Do statins reduce heart scan scores?
If you have a CT heart scan score (also called coronary calcium score), what effect do statin cholesterol drugs have on stopping or slowing the increase in score? (Increasing scores pose increasing risk for heart attack and other cardiac events.)
NONE. If you do nothing at all, the score increases by 25% per year, on average. If you take a statin drug, aspirin, and follow a low-fat diet, what my colleagues call “optimal medical therapy,” the score increases . . . 25% per year—no difference. Yet this is the “solution” that conventional doctors push on their patients, a “treatment” t...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 7, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open cholesterol coronary calcium ct scan do statin drugs reduce heart scan scores reduce coronary calcium reverse coronary calcium reverse heart disease undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
With a little planning, vegan diets can be a healthful choice
Recently there has been much discussion and many questions about vegan diets. Are vegan diets — which exclude meat, poultry, seafood, eggs, and dairy — healthful? Do they provide complete nutrition? Should I try one? Will it help me lose weight?
Many people around the world eat plant-based diets for a variety of reasons, some because meat is not readily available or affordable, others because of religious convictions or concerns about animal welfare. Health has become another reason people are moving to plant-based diets. And research supports the idea that plant-based diets, including vegan diets, provide health benef...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine D. McManus, MS, RD, LDN Tags: Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
The truth about fatty liver
The majority of doctors will tell you that there is nothing you can do to reverse fatty liver and that health problems such as cirrhosis and liver failure may be in your future that they will address with the awful “solution” of liver transplant.
The truth is the opposite: fatty liver is easily and readily reversible in virtually everybody, provided you take action before irreversible changes take place and are given the right information and tools. In this video, I discuss the three basic phenomena that drive fat deposition, liver damage, and inflammation that lead to this condition:
Carbohydrate consumption ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 23, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open bowel flora carbohydrates carbs Inflammation NAFLD nash triglycerides undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Add These 8 Things to Your Morning Routine for a More Positive Day
Build a morning ritual that changes your life for the best.
Learning how to be happy and how to change your life requires a lot of positivity, and this can start by making necessary changes to your morning routine.
Even though not as easy as it sounds, building a morning discipline into your daily routine just might be the fastest way to improve performance in any area of your life, which will lead you to a path of happiness and positive thinking!
Most people’s morning routines include grabbing their cell phones to check e-mail, texts, social media, or newsfeeds before they even rouse out of bed in the morning.
The ...
Source: World of Psychology - November 10, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Publishers Self-Help YourTango Appreciation Gratitude Meditation Morning Routine peaceful Positivity Source Type: blogs
Do not become iodine toxic
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 8, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle hypothyroid iodine Source Type: blogs
Evacuating the Nefarious Subungual Hematomas
Subungual hematomas can be a terror. They are painful, ugly-looking, nefarious, and sometimes confusing. The ultimate goal is to drain the accumulated blood and relieve the painful pressure.The best intervention is easy and straightforward: Leave the nail in place, and evacuate the blood under it. (Hand Surg. 2012;17[1]:151; Am J Emerg Med. 2006;24[7]:875; Emerg Med J. 2003;20[1]:65, http://bit.ly/2mHV1cO.) Then, provide excellent discharge information without prescribing antibiotics.A subungual hematoma in a 21-year-old man who slammed his thumb in a car door about 12 hours before ED arrival. Photo ...
Source: The Procedural Pause - November 1, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Bariatric surgery . . . . for kids?!
That’s precisely what the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is recommending: more weight loss surgery for overweight kids.
This sort of perverted advice reflects the deep and widespread failure of the healthcare system to address nutrition and health, resorting instead to an awful surgical “solution” that, contrary to the AAP’s declaration that it is a proven safe option, is filled with complications, nutritional deficiencies, dysbiotic alterations in bowel flora, hormonal disruptions, and—not all that rarely—death. (Granted that it was over 10 years ago, but the first patient ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 31, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open bariatric surgery gastric bypass lap bad Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Chronic Lyme arthritis: A mystery solved?
In 1975, researchers from Yale investigated an epidemic of 51 patients with arthritis who lived near the woodsy town of Lyme, Connecticut. The most common symptom was recurrent attacks of knee swelling. A few had pain in other joints, such as the wrist or ankle. Many had fever, fatigue, and headache. Some remembered a round skin rash before the onset of knee swelling.
