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Posted June 26, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Modern medicine plods along, with blinders on in regard to nutritional medicine, feeling its way in the dark and never really investigating the origins of disease in the light of vitamin and mineral shortages.
Aspirin-induced asthma is one such example. Aspirin-induced asthma is a severe inflammatory disease, which affects patients after ingestion of aspirin or other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (ibuprofen). And it can have deadly consequences if you experience a closure of your breathing pipes. Modern medicine says it has no clue why aspirin can provoke a sudden and severe invasion of white blood cells (eosinophils) that block the upper and lower airways. Despite treatment, that someone should die of sudden asthmatic closure of their wind pipes is appalling in this era of modern medicine.
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Posted June 25, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Strikingly, a report published in The New England Journal of Medicine indicates a significant number of obese patients undergoing gastric bypass surgery are free of diabetes a year following their operation.
Another recent study reveals gastric bypass surgery surprisingly prolongs remission from diabetes. Better than 4 of 10 patients undergoing gastric bypass had no need for anti-diabetic medication and exhibited improved blood sugar control numbers (hemoglobin A1c under 5.7% and fasting blood sugar under 100 milligrams per deciliter of blood) over a year after surgery.
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Posted June 12, 2012: by Bill Sardi
We hear of potential problems associated with exposure to herbicides and pesticides, artificial sweeteners, drugs in tap water, heavy metals, plasticizers, petroleum products, bisphenol A hormone disruptor in the lining of tin cans, as well as chlorine, fluoride, and hundreds of other chemicals. Maybe some human exposure to trivial doses of potential toxins is harmless and is rapidly negated or excreted by detoxification systems within the human body, but what about all of them representing a total modern chemical/environmental threat? A study of these aggregate toxins may be beyond what modern toxicology can examine.
Researchers Melissa L Sokolosky and Michael J Wargovich at the Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, explore reasons why there are certain less developed geographical regions in the world that exhibit a 26-fold lower incidence for colon/rectal cancer compared to areas where more advanced human civilizations live. This fact suggests something having to do with modern living is involved in the promotion of cancer.
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Posted June 6, 2012: by Bill Sardi
1912 was a monumental date in human history – a Polish scientist, Casimir Funk discovered the first vitamin, vitamin B1. But that date is underplayed in history book while the date of the discovery of the first magic bullet miracle drug, 1928 for penicillin, is hallmarked as possibly the greatest advancement in modern medicine. True, penicillin reduced death from infectious disease and humans lived longer. But chronic disease was ignored. Over time medicine began to treat diseases as if they were drug deficiencies rather than seek their true origins, oftentimes rooted in nutrient shortages.
While processed foods removed essential nutrients, food fortification then corrected many, but not all, of these deficiencies. For example, there is still no recommended daily intake level for essential omega-3 and omega-6 oils decades after it was determined that fish oils seemed to eradicate many common health problems in the Eskimo population. Lutein appears to be essential for the human visual system, but a recommended daily intake level is not even being considered.
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Posted April 27, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Doctors often call these idiopathic disorders, that is, “conditions arising spontaneously from an obscure or unknown cause.” Modern medicine says it doesn’t know what causes Alzheimer’s, cancer, migraine headaches, and many other maladies. Could there be a common cause?
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Posted April 17, 2012: by Bill Sardi
According to a recent survey, 1 in 10 drugs were prescribed for off-label (unproven) uses, most which were not substantiated by existing science. (Archives Internal Medicine April 16, 2012). Physicians frequently respond to patient inquiries about dietary supplements by saying they are “unproven.” However, that doesn’t seem to bother physicians if it is a drug.
Furthermore, there is no drug that cures cancer (chemotherapy drugs only need to temporarily shrink a tumor by 50% before drug/tumor resistance sets in to gain FDA approval).
There is no single drug (diuretics, beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, calcium blockers) that adequately controls high blood pressure, and then none address the most common cause of hypertension (inability of blood vessels to dilate upon mental or physical exertion).
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Posted April 12, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Noted herbal researcher Bahrat Aggarwal PhD, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston is the second major herbal researcher to be accused of scientific fraud this year. Word that 65 of his published papers were under scientific review began to be leaked first on the internet before news reports confirmed an investigation is underway.
Like Dipak Das, PhD, the University of Connecticut researcher who was charged with over a hundred counts of scientific deceit in January of this year, both researchers stand accused of altering graphic images in their published papers. And in both instances, there is unequivocal evidence of altered images in these published papers. However, interpretation of whether these altered images represent honest mistakes or intentional trickery is a bit more difficult.
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Posted April 3, 2012: by Bill Sardi
With all of the anticipation and hoopla surrounding the advent of personalized medicine, a conclusive study of twins reveals sequences of DNA are not predictive of future illness. The New York Times weighs in on the report here, first published in Science Translational Medicine. Yet in the same month (March 2012) a report published in the Yale Journal of Biology & Medicine says “affordable genome sequencing will soon be a reality” and stresses America prepare the current generation of high school students to “learn the importance of personal genetics.”
A recent report published in Epigenomics attempts to sort out genetics (inherited gene mutations) from epigenetics (protein making influenced by environmental factors). It is worth the read for science-savvy readers.
Largely due to commercial interests the mapping of the human genome and gene mutation testing has dominated news reports. But it is clearly epigenetics that described disease and aging. The good news is that the epigenome can be rapidly and effectively influenced by dietary and molecular measures. – Copyright 2012 Bill Sardi Knowledge of Health, Inc.
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Posted April 2, 2012: by Bill Sardi
In the past decade or so red-wine resveratrol has been the most intensively studied anti-aging molecule. Resveratrol’s calling is that of a molecular mimic of a calorie-restricted diet that has been found to double the lifespan of all life forms tested.
Despite all the research, the confirmation of the first anti-aging pill has been elusive if for no other reason than the impracticality of conducting a long-term study to validate such an idea. The only conclusive evidence would be a long-term (many decades long) study. Many thousands of people would have to be followed for 8-10 decades to produce convincing data.
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Posted March 31, 2012: by Bill Sardi
News reports herald a possible future cure for cancer, a cure that appears so convincing in the animal laboratory that it tempts many to think a true cancer cure may soon be at hand. But careful examination suggests what is clearly a cure in the animal lab may not be a practical cure in the oncology clinic.
In recent times there has been a renaissance in immunotherapy for cancer. Immunotherapy aims to activate an efficient immune response against tumors or prevent cancers from occurring in the first place. Decades ago cancer researchers dismissed this approach in favor of the toxic cancer cell-killing treatments that now predominate. But now cancer researchers are reporting some breakthroughs, at least in the animal laboratory.
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