What’s the best skin lightening ingredient? The Beauty Brains Show episode 35
Do skin bleaching products really work? Are the ingredients safe? This week Randy and I explain everything you need to know about skin lightening.
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Show notes
Beauty Science News: 7 ways to spot a real expert
As you know we like to promote skeptical thinking, especially when it comes to beauty products. I found an interesting article from Forbes that gives 7 ways to tell you’re dealing with a real expert and not someone who’s just faking it.
Real experts focus on their field, not themselves.
Real experts hav...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - June 17, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry RomanowskiThe Beauty Brains Tags: Best Podcast Problems Safety Source Type: blogs
A Fisherman’s Friend… or Foe?
aka Toxicology Conundrum 052
A 64 year-old male was brought in after a collapse at home. He had been sitting on the couch with his wife when she noticed that he had gone limp and was not breathing. Bystander CPR was performed for 15 minutes until ambulance crews arrived. He received 2x DC 200J shock for ventricular fibrillation, after which he had a return of spontaneous circulation, with HR 80 sinus rhythm, BP 90/60 and GCS 3. In the Emergency department he received 300mg Amiodarone, and cooling was commenced as per out of hospital cardiac arrest protocol at that time. He had a further episode of VF arrest soon after ar...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 5, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kylie McNamara Tags: Clinical Case Emergency Medicine Featured Intensive Care Toxicology Toxicology Quiz cardiac arrest ECG Glycyrrhizic acidm hypokalemia laboratory results licorice liquorice Source Type: blogs
Flourishing in the wild heart of medicine : Fire
Water freezes, Wood spreads, and Fire? Fire explodes onto the scene in a blaze of glory, consuming all that’s gone before, dazzling us, then fading to ashes and leaving us blinking away retinal afterimages wondering what just happened. What did just happen? Someone probably got burnt. And it was a heck of a show.
Fire ain’t like the other elements.
It’s in a class of its own–an exclusive, volatile club of one. The rest of the five phases (a more apt translation of wu xing) are basically earthbound: Earth is an obvious case, but take the other three: Metal descends, cools, clarifies. There’s so...
Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - January 9, 2014 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Jonathan Edwards Tags: Foundational Science Source Type: blogs
Liquorice root extracts as potent cariostatic agents in pediatric practice
Conclusion: The study affirms that both aqueous and ethanolic liquorice extracts are potent cariostatic agents and are found to be palatable by child patients. (Source: Dental Technology Blog)
Source: Dental Technology Blog - September 13, 2013 Category: Dentists Source Type: blogs
Wired Up – A Taste of Magic
Connected to the CGM portion of the bionic pancreas, displaying my CGM data on a large television screen near the registration desk.
There are many amazing things about going to a Friends for Life conference, but one of my absolute favorites is having a chance to interact with people you’d never dream of meeting otherwise. As an example, years ago and only a day or two into my very first conference I found myself having lunch with Charlie Kimball. It was amazing. When does something like that happen? Never!
Except at Friends for Life.
This year one of my lunches was interrupted by a text message from Jeff Hitchcock a...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - August 30, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
More on Sweeteners: Stevia
By Amy Campbell
Due to popular demand, I'll conclude my series on sweeteners by writing about stevia. I actually wrote about stevia back in 2008, but times have changed (and I realize that perhaps not everyone had an opportunity to read my entry back then!).
Stevia
Stevia is an herb that belongs to the sunflower family (Asteraceae). It's grown primarily in Central and South America, and is sometimes called candy leaf. For many centuries, people living in Paraguay and Brazil have used stevia to sweeten a drink called yerba mate. In the early 1930's, scientists isolated stevioside and rebaudioside, the ingredients that give ...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - July 29, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Amy Campbell Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belliers share their wheat re-exposure experiences
How do we associate cause and effect? How do we KNOW when acid reflux, bowel urgency, depression, anxiety, asthma, joint pain and myriad other health complaints are due to consumption of modern wheat?
