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Posted June 12, 2012: by Bill Sardi
We hear of potential problems associated with exposure to herbicides and pesticides, artificial sweeteners, drugs in tap water, heavy metals, plasticizers, petroleum products, bisphenol A hormone disruptor in the lining of tin cans, as well as chlorine, fluoride, and hundreds of other chemicals. Maybe some human exposure to trivial doses of potential toxins is harmless and is rapidly negated or excreted by detoxification systems within the human body, but what about all of them representing a total modern chemical/environmental threat? A study of these aggregate toxins may be beyond what modern toxicology can examine.
Researchers Melissa L Sokolosky and Michael J Wargovich at the Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, explore reasons why there are certain less developed geographical regions in the world that exhibit a 26-fold lower incidence for colon/rectal cancer compared to areas where more advanced human civilizations live. This fact suggests something having to do with modern living is involved in the promotion of cancer.
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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 April 17, 2012: by Bill Sardi
According to a recent survey, 1 in 10 drugs were prescribed for off-label (unproven) uses, most which were not substantiated by existing science. (Archives Internal Medicine April 16, 2012). Physicians frequently respond to patient inquiries about dietary supplements by saying they are “unproven.” However, that doesn’t seem to bother physicians if it is a drug.
Furthermore, there is no drug that cures cancer (chemotherapy drugs only need to temporarily shrink a tumor by 50% before drug/tumor resistance sets in to gain FDA approval).
There is no single drug (diuretics, beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, calcium blockers) that adequately controls high blood pressure, and then none address the most common cause of hypertension (inability of blood vessels to dilate upon mental or physical exertion).
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Posted April 12, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Noted herbal researcher Bahrat Aggarwal PhD, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston is the second major herbal researcher to be accused of scientific fraud this year. Word that 65 of his published papers were under scientific review began to be leaked first on the internet before news reports confirmed an investigation is underway.
Like Dipak Das, PhD, the University of Connecticut researcher who was charged with over a hundred counts of scientific deceit in January of this year, both researchers stand accused of altering graphic images in their published papers. And in both instances, there is unequivocal evidence of altered images in these published papers. However, interpretation of whether these altered images represent honest mistakes or intentional trickery is a bit more difficult.
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Posted April 3, 2012: by Bill Sardi
With all of the anticipation and hoopla surrounding the advent of personalized medicine, a conclusive study of twins reveals sequences of DNA are not predictive of future illness. The New York Times weighs in on the report here, first published in Science Translational Medicine. Yet in the same month (March 2012) a report published in the Yale Journal of Biology & Medicine says “affordable genome sequencing will soon be a reality” and stresses America prepare the current generation of high school students to “learn the importance of personal genetics.”
A recent report published in Epigenomics attempts to sort out genetics (inherited gene mutations) from epigenetics (protein making influenced by environmental factors). It is worth the read for science-savvy readers.
Largely due to commercial interests the mapping of the human genome and gene mutation testing has dominated news reports. But it is clearly epigenetics that described disease and aging. The good news is that the epigenome can be rapidly and effectively influenced by dietary and molecular measures. – Copyright 2012 Bill Sardi Knowledge of Health, Inc.
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Posted April 2, 2012: by Bill Sardi
In the past decade or so red-wine resveratrol has been the most intensively studied anti-aging molecule. Resveratrol’s calling is that of a molecular mimic of a calorie-restricted diet that has been found to double the lifespan of all life forms tested.
Despite all the research, the confirmation of the first anti-aging pill has been elusive if for no other reason than the impracticality of conducting a long-term study to validate such an idea. The only conclusive evidence would be a long-term (many decades long) study. Many thousands of people would have to be followed for 8-10 decades to produce convincing data.
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Posted March 23, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Worldwide headlines herald a test that may make it possible for cardiologists to predict an impending heart attack. The test may be particularly beneficial for people who have silent (non-painful) heart attacks or heart attacks that cannot be detected by conventional methods.
Compared to healthy adults, four times as many loose cells that slough off the inner lining of arteries, called endothelial cells, were found among heart attack patients who arrived at a hospital emergency room complaining of chest pain. A quicker and more efficient test is now being developed to count circulating endothelial cells in a blood sample.
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Posted March 22, 2012: by Bill Sardi
After the Presidential election anticipate what amounts to terrorist attacks upon the dietary supplement industry as regulatory agencies and the news media do the bidding for big business in a predictable industry takeover now that vitamin pills are yielding greater profitability and unit sales growth than the American economy as a whole and drug patent expirations force pharmaceutical companies to search for replacements for their blockbuster drugs.
Proctor & Gamble and Pfizer, two food and drug giants, announced acquisition of two dietary supplement companies, making it clear the vitamin pill business is up for grabs now that it is growing faster than the rest of the economy. One source predicts the supplement industry will grow at the clip of 9% per year during 2011-15. For comparison, the entire US economy is in the doldrums with less than a 2% annual growth rate. This growth is attracting pariahs and predictable pressure from regulatory agencies to rid the industry of competition.
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Posted March 12, 2012: by Bill Sardi
About 300 of Rite-Aid’s 4700 drug stores are starting to direct customers to what they want – wellness without dependence upon problematic and over-priced prescription drugs. But that practice has obviously upset Big Pharma. These white-coated ambassadors are allegedly pretending they are pharmacists and directing patients to diet supplements – heaven’s to Betsy!
At least that is what two US Senators allege in their letter to Rite-Aid, which has GNC nutrition centers inside many of its stores. A letter from the senators to Rite-Aid says they are concerned these ambassadors “could be making false and misleading claims by marketing dietary supplements as treatments for health conditions.”
Wait a minute — I thought the Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) gave the right to market dietary supplements as long as they strictly support health, not as cures, treatments or prevention for any disease. Drugs do not promote wellness, and few are an appropriate cure for anything.
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Posted March 8, 2012: by Bill Sardi
(March 8, 2012)- Millions of Americans are paying with their lives and their eyesight for the US Food & Drug Administration’s denial that nutriceuticals prevent, treat or cure disease says Bill Sardi, dietary supplement industry executive and health writer, speaking at the annual Nutracon meeting in Anaheim, CA this week.
“Nutriceuticals, a more sophisticated name for dietary supplements, do in fact prevent, treat and cure essential nutrient deficiency diseases such as vitamin D for rickets, vitamin C for scurvy, vitamin B1 for beri beri, as well as many chronic diseases, yet the FDA bans (censors) statements of fact, keeping the public in the dark over the obvious health benefits and cost effectiveness of nutriceuticals,” says Sardi.
“The US FDA maintains a narrow pharmaceutical model for chronic diseases, which are basically treated as drug deficiencies. The FDA maintains dietary supplements must become expensive drugs before statements can be made they cure or treat disease, which is absurd,” says Sardi.
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