What medications have you been able to stop on the Wheat Belly lifestyle?
I posed this question on the Wheat Belly Facebook page recently and received an overwhelming response. Here, I share a partial list of the responses: medications people have been able to stop by following the Wheat Belly lifestyle.
Just take a look at this incredible list: these represent medications prescribed by doctors to, in effect, “treat” the consequences of consuming wheat and grains. They prescribe drugs to treat the inflammation, swelling, skin rashes, gastrointestinal irritation, high blood sugars, airway allergy, and other abnormal effects all caused by wheat and grains.
The list includes anti-inf...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 6, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle asthma cholesterol diabetes drugs gluten grains hypertension prescription medication reflux Source Type: blogs
Marcia Angell writes
By Marcia AngellIn 1953, a new drug was released by Burroughs Wellcome, a pharmaceutical company based in London. Pyrimethamine, as the compound was named, was originally intended to fight malaria after the microorganisms that cause the disease developed resistance to earlier therapies. The drug was used against malaria for several decades, often in combination with other compounds. It ’s mostly used now to treat toxoplasmosis, a parasitic infection that can be life-threatening in people whose immune systems are suppressed, for example, by HIV/AIDS or cancer.More than 40 years later, Burroughs Wellcome merged with the...
Source: PharmaGossip - October 4, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Marcia Angell writes
By Marcia AngellIn 1953, a new drug was released by Burroughs Wellcome, a pharmaceutical company based in London. Pyrimethamine, as the compound was named, was originally intended to fight malaria after the microorganisms that cause the disease developed resistance to earlier therapies. The drug was used against malaria for several decades, often in combination with other compounds. It’s mostly used now to treat toxoplasmosis, a parasitic infection that can be life-threatening in people whose immune systems are suppressed, for example, by HIV/AIDS or cancer.More than 40 years later, Burroughs Wellcome merged with the ...
Source: PharmaGossip - October 3, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Top stories in health and medicine, March 30, 2015
From MedPage Today:
EHRs Take Center Stage in Battle to Control Hypertension. How did a group of community health clinics with a low-income and uninsured population and frequent no-shows achieve a hypertension control rate among the best in the country? Electronic health records.
How Do You Bill For Teaching Parents? “When you have a 10-year-old who weighs 160 pounds walk into your examining room, you know it’s not just the act of overeating at the core of that problem,” says Rosemary Fernandez Stein, MD. “It’s a bigger behavioral issue. And that means parenting skills, too.”
Senate Go...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 30, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: MedPage Today Tags: News Heart Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Pharmagangsters
Sidney Wolfe (Nader's health care raider) in the new BMJ tells the outrageous story of rosuvastatin. As you undoubtedly know, there are several medications in the statin class, very widely prescribed for the primary and secondary prevention of heart disease and stroke. They lower LDL ("bad" cholesterol) and probably have anti-inflammatory properties that contribute to their effect.There is controversy over whether these medications in general are overprescribed, but that's beside the point here. Rosuvastatin was approved much later than other drugs in the class, it's still under patent (I won't mention the brand name) and ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 20, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Physician Payments Sunshine Act: Vermont Gift Ban and Disclosure Law Update
This report outlines the number of samples and expenditures, listed by manufacturer.
2014 Reports Due April 1, 2015
As a reminder, 2014 disclosures for expenditures and samples from January 1 – December 31, 2014 are due by April 1, 2015, using the following documents: 2014 Expenditures Disclosure Form and 2014 Samples Disclosure Form
Vermont’s Prescribed Products Gift Ban and Disclosure Law
As a background, Vermont law bans most gifts and requires manufacturers of prescribed products, including pharmaceuticals, biological products, and medical devices, to “disclose allowable expenditures and ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - February 25, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Medications After a Heart Attack
From: www.secondscount.orgYour heart attack recovery will include medications. Taking these medications exactly as prescribed is one of the best tools at your disposal for avoiding death in the months following a heart attack. According to an article published in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association, heart attack patients who had not filled any of their prescriptions within 120 days of being discharged from the hospital had 80 percent greater odds of death than those who filled all of their prescriptions.Medications you are likely to be prescribed after a heart attack fall int...
Source: Dr Portnay - January 23, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr Portnay Source Type: blogs
Healthier and Happier
By: Alexandra Norcott, MD, second-year internal medicine resident at Yale-New Haven Hospital and member of the West Haven Veterans Affairs Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education (CoEPCE). She plans to pursue a career in general internal medicine with subpecialization in patient safety and quality improvement.
“On average, how much alcohol do you drink?” I questioned the sixty-three year-old veteran.
“About fifty beers a week,” Nate nonchalantly retorted. I noticed his cherry cheeks, accented by the red sailboats on his Hawaiian shirt.
