How to use the new AIRE device
There’s a very clever, elegant new consumer health testing device called AIRE made by a company called FoodMarble. The device (pictured above) measures hydrogen gas, H2, in the breath, the same as formal H2 testing used to diagnose small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, SIBO.
Formal H2 breath testing is a hassle. There’s a day-before prep, you drink a sugar solution (lactulose or glucose), then collect breath samples every 15 minutes for 3 hours, then mail the package to a lab. If obtained directly without a doctor, each single-use test kit (glucose only) costs $149. If obtained through a doctor, then additiona...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 5, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates Aire bowel flora foodmarble h2 hydrogen breath Inflammation probiotic resistant starch sibo small intestinal bacterial overgrowth undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Ten reasons to NEVER eat gluten-free processed foods
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It saddens me: As popular as the Wheat Belly books and lifestyle have been, there are still millions of people who say things like “Oh, that Wheat Belly thing is just about being gluten-free.” They couldn’t be more wrong and have clearly not read any of the books.
Yes, you can be gluten-free and consume foods that naturally have no gluten, gliadin, wheat germ agglutinin, amylopectin A, phytates, and the rest of the toxic components contained in wheat and related grains. You can eat apples, bacon, eggs, and salmon that are naturally gluten-free. You can drink water or tea that is gluten-free. No problems...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 1, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates gluten gluten-free grain-free grains wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Be Yourself, Nurses -- Everyone Else Is Taken
Owning and stepping into your own genius as a nurse is important; and genius is, of course, relative for all nurses. At times, we can lose heart and feel that we just can ' t become the person or professional we thought we could be; however, seeking our own individual path is paramount when it comes to creating a career that feels tailor-made just for us, and not just a path someone else said was the best one to follow. Whether you feel like an impostor or your career has grown stale, there ' s nothing you can be other than yourself; and if you ' re trying terribly hard to be just like someone else (or do what others ...
Source: Digital Doorway - December 30, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: career career development career management careers nurse nurse career nurses nursing nursing careers Source Type: blogs
What ’s the Difference Between Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia?
In a nutshell, dementia is a symptom, and Alzheimer's disease is the cause of the symptom. When someone is told they have dementia, it means that they have significant memory problems as well as other cognitive difficulties, and that these problems are severe enough to get in the way of daily living.....Dementia presents as a group of symptoms, and Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia.When someone is told they have Alzheimer's or dementia,it means they have significant memory problems as well as other cognitive and behavioral issues.Most of the time dementia is caused by Alzheimer's disease.By Bob DeMar...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - November 20, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: Alzheimer's Dementia Alzheimer's disease alzheimer's vs dementia symptoms the difference between alzheimer's and dementia Source Type: blogs
Split Pea and Celeriac Soup – Perfect.
If you want to know my perfect Saturday in NYC, here it is…
Wake up latish – 8 am. Shower and have a cup of coffee while you plan tonight’s dinner. Make a shopping list, set up a loaf of bread to rise, then hit the streets with Mr TBTAM on the bikes. Ride across town, through Central Park, chatting a bit on the phone with your little brother who often calls you on Saturday mornings (love my wireless airpods),
across the West Side to Riverside Park
and the West Side Greenway.
If it’s a cold day in November, dress warmly – scarf, gloves – and don’t let the wind bother you, es...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - November 12, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Recipes Soups Vegetarian Pea soup Split pea Source Type: blogs
Poem of Weekend
Chagrin FallsWe visit the falls after picking our apples.Sunny chilled day just on the edge of autumn.The viewing deck at the bottom is packed with people:Families and couples taking photos,Children scrambling from stone to stone,Some venturing onto thick fallen logsThat jut into the receiving pool.The water thunders over the edge andSplays in intricate patterns like laceBut my focus is on the stone faceBehind the meshed sheets of water.Darkened damp rock, tufts of moss and grassSprouting from crevices and narrow ledgesThere ’s where I would go.Hidden by transient cloaks of lucidity---Not invisible, more unseen.The roar ...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - September 30, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
A dialysis patient with nonspecific symptoms and pseudonormalization of ST segments
This study from Herzog et al (from our own Hennepin County Medical Center) included patients from a national registry and compared 3049 patients on dialysis admitted and eventually found to have acute MI compared with 534,395 patients not on dialysis admitted with an eventual diagnosis of acute MI. Of these groups, only 22% of dialysis patients had an admission diagnosis consistent with acute MI while 43.8% of nondialysis patients had the correct admission diagnosis of acute MI. Dialysis patients had double the rate of cardiac arrest (11% vs 5%), were less likely to receive reperfusion therapy when eligible (47% vs. ...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - September 29, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Daniel Lee Source Type: blogs
5 tips for the farmers market
It’s peak farmers market season and the stalls are overflowing with piles of attractively arranged yummy fruits and veggies. Buying local and eating organic sounds good, but there are so many choices, and it’s easy to overspend.
