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Posted February 5, 2018: by Bill Sardi
There are three stages of cancer: initiation, growth, metastasis (spread).
The prevailing explanation of what causes cancer, aside from carcinogenic chemicals, is that healthy cells in the human body become cancerous after gene mutations accumulate.
According to the Cancer Genome Project, most cancer cells possess 60 or more mutations. However, as can be seen by the diagrams and graphics used to explain how cancer develops, progressive gene mutations produce neoplasia, hyperplasia and dysplasia, words used to describe abnormal cells. But these terms explain pre-cancerous cells, not immortal, rapid growing cells that migrate and spread throughout the body.
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Posted January 19, 2018: by Bill Sardi
Calcium Arterial Score:
2009=34
2013=98
2018=133
President Donald Trump’s transparent release of data from his recent health assessment reveals progressive calcification of coronary arteries that elevate the risk for a heart attack.
Even though this is common for someone of his gender and age (only 46% of other males have a lower score than the President), it is of concern since many males in his age group are able to maintain far lower calcification scores in their coronary arteries.
Cardiologist Melissa Walton-Shirley of Gallatin, Tennessee, speaking out at MedScape in 2014 says calcium arterial scoring is superior to an exercise stress test and 100% accurate for coronary artery disease (CAC). A moderate increase in CAC (100-399) like President Trump exhibits is associated with an 80% greater likelihood of dying compared to males with a zero calcium score.
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Posted January 10, 2018: by Bill Sardi
Incredulity: unwilling or unable to believe something.
Saying the results of their study are “implausible” and should be “viewed with appropriate skepticism,” researchers are in frank denial over a study which shows a so-called “high-dose” multivitamin formula drastically reduces mortality rates among post-heart attack patients, a beneficial effect that was completely negated by concomitant use of statin cholesterol-lowering drugs.
The study, published in the American Heart Journal, was conducted among adults who had experienced a prior heart attack and had undergone intravenous chelation therapy. Vitamin and mineral replacement is customarily prescribed after chelation therapy.
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Posted December 26, 2017: by Bill Sardi
Dermatologists report the use of a common blood pressure drug, the diuretic (water pill) hydrochlorothiazide, increases the risk for skin cancer. The risk for non-melanoma skin cancers (basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma) rose significantly with increasing doses of this anti-hypertension drug.
It is already known that all three major classes of drugs used to control elevated blood pressure deplete zinc.
It has recently been reported that zinc supplementation reduces the risk for skin cancer under experimental conditions in the animal laboratory.
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Posted December 16, 2017: by Bill Sardi
According to modern medicine, vitamin therapy is hocus pocus that relies on a mixture of voodoo plus the placebo effect. A report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine says unequivocally, vitamin and mineral supplements are a “waste of money.” A noted professor of medicine says multivitamins just create “expensive urine” as they are rapidly excreted in urine (water soluble drugs suffer the same fate). But is modern medicine just protecting its income stream derived from its own lack of preventive medicine and reliance upon prescription drugs to keep appointment books full?
Vitamin D in dietary supplement form has been singled out as offering nothing more than the placebo effect for healthy adults. One researcher says the widespread faith in vitamin D’s benefits is like a religion. The criticism is that vitamin D pills are unproven. (But not disproven!)
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Posted December 10, 2017: by Bill Sardi
Dietary supplements make a major contribution to achievement of nutritional adequacy among U.S. adults and a comprehensive multivitamin would benefit most U.S. adults.
That conclusion is drawn from a landmark study just published that shows the American diet falls abysmally short of meeting nutrient requirements to maintain health.
In fact, it appears the only group of Americans that achieves nutritional adequacy takes dietary supplements!
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Posted November 29, 2017: by Bill Sardi
The following report links high blood pressure (hypertension) to a shortage of zinc due to poor dietary intake, impaired absorption and/or lack of bioavailability. The report is requisitely lengthy to fully document the problem to the scientific community and other demanding reviewers. For time-pressed readers, the first four pages cover the main findings of this report.
The issue of whether zinc is involved in the etiology of hypertension has been mired in confusion for years as various animal and human studies employed overdoses of zinc, which actually does induce hypertension.
However, a compelling quadratic intersection of geographical factors, reported for the first time in this report, provides compelling evidence that hypertension emanates from poor zinc nutriture.
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Posted November 27, 2017: by Bill Sardi
A newly issued guideline by the American Heart Association that categorizes adults with blood pressure of 130/80 as hypertensive (high blood pressure) compared to the old standard of 140/90, increasing the number of subjects for whom treatment plans should be initiated to 46% of the American adult population. This new guideline will largely pertain to adults in their 40s who have creeping elevated blood pressure.
Under guidelines issued 14 years ago, only 32% of American adults were considered hypertensive.
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Posted October 25, 2017: by Bill Sardi
Low thyroid hormone levels can result in mental confusion. Which only adds to the bewildering state of affairs when it comes to recognizing and rectifying low or high thyroid hormone levels.
While thyroid hormone dysfunction affects 1% of the general population it affects 10% of senior adults (10% females; 6% males).
Many millions of Americans rely on thyroid hormone replacement. But about as many (13 million estimated) may have low thyroid levels and don’t know it.
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Posted October 22, 2017: by Bill Sardi
Eye researchers are calling for daily oral resveratrol capsules to be employed along with medicines injected into the eyes to shut off leaky blood vessels in the back of the eyes.
Worldwide over $5 billion of anti-growth factor medicine is needle injected into the back of the eyes of patients with a severe form of macular degeneration.
For background information, the macula is the visual center of the eye (retina) and when light receptor cells there become oxygen starved, new blood vessels outcrop to counter the problem but leak fluid that can result in legal blindness. This is called wet macular degeneration.
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