Top 10 Reasons to Never Eat Wheat Again
There are plenty of reasons to never allow a bagel, sandwich, or pretzels to cross your lips again. But here are the top 10 most powerful and compelling reasons to tell the USDA and other providers of dietary advice to bug off with their “healthy whole grains” nonsense.
Gliadin-derived opioid peptides (from partial digestion to 4- and 5-amino acid long fragments) increase appetite substantially–as do related proteins from rye, barley, and corn. This is a big part of the reason why grains make you gain weight.
Gliadin-derived opioid peptides are mind active drugs that trigger behavioral outbursts in kids with ADHD an...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 8, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates autoimmune blood sugar Gliadin gluten gluten-free grain-free grains Inflammation joint pain low-carb wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Nurses, Nursing, and the Nature of Suffering
In the course of many nurses ' healthcare careers, witnessing the illness, suffering, and death of others is commonplace. From dialysis and med-surg to home health and the ICU, nurses create therapeutic relationships with patients and their families, providing spiritual and emotional comfort, compassion, and expert skilled care based on many decades of nursing science and evidence-based interventions.Aside from witnessing the challenges faced by others, nurses are themselves human beings with their own life experiences, victories, and suffering. How a nurse navigates their own personal suffering plays a role in determining...
Source: Digital Doorway - November 4, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: healthcare nurse nurses nursing Source Type: blogs
Coffee may help your skin stay healthy
Here’s a medical news story that combines a common habit (drinking coffee) with a common skin condition (rosacea) — and it even has a happy ending.
What is rosacea?
Rosacea is probably something you’ve seen plenty of times and didn’t know what it was — or perhaps you have it yourself. It’s that pink or red discoloration on the cheeks some people have, especially fair-haired women. Sometimes there are small bumps that may look a bit like acne. If you look closely (after asking nicely for permission, of course), you’ll see tiny blood vessels just under the surface of the skin. In more severe cases it may involv...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - November 2, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Health Skin and Hair Care Source Type: blogs
Perfecting The Power to Talk – The Future of Voice And Speaking
Talking, conversing, exchanging words: for more than 10 million people, this seemingly simple act cannot be imagined without assistive technologies, such as voice generating devices, touch screens or text-to-speech apps. What does the digital future bring for them? How could innovations turn around the translation industry or the medical administration process? Here’s a glimpse into the future of voice and speaking.
Speaking, identity, voice stereotypes
Give me the key! – This simple sentence carries much more information when it’s pronounced. A weary Philippino mother could instruct her little child as she cannot op...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 30, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Cyborgization Future of Medicine Medical Professionals Patients apps assistive technology Health Healthcare Innovation speaking speech speech generating voice voice generating device Source Type: blogs
The Wheat Belly Timeline: The First Few Weeks
With all our talk of opiate withdrawal syndromes accompanied by nausea, headache, fatigue, and depression, it can be daunting, even terrifying, to people who face the prospect of tossing all wheat and grains into the trash bin, vowing to never let a Danish, donut, or dish of pasta cross your lips again. So it may help to lay out a timeline of what and when various changes can develop in the Wheat Belly wheat- and grain-free lifestyle.
You can expect different symptoms and health conditions to recede at different rates, since they are caused by a variety of different mechanisms. For instance, the direct gastrointestinal tox...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 26, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle acid reflux detoxification grains IBS Inflammation joint pain opiates withdrawal Source Type: blogs
Rosy Future Predicted for Cannabis Research; Lab Launched to Support Clinical Trials
Cannabis is the one growth industry in the U.S. that you can count on. Recreational use of marijuana is now legal in many states. Moreover, there's increasing attention being paid to the medical uses of cannabis-based products. An Israeli lab has been set up to provide clinical validation for cannabis medical research (see:Israeli lab set up to give clinical validation to cannabis research). Below is an excerpt from an article on this topic:Israeli firm Asana Bio Group Ltd. has invested $2.3 million in a lab that will provide clinical trial services to companies that are developing a wide range of med...
Source: Lab Soft News - October 25, 2018 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Clinical Lab Industry News Clinical Lab Testing Healthcare Innovations Lab Industry Trends Medical Research Pharmaceutical Industry Source Type: blogs
What Do Measles, Tuberculosis, and Grains Have in Common?
What do measles, tuberculosis, and grains have in common? For that matter, what do anthrax, influenza, and brucellosis also share in common with grains?
All the conditions listed are examples of zoonoses, i.e., diseases contracted by humans from animals. When humans first invited domesticated grazing creatures–cows, sheep, goats–into our huts, adobe homes, or caves, often sleeping in the same room, using them for milk or food, we acquired many of their diseases. These diseases were unknown prior to the human domestication of grazing ruminants.
The process of animal domestication changed the course of human civi...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 21, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates gluten gluten-free grain-free grains tuberculosis wheat belly zoonoses Source Type: blogs
Teleneurology works. Here ’s why.
Teleneurology is the new and vastly expanding practice of neurology involving the use of technology and/or video chat to improve access to services. With an ever-increasing aging population there is and will continue to be a shortage of neurologists in the United States. Teleneurology has increased patient access to neurologists especially in rural areas but also in urban and suburban areas.