We now know that Lyme disease is an infection acquired from tick bites, caused by a spiral bacterium named Borrelia burgdorferi. After a tick bite, Borrelia bacteria wriggle through the skin away from the bite site. This leads to a circular red rash, known as...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - October 3, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Ross, MD, FIDSA Tags: Arthritis Bones and joints Infectious diseases Source Type: blogs
What ’ s the best source of iodine?
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 13, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Iodine goiter hypothyroid Source Type: blogs
Blood tests: The BIG differences between “ normal ” and ideal
It is not uncommon for there to be considerable differences between what you are told is “normal” for a blood test and what is ideal. The differences are big enough to impair health, even increase risk for numerous diseases, even death.
Here is why labs and your doctor often provide grossly misleading interpretations of blood tests and how you can decipher the real answers. Among the examples:
Vitamin D—The lab says that blood levels of 25-hydroxy vitamin D should be between 10-30 ng/ml. How did they get that value? Easy: They tested the blood levels of many people who live indoors, wear clothes, and don...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 5, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Blood tests undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Blood tests: There are BIG differences between “ normal ” and ideal
It is not uncommon for there to be considerable differences between what you are told is “normal” for a blood test and what is ideal. The differences are big enough to impair health, even increase risk for numerous diseases, even death.
Here is why labs and your doctor often provide grossly misleading interpretations of blood tests and how you can decipher the real answers. Among the examples:
Vitamin D—The lab says that blood levels of 25-hydroxy vitamin D should be between 10-30 ng/ml. How did they get that value? Easy: They tested the blood levels of many people who live indoors, wear clothes, and don...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 5, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Blood tests undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
What ’ s the best diet for type 2 diabetes?
Let’s first discuss what the goals of a diet should be when you have type 2 diabetes. After all, if this disease that now affects tens of millions of Americans is simply allowed to progress, it means a future of heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, peripheral neuropathy, amputations, failing eyesight, gastroparesis, and an average of eight years taken from your lifespan.
So let’s agree that a diet for type 2 diabetes should:
Reverse insulin resistance—i.e., the process that leads to developing diabetes in the first place.
Reduce blood sugar and HbA1c (the long-term gauge of blood sugar)—that refl...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 29, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Diabetes grain-free low-carb Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
From Chernobyl To Mars: The Future Of Radiation Protection
In the minutes after block 4 of the nuclear power
plant in Chernobyl exploded, no one knew that they are experiencing a disaster
that never happened anywhere before on planet Earth. The public health,
environmental, and even the socio-political consequences were disastrous and we
can still experience the negative impacts. That’s why we posed the question of
what public health authorities, as well as individuals, can do to mitigate the
consequences of radiation exposure, and what digital technologies are available
for radiation detection. In this respect, after our investigations, it even
turned out that it would be benef...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 29, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Space Medicine astronautics chernobyl disaster fiction Health Healthcare Innovation mars nuclear power plant public health radiation radiation exposure radiation protection technology Source Type: blogs
Should you eat cholesterol lowering foods?
The short answer: No, absolutely not.
You’ll find no lack of conversations, however, that tell you to consume more oatmeal, nuts, garlic or soy to reduce total and LDL cholesterol, perhaps thereby avoiding statin drugs. Or add more fiber to your diet or take red yeast rice.
These foods and supplements do indeed reduce total and LDL cholesterol . . . but who cares? Don’t waste your time and energy on this useless exercise, especially efforts to reduce the absurd, outdated, imprecise calculated LDL cholesterol.
But doesn’t reducing LDL cholesterol, the “bad,” in particular reduce risk for cardio...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 28, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Cholesterol wheat belly Source Type: blogs
“ I ’ m losing my hair on the Wheat Belly lifestyle! ”
It’s a complaint I hear occasionally from people starting the Wheat Belly lifestyle: “I’m losing my hair. Big clumps of hair fall out when I brush!”
Why does this happen? And is it permanent? Will people become bald after a few months?
Take a look at the many before/afters people have posted on the Wheat Belly Facebook page and the photos I’ve posted over the years on the Wheat Belly Blog. Even within the first few days, we commonly witness a curious and dramatic reduction in facial swelling, reduction in around-the-eye puffiness, reversal of skin redness. Many people look quite different. In ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 11, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle facial change grain-free hair loss Inflammation skin Source Type: blogs
