Making a Dream a Reality
By Joseph Kim, MD.
As a Korean-American, I have always been curious about exploring my heritage. Fortunately, I have had the opportunity to visit South Korea several times, including two trips during residency. Each time I visited, I realized that I had developed a desire to live in South Korea one day. But deciding to work in Korea as a physician was an enormous decision, and I did not want to make it lightly. I wanted to have the chance to explore the life of an emergency physician in South Korea before making such a life-altering decision.
I began researching potential hospitals that might allow me to rotate...
Source: Going Global - June 11, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Making a Dream a Reality
By Joseph Kim, MD.
As a Korean-American, I have always been curious about exploring my heritage. Fortunately, I have had the opportunity to visit South Korea several times, including two trips during residency. Each time I visited, I realized that I had developed a desire to live in South Korea one day. But deciding to work in Korea as a physician was an enormous decision, and I did not want to make it lightly. I wanted to have the chance to explore the life of an emergency physician in South Korea before making such a life-altering decision.
I began researching potential hospitals that might allow me to rotate thr...
Source: Going Global - June 11, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Stop Giving Your Brain the “Sugar Blues”
Refined sugar has been called poison, toxic, and the "anti-nutrient". It's said to be more addictive than cocaine. Is it really that bad? How much does sugar really affect your brain?
Let's take a look at the somewhat complex relationship between sugar and your brain.
Your Brain Needs Glucose, Not Fructose
Brain cells need twice as much energy as other cells. After all, there's a lot going on up there! Your brain cells can’t store energy, so they need a steady stream of glucose from your bloodstream. Your brain cells can live only a few minutes without energy supply - it's that critical!
The healthiest sources of g...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Be Brain Fit Tags: Community Posts diet health self improvement sugar Source Type: blogs
On Methionine Restriction
Levels of the essential amino acid methionine in the diet appear to be involved in generating the beneficial effects of calorie restriction on health and longevity. Some portion of the resulting changes in the operation of metabolism is based on sensing low levels of methionine. It is thus possible that humans might obtain benefits comparable to those generated by calorie restriction from a sensibly constructed low-methionine diet with a normal calorie intake. The research in support of this supposition is still sparse in comparison to that for calorie restriction, however.
It was first reported in 1993 that rats subjecte...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 14, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Healing Leaky Livers
By David Spero
It may surprise you to know that, for many people, Type 2 diabetes is primarily a liver disease. The pancreas damage comes later. Is there anything we can do to heal a diabetic liver?
Liver issues in diabetes are complicated. An article in the journal Clinical Diabetes explained that diabetes can cause liver disease; liver disease can cause diabetes; or both can arise together from other causes. Whichever comes first, the sick liver may produce way too much glucose, enough to overwhelm the body's insulin.
Why would a liver start pumping out unneeded glucose? Unhealthy livers tend to have a lot of fat in the...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - April 17, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: David Spero Source Type: blogs
Allen kicks his cholesterol panel in the butt!
Take a look at what Wheat Belly Blog reader Allen posted about his cholesterol testing:
Just wanted to report that I had my first blood test since starting Wheat Belly back in July, 2012. I just got a note from my company doc:
”I just wanted to write as your medical consultant how impressed I was by your recent labs. You said you lost 20 pounds – congratulations. Your hemoglobin A1c was fine, not indicating pre-diabetes. And your lipid profile showed more improvement than I’ve ever seen from weight loss, exercise and diet – many find this just genetic and cannot get it down with just these measures, but your’s h...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 1, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Lipids Source Type: blogs
A New Old Diabetes and Obesity Drug Candidate
Obesity is a therapeutic area that has broken a lot of hearts (and wallets) over the years. A scroll back through this category will show some of the wreckage, and there's plenty more out there. But hope does that springing-eternal thing that it does, and there's an intriguing new possibility for a target in this area. Alan Saltiel of Michigan (whose group has had a long presence in this sort of research), along with a number of other well-known collaborators, report work on the inflammation connection between diabetes and obesity:
Although the molecular events underlying the relationship between obesity and insulin resis...
Source: In the Pipeline - February 20, 2013 Category: Chemists Tags: Diabetes and Obesity Source Type: blogs
Heart healthy whole grains and the new agenda for the Wheat Lobby
This recent Six Servings post from our nice friends at the Wheat Lobby prompted me to make this counterpost.
Their post begins with:
According to the American Heart Association, the best way to keep your heart in peak form is by eating well and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Whole grains are a cornerstone of a heart-healthy diet and consuming them has been associated with a reduced risk of heart disease by keeping blood pressure, cholesterol – and even weight – in check. Because of these benefits, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends making at least half your grains whole grains. By following this simple ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 6, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
HBO's "The Weight of the Nation": Obesity on the Brain
SBB has talked a lot about how drug addiction is a complicated brain disease. But it’s not the only one. Obesity also involves the brain and is the subject of an HBO special that takes a serious look at this complex problem. The 4-hour documentary series “The Weight of the Nation” covered everything from fatty liver disease in overweight children to how humans are wired to find pleasure in food to how our food supply has changed over the years. If you missed it in mid-May, you can go to HBO’s Web site and see it for free. To get a better idea of the obesity problem, check out this creative infographic, “Obesity: ...
Source: NIDA Drugs and Health Blog - May 30, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Sara Bellum Source Type: blogs
