The use of statin drugs, such as Lipitor and Crestor, to lower cholesterol is at a all time high. The current US guidelines recommends that 24.5% of the population should be taking these medications. Unfortunately, these guidelines are based on little or insufficient evidence. This past weekend I attended the ACAM (American College for the …
There is some new research showing that selenium might increase the risk of someone contracting diabetes. Selenium is often used as an antioxidant to boost immunity and prevent cancer. Evidence indicate that taking 200 mcg/day for about 7 years raises the risk of type 2 Diabetes by about 50% compared to placebo. This comes to …
The last couple of years there has been increase publicity of elevated mercury levels in fish. As a result patients are asking whether fish oil supplements are safe. I advise them to buy only fish oil that has the impurities distilled out. The manufacturer who go to the effort of distilling their oil will do …
“I was taught in neurology residency training in the early 1970’s that when symptoms cannot readily be explained, look for toxic metal poisoning,” Robert A. Nash, MD, writes in his article “Metals in Medicine” Clinical and laboratory research has found that the toxic heavy metals such as mercury and cadmium have affinities for various organs …
Children who are treated with antibiotics during the first year of life are significantly more likely to develop asthma by age 7, according to Canadian researchers. Compared with children who did not receive antibiotic for nonrespiratory infections in the first year of life, children who did receive the drugs were almost twice as likely to …
One would think that the way you drink fluids would not make a difference, but it does. About 60 years ago Italian scientists discovered that when a person sips their fluid frequently throughout the day rather than just drinking the same amount of fluid in larger quantity less frequently the frequency of urination increases. When …
Here are some helpful ideas in how to buy healthful fish: Coldwater fish rather than fish from warmer waters Salmon, artic cod, and tuna, which sim in cold water, are rich in the polyunsaturated fats known as omega-3s. Since salt freezes at subzero temperatures, how do costal fish survive winter waters unfrozen? In part, the …
In 1858 Rudolf Virchow proposed that inflammation causes heart disease, and that the fatty deposit found in arteries was the end point of this inflammation. A Harvard study done in 1980 fed purified cholesterol to rabbits and found that they did not get heart disease. This same group of scientist took the impurities from cholesterol …
A recent UPI release revealed that a major research institution has discovered the heaviest chemical element to date which they named governmentium. It has just one neutron, 11 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 13 deputy assistant neutrons giving it the atomic mass of 312. These particles are held together by forces called morons which …
New findings from a large clinical trial shows that patients with stable coronary artery disease treated with stents and optimal medical therapy fare no better than those who receive optimal medical therapy. Currently, more than 1 million stent procedures are performed in the United States with up to 85% of these interventions are carried out …