The Critical Role Nutrition Plays in Mental Health
One of the most unrecognized factors in the development of mental health is the role of nutrition. The link between diet and mental health is growing as the field of Nutritional Psychiatry/Psychology expands. This field is becoming more impactful as epidemics continue to make headlines surrounding the health of our country and world. We know nutrition has substantial physical impacts, but it is the mental impacts of nutrition that are gaining traction with additional research and heightening awareness around this topic.
Proper nutrition is what fuels our bodies and our bodies need a regular supply of fuel. Oxygen is part o...
Source: World of Psychology - December 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Darren DeYoung Tags: Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Habits Health-related Diet dietary concerns Eating Habits eating healthy Mental Health Mood nutritional psychiatry sugar Source Type: blogs
The Six Worst U.S. Health Disasters of the Last 50 Years
Up until the first half of the twentieth century, large-scale health disasters were mostly due to natural causes (earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, etc.) or infections (e.g., smallpox, influenza epidemics, cholera). But something peculiar happened as we entered the second half of the century: Health disasters due to natural causes became dwarfed by large-scale health disasters that are man-made.
Here’s a list of the Six Worst U.S. Health Disasters of the Last 50 Years, mostly man-made phenomena that have exacted huge tolls: widespread disease, premature death, poorly managed (though nonetheless highly profitable fo...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 2, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Undoctored Wheat Belly Lifestyle autoimmune gluten grain-free grains Inflammation low-carb Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Diabetes: Adding lifestyle changes to medication can deliver a knockout punch
Plenty of research supports the common-sense notion that a healthy lifestyle can prevent or treat many diseases. A diet high in fruits, veggies, whole grains, and plant protein and low in processed carbs, added sugars, saturated fats; regular physical activity; and emotional well-being are the potent treatments that can prevent the need for or even replace many prescription medications.
Yet lifestyle interventions are still not “mainstreamed” into primary care.
The power of lifestyle changes for diabetes
Here is yet another study supporting intensive lifestyle intervention, this time for diabetes. The study authors see...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 28, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Diabetes Diet and Weight Loss Exercise and Fitness Health Source Type: blogs
Leaky gut: What is it, and what does it mean for you?
Before the medical community had better understanding of the mechanisms that cause disease, doctors believed certain ailments could originate from imbalances in the stomach. This was called hypochondriasis. (In Ancient Greek, hypochondrium refers to the upper part of the abdomen, the region between the breastbone and the navel.) This concept was rejected as science evolved and, for example, we could look under a microscope and see bacteria, parasites, and viruses. The meaning of the term changed, and for many years doctors used the word “hypochondriac” to describe a person who has a persistent, often inexplicable fear ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 22, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Marcelo Campos, MD Tags: Digestive Disorders Health Source Type: blogs
This Is Not The Paleo Diet
With all the talk about reverting back to the dietary roots of our species, some may ask: Isn’t this the same as the paleo diet, the popular interpretation of diet prior to agriculture?
The Wheat Belly and Undoctored lifestyle and the popular notion of a Paleolithic diet overlap substantially, but there are differences. So let’s discuss the points of difference.
First of all, I am not bashing the ideas promoted by followers of the paleo concepts. The ideas they follow are much better than conventional notions of healthy eating, and wonderful results can indeed be achieved on a paleo diet. Many authors from the paleo co...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 20, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Paleo Diet Undoctored Wheat Belly blood sugar diabetes diy health Dr. Davis grain-free grains low-carb prebiotic resistant starch Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs
Inflammation, Ablation, Fats, LDL, etc .. My review of ESC 2017
The European Cardiology Congress, ESC as it is called, has grown into the largest medical meeting in the world. This year, about 38,000 attendees came to Barcelona.
I was busy. Here is an update of the big stories:
Inflammation:
Experts agree that inflammation associates with heart disease. One of the keys to showing inflammation causes heart disease would be to show a reduction of cardiac events with a drug that blocks inflammation.
The CANTOS trial tested the ability of a drug called canukinumab, which is already approved for rare causes of inflammatory diseases, to reduce cardiac events. Canukinumab exerts its ant...
