Antibiotics make C. diff infection easier because of their effects on bile acid and bacteria living in the gut, according to new research. Bacteria in the gut are involved in many of the body’s functions, from the creation of neurons in the brain to regulating chemicals that help break food down. Scientists at North Carolina… Read More »
There are multiple ways to determine if that carton of milk in your fridge should be thrown out (smell test, taste test or just checking the “sell-by” date). But what’s the best way to figure out if your food should be tossed or saved? “Sell-by” dates may seem like an easy way to tell when… Read More »
American healthcare has received heavy criticism in recent decades due to its cost/outcome profile. The sources of poor performance in the United States are many, to be sure, and yet one source rarely gets mentioned, namely, primary care. Anyone following healthcare trends in the United States over the past decade will find few critiques of… Read More »
It’s World Breastfeeding Week and this got us thinking about how breastfeeding is equal parts wonderful and difficult for too many women today. The American Academy of Pediatrics has long recommended that women breastfeed children to age one, a goal a lot of women find nearly impossible. With a typical paid maternity leave (if there… Read More »
Very high doses of vitamin D may help critically ill patients with respiratory failure leave the hospital sooner, a small study suggests. Vitamin D is thought to increase the ability of immune cells to fight infection—but hospitalized patients often have insufficient levels of it because of their lack of exercise and exposure to the sun. For the study,… Read More »
I keep getting the same email over and over again, and my heart aches each time I read it: “I have tried everything to overcome my depression, but nothing has helped. Is there anything else I can do or will I have to live the rest of my life plagued with sadness?” First, hear these… Read More »
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Vitamin D has been known for promoting strong bones, regulating blood pressure and even improving one’s mood. Could it be the key to fighting one of the most deadly cancers? U.S. researchers are testing the impact of adding vitamin D to the treatment regimen for some pancreatic cancer patients. Daryl Fair,… Read More »
he assortments of bacteria that live within the intestines of isolated tribes are far more diverse than the microbes found in the guts of Americans — and scientists say such findings have implications for modern-day maladies ranging from obesity to antibiotic resistance. The latest studies into the varying genetic signature of microbes found in the… Read More »
How Growers Gamed California’s Drought Consuming 80 percent of California’s developed water but accounting for only 2 percent of the state’s GDP, agriculture thrives while everyone else is parched. “I’ve been smiling all the way to the bank,” said pistachio farmer John Dean at a conference hosted this month by Paramount Farms, the mega-operation owned… Read More »
The oldest person in the world, a Japanese woman named Misao Okawa, died early Wednesday morning at 117-years-old. Mrs. Okawa celebrated her birthday on March 5 with her family, including her 92-year-old son, however, retirement home officials where she resided up until her demise indicated that she had recently lost her appetite. In an interview… Read More »
A 1,000-year-old Anglo-Saxon salve of onion, garlic, and part of a cow’s stomach could potentially eradicate the MRSA superbug problem. An Anglo-Saxon Expert, Christina Lee, of the University of Nottingham, spotted the eye infection remedy in a medical volume called Bald’s Leechbook that was held in the British Library in London. According to CBS News,… Read More »
Probiotics are important in maintaining our gut flora, but they can still cause issues just like any supplement and most issues with supplementation go unreported on the natural health blogosphere. Everyone writes about the pros of taking probiotics, but what are the cons? The cons of taking probiotics is the topic of this upcoming blog… Read More »
Ashely Judd Billy Joel Hugh Laurie Jim Carrey How can somebody so funny be secretly struggling with depression? Such is the case with celebrated comedic actor Jim Carrey, who has been very open about his long-term depression battle. In a 2008 interview with the British newspaper The Sun, Carrey described how his mental health issues… Read More »
Brian Buntz Popularized by the Russian economist Nikolai Kondratiev, long wave theory holds that decades of economic progress follow from technological breakthroughs such as was the case with the development of the steam engine, the railway, electrical and chemical engineering, automobiles, and computing technology. In the most recent period, the microprocessor is the single most… Read More »
The findings were presented at the 97th annual meeting of the Endocrine Society and confirmed the findings of previous animal studies demonstrating that oxytocin reduces food intake. “Our results are really exciting,” says lead investigator Dr. Elizabeth Lawson of Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. “Further study is needed, but I think oxytocin is a… Read More »
