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A condition called cerebellar ataxia is one manifestation of wheat’s effect on the human brain. This illness usually affects adults, average age of onset 48 years, though children can be affected, too. Symptoms consist of incoordination, falling, and incontinence.
The typical situation involves a man or woman in their late 40s or early 50s who begins to experience difficulty walking a straight line, or feels like they are drifting to one side as they walk. Frequent stumbling when there is no obstacle in the way is common. This is due to degeneration of the cerebellum (visible on an MRI or CT scan of the brain), th...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 19, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle ataxia autoimmune brain cerebellar gluten grains incoordination neuropathy stumbling Source Type: blogs
Smoke low-tar cigarettes? The fatal flaw in logic of nutritional studies
Just because something bad is reduced or eliminated in cigarettes, it should not logically follow that cigarettes must now be good, right? Low-tar, filtered cigarettes may be less harmful than full-tar, unfiltered cigarettes, but still contain heavy metals like mercury, lead, and cadmium, as well as nicotine, naphthalene, arsenic, formaldehyde, ammonia and other toxic compounds. Low- or no-tar does NOT mean healthy. This may seem obvious, but it is surprising how many people—physicians and dietitians included—fall for such flawed logic when applied to nutrition.
We saw this play out in yet another flawed analys...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 16, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle barley corn epidemiological gluten longevity rye white flour whole grains Source Type: blogs
MKSAP: 50-year-old man with increasing urinary frequency and urgency
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.
A 50-year-old man is evaluated for a 1-year history of increasing urinary frequency and urgency and occasional urge incontinence. He has no symptoms of urinary hesitancy or incomplete emptying. The patient has primary progressive multiple sclerosis. Medications are dalfampridine and vitamin D.
On physical evaluation, temperature is 36.8 °C (98.2 °F), blood pressure is 120/55 mm Hg, and pulse rate is 68/min. Findings of abdominal and digital rectal examinations are normal. Finger-to-nose testing reveals dysmetr...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 30, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: mksap Tags: Conditions Neurology Source Type: blogs
Narrative Matters: On Our Reading List
Editor’s note: “Narrative Matters: On Our Reading List” is a monthly roundup where we share some of the most compelling health care narratives driving the news and conversation in recent weeks.
Cut Off From Ambulance Rides
In December 2014, Medicare began a pilot program in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and South Carolina to require prior authorization for “repetitive, scheduled, nonemergency” ambulance rides — enforcing a long-standing Medicare policy under which beneficiaries needed to require a stretcher before Medicare would pay for the nonemergency rides. But the policy crack-down left Charles Prozzillo, ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 29, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Jessica Bylander Tags: Equity and Disparities Featured Medicare Narrative Matters Quality big data On Our Reading List Source Type: blogs
You Decide: The Risks and Benefits of the MMR Vaccination
Most of us weigh the risks and benefits of medical procedures prior to obtaining them. We sign an informed consent form with an understanding of the potential harm versus the perceived benefits.
In the case of vaccinations, the great majority of parents obtain vaccinations for their children, influenced by the “sales pitch” and “scare tactics” used by physicians. We are assured that the vaccination is safe and will protect us and our children from the various targeted deadly diseases. If we blindly trust our doctors, as I once had, we readily agree.
It is important that we think critically before agreeing to any va...
Source: vactruth.com - February 18, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Logical Michelle Goldstein Top Stories autism Centers for Disease Control (CDC) MMR vaccine vaccine injury Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly: Self-Directed Health?
Director chair, film slate and load horn.
Here’s a proposal for you: If, by following the Wheat Belly lifestyle, a long list of conditions are reduced or reversed at no risk, almost no cost, reversing even chronic and potentially fatal conditions . . . does that mean that the notion of self-directed health might be on the horizon, i.e., putting control over health back in our own hands?
I think it does. No, we will never implant our own defibrillators or take out our own gallbladders. But so many chronic health conditions afflicting modern humans recede that I believe that it is entirely reasonable to start talking a...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 16, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle arthritis autoimmune diabetes eating disorder gluten grains Inflammation joint Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
You’ve Been Rolled, Tossed, and Baked
Here’s another brief excerpt from the new Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox book. In this book, I bash all the conventional notions of healthy eating that have impaired the health and weight of a generation, replacing them with strategies that actually work . . . really fast.
