Want a safe alcoholic drink? Try Hard Kombucha
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 4, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle fermented kombucha probiotic Source Type: blogs
As coronavirus spreads, many questions and some answers
The rapid spread of the coronavirus now called COVID-19 has sparked alarm worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global health emergency, and many countries are grappling with a rise in confirmed cases. In the US, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is advising people to be prepared for disruptions to daily life that will be necessary if the coronavirus spreads within communities.
Below, we’re responding to a number of questions about COVID-19 raised by Harvard Health Blog readers. We hope to add further questions and update answers as reliable information becomes available.
Does t...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 27, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Todd Ellerin, MD Tags: Children's Health Cold and Flu Infectious diseases Men's Health Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 24th 2020
In conclusion, taller body height at the entry to adulthood, supposed to be a marker of early-life environment, is associated with lower risk of dementia diagnosis later in life. The association persisted when adjusted for educational level and intelligence test scores in young adulthood, suggesting that height is not just acting as an indicator of cognitive reserve.
A Comparison of Biological Age Measurement Approaches
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/02/a-comparison-of-biological-age-measurement-approaches/
Researchers here assess the performance of a range of approaches to measuring biologica...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 23, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Request for Startups in the Rejuvenation Biotechnology Space, 2020 Edition
This is the latest in a series of yearly posts in which I suggest areas of development for biotech startups I'd like to see actively developed as a part of the longevity industry in the near future. Today, this year, is a good time to be starting a company focused on the production of a novel therapeutic approach to intervening in the aging process. There is a great deal of funding for seed stage investment, and many compelling projects lacking champions, yet to be carried forward from academia into preclinical development. Numerous scientific and industry crossover conferences are now held every year, at which it is possi...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 17, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Investment Source Type: blogs
Oxytocin and growth hormone
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 17, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle age reversal anti-aging growth hormone microbiota oxytocin probiotic reuteri Source Type: blogs
One Microbiome, Two Tests: Let ’s compare Atlas and Thryve
Your gut bacteria is like a subtenant. A pretty cool subtenant. As I’m sure you already know, bacteria that live in your gut play an important part in digestion and as a form of paying the rent, they give you vitamins and protection against their harmful peers.
Experts are saying that the microbiome acts like an organ itself, and it’s central to the body’s operations. It affects aging, digestion, the immune system, cognitive functions – and, as a study from UCLA found, even mood.
So, what is the microbiome? “All the organisms that call us home, that live in us and that interact with each other and with...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 11, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: szandra Tags: E-Patients Future of Food Genomics microbiome Personalized medicine research review microbiome test Source Type: blogs
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
The bacteria that can change the world
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 6, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle anxiety bowel flora empathy increase empathy oxytocin probiotic reuteri reuteri yogurt Source Type: blogs
L. reuteri yogurt: Greek-style
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 5, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes bowel flora probiotic reuteri wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Ear Infections and the Antibiotic Epidemic
Ear infections appear so common that at times they seem almost like a childhood rite of passage. Often associated with redness, swelling, and pain within the ear, they are the number one reason antibiotics are prescribed for children. However, we’re finding more and more that the prolific prescription of antibiotics is not the panacea it was once thought to be. Not only do antibiotics disrupt healthy digestion, but overuse can even lead to resistance.
The Results of the Antibiotic Epidemic
Multiple studies have demonstrated that antibiotic resistance is on the rise, mainly due to the fact that they have been over-prescri...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - January 24, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Bambini Furtuna Ear Infection Causes Ear Infection Prevention Ear Infection Treatment Ear Infections 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
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 20th 2020
This study provides strong evidence that following a healthy lifestyle can substantially extend the years a person lives disease-free."
Commentary on Recent Evidence for Cognitive Decline to Precede Amyloid Aggregation in Alzheimer's Disease
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/01/commentary-on-recent-evidence-for-cognitive-decline-to-precede-amyloid-aggregation-in-alzheimers-disease/
I can't say that I think the data presented in the research noted here merits quite the degree of the attention that it has been given in the popular science press. It is interesting, but not compelling if its role is ...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 19, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
What, you have NO signs of SIBO?
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 18, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel flora prebiotic probiotic sibo small intestinal bacterial overgrowth undoctored Source Type: blogs
Sequencing Gut Microbiota to Visualize Population Changes with Age
This is an interesting study; you'll have to actually look at the open access paper to see the meat of it, which is the various graphs showing the changes in relative population size of different microbe families in the gut that take place with age. A great deal of work on the gut microbiome and its role in health and aging is presently taking place in the scientific community; researchers have identified a number of beneficial metabolites that are produced by classes of microbe that decline with age. Further, the gut microbiome becomes ever more inflammatory with age. The size of these effects on health might be in the sa...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 17, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
L. reuteri: Fact and Fiction
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 15, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle fermented kefir oxytocin probiotic reuteri skin wrinkles yogurt Source Type: blogs
