Infrared Imaging Diagnoses Rheumatoid Arthritis
Diagnosing rheumatoid (RA) arthritis often involves subjective assessment of patient hands, X-rays, blood tests, and ultrasound imaging. Researchers at Birmingham University in the UK have now developed a system that they hope will offer a more objective way of diagnosing RA.
Their system uses infrared spectroscopy and 3D imaging to generate volumetric maps of blood within a patient’s hand. Conventional optical imaging is used to scan the hand and create a model of it. Subsequently, infrared light is illuminated through each of the fingers and what comes out is evaluated.
Blood that is more or less oxygenated a...
Source: Medgadget - July 11, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Medicine Source Type: blogs
Autoimmune Disease: Start With Wheat & Grain Elimination
If you or someone close to you have an autoimmune condition such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, along with about 195 others, there are a number of steps you can take that reduce, even eliminate the autoimmune inflammation damaging your organs. (Unfortunately, some forms of autoimmune damage cannot be reversed. Autoimmune loss of pancreatic beta cells that lead to type 1 diabetes, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis that damages the thyroid gland, or autoimmune hepatitis that can lead to cirrhosis. for example, cannot be reversed even if the autoimmune p...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 23, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Autoimmunity autoimmune casein Gliadin grain-free omega-3 undoctored vitamin D wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Benefits of Therapy You Probably Didn ’t Know About
Many of us have a narrow view of therapy. We think it’s solely for navigating clinical depression or severe anxiety or roller-coaster moods. We think it’s only an option when we’re going through a major crisis, a big transition, or a prolonged, persistent period of grief. We think therapy is only an option when relationships become disconnected, and marriages are on the brink of divorce.
While therapy is important and vital for all the above, it’s also helpful for a lot of other reasons, and you don’t have to wait until the walls are falling down to work with a clinician. You can go when the paint is chipping—o...
Source: World of Psychology - June 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: General Habits Happiness Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Psychotherapy Stigma Success & Achievement Source Type: blogs
Hydrogel Harvests Nitric Oxide to Stop Damage from Rheumatoid Arthritis
Excess nitric oxide (NO) in the body is involved in rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory diseases. Reducing the amount of NO may lead to a new therapeutic approach for a variety of conditions. Researchers at the Pohang University of Science & Technology in South Korea have developed an NO-scavenging nanogel and tested it in mice with rheumatoid arthritis with promising results.
The gel is made through polymerization between acrylamide and NO-cleavable crosslinkers. It is not designed to regulate the production of NO, but rather to consume it and thereby reduce its effects without the side-effects of current trea...
Source: Medgadget - June 5, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Medicine Pain Management Source Type: blogs
“ What if I just ignore my SIBO? ”
By just engaging in the basic strategies in the Wheat Belly Total Health, Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox, or Undoctored programs, many mild cases of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, SIBO, reverse. These efforts thereby restore your ability to ingest prebiotic fibers without diarrhea, bloating, gas, abdominal discomfort, joint pain, and dark emotional feelings. Many people thereby are relieved of irritable bowel syndrome symptoms, fibromyalgia, or restless leg syndrome, or have greater power in reversing autoimmune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis.
Unfortunately, not everybody enjoys reversal of SIBO with our b...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 27, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: SIBO grain-free probiotic undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 27th 2019
In this study, we found that cofilin competes with tau for direct microtubule binding in vitro, in cells, and in vivo, which inhibits tau-induced microtubule assembly. Genetic reduction of cofilin mitigates tauopathy and synaptic defects in Tau-P301S mice and movement deficits in tau transgenic C. elegans. The pathogenic effects of cofilin are selectively mediated by activated cofilin, as active but not inactive cofilin selectively interacts with tubulin, destabilizes microtubules, and promotes tauopathy. These results therefore indicate that activated cofilin plays an essential intermediary role in neurotoxic signaling th...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 26, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Author Inspired To Help Other Caregivers In Need By Establishing Foundation
When people think about caregiving spouses, they often think of older adults. We only have to look at a young mother diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), a young husband diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), or in this case, a woman who’s healthy husband had a sudden, massive stroke, to know differently. Care partners come in all ages. Kathi Koll, author of “Kick-Ass Kinda Girl: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Caregiving” knows the drill.