Here are five tips to help you get the most bang for your buck at the stalls this fall:
Is it really local?
Not all farm stands represent your local farmers. There are a few ways to tell. The market in our town features an online newsletter, and every week, they send out a list of farmers market vendors. Most have a link, and it’s easy to see which ones are truly local family farms. Other way...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 21, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Food as medicine Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
Can Artificial Food Put an End to Famine?
Synthetic tea? Lab-grown meat? Artificial milk? Nutrients and vitamins in a protein shake? Sci-fi movies like the Matrix, Star Trek or The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy showed us a glimpse of the future of eating disconnected from Mother Earth. As the world population is growing while producing more food through farming strains the resources of the planet, could artificial food ensure appropriate nutrition for everyone on the globe?
Our schizophrenic eating habits and environmental stress factors
A UN report called State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World published some days ago, provided some disheartening s...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 13, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Food Medical Professionals Patients artificial food artificial meat cell cell culture clean meat cultured meat diet eating in vitro Innovation meal nutrition technology Source Type: blogs
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
– a wonderful line from John Keats’ Ode to Autumn.
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - September 12, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Why Cochrane is Wrong About Hypertension. Very Wrong.
By SWAPNIL HIREMATH, MD
Archie Cochrane and the Cochrane Collaboration
Archie Cochrane was born in Scotland, educated in London (King’s College, University College and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and worked in Cardiff, Wales. His work as a doctor during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, especially in a prisoner of war camp in Salonica, is credited with his push towards generating higher quality evidence. In his description of the clinical trial he conducted, he mentions James Lind as his hero. Ironically, that clinical trial – with weak randomization, open allocation, non-blinding of inv...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 29, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: EBM Cochrane patient population risks Source Type: blogs
Why Cochrane is Wrong About Hypertension. Very Wrong.
By SWAPNIL HIREMATH MD
Archie Cochrane and the Cochrane Collaboration
Archie Cochrane was born in Scotland, educated in London (King’s College, University College and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and worked in Cardiff, Wales. His work as a doctor during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, especially in a prisoner of war camp in Salonica, is credited with his push towards generating higher quality evidence. In his description of the clinical trial he conducted, he mentions James Lind as his hero. Ironically, that clinical trial – with weak randomization, open allocation, non-blinding of inve...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 28, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: EBM Source Type: blogs
Peter Kirsanow's Numerous Errors
Last Thursday,Tucker Carlson invited Peter Kirsanow onto his top-rated Fox News showTucker Carlson Tonight to discuss illegal immigration and crime. They began the segment by playing a recent clip of me and Carlson arguing about data on illegal immigrant criminality in Texas. In thatearlier segment, Carlson said we don ’t have good data on illegal immigrant criminality and I said we do, specifically from thestate of Texas. The data show that illegal immigrants have a lower murder conviction rate than native-born Americans. Kirsanow responded to my clip in a multi-minute near-monologue. Unfortunately, Kirsanow made many...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 27, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
A Feeble Defense of the Jones Act
Rep. Duncan Hunter is not pleased with theCato Institute ’s efforts to repeal the Jones Act. Taking notice of arecent op-ed I penned criticizing the California congressman ’s support of this costly law, Huntertook to the pages of the same newspaper last weekend to defend his stance. It ’s worth reviewing the piece in full, as it recycles several arguments typically offered in support of the Jones Act—and exposes some glaring weaknesses.Hunter begins his defense of the Jones Act by disputing accusations that the law negatively impacts Puerto Rico ’s economy:Like many opponents of the Jones Act, the CATO Institute ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 23, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
