria Make You Skinny? Or Antibiotics Fatten You Up?
If only it were that simple, but physiology rarely is. But this does not mean you can’t use this info on probiotics and weight gain to your advantage. Out of all the topics I’ve covered in the past 13 years and some…
Allergies · April 29, 2013
7 Ways Drops for Allergies Shine Again: Asthma
This is not the first time I’ve written about the wonders of drops for allergies for different conditions. But drops for asthma…this is new… A large chunk of the population deals with the discomfort and limitations of…
Gastroenterology · April 28, 2013
Why should gastroenterologists be interested in nutrition and obesity? – (10-03-02)
Why should gastroenterologists be interested in nutrition and obesity? Umm…because it is the keystone upon which health and disease pivots? Because it holds the potential to stave off most diseases known to man? Because…
Insulin · April 28, 2013
Troglitazone Antagonizes Metabolic Effects of Glucocorticoids – (10-03-02)
Troglitazone Antagonizes Metabolic Effects of Glucocorticoids Ahh…the slippery slope of multiple medications; each drug designed to counteract the effects of the one before it. How about doing everything possible to…
Endometriosis · April 28, 2013
Steroid and Cytokine Regulation of MMP Expression in Endometriosis – (10-10-02)
Steroid and Cytokine Regulation of MMP Expression in Endometriosis Cutting through the technical jargon, this article brings to light a potentially important factor for treatment of endometriosis. Progesterone is key…
Vitamin C · April 28, 2013
Stability of ascorbic acid in commercially available orange juices – (10-10-02)
Stability of ascorbic acid in commercially available orange juices Given how much of a fan I am of high (gram) doses of vitamin C, the idea that any type of juice could be considered a good source of vitamin C doesn’t…
Liver Disease · April 28, 2013
S-Adenosyl-L-methionine: its role in the treatment of liver disorders – (10-24-02)
S-Adenosyl-L-methionine: its role in the treatment of liver disorders When a nutrient seems to affect multiple conditions, we can assume two case scenarios. A. The nutrient is offered by a multi level marketing company…
Drug Research · April 28, 2013
Rates of Spontaneous Reporting of Adverse Drug Reactions in France – (10-03-02)
Rates of Spontaneous Reporting of Adverse Drug Reactions in France Lets follow the path here. The FDA can be paid to push a drug through before it has been properly studied. Within 7 years, about 20% of these drugs are…
Diet Choices for Your Best Health · April 28, 2013
Pregnant Women and Nursing Mothers Should Avoid French Fries, Chips – (01-27-03)
Pregnant Women and Nursing Mothers Should Avoid French Fries, Chips Not that this should be any breaking news for anyone, but this article addresses acrylamide, a potentially toxic compound formed when certain foods are…
Heart Disease · April 28, 2013
Novel Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Do They Add Value to Your Practice? – (01-27-03)
Novel Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Do They Add Value to Your Practice? These people never cease to amaze me. Here is the overview of this editorial: CRP is known to be a risk factor for CVD…There is not enough evidence…
Vaccination · April 28, 2013
Need for Mass Hepatitis A Vaccination of Indian Children – (10-24-02)
Need for Mass Hepatitis A Vaccination of Indian Children Hmmm….a worldwide organization suggesting that Hep A vaccine is unnecessary because most children have antibodies to the virus by age 10. And yet, here in the US…
Probiotic · April 28, 2013
Mucosal TNF-alpha production in Crohn’s disease downregulated by probiotic bacteria – (10-17-02)
Mucosal TNF-alpha production in Crohn’s disease downregulated by probiotic bacteria Research articles like this just bring tears to my eyes. Probiotics are showing efficacy and high levels of safety in a wide variety of…
Osteoporosis Cures and Bone Health · April 28, 2013
Modest Weight Training Improves Bone Strength in Older Men, Women – (10-10-02)
Modest Weight Training Improves Bone Strength in Older Men, Women This nice thing about this article is that it really stresses how much a simple exercise program can impact the health of our elderly. I know that in my…
Strengthen Your Immune System · April 28, 2013
Mistletoe enhances immune response to intranasally HSV – (10-17-02)
Mistletoe enhances immune response to intranasally HSV This article presents a useful therapeutic path for the use of mistletoe. In this study, mistletoe application induced the Th-2 cytokine pathway (search the website…
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