Practicing as a teleneurologist for the last two years I can log on to secure video chats compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). I see patients in Florida, New Hampshire, North Carolina,...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 21, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/puja-aggarwal" rel="tag" > Puja Aggarwal, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Mobile health Neurology Source Type: blogs
Is Coca-Cola really putting pot in its beverages?
A flurry of recent news reports would make you think so — here are a few examples:
Coke plans to brew weed drink
Coca-Cola In Talks To Make Marijuana-Infused Drink
Coca-Cola eyes cannabis market
The truth turns out to be a bit less dramatic. Here’s how the company’s statement put it:
“We have no interest in marijuana or cannabis. Along with many others in the beverage industry, we are closely watching the growth of non-psychoactive CBD as an ingredient in functional wellness beverages around the world…. No decisions have been made at this time.”
A few clarifications are in order here:
“CBD” is short for can...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - October 12, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Drugs and Supplements Marijuana Source Type: blogs
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation shows early promise to ameliorate depression, especially if combined with other therapies and dosage optimized
Conclusions: The effect size of tDCS treatment was comparable with those reported for repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and antidepressant drug treatment in primary care. The most important parameters for optimisation in future trials are depression refractoriness and tDCS dose.
News in Context:
Guidance by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) on the use of transcranial direct current stimulation (tdcs) for depression
FDA clears deep transcranial magnetic stimulation device to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder
FDA clears first CBT-based digital therapeutic to treat substance...
Source: SharpBrains - October 1, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Professional Development Technology depression efficacy Major Depressive Disorder MDD meta-analysis NICE pharmacotherapy tDCS Transcranial-direct-current-stimulation US Food and Drug Admin Source Type: blogs
FDA clears deep transcranial magnetic stimulation device to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder
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BrainsWay’s Brain Stimulation Device Receives FDA Approval to Treat Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (IEEE Spectrum):
“In 2013, Jerusalem-based BrainsWay began marketing a new type of brain stimulation device that uses magnetic pulses to treat major depressive disorder.
Now, thanks to positive results in a study of 100 patients, the company has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the device for a second psychiatric condition—obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) …
Typically, noninvasive electrical and magnetic fields applied to the scalp, such as in transcranial direct curren...
Source: SharpBrains - September 14, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Health & Wellness Technology brain-stimulation BrainsWay deep transcranial magnetic stimulation Deep-TMS device FDA Major Depressive Disorder obsessive-compulsive disorder tDCS Transcranial-direct-current-stimulation Source Type: blogs
Tired? 4 simple ways to boost energy
When I’m dragging and feeling tired during the occasional low-energy day, my go-to elixir is an extra cup (or two or three) of black French press coffee. It gives my body and brain a needed jolt, but it may not help where I need it the most: my cells.
The cellular basis of being tired
What we call “energy” is actually a molecule called adenosine triphosphate (ATP), produced by tiny cellular structures called mitochondria. ATP’s job is to store energy and then deliver that energy to cells in other parts of the body. However, as you grow older, your body has fewer mitochondria. “If you feel you don’t have enough ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 7, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Solan Tags: Fatigue Health Source Type: blogs
The Cultural Nuances of Communication
It’s amazing some of the insights you can get from Twitter. This is especially true when someone puts together a series of tweets (most people call them a tweetstorm) that shares a story or insights on a specific topic. Today, I gained some new insight into the cultural nuances of communication in this Twitter thread:
Why we need more black men in medicine. I had a patient this week who came in with left leg weakness over the last week. Younger black guy in his 30s. Brain MRI clearly indicates multiple sclerosis. So we all go in during morning rounds to give my man his diagnosis.
He has a bit of blank stare as he lis...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 24, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Chatbots Connected Health Health Care Source Type: blogs
Researchers Analyze Brain Iron Levels to Predict Severity of Symptoms in MS Patients
MRI has been vital to detecting the early stages of multiple sclerosis (MS). Yet now, researchers have discovered a way to use the imaging practice to predict the severity of a MS patient ’s symptoms.In a studyrecently published inRadiology, a group of researchers led by Robert Zivadinov, MD, PhD, professor of neurology at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Buffalo, describe how they use Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) to identify iron levels in different parts of the brain in both patients with MS and those who didn ’t have the condition. This was the first-ever stud...
Source: radRounds - July 27, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
How MRI Can Help Detect MS in Children Before They Start to Develop Symptoms
Yale University scientists have developed a way to use MRI to determine if a child is at high risk for developing multiple sclerosis (MS) before they start exhibiting symptoms.In a studypublished inNeurology: Neuroimmunology& Neuroinflammation, researchers evaluated MRI scans of 38 children across 16 different facilities in six countries who had demonstrated signs of MS. The children underwent the neuroimaging procedure for various reasons, but many received scans for headaches. The researchers found that around 42 percent of the children later developed symptoms of MS about two years after their MRI. Children who ha...
Source: radRounds - July 19, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
