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
Upload Your DNA to a Web Site to Generate Risk Scores for Five Diseases
I have posted a few notes about predictive diagnostic algorithms (see:An Algorithm Using Medical Record Data Predicts Risk for Parkinson's Disease;Should the Work Product of"Non-Explainable" Medical Algorithms Be Ignored) and disease risk scores (see:Genetic Risk Scores: Ready for Inclusion in the Medical Record?). Using AI techniques, researchers at Massachusetts General are developing a web site that will display a risk score for five common diseases after consumers upload their DNA to the site (see:Clues to Your Health Are Hidden at 6.6 Million Spots in Your DNA). The algorithm takes into account mil...
Source: Lab Soft News - August 28, 2018 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Clinical Lab Industry News Clinical Lab Testing Genomic Testing Healthcare Information Technology Healthcare Innovations Lab Industry Trends Lab Processes and Procedures Medical Consumerism Medical Research Source Type: blogs
7 Little-Known Benefits of CBD Oil
Conclusion
As you can see, CBD oil offers numerous advantages. It’s efficient against many health issues, and there are other benefits yet to be discovered. It’s a fact that bulk CBD is going to be really important in the future.You've read 7 Little-Known Benefits of CBD Oil, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you've enjoyed this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. (Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement)
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 7, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: maryjames Tags: featured health and fitness self improvement benefits of cbd cbd oil pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Diverse Diseases, Allied Advocates
Listen to part two of the episode recorded live on location at HealtheVoices 2018. (Part one was posted last week, so check it out if you haven’t, already.) In this continuation of the multi-advocate panel discussion, our panelists talk about the most difficult aspect of their advocacy and how they deal with it. They also address misconceptions and ignorance about their diseases, such as the difference between AIDS and HIV or IBD and IBS, the fact that lupus is not contagious, and that men can have breast cancer. To close out the episode, each panelist shares his/her thoughts on what advocates for different conditions ha...
Source: World of Psychology - May 24, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Show Tags: General Interview Mental Health and Wellness The Psych Central Show Advocacy Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Finding Strength & Unity in Our Differences
Listen to part one of the first ever LIVE Psych Central Show, recorded on location at HealtheVoices 2018, an annual event that brings together online advocates from across various health conditions for an opportunity to learn, share and connect. In this show, you will meet four advocates who join our hosts on stage for a panel discussion on a variety of advocacy issues, including lupus, inflammatory bowel disease, HIV, and breast cancer. You’ll hear about how being diagnosed affected their lives in ways they didn’t expect, and what made them become advocates. The second half of this show will be posted next week!
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Source: World of Psychology - May 17, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Show Tags: General Interview Mental Health and Wellness The Psych Central Show Advocacy Source Type: blogs
Death by donut
I don’t mean that you will be struck down by simply stepping into a Dunkin’ Donuts. I mean that donuts and others things wheat and grains will substantially abbreviate y0ur life, or at least make your time on earth a lot more miserable.
I’ve been accused of exaggeration to get the no-wheat, no-grain message through. But if you see what I see every day, I think that you would agree: The consumption of wheat and grains is entirely inappropriate for humans; we exchange near-term calories for deterioration of long-term health that takes numerous forms. And when you see lives completely turned around by banish...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 9, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle autoimmune bowel flora diabetes gluten-free grain-free grains Inflammation joint pain undoctored Source Type: blogs
Death by donut
I don’t mean that you will be struck down by simply stepping into a Dunkin’ Donuts. I mean that donuts and others things wheat and grains will substantially abbreviate your life, or at least make your time on earth a lot more miserable.
I’ve been accused of exaggeration to get the no-wheat, no-grain message through. But if you see what I see every day, I think that you would agree: The consumption of wheat and grains is entirely inappropriate for humans; we exchange near-term calories for deterioration of long-term health that takes numerous forms. And when you see lives completely turned around by banish...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 9, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle autoimmune bowel flora diabetes gluten-free grain-free grains Inflammation joint pain undoctored Source Type: blogs
MKSAP: 38-year-old man with ulcerative colitis
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.
A 38-year-old man is evaluated in follow-up after a diagnosis of ulcerative colitis. Ten days ago he was started on prednisone, 60 mg/d, but his symptoms have not improved. He has six to nine bloody bowel movements per day and moderate abdominal pain. He has decreased his oral intake because eating exacerbates his pain and diarrhea.
