“ I have a wheat intolerance ”
I hear this comment with some regularity when, for instance, someone recognizes me as the author of the Wheat Belly series. This is a step in the right direction.
But saying that you have a wheat intolerance is like saying “I have a tobacco intolerance.” The impact of tobacco smoking on health ranges from mild impairment, to incapacitating diseases such as chronic lung disease and abdominal aortic aneurysms, to death. A rare person escapes the ravages of years of smoking, but most people develop at least one, if not half-a-dozen, health problems from cigarettes.
And so it goes with wheat: It’s a rare pers...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 17, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle gluten gluten-free grain grain-free grains health Inflammation Source Type: blogs
Five Radiology Artificial Intelligence Companies That Somebody Should Build and Invest In
By HUGH HARVEY
I’ve previously written comprehensively on where to invest in Radiology AI, and how to beat the hype curve precipice the field is entering. For those that haven’t read my previous blog, my one line summary is essentially this:
“Choose companies with a narrow focus on clinically valid use cases with large data sets, who are engaged with regulations and haven’t over-hyped themselves …”
The problem is… hardly any investment opportunities in Radiology AI like this actually exist, especially in the UK. I thought it’s about time I wrote down my ideas for what I’d actually build (i...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 5, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Investing Radiology Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 216
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blogJust 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 FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 216. Question 1Where was this photo taken and what is the significance of this “Trauma Room 1”? By Jpotter1138 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27892379+ Reveal the Funtabulous Answerexpand(document.getElementB...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 1, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five aspirin Baxter burns Charles Frederic Gerhardt Charles Frederick morris saint Charles Rufus Baxter Jack Ruby JFK John Connally john f kennedy Lee Harvey Oswald Lewis Macken occam's razor parkland formula Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 210
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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 FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 210.
Question 1
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 20, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five charcoal Curtis eye of the medicine man Fitz-Hugh fitz-hugh-curtis folie a deux rigler's triad Source Type: blogs
Naturopaths: Able to turn even Epsom salt potentially deadly
Naturopathy and naturopaths are a fairly frequent topic on this blog —and for very good reason. If there is an example of a pseudomedical " discipline " that has been gaining undeserved " respectability, " it ' s naturopathy. It ' s licensed in all too many states, and physicians who have fallen under the spell of so-called " integrative medicine, " a specialty that rebrands science-based lifestyle medical interventions as somehow " alternative " or " integrative " and uses them as a vessel to " integrate " quackery into medicine, seem to have a special affinity for naturopaths. Indeed, so common has the presence of natu...
Source: Respectful Insolence - October 6, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: oracknows Source Type: blogs
Work History
I always find myself asking a new patient what they do or, for the elderly, what they did for work. All this stuff about heart caths and gallstones and knee scopes and the gout acting up is numbing and disconnecting. Abstract collections of fact. Case studies in a stack of medical journals. Where am I? What is this place? Why are we in this room together? Why are we sharing this space?If you aren't a doctor you wouldn't know exactly what I mean.The contrived forced intimacy. One on one, the one way sharing of embarrassing secrets and frailties. Enough of the unmentionables. Let's dis...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - September 10, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
This is your brain on alcohol
It’s no secret that alcohol affects our brains, and most moderate drinkers like the way it makes them feel — happier, less stressed, more sociable. Science has verified alcohol’s feel-good effect; PET scans have shown that alcohol releases endorphins (the “pleasure hormones”) which bind to opiate receptors in the brain. Although excessive drinking is linked to an increased risk of dementia, decades of observational studies have indicated that moderate drinking — defined as no more than one drink a day for women and two for men — has few ill effects. (A drink equals 1.5 ounces of 80-proof spirits, 5 ounces of ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 14, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Beverly Merz Tags: Addiction Brain and cognitive health Healthy Eating Heart Health Memory Source Type: blogs
Detecting and Treating Weight Loss in Seniors
Conclusion
While many people may believe that losing body mass is a natural part of the aging process, it can be a rather serious issue. Dealing with weight loss in the elderly in a timely manner is crucial. Otherwise, weight loss can lead to other health issues or even death.
Do you or someone you know have experience dealing with unintentional weight loss? Let us know in the comments section. (Source: Shield My Senior)
Source: Shield My Senior - May 17, 2017 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Vin Tags: Senior Safety Source Type: blogs
Detecting and Treating Weight Loss in Seniors
Conclusion
While many people may believe that losing body mass is a natural part of the aging process, it can be a rather serious issue. Dealing with weight loss in the elderly in a timely manner is crucial. Otherwise, weight loss can lead to other health issues or even death.
Do you or someone you know have experience dealing with unintentional weight loss? Let us know in the comments section. (Source: Shield My Senior)
Source: Shield My Senior - May 17, 2017 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Stevie Compango Tags: Senior Safety Source Type: blogs
Lessons learned from constipation
Here’s an excerpt from Wheat Belly Total Health about constipation. As uninteresting as it can seem at first glance, constipation can offer useful insights into diet and health, but not simple-minded insights like “get more fiber.”
A condition as pedestrian as constipation serves to perfectly illustrate many of the ways in which grains mess with normal body functions, as well as just how wrong conventional “solutions” can stray, Keystone Kops of health stumbling, fumbling, and bumping into each other, but never quite putting out the fire. Drop a rock from the top of a building and it predictabl...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 21, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel health cellulose constipation fiber grains prebiotic Source Type: blogs
We Had You at Ultrasound, Part I
We know we don't need to remind you of the sheer power of ultrasound and its usefulness in the emergency department. Not a day goes by that the ultrasound isn't wheeled to the patient's bedside for a FAST exam, a quick gallstone check, or to rule out retinal detachment. The uses for ultrasound are endless.The first part of this series looks at the basic functionality of the machine and how to look for foreign bodies in the extremities. Even if you choose not to adopt this practice, it may inspire you to learn more about the uses of ultrasound.This is by no means a full online course! We don't intend for this blog to minimi...
Source: The Procedural Pause - March 1, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts 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
Ann still going strong
Ann provided these photos, a “before” on the left and her most recent update on the right.
“That’s a picture 5 years ago that was not at my heaviest. I was about 300 pounds in the picture.”
You may remember Ann from two previous Wheat Belly Blog posts: April, 2015 and a June, 2015 update. Ann began her Wheat Belly journey in October, 2014 after being put on a waiting list for gastric bypass surgery while plagued with rheumatoid arthritis, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), migraine headaches, chronic hives, asthma, chronic pain and other conditions. She did ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - August 25, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories autoimmune gluten grains Inflammation Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Making a bad thing good
One of my daughter’s favourite TV shows is Rastamouse, a Jamaican rodent who, along with a posse of friends, solves crimes during the day then relaxes by playing Rasta music in the evening. Each episode is built around the theme of redemption; a character will err with an adverse consequence, but will then be given the opportunity to “make a bad thing good”, and there is always a resolution.
This year in my state there was a doctor suicide cluster. Four of my colleagues took their own lives. I can only interpret this to mean that something is sick in our great and noble profession. When I heard that a softly spoken i...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 3, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Kristin Boyle Tags: Literary Medicine beyondblue depression Source Type: blogs
