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COMMON PAIN DRUGS CAUSE STROKES The word is out: two commonly used anti-inflammatory painkillers, ibuprofen and diclofenac, increase the the risk of both hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke. Hemorrhagic stroke is when a blood vessel bursts and leaks large amounts of blood into the brain. An ischemic stroke is when a brain blood vessel is blocked — by plaque build-up or cracked plaque, ...
VITAMIN K2: Ignore at your peril . . . This month we’ve discussed fat soluble vitamins – D, A, K and E. Put simply, fat soluble vitamins need to be eaten with fat. The ill advised popularization of “low fat diets” over the last 30 years may have caused more harm than benefit. Deficiencies of these important vitamins may ...
VITAMIN A: Are you getting enough of the right kind? There’s a great deal of confusion and misinformation surrounding vitamin A. We’ve been advised to obtain our vitamin A mainly from fruits and vegetables. On the other hand, we’ve been cautioned to limit our vitamin A intake from animal sources. This may be a problem for some people. Here’s ...
FAT SOLUBLE VITAMINS: Overlooked and Misunderstood The Failure of the Drug Model: Why Vitamin D Isn’t Enough Are you taking a vitamin D supplement? Is your 25 hydroxy vitamin D level (25 OH vitamin D) in the optimal range between 40 and 60 ng/ml)? The answer to both questions may be”yes”, but you may be at risk ...
NO WONDER EVERYBODY’S CONFUSED ABOUT VITAMINS! I’m sorry, but the recent testing of multivitamins by the CONSUMER REPORTS just doesn’t give us many useful facts on the subject. It’s just more of the essentially vapid reportage we can expect from mainstream media on food and supplements. I’m a fan of CONSUMER REPORTS, but they just don’t have the depth of knowledge and ...
BOOSTING VITAMIN D LEVELS PROTECTS YOUR HEART: I only bring this up because there’s been a lot of doubt cast recently in the mainstream media on the importance of normalizing vitamin D levels and health risks. Research results recently announced at this year’s annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology tells us that patients who reached normal levels of vitamin ...
Research Shows Brain Fitness Games Boost Memory Can you improve your memory, regardless of age? Up until a few years ago, scientists believed that the aging brain just keeps getting older while losing its edge. The idea that you could turn back the clock on your brain and memory was regarded as far fetched. Not ...
Could weight loss be this easy? Good medical research is all about asking smart questions. It turns that shedding pounds may be as easy as cutting time spent seated in front of the boob tube. By the way, the average American spends a stupendous 5 hours a day planted in front of the TV. A study written ...
Recent research has uncovered the dangers of competiive marathon running. 25 men who had completed 25 consecutive marathons over as many years were compared against 25 men sedentary men of the same age. These gentlemen underwent 64 slice CT angiography of their coronary arteries and were compared to 25 sedentary men of the same age. ...
Food for Thought:Cancer Pearls . . . CAT SCANS DONE IN 2007 PROJECTED TO KILL 15,000: A recent study projected 29,000 excess cancers as a result of CAT scans done in 2007. Quoting from the article “These cancers will appear over the next 20 to 30 years and by the authors’ estimates, will cause approximately 15,000 deaths ...
Could it Be? Pearls and Factoids To Ponder . . . WHOLE GRAINS WIN HANDS DOWN: Intact whole grains contain 6 times the nutritional value of their nutrient-stripped, processed countertparts. That means favor cooked oatmeal, barley or raw meusli type cereals vs. pricey cereals that come in boxes not even worth the cardboard they’re packed in. ...
Weekly Health BulletinsOops! Turns out saturated fats don’t cause heart disease after all . . . How many times have you heard “saturated fat causes heart disease”? This weakly supported medical dogma has been repeated incessantly over the last 20 years, to the likely detriment of our health. How could this be? More about that in a minute. In the ...
Weekly Health BulletinsLife Threatening Stomach Bleeds Caused by Common SSRI Antidpressants SSRI antidepressants such as fluoxetine (Prozac), sertraline (Zoloft) and paroxetine (Paxil) cause serious gastrointestinal(GI) bleeding according to a recent Danish study. Researchers looked at 3,652 patients admitted to hospitals with a GI bleeding problem then checked their medical records for their use of SSRI drugs. Recent users (less than 90 ...
Weekly Health BulletinsHow to Lower Your Pesticide Load: The “Dirty Dozen” and “Clean Fifteen” We can never be reminded of these facts too often. The Environmental Working Group is a non-profit research group and it has established a list of twelve fruits and vegetables that consistently carry the highest pesticide loads. They estimate that pesticide exposure can be ...
Weekly Health BulletinsFood First and The Myth of Vitamin C: An Apple A Day Beats Pills Hands Down Since the beginning of time we humans have been consuming vitamins and minerals in food form. Our cells are designed to take up and use nutrients such as vitamin C with their full array of companion nutrients found in ...
Weekly Health BulletinsWhat’s Wrong with This Picture? Flu vaccination for all adults endorsed for 2010-2011 season yet . . . data is sparse on value of flu vaccines for elderly Everyone aged 6 and older should get a flu vaccine starting with the 2010-2011 season, according to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Center for Disease ...
Weekly Health BulletinsHomeopathy for Breast Cancer? Promising study from MD Anderson Cancer Center shows two remedies have pronounced cytotoxic effects A recent study performed at the prestigious MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston may help open the eyes of homeopathy’s habitual nay-sayers. Ultra-dilute homeopathic preparations of two remedies, Carcinosin and Phytolacca, both showed cytotoxic effects (cell death — desirable) on breast cancer ...
Weekly Health BulletinsThe Power of the Mind: Better Golf Scores Motivate People with Sleep Apnea . . . You couldn’t make this stuff up. It turns out that golfers with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can look forward to knocking several strokes off their golf game by adhering to the standard treatment of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), which is ...
Weekly Health BulletinsHemoglobin A1C: Do you know your level? You may be at increased risk for diabetes and heart disease and not know it. There’s a blood test that turns out to be an accurate measure of risk for both of these common diseases. Until now it was pretty much ignored unless you already had diabetes. Hemoglobin A1C(HgA1C) ...
Weekly Health BulletinsCould disease prevention be this simple? Over the last hundred years there’s been a major shift in the American diet and it is this: we eat foods with fewer omega 3 fatty acids and more omega 6 fatty acids. In fact the ratio between omega 6s and omega 3s in the average American diet has changed from around 4 to 1 (omega 6 to omega ...
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