Do you have a sawdust deficiency?
I can hear the titters now. But, seriously, do you have a deficiency of wood fiber in sawdust, i.e., cellulose?
No? Then why do people follow the common advice to include breakfast cereals such as All Bran, Fiber One, and Raisin Bran that, yes, are rich in fiber, but mostly rich in the cellulose fiber that is a constituent of sawdust? Cellulose in small quantities, as occurs in green vegetables and fruit is harmless, perhaps modestly beneficial. But there is no need to “supplement” with large quantities, as occurs with such bran or fiber-rich cereals. Nobody suffers from lack of cellulose.
Cellulose fiber undou...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 10, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates cellulose constipation fiber prebiotic regularity wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Listen To Your Gut – What Stress Is Doing To Your Digestive Health
You're reading Listen To Your Gut – What Stress Is Doing To Your Digestive Health, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Stress can wreak havoc on your digestive system, with common—and uncommonly uncomfortable—symptoms including stomach-ache, constipation, diarrhea, cramps, nausea and acid indigestion.
Left unchecked, stress can lead to serious gastrointestinal issues. Chronic upset and anxiety may also exacerbate pre-existing ailments like celiac and Crohn’s diseases, stomach ulcers and inflammat...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - September 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kevin Jones Tags: featured health and fitness self improvement gut health pickthebrain side effects of stress Source Type: blogs
MKSAP: 56-year-old woman with a 1-year history of tremor
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.
A 56-year-old woman is evaluated for a 1-year history of tremor. The tremor is more prominent on the right side. She also reports increasing problems with balance and numerous falls, especially when arising from a chair or turning. The patient does not have any significant cognitive symptoms. She has occasional urinary incontinence, intermittent constipation, and a history of acting out of dreams during sleep.
On physical examination, blood pressure is 115/75 mm Hg sitting and 85/70 mm Hg standing, pulse rate is...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 8, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mksap" rel="tag" > mksap < /a > Tags: Conditions Neurology Source Type: blogs
Fever, Abdominal pain, Constipation and Mary
aka Tropical Travel Trouble 012 A 30 year old chef presented to ED with a history of 6 days of fevers and rigors. He returned from Bangladesh one week ago where he was visiting family for 2 weeks. He had a mild headache and neck pain and some intermittent lower abdominal pain. He has had no ...
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 8, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Clinical Cases Infectious Disease Tropical Medicine Mary Mallon Salmonella Typhi Typhoid Typhoid Mary Source Type: blogs
MKSAP: 49-year-old woman with obesity, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes mellitus
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.
A 49-year-old woman is evaluated during a follow-up visit. She is overweight and has hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus, both of which are well controlled. For several years, she has attempted to lose weight through various commercial diets; dietician-monitored, calorie-restricted diets; and physical activity. She has worked with a behavioral therapist, and although she has not achieved weight loss, her weight has remained stable. She exercises 30 minutes daily. Medical history is also remarkable for glau...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 1, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mksap" rel="tag" > mksap < /a > Tags: Conditions Obesity Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Constipated Society
Our ancestors who lived without grains, sugars, and soft drinks enjoy predictable bowel behavior. They ate some turtle, fish, clams, mushrooms, coconut, or mongongo nuts for breakfast, and out it all came that afternoon or evening—large, steamy, filled with undigested remains and prolific quantities of bacteria, no straining, laxatives, or stack of magazines required. If instead you are living a modern life and have pancakes with maple syrup for breakfast and you’ll be lucky to pass that out by tomorrow or the next day. Or perhaps you will be constipated, not passing out your pancakes and syrup for days, passing it inc...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - August 30, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates bloating bowel flora bran constipation Dr. Davis fiber grain-free grains hydrate Inflammation laxatives Opiate drugs Opiods prebiotic undoctored wheat belly Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs
Constipation Nation
Our ancestors who lived without grains, sugars, and soft drinks enjoyed predictable bowel behavior. They ate some turtle, fish, clams, mushrooms, coconut, or mongongo nuts for breakfast, and out it all came that afternoon or evening—large, steamy, filled with undigested remains and prolific quantities of bacteria, no straining, laxatives, or stack of magazines required. If instead you are living a modern life and have pancakes with maple syrup for breakfast, you’ll be lucky to pass that out by tomorrow or the next day. Or perhaps you will be constipated, not passing out your pancakes and syrup for days, passing it inco...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - August 30, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates bloating bowel flora bran constipation Dr. Davis fiber grain-free grains hydrate Inflammation laxatives Opiate drugs Opiods prebiotic undoctored wheat belly Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs
10 Ways Chronic Stress Is Killing Your Quality Of Life
You're reading 10 Ways Chronic Stress Is Killing Your Quality Of Life, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Stress is something which is almost unavoidable in modern life. While the right amount of stress motivates individual performance, it is necessary if you could distinguish whether your stress is good or chronic. Chronic stress derives from repeated interaction of the body to intense and stressful situations, contributing to the release of stress hormone. The stress is troublesome when it comes to chronic,...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 29, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Victoriatan Tags: depression featured self improvement anxiety bad habits chronic stress Source Type: blogs
Low-carb fairy tales
Conclusion: Premarin INCREASED breast cancer, INCREASED endometrial cancer, INCREASED cardiovascular death, even accelerated dementia. And this has been the story over and over again: Conclusions drawn in observational studies have proven to be flat wrong about 4 times out of 5. This hasn’t stopped people like Frank Sacks and Walter Willett, through the observational Physicians’ Health Study and Nurses’ Health Study to, time and again, declare observational findings as fact. Unfortunately, even the USDA buys this observational fiction, incorporating the findings of observational studies in their dietary guidelines.
