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Posted October 20, 2013: by Bill Sardi
The headline above considers both the real world risk for prostate cancer in hard numbers versus the relative risk. The difference in mortality risk is 40-fold. Which one is it?
Steve Hickey, PhD, of Manchester, England, in his book entitled TARNISHED GOLD, co-authored with Hilary Roberts PhD, explains how researchers use overly large studies to find meaningless differences in health risks among human populations over a long period of time, differences that simply aren’t instructional to individuals.
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Posted October 18, 2013: by Bill Sardi
The pipeline of new remedies for macular degeneration is growing as some new medicines begin to show promise for this debilitating eye disorder.
For anyone stricken with macular degeneration, any imagined cure, if not harmful, would certainly be welcomed. There is no effective cure for the most common form of the disease.
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is an insidious eye disease that robs senior adults of their central (reading) vision.
About a third of senior Americans have early signs of the disease (yellow spots called retinal drusen). About 9% of seniors have suffered vision loss from the slowly-progressive “dry” macular degeneration.
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Dr. Paul Offit, known as a developer of vaccines and critic of alternative medicine, has taken to the street to lambast alternative medicine practitioners and dietary supplements on TV and radio. His book is getting lots of attention from the news media, but no reporter is giving Dr. Offit’s critics a chance to rebut his poorly substantiated claims.
A quick read of the 170 posted Amazon.com reviews of this book (as of Oct. 16, 2013) is a lesson in itself. What is startling is the percentage of those who posted favorable reviews (nearly 7 in 10 give the book 4 or 5 stars) when there are so many good texts that have taken modern medicine to task over the arrogant position it holds scientific high ground.
Some texts worth reading: a biting critique of evidenced-based medicine is TARNISHED GOLD by Steve Hickey PhD and Hilary Roberts PhD. Also, CONFESSIONS OF A MEDICAL HERETIC by Robert S. Mendelsohn MD, and MEDICAL NEMESIS by Ivan Illich, are classics.
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Posted October 13, 2013: by Bill Sardi
I’ve been saying for a long time now that US Department of Agriculture food inspectors are too cozy with food producers and for financial reasons are permitting unclean meat products to enter the nation’s food chain, all the while blaming consumers for not cooking meat long enough.
So now we read of a Salmonella outbreak with Foster Farms chicken, a contamination that had been going on since March 2013 and had hospitalized an unusually high percentage of consumers.
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Posted September 19, 2013: by Bill Sardi
A nutraceutical company in Italy has sponsored a successful study of INOSIDEX, its combination inositol + lipoic acid product, that produced a dramatic reduction in insulin resistance (inability of insulin to enter cells and produce cell energy) and reduced blood serum insulin levels among postmenopausal women with metabolic syndrome (diabesity).
Probably for proprietary reasons the doses of these two nutrients, which are available as dietary supplements in the USA, are not disclosed in the published study. However, a prior study employed 2 grams (2000 milligrams) of inositol in a similar group of females. Generally, lipoic acid is used in doses of 100-600 mg by diabetics.
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Posted September 18, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Today’s health news headline emanating from Great Britain is that childhood asthma rates have soared for the past 50 years, doubling over that time. About 1.1 million British youngsters and an additional 4.2 million adults have asthma – with 1400 asthmatics dying annually.
This means something that began happening in the 1960s continues today with devastating consequences. It has to be environmentally induced, not naturally occurring. This means a long standing epidemic can exist within a modern human population and the medical community appears oblivious, even powerless to understand or stop it.
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Posted September 14, 2013: by Bill Sardi
The one-way trip has been scheduled. The lift-off from Earth is scheduled for a date in 2022 with arrival on the planet Mars seven months later in 2023. Over 200,000 venturesome planet colonists have already applied for the 40 who will be selected and trained as the first interplanetary travelers. The precarious 210-Earth day trip will cost an anticipated $6 billion to prepare for, totally privately funded, which includes landing of pre-habitation supply pods and rovers that will set down a selected colonization site on the surface of Mars beginning in 2016.
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Posted September 11, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Investigators at Tufts University display striking images of the human brain when it is deficient in vitamin B12. Brain scans show fluid-filled spaces at the center of a shrinking B-12 deficient brain – literally holes in the brain.
A prior study showed that high-dose B vitamins (800 mcg folic acid, 20 mg vitamin B6, 500 micrograms of vitamin B12) slows the rate of shrinkage in the human brain, and more demonstrably reduces (by 7 times) shrinkage of grey matter in the brain.
This study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, is more striking because of the photographic images of a shrinking brain accompanied by mental tests which confirms loss of thinking ability as the brain shrinks in size.
Lack of absorption of dietary and supplemental vitamin B12 due to progressive inability to produce stomach acid is cited as a growing concern. Therefore, it may be that widespread H. pylori infection, which is prevalent in more than half of the US population, could be a parallel facto as H. pylori shuts down production of stomach acid.
Another concern is that the most often used anti-diabetic drug, metformin, depletes the body of vitamin B12. Metformin use has been associated with declining mental function. ©2013 Bill Sardi, Knowledge of Health, Inc.
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Posted September 10, 2013: by Bill Sardi
You can read the abstract of their report for yourself, as published in the Molecular Aspects Of Medicine journal, published online August 29, 2013. University of Nebraska Medical Center researchers say estrogen imbalance promotes breast cancer. DNA adducts are formed, which is a piece of DNA bonded to a cancer-causing chemical.
These researchers say “the dietary supplements resveratrol and N-acetylcysteine (NAC) can act as cancer preventing agents by keeping estrogen metabolism balanced.” These are inexpenstive and could prevent “many of the prevalent types of human cancer,” they say.
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Posted September 3, 2013: by Bill Sardi
This is a re-creation of a typical day at a busy American hospital.
The surgical schedule is packed today and all 8 surgical suites will be operating from 7 AM to 7 PM.
In operating room #1 is Dr. John Q, is a distinguished orthopedic surgeon, having a Mayo Clinic degree and many published papers. There are no complaints at the State Medical Board regarding Dr. John Q.
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