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Posted February 17, 2013: by Bill Sardi
OK, you knew you were light-headed from time to time, your thinking a bit slow and you were a bit fatigued. But you didn’t discover that the top chambers of your heart flutter periodically or constantly till your doctor discovered this problem during an examination. Some people with atrial fibrillation experience no symptoms.
The moment this condition is detected patients are placed on a laundry list of medications as if this condition is caused by a drug deficiency. No effort is made to determine the cause of this condition or to prevent it. Its detection is an opportunity to prescribe problematic drugs.
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Posted February 13, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Should 500,000 British women (2.4 million U.S. women) take Tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer? A British health agency report (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) says so. Families with a history of breast cancer should also undergo genetic testing, says this same agency.
Tamoxifen was presented by this British health agency as an alternative to having a preventative mastectomy, or breast removal. (However, a recent 20-year study of aged women showed Tamoxifen is no better than mastectomy in regards to survival.)
According to a study, which is not available for examination, 29 cancers and nine deaths could be prevented for every 1,000 women taking tamoxifen for five years. That comes to 1 in 34 Tamoxifen users who would benefit from taking this drug over a 5-year period while subjecting themselves to a long list of potential side effects.
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Posted February 6, 2013: by Bill Sardi
How many times will modern medicine attempt to scare the public away from vitamin C pills? The naysayers never stop trying, even if they have to exaggerate their “science” to prove their point.
So the most recent example is a short report in the most recent issue of JAMA Internal Medicine (formerly Archives Internal Medicine) that said (once again), high-dose vitamin C pills (as ascorbic acid) more than double the risk for kidney stones.
Well, let’s not get to carried away by their science. Based upon data obtained from a single questionnaire back in 1997, the absolute increased risk was 0.310% a year for vitamin C pill users and 0.163% a year for non-users, for roughly a 2-fold difference in risk.
In other words, if you take high-dose ascorbic acid pills your increased risk for kidney stones in a year rises from 1/6th of one-percent to 1/3rd of one-percent. Got it?
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Posted February 4, 2013: by Bill Sardi
So many take thyroid hormone replacement – an estimated 13 million Americans, and so many are unable to achieve satisfactory control of their thyroid gland. Even switching from Levothyroxine, a synthetic form of the thyroid hormone T4, to the full spectrum Armour thyroid may not result in successful replacement of this gland that is essentially the thermostat for the body. Levothyroxine may vary from batch to batch from the same manufacturer or from between different manufacturers, which is another reason for unsuccessful use of this hormone.
A report published in the Federal Register says: “no currently marketed orally administered levothyroxine sodium product has been shown to demonstrate consistent potency and stability and, thus, no currently marketed orally administered levothyroxine sodium product is generally recognized as safe and effective.” So there are obvious quality and consistency problems with thyroid hormone replacement.”
Furthermore, so many low-thyroid (hypothyroid) patients are told they do not have a low thyroid condition. But the blood test for this is often misleading. You can read more about that here.
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Posted January 22, 2013: by Bill Sardi
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Posted January 21, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Healthy savvy senior adults with a family history of macular degeneration or who have early-stage retinal disease (exhibited by the accumulation of yellow deposits at the back of the eyes called drusen) would be wise to start supplementing their diet with vitamin C if they want to retain good vision throughout their lifetime.
There are now two strong lines of evidence for this recommendation. The first is a recent report that reveals the risk for the fast-progressive form of macular degeneration (called wet macular degeneration because there is leakage of blood serum and even red blood cells into the retinal tissues), is more than doubled by taking aspirin. (1) However, researchers did not note that aspirin depletes vitamin C. (6)
It is already well known that smoking tobacco is a strong risk factor for wet macular degeneration (2,3,4), and smoking also depletes vitamin C (5).
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Posted January 8, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Late in 2012 I was interviewed by George Knapp on the nationwide Coast To Coast radio broadcast and fielded questions from listeners in the last hour of the program. In the aftermath of that program I replied to over 2500 e-mail and telephone inquiries asking about perplexing health problems experienced by Coast To Coast listeners. The most common (and desperate) inquiries received were about natural remedies for Lyme disease, chronic anxiety, alcohol addiction, hepatitis C liver infection and wet macular degeneration.
Modern medicine does not have good remedies for these conditions. I have researched these topics at the National Library of Medicine and provide the following information with links to published scientific references.
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Posted January 1, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Hi Bill,
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your articles and wondered if you could give me some advice. I don’t have a background in health but I really enjoy learning about it and want to develop a skillset that includes being able to review and analyze research articles and sum up those results.
How did you develop this competency? Via education or experience? I am going to start by pulling some articles off of PubMed in a particular area and see if I am able to make sense of them and translate them into something I would understand in a quick read. Is there anything else you would recommend I do?
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Posted December 16, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Systolic (pumping 1st number)/ Diastolic (resting 2nd number)
Note: Natural remedies have not been found to reduce blood pressure among individuals with normal-range pressure.
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Fish oil1 |
Magnesium2 |
Beet Root3 |
Vitamin D4 |
Vitamin C5 |
Quercetin6 |
Resveratrol7 |
Garlic (Kyolic)8 |
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|
-4.40 |
-3.00-4.00 |
-4.00-5.00 |
-6.80 |
-3.84 |
-7.00 |
-11.80 |
-17.00 |
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4000 mg |
370+ mg* |
500 mg |
3000 IU |
500 mg** |
730 mg*** |
250 mg |
4 caps**** |
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Posted in Dietary Supplements, Modern Medicine ; No Comments »
Posted November 22, 2012: by Bill Sardi
A revealing report published in the Wall Street Journal indicates heartburn is on the upswing in America with 44% of Americans reporting the problem at least once a month and 7% report daily symptoms.
The rising number of cases of heartburn (a 46% increase in visits to doctors’ offices for gastro-esophageal reflux disease or GERD since 2004) parallels the rise in obesity in the adult population. More than 100 million prescriptions are written for heartburn drugs annually at a cost of nearly $14 billion.
These antacids result in nutrient malabsorption (most lettered vitamins and essential minerals require stomach acid for absorption) and compromise the immune system as stomach acid is the last line of defense against germs that are consumed in foods. (Yep, we don’t eat sterile foods, there is a low bacteria and fungal count in most foods unless heated.)
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