Posted September 24, 2021: by Bill Sardi
Fish oil is one of the most popular supplements sold, amount to $2.3 billion in sales (2019 U.S.)
A scientific battle continues over whether consumption of omega-3 oil-rich fish (3 times a week) and/or daily fish oil supplements offer any health benefits. But there are so many economic and political interest involved, health authorities can’t come to any solid conclusion. So fish oil, even though billions of dollars of it are sold annually in the US, never becomes a centerpiece of the practice of medicine like cholesterol-lowering statin drugs have (~$18 billion/year US).
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Posted May 22, 2021: by Bill Sardi
Late last year (2020) the FDA issued a warning letter that a sulfur-based dietary supplement couldn’t be lawfully marketed because it was first studied as a drug in 1963 and marketed in that same year under the trade name Mucomyst to break up mucus accumulation in the upper respiratory tract (bronchus, lung).
The dietary supplement industry legally challenged the FDA over this categorical restriction for use solely as a drug to treat disease to the exclusion of its use to promote health, which is the what dietary supplements are permitted to claim.
In May of 2021 Amazon.com, obviously the major online marketer of dietary supplements, caved in to the FDA and removed the sulfur-based pills, called N acetyl cysteine, or NAC for short, from its online offerings. The dietary supplement industry is advising its members to continue selling NAC supplements. The FDA and supplement industry are in a standoff.
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Posted April 8, 2021: by Bill Sardi
RADICAL LONGEVITY, Ann Louise Gittleman, author
Publication date: May, 2021; 326 pages, Hachette Books.
Reviewer: Bill Sardi, Knowledge of Health, Inc.
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Posted February 15, 2021: by Bill Sardi
Aw, another vitamin study fizzles. Just when almost-everybody is taking vitamin pills in hopes of staving off a COVID-19 infection, a study concludes two mainstays of dietary supplementation, mega-dose vitamin C and high-dose zinc, failed to shorten the number of days of symptomatic infection among 214 adult outpatients freshly diagnosed with COVID-19. Investigators concluded “these supplements cannot be recommended to reduce symptom morbidity in such patients.” Or can they?
A pretty hefty dose of vitamin C (8000 milligrams in divided doses) was given to these COVID-19 patients, diagnosed by the notoriously inaccurate PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test that yields many false positives. Given that vitamin C is rapidly excreted, doses spread out over time achieve higher blood serum concentrations than a single mega-dose. According to one study, the optimal vitamin C frequency is 4 times a day.
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Posted January 15, 2021: by Bill Sardi
Americans are looking down the barrel of a fascist gun for the first time in their lives. Next to onerous restrictions on gun ownership by law abiding citizens, dietary supplements are at the top the list of fascist targets to eradicate.
It doesn’t take a prescient fortune teller to predict that dietary supplements are going to come under unprecedented tyrannical oversight by government officials in coming months. The appointment of anti-supplement hatchet man Dr. David Kessler to President-elect Joe Biden’s COVID Task Force, suggests rough times ahead for nutraceuticals. Former FDA commissioner David Kessler could be re-appointed as FDA chieftain. Dr. Kessler is known for his anti-dietary supplement stance.
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Posted December 4, 2020: by Bill Sardi
The Bad News. If your father or mother have macular degeneration, you have a 50% chance of developing this sight-robbing disease during your lifetime. That risk is only 12% for people whose relatives do NOT have macular degeneration.
The good news: A newly published study finds that DHA-rich fish oil would likely help to maintain the underlying structures of the retina, particularly the fovea or visual center of the eyes. This is especially important for immediate offspring of macular degeneration patients who have weaker (thinner) foveas who are at a 12-times greater risk to experience vision loss.
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Posted December 3, 2020: by Bill Sardi
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Posted October 7, 2020: by Bill Sardi
A newly published study is creating news headlines that the widely touted medicine hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for prevention against COVID-19 coronavirus has once again been found to be ineffective. The study adds to the volumes of junk science already produced to allegedly prove this medicine is ineffective or even problematic.
The study met all the criteria science demands for credibility. It was a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial involving a sufficient number of participants to produce at least a statistical if not meaningful conclusion as to the safety and effectiveness of properly-dosed hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), the long-used anti-malarial drug that the President of the United States name-dropped as an alternative to vaccines.
The objective was to measure if HCQ prevents COVID-19 coronavirus infection among healthcare workers. Results of the study are published in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. Internal Medicine, Sept. 30, 2020.
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Posted April 27, 2020: by Bill Sardi
Politicians have chosen to manage a widespread infectious lung disease, and in their attempts to gain political capital, brag they have an armada of ventilators at their disposal to rescue patients battling severe cases of COVID-19 coronavirus infection. But an increasing number of reports suggest ventilators are “death traps” that may do more harm than good. Up to 80% of COVID-19 patients placed on ventilators fail to recover.
Mechanical ventilation has the potential to worsen pre-existing lung injury or even initiate it. By overstretching the lung mechanical ventilation may result in lung injury.
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Posted April 10, 2020: by Bill Sardi
The American public hears seemingly unrelated reports about COVID-19 coronavirus. See if you can find a common thread in the following news reports:
In a report entitled: “Hundreds of young Americans have now been killed by the coronavirus, data shows,” a woman from Ft. Myers, Florida is quoted to say: “My husband didn’t have diabetes, he didn’t have asthma, he didn’t have high cholesterol. He didn’t have anything,” He died of coronavirus according to the report in The Washington Post.
True, but he might have been vitamin D deficient.
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