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Thyroid · March 10, 2013
Clue to Subclinical Thyroid Disease – (03-14-02)
Individual Variations in T4, T3: Clue to Subclinical Thyroid Disease This article introduces an entirely novel concept: patients may actually have lab values within normal range that are abnormal for that particular…
Diet Choices for Your Best Health · March 10, 2013
Clinical factors, diet, and drugs on upper GI glutathione system – (01-17-02)
Clinical factors, diet, and drugs on upper GI glutathione system Glutathione is one of the body’s more powerful methods of dealing with toxins and free radicals. This article finds that fruits and veggies will increase…
Celiac Disease · March 10, 2013
Changing face of adult coeliac disease – (01-24-02)
Changing face of adult coeliac disease The concept of coeliac disease having a major impact on overall health is just beginning to gain speed. Many neurological conditions can be related to something as simple as wheat…
Miscellaneous · March 10, 2013
Carotenoids, Normal Human Skin Color and UV Photosensitivity – (03-14-02)
Carotenoids, Normal Human Skin Color and UV Photosensitivity This article brings to mind to “hot item” about a decade or so back. Tanning pills that were available contained high levels of beta carotene and, in high…
Menstrual Problems · March 10, 2013
Benefits of soy isoflavone regimen on menopausal symptoms – (03-25-02)
Benefits of soy isoflavone regimen on menopausal symptoms While I’m sure none of you fell over in surprise at the finding of this article, the fact that this appears in Obstetrics and Gynecology is a shocker to me. I…
Autoimmunity · March 10, 2013
ANA associated with coronary atherosclerosis – (01-24-02)
ANA associated with coronary atherosclerosis The ANA is a marker of the level of autoimmunity in a patient and can be considered another marker of inflammation. See above… Ann Rheum Dis — Abstracts: Grainger and Bethell…
Healthy Living in a Toxic World · March 10, 2013
Age at acquisition of H pylori infection – (03-25-02)
Age at acquisition of H pylori infection: study from infancy to adulthood Geez!! I just LOVE this article!!! This article finds that a large chunk of the population actually acquires this bacteria before the age of ten…
Alzheimer's · March 7, 2013
Powerhouse Vitamin Plays Role in Alzheimer’s Dementia Diagnosis
As far as I’m concerned, the medical dementia research strongly points to an oxidative stress/mitochondrial dysfunction model of neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s dementia and Parkinson’s disease. The idea…
Health · March 6, 2013
Migraines in Children: Do Meds Work? Are They a Good Idea?
When ANY child has headaches, something is wrong. They don’t just happen and they darn sure aren’t because that child is deficient in some medication. And yet, we seem to think this is the case because the…
Arthritis · March 5, 2013
Hip Pain Causes–It May Not Be What (or Where) You Think
Nothing slows you down like pain in hips. But sometimes hip pain causes may not be coming from the hip and it takes an experienced physician to tease out answers. First, though, this is one of those blog posts that I…
Elbow Pain · March 4, 2013
How To Treat Tennis Elbow; Don’t Make This Mistake
The Internet has lots of information on how to treat tennis elbow (aka lateral epicondylitis) but you need to be careful. Some treatments may leave you worse off. As a martial artist, chiropractor and father of a young…
Obesity and Weight Loss · March 3, 2013
Weight Loss Reduces CRP Levels in Obese Postmenopausal Women – (02-11-02)
Weight Loss Reduces CRP Levels in Obese Postmenopausal Women C-Reative protein is increasingly being recognized as a strong independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Interestingly, I had a patient in her mid…
Asthma · March 3, 2013
Systemic Activity of Inhaled Steroids in 1-3-Year-Olds with Asthma – (03-07-02)
Systemic Activity of Inhaled Steroids in 1-3-Year-Olds with Asthma It should not be any great surprise that inhaled medications make it into the systemic circulation and have side effects distant from the treatment…
Miscellaneous · March 3, 2013
Systematic review of RCTs of over the counter cough medicines – (02-11-02)
Systematic review of RCTs of over the counter cough medicines Can you say “dogma?” There are many things we do everyday when we get sick that, if we take a step back and truly look at, have no evidence supporting the…
Type 1 Diabetes · March 3, 2013
Synthetic Antioxidant Prevents Diabetes in Mice – (02-18-02)
Synthetic Antioxidant Prevents Diabetes in Mice While it is wonderful (albeit not surprising) that antioxidants can lower risk or even prevent progression to diabetes (Type I), I cannot figure out why anyone would go to…
Tissue Necrosis Factor (TNF) · March 3, 2013
Short term benefits to blocking a major player in the body’s immune response – (02-11-02)
Repeated infliximab, a chimeric anti-TNF alpha, in spondyloarthropathy While there are definite short term benefits to blocking a major player in the body’s immune response, I am very concerned with the long term…
Arthritis · March 3, 2013
Relative importance of genetic effects in rheumatoid arthritis – (02-04-02)
Relative importance of genetic effects in rheumatoid arthritis Actually, this study shows the relatively “un” importance of genetics. While I do believe that genetics plays a role in development of this condition, I…
Diet Choices for Your Best Health · March 3, 2013
Relation between high glycemic load, plasma CRP – (02-27-02)
Relation between high glycemic load, plasma CRP Just recently I relayed a story of one of my patients that had a CRP level of 35 mg/L (<5 considered normal) that was lowered in less than three months to 8 mg/L just by…
Heart Disease · March 3, 2013
Phytoestrogens Associated with Favorable Cardiovascular Risk Profile – (02-04-02)
Phytoestrogens Associated with Favorable Cardiovascular Risk Profile Remember research a few weeks back that found that high dose phytoestrogen did not affect blood lipids? I had to comment that the study used high dose…
Alzheimer's · March 3, 2013
Physical Activity May Modulate Effects of ApoE Genotype on Lipids – (02-18-02)
Physical Activity May Modulate Effects of ApoE Genotype on Lipids Jump up and down for joy with this one. Since its initial discovery and seeming death sentence in heart disease and Alzheimer’s almost 20 years ago, we…
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