Longevity, Cardiovascular Disease, and Taurine Part 2 of 2 Taurine has been approved for the treatment of Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) in Japan for several years. In addition to relieving breathlessness with exertion and fluid retention, it can also eliminate the need for drugs such as digoxin. Taurine has been found to increase exercise capacity …
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Longevity, Cardiovascular Disease, and Taurine Part 1 of 2 Japan has the second longest life expectancy in the world at 85.03 years, as well as the lowest rate of cardiovascular mortality with only 31 deaths from ischemic (inadequate blood supply) heart disease per 100,000 people. In comparison, the U.S. ranks 46th in longevity and has …
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Don’t Treat Sinus Infections With Antibiotics A randomized, controlled trial done in 2012 revealed that antibiotics, which are routinely prescribed to treat sinus infections, were completely ineffective. Participants were given either a 10-day course of amoxicillin or a placebo, and they were also allowed to take other over-the-counter drugs to suppress their symptoms. The results …
So often in medicine when physicians evaluate a patient they try to affix a diagnostic label to their patient. Once they have this diagnosis then they will send them to the appropriate specialist for treatment. This often leads to a patient seeing 3-4 different specialists who then prescribe medications to suppress one’s symptoms. However, what …
Considering an Assisted Living Place for Your Mom, Dad or Spouse? Part II Harvard psychiatrist Robert Waldinger used data from the longest study of human happiness to answer the question, “What makes us happy and healthy as we go through life?” The study began in 1938 and continued for 80 years. What Waldinger found was …
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Considering an Assisted Living Place for Your Mom, Dad or Spouse? Part I Recently, I visited with a husband whose wife had advanced Alzheimer’s. A month ago he reluctantly and with tears in his eyes put her in a facility that specialized in this type of care but within weeks he knew this was …
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Cancer Survival RatesGenerally, the most useful measure of cancer survival is 5-year disease-free survival. Often a patient who lives 5 years without a sign of the original cancer is truly cured. However, some patients will experience a reoccurrence later in life. Individual survival is NOT predictable with much accuracy. No one on this Earth can …
Apoptosis – Destruction of “Bad Cells” Apoptosis is an off switch found in every human cell. This allows the body to remove problem cells or cells no longer needed in the body. This “programmed cell death” is a rapid healthy process that removes individual cells without harming nearby cells. Before a cell will divide …
Sepia – More Than Just a Color Sepia is named after the rich brown pigment derived from the ink sac of the common cuttlefish or more commonly known as squid. It was used as writing ink in Greco-Roman civilization. And it remained in common use as an artist’s drawing material until the 19th century. It was not until the early …
Can Supplements Fight Covid-19? People have long turned to vitamins to try to protect themselves from disease. Three supplements that are getting a lot of attention around Covid-19 are vitamin D, zinc, and vitamin C. Here’s what scientists currently know about them. Vitamin D, “the sunshine vitamin”, is one of the most heavily studied supplements. …