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Does Calcium Supplementation Increase Risk for Heart Attack and Stroke?
submitted by: admin on 09/20/2013
A meta-analysis of 29,000 people showed that calcium supplements increase the risk of heart attack by 30% and stroke by 20% in older women. On the other hand, calcium from food does not increase these risks. It would be necessary for 1000 women to take calcium supplementation with or without vitamin D to prevent 3 fractures and at the same time cause 6 additional...
Epidural Injections for Back Pain Cause Fractures
submitted by: admin on 09/21/2013
A study at the Henry Ford Hospital found that epidural steroid injections for back pain increased the risk of fracture by 29% with each steroid injection. They compared 3000 patients with severe back pain who had at least one injection with 3000 control patients without an injection.
Steroids decrease absorption of calcium in the GI tract and increase...
Fat Substitutes Don't Work
submitted by: admin on 09/21/2013
Fat substitutes such as Olestra result in weight gain, not loss! They disrupt the body's mechanisms to control food intake. Olestra works by binding up to 8 triglyceride molecules in such a way that the enzyme lipase cannot begin the fat digestive process and it passes out with the stool. Side effects include abdominal cramping, diarrhea, and oily stools....
Fish Oil May Help Prevent Alzheimer's Disease
submitted by: admin on 08/18/2014
A Rhode Island Hospital retrospective study published in the July 2014 issue of the journal, Alzheimer's & Dementia, showed that the participants with normal cognition at the start of the study who reported taking fish oil had fewer signs of Alzheimer's disease. These patients were followed every 6 months with MRI scans. Those people with...
Food, Longevity, and the Anti-aging Diet with Dr. Richard Kunin
submitted by: admin on 09/21/2013
Is there a medicine or drug, anywhere, that has ever been invented, that does what lifestyle does to maintain wellness and restore health? Dr. Kunin's answer: Anything that can be treated by nutrition should not be treated by any other means. Of course, he's stealing a line from Maimonides! Lifestyle is the most powerful medicine in the universe,...
Germy Mouths Increase Heart Attacks
submitted by: admin on 09/22/2013
Periodontal disease, root canals, cavitations, etc result in inflammation and can lead to heart attacks. The kind of microbes that inhabit the mouth have a powerful effect on inflammation. Peroxide, coenzyme Q10, vitamin D, and vitamin K are effective ways to resolve periodontal problems.
Health Challenges in Japan from Radiation
submitted by: admin on 09/23/2013
Any crisis offers the opportunity to learn and Japan's experience with radiation is not an exception. They already are doing a lot that is part of the reason why they already live 8 years longer than we in the US. They have a detoxification diet that is part of their routine lifestyle that includes sea vegetables and foods high in sulfur. In particular they...
High Calcium Intake Doubles Risk for Heart Disease
submitted by: admin on 09/24/2013
Calcium intake above 1400 mg per day is associated with doubling the risk of dying from a heart attack in both men and women. There are many studies showing that in women with osteoporosis who take large doses of calcium are at risk for both heart attacks and stroke.
Although it may be logical to try and replace the lost calcium in bone in osteoporosis...
How Much Vitamin D Do You Need to Prevent Osteoporosis?
submitted by: admin on 06/18/2016
Vitamin D is essential to keep our bones from developing osteoporosis, but how much do we need? Studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine show that we need more than 800 IU per day to lower the risk of developing osteoporosis. A study published in the NEJM in June of 2012 showed that there were 30% fewer hip fractures and 14% of all...
How Much Vitamin D Do You Need?
submitted by: admin on 06/05/2016
There is an epidemic of vitamin D deficiency because we don't get enough sun from 10-2:00. UVB rays are not present at other times & they don't go through glass, clothing, sun block, or clouds. We need 10-30 minutes on a large surface area depending on our skin pigmentation and age. There is also a pandemic of osteoporosis, diabetes, hypertension,...
How Much Vitamin D is Too Much?
submitted by: admin on 09/24/2013
We know that too little vitamin D is not healthy, but how about too much? Until recently, it has been believed that megadoses of vitamin D might not be a good idea, but that it was relatively harmless. However, a study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism looked at 250,000 people from Denmark showing that levels below 20 nmol are...
How to Protect Against Radiation
submitted by: admin on 10/08/2013
The Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster is the worst in the history of the world. And it is far from over. There are 11,000 spent fuel rods in danger of melting down and exposing the northern hemisphere with more than 330 million Curies of radiation; 134 million Curies is from cesium 137. There has been no significant effort to decontaminate this disaster.
The...
How Vitamin D Affects Cancer
submitted by: admin on 06/24/2016
Vitamin D may increase longevity in people with cancer according to an article from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai in the April 2014 issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinoloogy and Metabolism. Scientists measured vitamin D levels in more than 17,000 patients diagnosed wth cancer and found that those with higher levels had better survival...
How You Get Vitamin D with Bill Grant
submitted by: admin on 12/04/2024
We need UVB light is necessary to make vitamin D. The amount of exposure to sunlight is reviewed. The production of vitamin D is also reviewed. Organs that are prone to cancer convert the circulating 25 hydroxy vitamin D to the hormonal form of 1, 25 dihydroxy vitamin D (calcitriol), which is 1000 times more effective in fighting cancer. Too much of...
Inhaled Steroids Cause Fractures
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
Patients with COPD who use inhaled corticosteroids to improve breathing for more than 6 months have a 27% increased risk for bone fractures. The risk goes up as the dosage increases. It was previously assumed that inhaled steroids would have a predominantly local effect, but now we know this is not true. Treatment should consist of lowering or discontinuing inhaled...
Is it DNA or Lifestyle that Regulates our Genes?
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
The December issue of the journal Aging Cell reported that molecular changes causing cancer are related to our genes and are driven mainly by aging, but are also dictated by what we eat, how much we weigh, and levels of vitamin D, selenium, and folic acid. This study out of Newcastle University in the UK showed that aging had the biggest effect on...
Is Strontium Safe Treatment for Osteoporosis?
submitted by: admin on 07/29/2019
Strontium renalate is a potent stimulator of new bone growth that helps increase bone density in people with osteoporosis. However, a study by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in January of 2014 shows that there is an increase in serious heart problems including heart attacks as well as more blood clots in veins. The EMA will likely lead to taking two drugs,...
Is There Something Neither the CDC nor Your Doctor is not Telling You About the Flu Shot?
submitted by: admin on 10/24/2018
Disinformation, fear, and confusion is what the CDC, White House, FDA, and WHO have created in the great infection deception during the 2009-10 Swine flu "pandemic." And they are at it again! By proclamation, these groups continue to lie to us by telling us that we should all be getting our flu shots once again to prevent the disability and deaths from...
Kidney Stones Overview
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
Kidney Stones are very painful when they are passing into the ureter. They are generally made of calcium oxalate, uric acid or struvite. Collecting a 24 hour urine sample to analyze a stone is the best way to find out their composition. Treatment is centered on increasing water intake to a couple of quarts a day and managing the pain. Occasionally...
Lack of Sleep and Risk for Aggressive Breast Cancer
submitted by: admin on 06/30/2016
Getting less than 6 hours a night of sleep is a risk factor in postmenopausal women with stage 1 or 2, estrogen positive, node negative breast cancer using the Oncotype DX tumor test. It measures the risk of tumor recurrence based on the expression of 21 oncogenes.
Lack of sleep causes inflammation in the body that increases the risk for obesity,...
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