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Posted May 25, 2020: by Bill Sardi
sdAlmost 8 in 10 Americans rate the quality of their personal health care as “excellent or good.” But compared to what? Most Americans only hear that America spends more on healthcare than any other country and that it has the most advanced healthcare in the world. Yet for all the money spent, the US ranks 38th in life expectancy.
How would patients know how to measure the quality of care they receive unless they have something to compare it against?
Japan, with the highest overall life expectancy from birth of 84.5 years, compared to 78.9 years in the U.S., has a completely voluntary vaccination program and according to the Japanese Society for Orthomolecular Medicine, has over 400 trained practitioners at “vitamin C clinics” dotted across Japan’s five main islands. This author can only count 1 vitamin C clinic in the U.S. (Riordan Clinic, Wichita, Kansas)
For the want of a single vitamin, Americans may be losing out on the best healthcare in the world. While American physicians continue to embrace the cholesterol paradigm of health, Japan has turned to vitamin C.
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Posted September 24, 2019: by Bill Sardi
Just walking into a doctor’s office, there is a lot that is already known about you that can be directed toward keeping you healthy but goes unmentioned. Just walking in the door of a doctor’s office, without blood tests or other diagnostic studies having been done, there are a lot missed opportunities to prevent inherited or intrinsic disease from ever occurring.
For example, red haired individuals, particularly females, are prone to develop multiple sclerosis. There is a strong association between red hair and low blood levels of vitamin D. Makes sense because red haired individuals sunburn easily and avoid the sun which leads to low levels of sunshine vitamin D. Prophylactic vitamin D pills would be in order.
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Posted August 31, 2019: by Bill Sardi
Bile is of one of the humors (fluids) that the Greek physician Hippocrates noted was important to maintain health. Bile, produced in the liver and stored in the gall bladder, facilitates the digestion of fats and oils and the absorption and transport of fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E & K. Modern medicine may have better fulfilled its mission to educate the public about bile rather than cholesterol. Given that as many people have a heart attack with low cholesterol as they do high cholesterol, one wonders how cholesterol became the central paradigm of modern medicine. People over 60 years old who have high “bad” LDL cholesterol live as long or longer than people with low LDL cholesterol. As an aside, calcium pills, antacids, even aspirin, mainstays of medicine, fit into the same category – misdirections in the practice of medicine.
Both cholesterol and bile are secreted from the liver. Bile actually facilitates the degradation (catabolism) and disposal of cholesterol. Bile is described as a “detergent” that enables the excretion of cholesterol. Bile is actually comprised of cholesterol and controls circulating cholesterol levels. A backup of bile in the liver is problematic. A reduction in bile flow due to sludgy, thick viscous bile, can result in abnormally high cholesterol levels.
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Posted January 22, 2019: by Bill Sardi
What is the biggest healthcare mistake? Taking calcium pills to ward off bone loss (osteoporosis) among females.
A shortage of estrogen induces loss of bone, not a shortage of calcium; estrogen replacement or molecules that mimic estrogen (resveratrol) are appropriate.
What is the biggest health misdirection? Phobia over fat and cholesterol
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Posted October 12, 2015: by Bill Sardi
It should not be surprising to learn that the gradual accumulation of iron in the male body should result in undesirable health consequences. After full childhood growth is achieved males accumulate 1 milligram of excess iron per day, which is largely stored in the liver and attached to hemoglobin in red blood cells. By middle age a male has twice as much stored in in his body than an equally aged female who menstruates to control iron. The result is that a male at age 40 has double the risk for diabetes, cancer and heart disease as female of the same age.
With that said, as men approach middle age they might be losing sex drive and feel terribly fatigued. These symptoms may be due to tired iron-overloaded blood. Testosterone shots may remedy desire but not deal with the root of the problem.
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Posted February 15, 2015: by Bill Sardi
An 18-page U.S. dietary guideline issued in 1977 [US Gov’t Printing Office] that called for Americans to consume more sugar-producing carbohydrates from bread, rice and pasta and to limit intake of fat and cholesterol, in particular saturated fat, is suddenly being abandoned 37 years later. [Time Magazine Feb 9, 2015]
The realization that millions of Americans have been massively misled by food and nutrition experts comes without apologies from any group that represents modern medicine.
It’s not that newly understood food science has forced changes in fat intake guidelines. There was never ANY evidence to support the dietary recommendations issued in 1977! There was no evidence whatsoever that eating less fat would translate into fewer cases of heart disease or death. [Open Heart – British Medical Journal 2015]
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Posted July 21, 2013: by Bill Sardi
It was S.C. Gilfillan in 1965 who wrote in the Journal of Occupational Medicine that chronic lead poisoning resulted in the fall of the Roman Empire centuries ago.
It was lead, largely in wine, grape syrup and preserved fruit as well as in paint, which resulted in infertility among the ruling classes in Rome. Sterility, miscarriage, stillbirth and premature labor rose to the point where the inheritance of the Roman culture was left to the less capable who were unable to bear the responsibilities of government. Rome fell from within.
Now another hidden dietary threat is ready to topple well-fed modern civilizations, and according to one expert, it poses the same severe threat to modern human civilization as lead did in Rome centuries ago.
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Posted June 20, 2013: by Bill Sardi
In 2008 tagatose was declared a “new anti-diabetic and obesity control drug.” It was said to be in Phase 3 of a human clinical trial to address “the rapidly growing epidemic of type 2 (adult onset) diabetes.
The report said tagatose was initially developed by a company as a low calorie sugar substitute. It is sweet, but only 20% of orally ingested tagatose is fully metabolized, following a metabolic pathway similar to fructose.
Tagatose has gained FDA status as “generally regarded as safe (GRAS) which permits it to be used in foods and beverages. The report says “a 14-month trial confirms its potential for treating type 2 diabetes, and tagatose showed promise for inducing weight loss” as well. Tagatose was also identified as an antioxidant and prebiotic (favors good bacteria in the digestive tract).
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Posted April 27, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Doctors often call these idiopathic disorders, that is, “conditions arising spontaneously from an obscure or unknown cause.” Modern medicine says it doesn’t know what causes Alzheimer’s, cancer, migraine headaches, and many other maladies. Could there be a common cause?
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Posted November 3, 2011: by Bill Sardi
The current craze in natural medicine is gluten free. Shops have opened up in my community featuring nothing but gluten-free foods. Gluten is the current phobia. Medically the problem is called celiac disease and it involves the deterioration of the mucus barrier in the small bowel as a result of the innate immune system over-responding to an allergen.
The disease is triggered by consumption of dietary wheat-, rye- and barley-derived gluten and it often manifests with intestinal symptoms such as diarrhea and mal-absorption of nutrients. Part of the problem is the hybridization of grains as explained by William Davis MD in his book entitled Wheat Belly (Rodale Books 2011). His book was preceded by many other damning wheat and grains, such as Life Without Bread by Christian B. Allan and Wolfgang Lutz, Dangerous Grains by Drs. James Braly and Jonathan Wright, and numerous gluten-free cookbooks.
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