8 Facts About Vitamin D and Rheumatoid Arthritis – Rheumatoid Arthritis.
E. coli: More than 80 percent of cases were a result of eating beef and row crops such as leafy green vegetables. Salmonella: Though this type of bacteria can end up in a large variety of foods, 77 percent of cases were related to eggs, chicken, beef, bean sprouts, pork and seeded fruits and vegetables… Read More »
Because scientific studies are examining the role of magnesium in alleviating or circumventing many commonly occurring chronic ailments, it is important to be educated on the variations in magnesium supplements; especially magnesium orotate, the best form of the mineral supplement. Magnesium is not easily absorbed in the body unless first attached to transporting substance. For… Read More »
“At that time, the FDA publically called the testing method invalid.7” The media will simply not call him on his bullshit! By Dr. Mercola New York’s Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, has ordered GNC, Target, Walgreens, and Wal-Mart to immediately stop selling certain herbal supplements. The products include up to seven varieties — ginkgo biloba, St.… Read More »
Major Shift In New Federal Dietary Guidelines Proposed.
Double what it costs today! Health Spending Projections through 2015: Changes on the horizon – Global Hospital & Healthcare Management.
Well sex can help you sleep as well…. Foods That Can Help You Sleep – AARP.
Yep what else can this learn from videos. This is the end of marriage. Yep a bot that learns and remembers the right grip… Chef Bot? Robot Learns Cooking from YouTube Videos.
‘Expensive’ placebos work better than ‘cheap’ ones, study finds – LA Times.
Remember; not one scientist on earth can tell you what Light is, how Gravity works, or how magnetism works. Scientists have declared that if a human body moves faster than 20 mph that human will DIE! Thus any human on a steam locomotive will DIE! Very recently scientists declared that by cooking meat you will… Read More »
Girls who consume a lot of sugary drinks may enter puberty earlier than girls who don’t, Harvard researchers report. Among nearly 5,600 girls aged 9 to 14 who were followed between 1996 and 2001, the researchers found that those who drank more than 1.5 servings of sugary drinks a day had their first period 2.7… Read More »
Fat cells residing underneath skin could aid shield people against a wide variety of infections, a new study from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine reports.Immune program responses seem to be partly influenced by the presence of fat cells beneath the surface of the skin.Dermal fat cells, known as adipocytes, had been… Read More »
New studies link brain inflammation and preeclampsia with increased autism risk – Los Angeles LA | Examiner.com SO; Is a lack of cock sucking now child abuse? The likelihood of developing autism and developmental delay was doubled in the mothers who experienced preeclampsia compared to the control group. The scientists determined that this could be… Read More »
MSG – TRESK gene / glutamate Aged cheeaze, hot dogs, bacon, sausages, = tyramine Olives, red plums, Avocado = tyramine Red vinegar = tyramine bananas = tyramine and histamine Citrus fruits = tyramine and histamine Beans = tannins Peppers = capisiam Dried fruits = sulfates Yeast bread = coumarin whole milk = choline, casein sour… Read More »
Aging too quickly? Put down the soda : LIFE : Tech Times.
You may soon be a Google search away from immediate access to professional medical advice. The search engine giant is testing a new feature that urges people Googling illnesses or symptoms to jump on a video call with a medical professional. The finding was reported on Friday by Reddit user jasonahoule. When he typed “knee… Read More »
Having high triglycerides after radical prostatectomy raises the risk of cancer recurrence, researchers found. In a retrospective cohort study, risk of recurrence rose about 3% for every 10 mg/dL increase in triglyceride levels, Stephen J. Freedland, MD, of Duke University, and colleagues reported online in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention. Other lipid parameters — total… Read More »
Walking may never become as trendy as CrossFit, as sexy as mud runs or as ego-boosting as Ironman races but for fitness experts who stress daily movement over workouts and an active lifestyle over weekends of warrior games, walking is a super star. For author and scientist Katy Bowman, walking is a biological imperative like… Read More »
Coffee According to Caffeine Informer, 154 shots of espresso is enough to kill the average person. (That’s calculated at a rate of 77mg of caffeine per shot, though studies have found the range of caffeine per shot can vary enormously.) That adds up to around 12 grams of caffeine — however, Jack James, editor-in-chief of… Read More »
How Much Money Does Your Doctor Get From Medical Companies? Pratheek Rebala @pratheekrebala Chris Wilson @chriswilsondc 10:25 AM ET Use this search tool to find out Doctors received $3.5 billion from pharmaceutical companies and device makers over a five month period in 2013, according to figures the federal government released this week.… Read More »
“[In our paper] we also review the evidence for alternative explanations for cravings and unhealthy eating behavior,” the investigators wrote. “Because microbiota are easily manipulatable by prebiotics, probiotics, antibiotics, fecal transplants, and dietary changes, altering our microbiota offers a tractable approach to otherwise intractable problems of obesity and unhealthy eating.” GEN News Highlights More »… Read More »
Someone made a call………….. Bullshit, Just publish and let the scientific community discredit or verify as it should. This is political action… not a scientific one. A paper that claimed government scientists covered up data showing a connection between vaccines and autism has been pulled by its publisher Earlier in August, the journal Translational Neurodegeneration,… Read More »