Read the full article on HealthCentral about Kathi Koll and her foundation that helps caregivers:
Carol Bradley Bursack is the Candid Caregiver
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Source: Minding Our Elders - May 22, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
VCAM1 Levels Correlate with Parkinson's Disease Severity
Levels of VCAM1 in the bloodstream increase with age, and it appears to be an important signal molecule in at least the brain. Its expression is upregulated by inflammatory cytokines, and so is a marker of inflammatory disease. Chronic inflammation of course increases with age. Researchers have shown that blocking VCAM1 can prevent suppression of neurogenesis due to delivery of old blood plasma into young mice, which is an interesting result, as one might not expect detrimental reactions to inflammatory signaling to have such a narrow bottleneck of regulation. Would a method of interfering with VCAM1 assist in tissue maint...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 20, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
The trouble with new drugs
When a drug is approved by the FDA, it may seem like it’s only a matter of time before some unexpected side effects are discovered. Perhaps it seems that way because it’s true! According to a study of all drugs approved between 2001 and 2010, the FDA announced alerts, warnings, or recalls on about one-third of them in the years after their approval.
Some of the side effects were minor and easily managed. For example, there might be a warning to avoid taking a new medication at the same time as another medication. But sometimes the “side effect” is death. And that’s the case with a new warning about the gout drug ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - May 2, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Drugs and Supplements Health Source Type: blogs
Ten reasons to never eat wheat
How can conventional dietary advice gotten it so wrong?
Rather than eating plenty of “healthy whole grains,” people on the Wheat Belly lifestyle eat absolutely no grains and enjoy spectacular weight loss and reversal of hundreds of health conditions as a result. Unfortunately, many people view this as a “gluten-free” lifestyle which is incorrect.
Here are 10 reasons why no bagels, pretzels, or sandwiches made from wheat flour should ever cross human lips.
Gliadin-derived opioid peptides (from partial digestion to 4- and 5-amino acid long fragments) increase appetite substantially–as do related pro...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - April 14, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle Gliadin gluten Inflammation Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 15th 2019
In this study, we found that senescent chondrocytes isolated from OA patients secrete more EVs compared with nonsenescent chondrocytes. These EVs inhibit cartilage ECM deposition by healthy chondrocytes and can induce a senescent state in nearby cells. We profiled the miR and protein content of EVs isolated from the synovial fluid of OA joints from mice with SnCs. After treatment with a molecule to remove SnCs, termed a senolytic, the composition of EV-associated miR and protein was markedly altered. The senolytic reduced OA development and enhanced chondrogenesis, and these were attributable to several specific differenti...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 14, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Gum Disease Bacteria More Common in the Brains of Alzheimer's Patients
Researchers here note that the bacteria associated with gum disease are found more frequently in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients. While looking over this research, it is worth bearing in mind that a recent large study found only a 6% increased risk of dementia in patients with periodontitis. So rather than thinking that there is a very large contribution to the disease process here, we might consider an alternative model: that people with Alzheimer's disease may be more likely to have a leaky blood-brain barrier, allowing greater traffic of normally forbidden molecules, cells, and pathogens into the brain. Vascu...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 11, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
De Quervain Tenosynovitis: MRI
Discussion –Clinically – h/o of repetitive overuse and sustained thumb abduction and extension in combination with radial and ulnar wrist movements in the dominant hand as usually seen in workplace activities / carrying babies/ sports related with associated soft tissue swelling in the radial side of wrist.Classic de Quervain ’s tenosynovitis includes chronic inflammation scar formation with stenosis of the approximately 1-cm-long fibroosseous tunnel of the first dorsal compartment (the groove along the radial styloid process covered by the overlying extensor retinaculum through which the abductor pollicis longu...
Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - April 10, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
New Jersey Assembly, Senate Pass Aid in Dying Bill After Nearly 7 Years of Debate
New
Jerseyans with terminal or life-shortening diseases and Compassion &
Choices praised the state Assembly and Senate for passing the Aid in Dying for
the Terminally Ill Act (S1072/A1504) after nearly seven years of debate on the
issue and urged Governor Phil Murphy to promptly sign it into law. The Assembly
approved the bill by a 41 to 33 vote and Senate by a 21 to 16 vote.
This bill would allow mentally
capable, terminally ill adults with 6 months or less to live to have the option
to get a doctor’s prescription for medication they can decide to take if their
suffering becomes unbearable and die peacefully in ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 25, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
