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Posted May 26, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Every once in a while some brave investigator charts a new course for modern medicine. For various reasons this one is not likely to become the new paradigm and supplant the reigning cholesterol theory of heart disease. But a recently published landmark paper posits a long overlooked hypothesis which gleans evidence from statin cholesterol-lowering drugs themselves. It convincingly points those health practitioners who embrace science over commercial gain in a direction away from cholesterol as a measure of arterial health.
Leo R Zacharski MD, a medical and scientific board member of The Iron Disorders Institute, writes a seminal paper entitled “THE STATIN-IRON NEXUS: ANTI-INFLAMMATORY INTERVENTION FOR ARTERIAL DISEASE PREVENTION in the April issue of The American Journal of Public Health.
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Posted May 25, 2013: by Bill Sardi
While dietary supplement usage in the US military is widespread, it is largely self-guided and does not come from top-down medical command. Many medical advisories issued by US military health authorities consist of warnings of misuse and potential side effects rather than guidance for proper usage. This problem may emanate from training by medical personnel in exclusively in pharmacology but not in nutricology.
The leading categories of dietary supplements used by US military personnel are body building, weight loss and performance enhancement products, with magazines serving as the chief source of information about these “nutriceuticals.” Some of these are considered “high risk” dietary supplements.
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Posted May 22, 2013: by Bill Sardi
One would think the news media with its army of biology-trained medical reporters would serve as a watchdog for breakthroughs that could dramatically improve the health of Americans who face challenging health problems. But today the news media appears to be almost totally bought off by commercial interests. The public hears about every newly approved FDA drug, but little about remarkable natural remedies that often work when existing medicines fail, remedies that are also likely to lower the cost of care significantly.
While in recent months there has been an upsurge in published studies that demonstrate successful use of vitamin C for a wide range of medical applications, it is not likely the public has heard of even one of them.
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Posted May 20, 2013: by Bill Sardi
An article in The New York Times asks why immigrants come to the United States and their health falls apart thereafter and they live shorter lives. The NY Times report says the longer immigrants live in the US the worse their rates of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.
Why does life in the United States — despite its sophisticated health care system and high per capita wages — lead to worse health?
Smoking, drinking, high-calorie diets are blamed. But that doesn’t precisely identify what items in the food chain promote obesity and chronic disease.
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Posted May 19, 2013: by Bill Sardi
The announcement was too slick. The news media rolled it out, heralding 37-year old Angelina Jolie’s bravery in disclosing her decision to have her breasts prophylactically removed solely based upon detection of a mutated BRCA gene that posed a high future risk for breast cancer maybe two or three decades in her future.
It was coordinated with simultaneous press releases from Ms. Jolie’s female breast surgeon at the Pink Lotus Breast Center and an appeal before the Supreme Court by a biotechnology company to uphold its patent application involving the BRCA gene.
Was this serendipity or a well-orchestrated public relations campaign to persuade fearful women to undergo needless care? Is the Supreme Court ready to rule against the applied-for BRCA-gene patent by a biotech company in the face of hordes of women who may feel the highest court in the land is insensitive to their fears?
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Posted May 17, 2013: by Bill Sardi
When radio listeners, like the 5 million-strong Coast-to-Coast nighttime radio audience, hear an interview with a so-called authority on essential oils and he casts a convincing pall over the idea of taking one of the most popularly used dietary supplements, fish oil, there are sure to be millions who pause before they put the next fish oil capsule in their mouth.
The expert is Brian Peskin, an MIT graduate in electronic engineering, who mixes a lot of pseudoscience and straw-man arguments to falsely brand fish oil supplements as ineffective, even potentially dangerous.
Like many of us, Mr. Peskin has his own product to peddle – a plant-based multi-ingredient formulation of sunflower, safflower, pumpkin, evening primrose seed oil along with coconut oil. (Not wanting to lead naïve consumers to his website that disseminates factitious information, his website will not be divulged.)
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Posted May 16, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Blood tests for many nutrients are not reliable and may only indicate recent consumption. It is more practical to use symptoms to detect nutrient deficiencies.
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Posted May 15, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Read the shocking report of women, as young as age 21, who are having both breasts removed solely because they have a gene mutation. They do not have breast cancer:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2324362/Angelina-Jolie-mastectomy-Why-4-women-chose-preventive-breast-cancer-surgery-like-Angelina.html
One of Hollywood’s goddesses, and undeniably one of the most beautiful women in the world, Angelina Jolie has announced she underwent double mastectomy surgery in February of this year. Knowing that what Hollywood stars do the public copies — expect a parade of double mastectomies to follow.
Similarly in 2005 when Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue announced she was undergoing cancer treatment, hundreds of thousands of women scheduled screenings, an unexpected outcome that was dubbed “the Kylie effect.”
CNN News anchor Zoraida Sambolin has also jumped on the bandwagon and announced she is undergoing a double mastectomy.
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Posted May 13, 2013: by Bill Sardi
The revelation is large – and shocking. Senior Americans that take commonly-prescribed drugs such as sleeping pills, antihistamines, blood thinners, diuretics, and many other medications, are blocking a nervous system transmitter (acetycholine, pronounced a-seat-a-coal-een)) that causes over 2 million cases of senile dementia in the US, not Alzheimer’s disease as most people mistakenly believe. (There are an estimated 5 million Americans suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, half that may be re-classified now as “victims of drug-induced delirium.”)
A university-based center has now been established to help physicians identify the problem and substitute other less problematic drugs.
A list of the suspect drugs that induce dementia can be found at the Aging Brain Care website.
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Posted May 10, 2013: by Bill Sardi
The Centers For Disease Control (CDC) has issued a bulletin suggesting individuals with hepatitis C seek testing that will help determine if their body has cleared the virus or if they are still infected. I’m skeptical of the reasons behind this health directive the CDC itself knows only a small number of people (maybe 2 in 10) do not have a positive antibody test for this viral infection that targets the liver.
An estimated 3 million Americans are infected with hepatitis C and 3 of 4 don’t know it, says the CDC. Hep C is a contagious disease that causes 15,000 deaths a year in the US and is a leading cause of liver transplantation. An estimated 170 million people worldwide are infected with hepatitis C.
Baby Boomers, those Americans who were born between 1945-65, represent 75% of the hepatitis C cases. Infection is linked to use of injected drugs or blood transfusions during that era.
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