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Posted March 19, 2011: by Bill Sardi
This week a striking report issued by university-based researchers convincingly reported that not only had they discovered a major cause of breast and prostate cancer, but that two natural molecules, a sulfur-based molecule (N-acetyl cysteine) and a red wine molecule (resveratrol, pronounced rez-vair-ah-trawl), commonly found in red wine, almost completely abolish DNA mutations that precede these cancers.
However, there was no special announcement from the National Institutes of Health for these two lowly molecules like there was for tamoxifen in 1998, a drug that also purports to do the same thing, with disappointing results. Tamoxifen inhibits an enzyme (aromatase) that is required for the production of estrogen. At the height of its sales before its patent expired in 2002, tamoxifen was generating over $1 billion in sales. Early on, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was criticized for its premature approval of a tamoxifen that had not been thoroughly studied. Tamoxifen actually increases the chance of more aggressive and difficult to treat forms of recurrent breast cancer.
The FDA approved anti-cholesterol statin drugs even though there has never been evidence that any statin drugs lowers mortality for coronary artery disease.
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Posted March 18, 2011: by Bill Sardi
Knowledge of Health, Inc. (March 18, 2011) – Researchers at the Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, now explain how an imbalance in estrogen metabolism leads to improper repair of broken DNA which in turn produces gene mutations that promote breast, prostate and other cancers.
These researchers then go on to identify two natural molecular antidotes, a sulfur compound (N-acetyl cysteine) and a molecule found in red wine (resveratrol), which can completely block the initiation of these cancers. Both of these molecules are widely available as dietary supplements. When used together these antioxidants completely abolished the formation of DNA-adducts (cancer-causing chemicals that are coupled with DNA), which is the initiating step in these cancers.
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Posted March 16, 2011: by Bill Sardi
At the time of the writing of this report Japan is in a state of chaos, living on a rationed supply of electricity, shutting down their manufacturing plants, hoping six nuclear reactors that are facing cooling problems won’t fully meltdown and release fissionable material into the atmosphere, and the Japanese people are skeptical of reports that the power companies in Japan have everything under control. And to make matters worse, incurring over $100 billion of damages, Japan may be forced to sell some of the $1 trillion of U.S. Treasury Notes it owns which could create financial disturbances across the globe as value of the U.S. dollar would be dumped with it.
Meanwhile in the U.S., many Americans are being falsely panicked over a crisis that is, for now, isolated within Japan. The increased radiation exposure in areas surrounding the overheated nuclear reactors is just a few rads (radiation absorbed dose) or microsieverts (~100-to-1100; needs to be 100,000 to present a health hazard). One news report said approximately 200 people were given potassium iodide tablets, but frankly their low exposure did not warrant medication.
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Posted March 6, 2011: by Bill Sardi
Skin fungus is a common problem in humid areas and occurs more frequently among obese individuals. An estimated 10-20% of people will develop a fungal skin infection during their lifetime. Doctors classify fungal skin infections according to the affected body site, such as tinea capitis (scalp), tinea barbae (beard area), tinea corporis or athlete’s foot (skin other than bearded area, scalp, groin, hands or feet), tinea cruris or jock itch (groin, perineum and perineal areas), tinea pedis (feet), tinea manuum (hands) and tinea unguium (nails). So if your doctor writes these down on your chart as your diagnosis, you will know what he means. People with toenail infections are more likely to develop fungal infections elsewhere, like jock itch.
Incessant itching is usually the first sign and if ignored, it can get out of control. A big problem is that it can be quelled but is likely to return if personal hygiene measures aren’t increased. Use of fresh towels, drying off with a hair dryer, elimination of exposure to fungal growth in shower rooms, etc, are all important in preventing relapse. Failure to heed personal hygiene measures results in some people suffering with chronic infections.
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Posted April 1, 2010: by Bill Sardi
This article provides a list of proven home remedies and self-help strategies that readers can begin utilizing today to maintain health while avoiding costly medical care.
While I have written articles in the past at LR that have addressed heart disease, cancer and other maladies, I hadn’t yet addressed every-day and emergent health problems that cause Americans to run to the doctor.
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Posted February 23, 2010: by Bill Sardi
The most recent data available shows there were 46 million inpatient and 53.3 million outpatient surgical procedures performed in the U.S. in 2006, representing about a third of the total population that lines up for operations annually, not counting dental procedures.
Often there is little effort made to avert surgery. The rush to the operating room is what is most financially rewarding for physicians. Patients facing surgery for chronic or even urgent conditions may be able to forestall or avoid surgery altogether with the judicious use of dietary supplements. Ten such conditions that warrant surgery, which may be alleviated with dietary supplements, are presented below.
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Posted February 6, 2010: by Bill Sardi
Louis Campos of Ventura, California, approaching his 64th birthday this month, is a man who frankly should not be alive.
For a man who has experienced four separate heart attacks over a period of 7 years, and came within minutes of dying due to severe dehydration from acute diabetes, which required emergent infusion of 13 liters of intravenous fluid, and had a pancreas that ceased to function resulting in his total dependence upon insulin, as well as the development of small hemorrhages in the back of his eyes, Lou is a walking miracle.
Today Louis takes no medications — no insulin or blood pressure pills, not even a baby aspirin. His most recent electrocardiogram shows no evidence of prior heart attacks, and even two recommended knee operations were cancelled. There has been low loss of vision.
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