Eat, Pray, Push
Here’s an excerpt from chapter 4 of Wheat Belly Total Health, Your Bowels Have Been Fouled: Intestinal Indignities From Grains:
“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 be. Constipation remedies are like the 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 predictably hits the ground—not sometimes, not half the time, but every time. That’s how the b...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 25, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates Gliadin gluten grain-free wheat belly Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs
New Bioink for 3D Printing and Protein Therapy
Researchers at Texas A&M University have developed a 3D-printable hydrogel bioink containing mineral nanoparticles that can deliver protein therapeutics to control cell behavior. The material does not provoke the immune system and the researchers hope that it could be useful in replacing damaged tissues for regenerative medicine.
3D printing is a promising method for creating cellular constructs with specific shapes and morphologies. These can function as implants that would allow damaged or missing tissues to regenerate. However, 3D printing structures containing delicate cells, or molecules that can control cellular ...
Source: Medgadget - June 6, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Source Type: blogs
What to do if your child is constipated
Constipation is a very common problem in children. Whether it’s something temporary after an illness or diet change, or something more chronic, up to 20% of children suffer from it at one time or another. As much as it makes people uncomfortable to talk about poop, having trouble pooping is even more uncomfortable. Luckily, it is generally a very treatable problem.
Symptoms of constipation
Constipation plays out differently in different people. It can be any, or any combination, of
stooling less than three times a week
having stools that are hard and difficult to pass
having stools that are very large (large enough to b...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Digestive Disorders Parenting Source Type: blogs
Hairy Coating Keeps Nanoparticles Safe from Immune System, Liver
Nanoparticles are seemingly a great way to treat tumors, but they’re so rapidly washed out by the bloodstream that few of the nanoparticles actually reach their targets. Researchers at Drexel University have now developed a surface treatment that gives nanoparticles a significant advantage to overcome the body’s filtration system and therefore make nanotherapies much more effective.
The researchers developed hairy polymer shells within which nanoparticles can be encapsulated, and which the immune system ignores, while the liver lets the shells circulate back into the bloodstream.
Plasma proteins are a primary w...
Source: Medgadget - November 8, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Materials Nanomedicine Oncology Source Type: blogs
MKSAP: 36-year-old woman with refractory constipation
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.
A 36-year-old woman is evaluated for a 12-year history of refractory constipation. Her symptoms began after a difficult childbirth. She has constipation marked by straining, bloating, and a constant sensation of incomplete emptying. She sometimes has 4 or more days between bowel movements. When she does have a bowel movement, the stool is soft-formed. Trials of several fiber supplements, lactulose, milk of magnesia, docusate, bisacodyl, polyethylene glycol, and lubiprostone have provided only transient relief fo...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 13, 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
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
Constipation Nation
Our ancestors who lived without grains, sugars, and soft drinks enjoyed 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, 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 inco...
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
Caffeine-Containing Biocompatible Gels for Drug Delivery
Researchers at MIT have developed a biocompatible polymer gel with potential for drug delivery. The new gel uses caffeine as a gentle and biocompatible catalyst during its manufacture, unlike many other gels that require harsh catalysts or manufacturing conditions that can ruin sensitive biological drugs intended for delivery or pose health risks for patients.
The researchers are developing a variety of biocompatible drug delivery materials. In the case of hydrogels, these consist of a flexible polymer matrix loaded with a therapeutic drug, which is released over time, either at a site of implantation, or in the gut if the...
Source: Medgadget - April 16, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Source Type: blogs
How to treat dry eyes
How common are dye eyes?The prevalence of dry eyes has been estimated to be 5-30% percent in persons aged 50 years and older, 7% of US adult population has been diagnosed with dry eye disease. The prevalence increases with age (2.7% in those 18 to 34 years old vs. 19% in those aged 75 years and older). Prevalence is higher in women than men (9% versus 4%).What are the risk factors for dry eye disease?- Advanced age- Female gender- Hormonal changes (primarily due to decreased androgens)- Systemic diseases (eg, diabetes mellitus, Parkinson disease)- Contact lens wear- Systemic medications (antihistamines, anticholinergi...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - January 2, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: noreply at blogger.com (Ves Dimov) Tags: Ophthalmology Source Type: blogs
Bioresponsive Hydrogel Can Release Proteins on Cue
Researchers at Penn State have developed a DNA-laced hydrogel that mimics biological systems by releasing a proteins in response to a chemical signal, a technology which could be useful for drug delivery. The system has potential for on-demand release of therapeutic proteins, also known as biologics, to treat a variety of conditions.
Hydrogels are composed of a network of polymer chains infused with water. They have attracted a lot of attention as they can be biocompatible and are suitable for implantation in the body due to their unique biological and physical properties. A research group at Penn State is developing a ‘...
Source: Medgadget - October 26, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Genetics Materials Medicine Source Type: blogs
Influence of Polyethylene Glycol Unit on Palladium ‐ and Nickel‐Catalyzed Ethylene Polymerization and Copolymerization
AngewchemInfluence of Polyethylene Glycol Unit on Palladium ‐ and Nickel‐Catalyzed Ethylene Polymerization and Copolymerization: The transition ‐metal‐catalyzed copolymerization of olefins with polar functionalized co‐monomers represents a major challenge in the field of olefin polymerization. It is extremely difficult to simultaneously... (Source: Organometallic Current)
Source: Organometallic Current - October 23, 2017 Category: Chemistry Tags: Ni Catalyzed Pd Catalyzed Polymerization Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 17th 2017
This study aimed to estimate associations between combined measurements of BMI and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) with mortality and incident coronary artery disease (CAD). This study followed 130,473 UK Biobank participants aged 60-69 years (baseline 2006-2010) for 8.3 years (n = 2974 deaths). Current smokers and individuals with recent or disease-associated (e.g., from dementia, heart failure, or cancer) weight loss were excluded, yielding a "healthier agers" group.
Ignoring WHR, the risk of mortality for overweight subjects was similar to that for normal-weight subjects. However, among normal-weight subjects, mortalit...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 16, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
An Example of Incremental Progress Towards Manufactured Blood Vessel Networks
The greatest challenge in tissue engineering turned out not be the production of functioning, complex tissue structures - how to convince cells to form these intricate arrangements. Researchers are rapidly establishing the diverse set of recipes needed to produce close analogs of real tissues, including cartilage, intestines, skin, heart muscle, kidney, liver, and more. All require quite different strategies to convince the various types of cells involved to take the right actions, but the best of the results so far are close enough to the real thing to function properly when transplanted. In perhaps the most compelling of...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 10, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Engineering Immune Organoids : An Interview with Prof. Ankur Singh from Cornell University
Organ-on-a-chip technologies are redefining the way in which in vitro models help understand and recapitulate the in vivo environment. The immune system is particularly difficult to model in an in vitro environment because of the complexity of biological, mechanical, and chemical cues that modulate the immune cells. Prof. Ankur Singh, an assistant professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University, has led the development of organ-on-a-chip models to mimic the complex immune environment.
B cell lymphomas grow in organoids as clusters, similar to those in patients. The green fluores...
Source: Medgadget - June 30, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Rukmani Sridharan Tags: Exclusive Genetics Medicine Source Type: blogs
How to eliminate this uncomfortable, embarrassing problem.
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. Perhaps, you will be constipated, not passing out your pancakes and syrup for days, passing it inco...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 6, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Constipation Dr. Davis Grain Brain Grains Weight loss Wheat Belly Wheat Belly Lifestyle Wheat Belly Total Health Wheat Watch Wheat-Free Lifestyle Wheatlessness gluten Inflammation Source Type: blogs