On physical examination, temperature is 37.0 °C (98.6 °F), blood pressure is 110/56 mm Hg, and pulse rate is 96/min. He is pale but in no distress. The abdomen is diffusely tender ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 5, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mksap" rel="tag" > mksap < /a > Tags: Conditions Gastroenterology Source Type: blogs
“Smart” Training Devices Alleviate Concerns of Self-Injection: Interview with Noble International’s Joe Reynolds
Most patients encounter shots and injections, like the flu vaccine, in the context of a clinic or local pharmacy. However, for many patients, shots and injections are not an annual occurrence but are required frequently and, as a result, need to be self-administered at home. Biologic drugs have recently found success addressing chronic diseases but can require at-home administration using prefilled syringes (PFSs) and autoinjectors.
Patients using these self-injection devices can experience psychological challenges ranging from mild squeamishness to extreme anxiety. A recent study of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and...
Source: Medgadget - May 3, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Exclusive Medicine Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
No Microbiome Santa Claus we cannot magically convert correlative studies into causal ones. And scientists dishing out medical advice about vaping based on such bad science is ridiculous.
Conclusions. In summary, we found that tobacco smokingsignificantly alters the bacterial profiles in feces, buccal, and saliva samples.Nooooooooooooooooo. Nooooooo. No.So - you might ask -- why does this matter? This is just a little bit of a word choice issue right? Wrong. The press release and the paper mislead as to what was found here. You might then say "so what - what does it matter?". Well, it does matter because when you make these types of misleading statements they might get picked up by the press or the public. Like in the examples below:Daily Mail:An incentive to switch to e-cigare...
Source: The Tree of Life - April 30, 2018 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 30th 2018
In conclusion, in the Framingham Heart Study population, in the last 30 years, disease duration in persons with dementia has decreased. However, age-adjusted mortality risk has slightly decreased after 1977-1983. Consequences of such trends on dementia prevalence should be investigated.
Recent Research on the Benefits of Exercise in Later Life
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2018/04/recent-research-on-the-benefits-of-exercise-in-later-life/
A sizable body of work points to the ability of older individuals to continue to obtain benefits through regular physical activity, and particularly in the case...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 29, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Cornelis (Cees) Wortel, Ichor Therapeutics Chief Medical Officer, on Rejuvenation Research and Its Engagement with the Established Regulatory System
Ichor Therapeutics is the most mature of the US-based companies that have emerged from the SENS rejuvenation research community in recent years. You might recall a number of interviews back in the Fight Aging! Archives with founder and CEO Kelsey Moody. He has his own take on how our community should proceed from laboratory to clinic: he is very much in favor of demonstrating (a) that the formal regulatory path offered by the FDA can work for the treatment of aging, and (b) that - given the right strategic approach - rejuvenation therapies can attract the attention, collaboration, and backing of Big Pharma entities in the ...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 23, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
Not just myeloma
First bit of news: I’ve had absolutely no pain in my heel. It’s as good as new. I have to admit I’m still stunned…and I wonder if a more conventional doctor, let’s say a physiotherapist, would have made the connection between my relatively new eyeglass prescription and my heel pain. I doubt it.
This makes me wonder how many similar cases there are, of people who think they have plantar fasciitis or tendonitis or, sorry for the mention! , heel spurs, but whose pain actually originated in a different part of the body, an easy-to-fix part of the body. Mind-blowing, eh?
But the reason I’m ...
Source: Margaret's Corner - April 20, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll celiac disease curcumin EBV Epstein-Barr virus inflammatory bowel disease lupus multiple sclerosis rheumatoid arthritis type 1 diabetes Source Type: blogs
A Closer Look at Portal Instruments ’ Needle-Free Injector
At SXSW last month, we had the opportunity to take a closer look at Portal Instruments‘ upcoming needle-free drug delivery device. As we wrote previously, Portal Instruments has developed a injection system that involves delivering a tiny jet of liquid through the skin at a high speed.
We naturally had to ask how similar an experience this would be to Star Trek’s hypospray device (which seems to actually be kind of painful), and we were told that the jet of vaccine is so tiny and moves so fast that most only feel a small tickle.
We also learned more about Portal’s recently announced partnership with Taked...
Source: Medgadget - April 17, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Scott Jung Tags: Medicine Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
The momentum to treat in America is unmatched around the globe
An excerpt from At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life. Copyright © 2018 by Samuel Harrington, MD. Reprinted with permission of Grand Central Publishing. All rights reserved.
The momentum to treat in America is unmatched around the globe or throughout history. As a result, we spend twice as much on medical care as the next most expensive country. A very large percentage of that money is spent in the last six months of life.
What fuels the momentum to treat? American exceptionalism, for one. This is an ingrained feeling that the United States and its citizens are not only different but are the best, have the b...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 14, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/samuel-harrington" rel="tag" > Samuel Harrington, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Geriatrics Hospital-Based Medicine Primary Care Source Type: blogs