10 Outstanding Tacos in San Diego | mexican food – Zagat.
Older patients with very low levels of vitamin D have about a 122% increased risk for dementia compared with those with higher levels, according to a large, prospective, population-based study. The study provides “robust evidence” of the link between vitamin D and cognition and adds important new information to the association, said study author David… Read More »
By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, July 31, 2014 (HealthDay News) — They may not have had fast food, TVs or cigarettes, but people of ancient times commonly developed clogged heart arteries — and a new research review speculates on some reasons why. Using CT scans of mummified remains from ancient Egypt, Peru, the Aleutian… Read More »
5 servings day Fruits, Veggies May Have Their Limits in Boosting Lifespan – WebMD.
Vitamin D and Protein as well as working your ass hard…. How to Keep Your Muscles Strong as You Age – WSJ.
Here’s the science breakdown: In the brain of a person with Alzheimer’s, a protein called beta-amyloid accumulates in the gaps that exist between nerve cells, which disrupts the flow of signals between them and eventually leads to memory problems and worse. That’s the science breakdown? WTF But relying upon mice genetically-engineered to mimic Alzheimer’s, researchers found that lavado… Read More »
Fasting for three days can regenerate the entire immune system, even in the elderly, scientists have found in a breakthrough described as “remarkable.” Although fasting diets have been criticized by nutritionists, research suggests that starving the body kick-starts stem cells into producing more white blood cells, which fight off infection. Scientists at the University of… Read More »
Friday, May 30, 2014 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Tags: World Bank, food riots, emergency preparedness (NaturalNews) A new report issued by the World Bank (1) warns that food prices are skyrocketing globally, with wheat up 18 percent and corn up 12 percent this quarter. Ukraine, one of the largest wheat exporters in the… Read More »
BY Daniela Hernandez, Kaiser Health News June 2, 2014 at 11:47 AM EDT Photo by Rebecca Emery/Getty Images Long Island dermatologist Kavita Mariwalla knows well how to treat acne, burns and rashes. But when a patient came in with a potentially disfiguring case of bullous pemphigoid—a rare skin condition that causes large, watery blisters—she was… Read More »
Table 1 Persistence of clinically relevant bacteria on dry inanimate surfaces. Type of bacterium Duration of persistence (range) Reference(s) Acinetobacter spp. 3 days to 5 months [18, 25, 28, 29, 87, 88] Bordetella pertussis 3 – 5 days [89, 90] Campylobacter jejuni up to 6 days [91] Clostridium difficile (spores) 5 months [92–94] Chlamydia… Read More »
Lies, Damned Lies, and Vegetarianism: Part 1. Posted In Cardiovascular Fitness,Health,Nutrition “In earlier times, they had no statistics, and so they had to fall back on lies.” -Original author unknown — Hey everyone, Last time we spoke, I promised my next article would discuss the type of diet that’s been shown in clinical trials to… Read More »
Meat Eaters, Vegetarians & Vegans Have Same Mortality Rates Unless… !OrangesIn a previous post, I suggested that a Vegan diet is all that’s necessary to live a longer and healthier life. I stand corrected. Research shows that Meat Eater, Vegan and Vegetarian mortality rates are the same. The good news is that simple adjustments to… Read More »
Getting more fruits and vegetables into your diet could help curb your risk of stroke, a new study has found. Researchers at the Medical College of Qingdao University in Qingdao, China, saw a 32% decrease of stroke risk with every 200 grams of fruit consumed each day, and an 11% decrease for every 200 g… Read More »