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Posted March 18, 2013: by Bill Sardi
It is startling to find in the 21st century that an estimated 2 billion people on the planet are zinc deficient.
The likelihood you are zinc deficient is high, particularly if you are of advanced age, a diabetic, drink alcohol, are a vegetarian, take zinc-depleting drugs, or your digestive tract is infected with H pylori (which nearly half the US population has) thus diminishing stomach acid levels required to absorb zinc. In the developing world not only is there a zinc shortage in food but intestinal parasites inhibit its absorption as well.
Americans roughly obtain 10 milligrams of zinc a day from food, but maybe, at best, 2-3 milligrams of that is absorbed.
The human body contains 2-3 grams (2000-3000 milligrams) of zinc. Much of it is found in the adrenals, brain and eyes. Since the majority of zinc is stored inside cells and is not free in the blood, blood tests for zinc deficiency are notoriously inaccurate (most physicians are unaware of this).
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Posted March 17, 2013: by Bill Sardi
It is predictable that some know-it-all physician would warn the public away from my health articles, and suggest people should not take dietary supplements without a blood test-confirmed nutrient deficiency. Why must I educate physicians? Everyone knows they are dumbbells when it comes to dietary supplements.
This MD demands I provide him with references that would require hours of work. I’ll send him a copy of my book THE NEW TRUTH ABOUT VITAMINS & MINERALS.
But let’s briefly take a look at some science to answer an important question. Do we really need a blood test before we supplement our diet with vitamins and minerals?
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Posted March 5, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation is a condition described as intermittent heart palpitations of varying duration of the top pumping chambers (atria) of the heart. It may progress to persistent heart flutter. Upon detection, physicians will place patients on blood thinners to prevent blood clots that form within the heart and then are released into the brain where they may cause a stroke.
This health writer has endured a two-week bout of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation of unknown origin. This biological malady should be distinguished from “old man’s heart” where scarred tissue results in chronic and unremitting atrial fibrillation. Symptoms can include fatigue, shortness of breath upon exertion, leg swelling, interrupted sleep, lightheadedness, even fainting spells.
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Posted February 20, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Don’t worry about Obamacare, it is going to implode. Be concerned about the money grab it makes while pretending to expand health care to the uninsured. Even in its own plan Obamacare does not come close to saving Medicare from insolvency in its first year. There is no way it can provide health care for 50 million more Americans and put any meaningful dent in rising health insurance costs.
Obamacare is a fascist takeover of the healthcare industry, working under the guise of improved efficiency (computerized medical records), in order to snoop in medical records and find what drugs doctors are prescribing and then selling that information (aka accepting political donations) to provide that information to pharmaceutical companies.
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Posted February 19, 2013: by Bill Sardi
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Posted February 17, 2013: by Bill Sardi
OK, you knew you were light-headed from time to time, your thinking a bit slow and you were a bit fatigued. But you didn’t discover that the top chambers of your heart flutter periodically or constantly till your doctor discovered this problem during an examination. Some people with atrial fibrillation experience no symptoms.
The moment this condition is detected patients are placed on a laundry list of medications as if this condition is caused by a drug deficiency. No effort is made to determine the cause of this condition or to prevent it. Its detection is an opportunity to prescribe problematic drugs.
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Posted February 15, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Given new understandings in radiation biology, there is a real possibility that people in Japan exposed to low-dose nuclear radiation in a geographical perimeter outside of the immediate area of radiation leakage near Fukushima, Japan will actually live longer and healthier lives.
This pre-drawn conclusion is made in the light of recently published studies that confirm the biological phenomenon known as hormesis, explained as exposure to mild biological threats that trigger the body’s internal antioxidant defenses and speed repair of damaged DNA.
This is a follow-up report pertaining to human nuclear radiation health hazards posed by the tsunami/earthquake-induced nuclear plant radiation leaks in Fukushima, Japan which I first reported in March of 2011.
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Posted February 13, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Should 500,000 British women (2.4 million U.S. women) take Tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer? A British health agency report (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) says so. Families with a history of breast cancer should also undergo genetic testing, says this same agency.
Tamoxifen was presented by this British health agency as an alternative to having a preventative mastectomy, or breast removal. (However, a recent 20-year study of aged women showed Tamoxifen is no better than mastectomy in regards to survival.)
According to a study, which is not available for examination, 29 cancers and nine deaths could be prevented for every 1,000 women taking tamoxifen for five years. That comes to 1 in 34 Tamoxifen users who would benefit from taking this drug over a 5-year period while subjecting themselves to a long list of potential side effects.
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Posted February 6, 2013: by Bill Sardi
How many times will modern medicine attempt to scare the public away from vitamin C pills? The naysayers never stop trying, even if they have to exaggerate their “science” to prove their point.
So the most recent example is a short report in the most recent issue of JAMA Internal Medicine (formerly Archives Internal Medicine) that said (once again), high-dose vitamin C pills (as ascorbic acid) more than double the risk for kidney stones.
Well, let’s not get to carried away by their science. Based upon data obtained from a single questionnaire back in 1997, the absolute increased risk was 0.310% a year for vitamin C pill users and 0.163% a year for non-users, for roughly a 2-fold difference in risk.
In other words, if you take high-dose ascorbic acid pills your increased risk for kidney stones in a year rises from 1/6th of one-percent to 1/3rd of one-percent. Got it?
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Posted February 4, 2013: by Bill Sardi
So many take thyroid hormone replacement – an estimated 13 million Americans, and so many are unable to achieve satisfactory control of their thyroid gland. Even switching from Levothyroxine, a synthetic form of the thyroid hormone T4, to the full spectrum Armour thyroid may not result in successful replacement of this gland that is essentially the thermostat for the body. Levothyroxine may vary from batch to batch from the same manufacturer or from between different manufacturers, which is another reason for unsuccessful use of this hormone.
A report published in the Federal Register says: “no currently marketed orally administered levothyroxine sodium product has been shown to demonstrate consistent potency and stability and, thus, no currently marketed orally administered levothyroxine sodium product is generally recognized as safe and effective.” So there are obvious quality and consistency problems with thyroid hormone replacement.”
Furthermore, so many low-thyroid (hypothyroid) patients are told they do not have a low thyroid condition. But the blood test for this is often misleading. You can read more about that here.
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