“OK. For about how long?”
“About as long as I’ve been married—...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - January 22, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Trainee Perspective Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education health care teams interprofessionalism patient centered care Source Type: blogs
Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 051
Welcome to the 51st edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R&R in the Fastlane is a free resource that harnesses the power of social media to allow some of the best and brightest emergency medicine and critical care clinicians from all over the world tell us what they think is worth reading from the published literature.
This edition contains 10 recommended reads. The R&R Editorial Team includes Jeremy Fried, Nudrat Rashid, Soren Rudolph, Anand Swaminathan and, of course, Chris Nickson. Find more R&R in the Fastlane reviews in the R&R Archive, read more about the R&R project or check out...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 6, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Nudrat Rashid Tags: Anaesthetics Cardiology Education Emergency Medicine Gastroenterology Infectious Disease Intensive Care Pre-hospital / Retrieval Respiratory Resuscitation critical care literature R&R in the FASTLANE recommendations Research an Source Type: blogs
Top stories in health and medicine, September 5, 2014
From MedPage Today:
Potent Statin Offers No Help After Cardiac Surgery. The powerful lipid-lowering drug rosuvastatin (Crestor) — also purported to be an effective anti-inflammatory agent — was powerless to prevent postoperative cardiac surgery complications such as atrial fibrillation.
Questioning Medicine: The Pain Management Fiasco. I spent my intern year at a community hospital that was equipped with an acute detoxification center. I was exposed to addiction routinely.
PD-1 Blocker OK’d for Advanced Melanoma. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) has won FDA approval for treating advanced or unresectable melanom...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 5, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: MedPage Today Tags: News Cancer Heart Source Type: blogs
Dan E.
My wife Kate had long been suffering with, what I referred to as, an irritable bowel condition for quite some time. Her gastroenterologist after a colon exam, told her to eat a lot of “Bran Buds” every day and consume a daily fiber drink, along with a laxative. Upon following this advice, her condition deteriorated. She entered into phases of severe pain and sleeplessness, leading to extreme fatigue.
We knew this wasn’t working and needed to try something different.
After a few days on gluten-free, low-carb diet, her symptoms disappeared completely! Not only that, but her GP has previously put her on Crestor, ...
Source: Renegade Neurologist - A Blog by David Perlmutter, MD, FACN - August 28, 2014 Category: Neurologists Authors: gbadmin Tags: Success Fatigue IBD IBS Source Type: blogs
Nutritional Lipidology
I depart momentarily from the primary focus of the Wheat Belly Blog and discuss something that I have been following in practice for more than 10 years. I call it Nutritional Lipidology, the study of the effects of nutrition on lipids, lipoproteins, and metabolic parameters, the stuff underlying many diseases, especially cardiovascular diseases. It is indeed relevant to the Wheat Belly conversation, as wheat elimination and, even better, grain elimination, yields dramatic effects on lipids, lipoproteins, and the factors that drive cardiovascular risk. In fact, I have found these simple strategies so powerful that most peop...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - August 4, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle cholesterol HDL lipoproteins small LDL particles statin triglycerides Source Type: blogs
MKSAP: 68-year-old woman with exertional leg discomfort
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.
A 68-year-old woman is assessed for a 6-month history of progressive exertional leg discomfort, described as a “heaviness” involving both calves. The symptoms are relieved within 5 to 10 minutes of rest. She has noted the same limiting heaviness with bicycling. Medical history is significant for hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and hyperlipidemia; she does not smoke cigarettes. Medications are valsartan, hydrochlorothiazide, metformin, and rosuvastatin.
On physical examination, the patient is ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 26, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: mksap Tags: Conditions Heart Source Type: blogs
Near-infrared spectroscopic imaging (NIRS) along with intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)
A new combination catheter system with ability for intravascular ultra sound imaging (IVUS) along with near-infrared spectroscopic imaging (NIRS) has been developed as the TVC Imaging System TM (MC 7 system, InfraReDx, Burlington, Massachusetts). NIRS is able to detect lipid rich core of the plaques and assigns red colour to low probability and yellow colour to high probability. IBIS-3 (Integrated Biomarker and Imaging Study 3) [Simsek C et al. EuroIntervention. 2012 Jun 20;8(2):235-41. The ability of high dose rosuvastatin to improve plaque composition in non-intervened coronary arteries: rationale and design of the Integ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - July 19, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin, FRCP London Tags: Angiography and Interventions chemogram combo catheter intravascular ultra sound imaging intravascular ultrasound IVUS LCBI lipid core burden index Near-infrared spectroscopic imaging NIRS NIRS - IVUS combo catheter rich coronary pla Source Type: blogs