S...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - August 24, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates Fat grain-free low-carb saturated wheat belly Source Type: blogs
The focus of rounding
A wonderful senior resident helped me understand this goal of rounding. Rounds should focus primarily on understanding the key problems and the diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to those problems. She suggested that some rounds spend too much time on “minutia” that the resident could handle, and not enough on understanding the big issues. According to her, rounds work best when we spend our time addressing the problems that the patient has and increasing the learners’ understanding of those issues.
Her understanding of different rounding styles highlights a key question about rounds and graduate...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - August 23, 2018 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
Does Colace (docusate) Work For Constipation? No!
This study was highlighted in theGeriPal Top 25 articles in HPM.- Ed.)Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Oral Docusate in the Management of Constipation in Hospice Patients. Tarumi et al. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2013: 45(1), 2-13.Palliative care fellows may wonder about their attendings fixation on bowel movements. It may be because we do not ask medical students to disimpact patients any more or because, given the lack of ambulatory care many residents do, they do not see it as a big deal (Constipation a GREAT topic for those of us who like puns and dad jokes).For patients, how...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - August 20, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: arnold constipation docusate geripal top 25 pallimed writing group senna Source Type: blogs
Introducing the Pallimed Writers' Group
by Christian Sinclair (@ctsinclair)We used to publish a lot more article reviews here on Pallimed. Sometimes the analysis would be quite deep and sometimes we would just lump together a while bunch of snippets from key articles. I have been keeping an ever-growing list of articles I would love to write up for the site*, but never seemed to have the time to get to them, and then new ones would come out, that I would want to write about, but they too would just get added to the list. At the end of the year, I would look back on key articles for our field and be pretty bummed out that I never got anything published here about...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - August 20, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: meta sinclair Source Type: blogs
Truth or Lie? I Wish I Knew
The story began a year ago, as did my divorce, but I will try my best to explain my relationship with Blake Chadick, as it was a major impact on me this past year, waiting for my divorce to be finalized. I realize my blog is reading backwards at the moment, but should only be several entries or so.First of all, he ' s married. He said his wife Melissa was very sick from the radiation treatment she received when she had colon (among other) cancers in 2011. She slept half of the day, was in the the bathroom for the other half, and had a medication the constipated her for about 2 hours a day so she could be ...
Source: bipolar.and.me - August 13, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: @drinkbodyarmor @mamacof3 anxiety betrayal blake chadick depression lies Source Type: blogs
Truth or Lie? I Wish I Knew
The story began a year ago, as did my divorce, but I will try my best to explain my relationship with Blake Chadick (name changed slightly), as it was a major impact on me this past year, waiting for my divorce to be finalized. I realize my blog is reading backwards at the moment, but should only be several entries or so.First of all, he ' s married. He said his wife Melissa was very sick from the radiation treatment she received when she had colon (among other) cancers in 2011. She slept half of the day, was in the the bathroom for the other half, and had a medication the constipated her for about 2 hour...
Source: bipolar.and.me - August 13, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Oops. Decreasing iron supplements to every other day.
When iron supplements are given to treat iron deficiency, only a small amount of the iron is actually absorbed (2% to 28% depending on the study). To compensate for this, relatively large doses of iron are given – and the unabsorbed iron left in the gut contributes to the common side effects of taking iron (nausea and constipation). It can also increase inflammation in the gut and negatively affect the microbiome, the balance of beneficial bacteria in the gut.
How to solve the problem?
A standard recommendation has been to split the dose throughout the day in an attempt to increase the amount of iron actually absorbed a...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - August 5, 2018 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Iron Nutrition Top Vitamins & Supplements Source Type: blogs
