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Posted January 22, 2013: by Bill Sardi
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Posted January 21, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Healthy savvy senior adults with a family history of macular degeneration or who have early-stage retinal disease (exhibited by the accumulation of yellow deposits at the back of the eyes called drusen) would be wise to start supplementing their diet with vitamin C if they want to retain good vision throughout their lifetime.
There are now two strong lines of evidence for this recommendation. The first is a recent report that reveals the risk for the fast-progressive form of macular degeneration (called wet macular degeneration because there is leakage of blood serum and even red blood cells into the retinal tissues), is more than doubled by taking aspirin. (1) However, researchers did not note that aspirin depletes vitamin C. (6)
It is already well known that smoking tobacco is a strong risk factor for wet macular degeneration (2,3,4), and smoking also depletes vitamin C (5).
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Posted January 8, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Late in 2012 I was interviewed by George Knapp on the nationwide Coast To Coast radio broadcast and fielded questions from listeners in the last hour of the program. In the aftermath of that program I replied to over 2500 e-mail and telephone inquiries asking about perplexing health problems experienced by Coast To Coast listeners. The most common (and desperate) inquiries received were about natural remedies for Lyme disease, chronic anxiety, alcohol addiction, hepatitis C liver infection and wet macular degeneration.
Modern medicine does not have good remedies for these conditions. I have researched these topics at the National Library of Medicine and provide the following information with links to published scientific references.
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Posted January 1, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Hi Bill,
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your articles and wondered if you could give me some advice. I don’t have a background in health but I really enjoy learning about it and want to develop a skillset that includes being able to review and analyze research articles and sum up those results.
How did you develop this competency? Via education or experience? I am going to start by pulling some articles off of PubMed in a particular area and see if I am able to make sense of them and translate them into something I would understand in a quick read. Is there anything else you would recommend I do?
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Posted December 16, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Systolic (pumping 1st number)/ Diastolic (resting 2nd number)
Note: Natural remedies have not been found to reduce blood pressure among individuals with normal-range pressure.
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Fish oil1 |
Magnesium2 |
Beet Root3 |
Vitamin D4 |
Vitamin C5 |
Quercetin6 |
Resveratrol7 |
Garlic (Kyolic)8 |
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-4.40 |
-3.00-4.00 |
-4.00-5.00 |
-6.80 |
-3.84 |
-7.00 |
-11.80 |
-17.00 |
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4000 mg |
370+ mg* |
500 mg |
3000 IU |
500 mg** |
730 mg*** |
250 mg |
4 caps**** |
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Posted December 6, 2012: by Bill Sardi
A report in the New York Times accuses Big Pharma of rigging the ineffectiveness of cheaper blood thinners like aspirin to covertly coerce doctors into prescribing more expensive pills like Plavix and Warfarin (coumadin).
The New York Times report emanates from a study published in Circulation, a journal of The American Heart Association, which found the problem of aspirin resistance, estimated to affect 5-40% of aspirin users, is not physiological resistance at all but rather ineffectiveness caused by the enteric coating of the aspirin pills.
The researchers who made this discovery covered for the drug company by calling the problem “An Unintended Consequence of Enteric Coating Aspirin.” But the New York Times article said “some prominent doctors say that the prevalence of the condition has been exaggerated by companies and drug makers with a commercial interest in proving that aspirin — a relatively inexpensive, over-the-counter drug whose heart benefits have been known since the 1950s — does not always work.”
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Posted December 4, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Recently it has been realized that cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are (marginally) effective only when vitamin D levels are adequate. In fact, statin drugs raise vitamin D levels, which may explain all of the proposed benefits of taking statin drugs. It has also recently been discovered that low vitamin D levels increase triglycerides, a type of blood fat associated with heart problems. And like vitamin D, statin drugs reduce calcification of arteries.
Now another part of the vitamin D/statin drug puzzle has been unraveled. Muscle soreness is a commonly reported side effect among statin drug users. A recent study found that low vitamin D levels increase the risk for muscle soreness among statin drug users by over 10 times (1000%).
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Posted November 28, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Since the 1970s when Drs. Linus Pauling and Ewan Cameron first utilized intravenous vitamin C to prolong the survival of cancer patients by four-fold, a war has ensued between modern medicine and vitamin C advocates. Mayo Clinic doctors set out to disprove Pauling and employed single-dose oral vitamin C which did not reach sufficient blood concentrations to transiently produce hydrogen peroxide to selectively kill cancer cells. Finally, 28 year later, National Institutes of Health researchers conceded that intravenous vitamin C does indeed kill cancer cells. More recently Drs. Hilary Roberts and Steve Hickey of Manchester, England conclusively showed that even oral doses of vitamin C if taken at frequent intervals could achieve concentrations that can kill cancer cells.
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Posted : by Bill Sardi
Heart doctors are circling the wagons in defense of digoxin which has now been found to increase the relative risk for death from any cause by 41% among patients being treated for atrial fibrillation (fluttering heart muscle in the top chambers of the heart). About one in six patients taking digoxin for an abnormal heart rhythm will die from the drug rather than their heart rhythm disorder over a 5-year period says the report published in the European Heart Journal.
Digoxin (digitalis), first approved for heart failure in 1998, was originally derived from the herb foxglove and used traditionally since the late 1700s.
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Posted November 25, 2012: by Bill Sardi
A report published at the New York Times Online Magazine op-ed pages is startling because it says more than its words. It says American medicine hid from view the ineffectiveness of mammography and still does today, with impunity.
There is no medical board to de-license doctors who remove women’s breasts without just cause. Physicians prey upon women’s fears and disfigure them. Worse, there is only public outcry that any less mammography would represent rationing of care. So over 1 million American women undergo needless screening (mammograms) and subsequent invasive care.
When healthcare costs are a front-page issue, 1 million over-diagnosed and over-treated American women @$20,000-50,000 per head would = $20-$50 billion of needless care. Mammography costs $5 billion alone. That is no small stack of money.
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