Simple: When you can turn them on, turn them off, turn them on, turn them off, repeatedly and at will. For instance, avoid wheat, enjoy freedom from bowel urgency and the inconvenient and embarrassing searches for the nearest toilet. Have wheat, explosive return of symptoms. On again, off again: It is the consistent association that establishes a cause-effect relationship in an individual.
Read the incredible descriptions fr...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 8, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat re-exposure syndromes Source Type: blogs
Glamglow Super Clearing Treatment Mud Mask: Look at the label
Glamglow Super Clearing Treatment Mud Mask is the 23rd best selling beauty product on Amazon.com this week. (How random is that!)
Water
It takes water to make mud.
Kaolin, Magnesium Aluminum Silicate
It also takes dirt to make mud. Or at least clay which is what these two materials are.
Sodium Hydroxide
Used to raise the pH.
Eucalyptus Globulus
An essential oil.
Mandelic Acid
An alpha hydroxy acid that supposedly helps reduce skin pigmentation.
Charcoal
Charcoal is known for its ability to absorb toxins in the digestive system but it really doesn’t do much went applied to skin.
Parfum [Benzyl Benzoate, Linalool]
So...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - June 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: thebeautybrains Tags: Questions Source Type: blogs
LaseResults Calm and Restore cream: How can I find a cheaper version?
Sugarcaned says…I fell in love with LaseResults® Calm & Restore Serum during a testing from a magazine that I participated in. I would love to find out what is in it that works so well to soothe my face and make it look absolutely amazing and feel baby soft. (Hopefully in a lower-priced product) I have extremely sensitive, combination skin with acne scars. I’m under 30.
The Beauty Brains respond:
Sure, go ahead and rub it in that you’re under 30. *Sigh* But just to be nice we’ll answer your question anyway!
What makes LaseResults work so well?
As you can see from the complete ingredient list ...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - May 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: thebeautybrains Tags: Questions Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly transforms lives in New Zealand . . . and a bread recipe!
Annie posted this story of complete health turnarounds in her formerly ill parents involving diabetes/prediabetes and a condition called Wegener’s Granulomatosis:
I live in Christchurch, New Zealand, and saw you briefly on a programme called “60 Minutes” when they were discussing gluten sensitivity. My parents both had many health problems that were talked about, so I read your book and blog thoroughly and started them on the Wheat Belly diet a few months ago.
Mum is overweight and has struggled with diets all her life. She was on bendrofluazide and candesartan for blood pressure and about to start diabet...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 25, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Inflammation Wheat-elimination success stories Source Type: blogs
Chef Pete Evans goes wheat-free!
Australian chef and TV personality, Pete Evans, asked me to write a section for his new cookbook:
Over the last 12 months we have been working on a new cookbook, which will be available in about a years time [February 2014]. Dr William Davis, a preventative cardiologist who wrote “WHEAT BELLY” (a must read book) has kindly shared his research for our new book, along with a host of other highly respected health and wellness pioneers and experts.
And for the record the only flour we use at home is coconut and almond flours.
Pete tells me that, in the new cookbook, “there will be no recipes featuring wheat&...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 24, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
What’s in Cigarette Smoke, Anyway?
Stanford University professor Dr. Robert Proctor looked through tons of public documents to find out what tobacco companies put in cigarettes. He found some unusual ingredients, like:
Urea, a compound found in urine
Diammonium phosphate, used to make fertilizer
Levulinic acid, used in cleaning solvents
Ammonia
Formaldehyde
Chocolate (not the Hershey bar kind, the bitter baking kind)
He found secretions from the anal gland of the civet cat as well as the Siberian beaver—ewwwwww!
These are just a few of more than 158 additives some cigarette manufacturers roll up in cigarettes.
What Makes Smoking Cigarettes so Addict...
Source: NIDA Drugs and Health Blog - February 19, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sara Bellum Source Type: blogs
Exploring the Chinese herb Gancao 甘草 – Licorice – Fundamentals
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Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - January 12, 2013 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Eric Grey Tags: Acupuncture, Herbs & Other modalities Source Type: blogs