“Follow a balanced diet low in fat.”
“You need whole grains for B vitamins and fiber.”
“It’s unhealthy to eliminate an entire food group.”
This should all sound familiar to you because these nutritional mantras have been repeated over and over again by dietitians, doctors, and the media. And, like many such pieces of conventional wis...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 5, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle Detox gluten grains Inflammation withdrawal Source Type: blogs
Pellagra and spinal myoclonus
Park K, Oeda T, Sawada H. A case of alcoholic pellegra encephalopathy presenting with spinal myoclonus. Neurology Clinical Practice 5; 472-3. The authors present a case of alcoholic pellagra with confusion and myoclonus responding dramatically to administration of niacin1500 mg per day starting 16 days after admission. Essential points include: 1. Pellagra is rare in US but not in alcoholics2. Dermatitis may be subtle and not appreciated3. Thiamine and niacin levels may be normal4. Thiamine may cause worsening due to increased demand for niacin5. Myoclonus in context is impo...
Source: neurologyminutiae - January 4, 2016 Category: Neurology Source Type: blogs
Carving Up Brain Disorders
Neurology and Psychiatry are two distinct specialties within medicine, both of which treat disorders of the brain. It's completely uncontroversial to say that neurologists treat patients with brain disorders like Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. These two diseases produce distinct patterns of neurodegeneration that are visible on brain scans. For example, Parkinson's disease (PD) is a movement disorder caused by the loss of dopamine neurons in the midbrain.Fig. 3 (modified from Goldstein et al., 2007). Brain PET scans superimposed on MRI scans. Note decreased dopamine signal in the putamen and substantia nigra ...
Source: The Neurocritic - November 28, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
A Brief Look at Retrotope
Today, I'll point out the early stage company Retrotope, more out of curiosity than as an example of a research and development strategy that I'd favor pursuing. They don't make it terribly easy to see exactly what they're up to, as seems to be the trend for the online presence of young biotech companies these days, but the digest is that the staff there are trying to build therapies based on substituting deuterium for hydrogen in some of the molecules employed in cellular structure and machinery.
As long-time readers will no doubt recall, a slow trickle of evidence has arrived over the past decade to suggest that replaci...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 30, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Glyphosate: not JUST a carcinogen
One of the most potentially harmful aspects of genetically-modified crops, or GMOs, are that such crops are often engineered to be resistant to an herbicide. A farmer therefore can spray the herbicide to kill weeds, while the GM crop plant survives. But it means that the plant now has herbicide residues in it. So GMO crops pose a double-whammy: the crop itself with new genetically-programmed components, especially proteins, coupled with an herbicide.
Glyphosate is the most widely applied herbicide in the world, in part because GM corn and soy have been engineered to be glyphosate-resistant. So much glysphosate is being use...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 12, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel flora gluten glyphosate gmo grains herbicide microbiota soy Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 119
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 119
Question 1
Which surgeon had a mortality rate of 300% during a single operation? How did this happen?
+ Reveal the Funtabulous Answer
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Robert Liston (1794-1847)
Liston operated in a time before anaesthesia. It was recognised that a speedy operation could significantly improve the outcomes for a patient, and Mr Liston w...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 2, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Niall Hamilton Tags: Frivolous Friday Five capecitabine ciguatera FFFF louis pasteur Oncology rabies robert liston virchow Source Type: blogs
5 Year Old New Jersey Girl Died from the MMR Vaccine, Holly’s Law Created
Conclusion
We leave you with words from Robin:
“My family and I hope that Holly’s story will make a difference and help you realize that you must be aware of the risks of vaccinations, just as you make yourself aware of the risks of any medical procedure.
We hope to make change, and one very important improvement must be that the pediatricians acknowledge that there are vaccine reactions, that moderate to serious and even fatal vaccine reactions do exist and occur at least 100 times more than is reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
We are still very disappointed and disgusted with the actio...
Source: vactruth.com - September 24, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Top Stories Augustina Ursino Human MMR vaccine VAERS Vaccine Death National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) adverse reactions truth about vaccines Holly's Law Robin Stavola Holly Marie Stavola Source Type: blogs