Source: Dr John M - September 6, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr John Source Type: blogs
I will be LIVE on the Undoctored Inner Circle Thursday, June 29th
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 28, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Undoctored Wheat Belly Lifestyle cholesterol Diet Inflammation saturated fat Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
American Heart Association: More of the same on saturated fat
This study was indeed mentioned by the AHA panel. But, as many conventional dietary thinkers have done in past, they dismiss the lack of any reduction in cardiovascular events, cancers, or weight as a fluke.
Given the lack of real evidence that reducing saturated or total fat reduces cardiovascular risk, the panel then resorts to the weakest source of data of all: observational epidemiological studies, the sorts of studies that rely largely on questionnaires on what participants ate, a study design that is widely accepted to almost never establish cause-effect relationships, only potential associations or hypotheses. The d...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 17, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Undoctored Wheat Belly Lifestyle aha american heart association cholesterol epidemiology polyunsaturates saturated fat Source Type: blogs
American Heart Association: Let ’ s create dietary policy based on the flimsiest of science
This study was indeed mentioned by the AHA panel. But, as many conventional dietary thinkers have done in past, they dismiss the lack of any reduction in cardiovascular events, cancers, or weight as a fluke.
Given the lack of real evidence that reducing saturated or total fat reduces cardiovascular risk, the panel then resorts to the weakest source of data of all: observational epidemiological studies, the sorts of studies that rely largely on questionnaires on what participants ate, a study design that is widely accepted to almost never establish cause-effect relationships, only potential associations or hypotheses. The d...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 17, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Undoctored Wheat Belly Lifestyle aha american heart association cholesterol epidemiology polyunsaturates saturated fat Source Type: blogs
It is all just one BIG FAT LIE
Undoctored and Wheat Belly Wisdom.
This is a story about how the grain and processed food lobby has successfully manipulated our governmental agencies into feeding us so many lies about consuming fat.
Let me begin this story with some with some basic facts.
FACT: Fats, unlike carbohydrates, are essential, and are as necessary as water or oxygen.
FACT: We are, at the core, carnivorous creatures, a product of our unique evolutionary past, thus consuming the fat of animals is also part of our natural physiology.
FACT: Consuming fat, particularly the saturated fat of butter, animal flesh and organs, does not makes us fa...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 17, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Fat intake Food choices Food Pyramid Undoctored USDA and FDA cholesterol gluten grains heart disease low-carb low-fat saturated statins wheat wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 1st 2017
In this study we demonstrate the use of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-based epigenome editing to alter cell response to inflammatory environments by repressing inflammatory cytokine cell receptors, specifically TNFR1 and IL1R1. This has applications for many inflammatory-driven diseases. It could be applied for arthritis or to therapeutic cells that are being delivered to inflammatory environments that need to be protected from inflammation."
In chronic back pain, for example, slipped or herniated discs are a result of damaged tissue when inflammation causes cells to create molec...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 30, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Review of Fat Head Kids
Filmmaker and author Tom Naughton has created yet another brilliant –and hilarious–work about diet. This time it’s a book aimed at kids called Fat Head Kids.
Tom’s Fat Head movie has become a documentary classic for anyone interested in diet, low-carb diet in particular, with its signature humor, wit, and ability to cut through the nonsense that defines conventional nutritional thinking. If you have not yet seen Fat Head, I urge you to do so. Tom has the unique ability to educate by applying plain talk and logic while splitting your sides–I predict that you will watch the movie several times a...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - April 28, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle cholesterol Fat fat head gluten grains guidelines high-fat lchf low-carb naughton obesity saturated fat weight gain Source Type: blogs
Evidence for Fat-Triggered Immune Dysfunction in the Liver to Contribute to the Symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes
In this research, scientists explore a link between the presence of excess fat and the dysfunctional blood sugar regulation that is characteristic of type 2 diabetes. The vast majority of type 2 diabetes patients suffer the condition because they are overweight, and could turn back its progression even in late stages through sustained low-calorie diets and losing that weight. Type 2 diabetes is a prevalent age-related disease because we live in an age of cheap calories and little exercise, older people have more time and opportunity to gain the necessary excess fat tissue to trigger the condition, and other mechanisms caus...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 24, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Cracking the coconut oil craze
If you Google “coconut oil,” you’ll see a slew of stories touting the alleged health benefits of this solid white fat, which is easy to find in supermarkets these days. But how can something that’s chock-full of saturated fat — a known culprit in raising heart disease risk — be good for you?
Coconut does have some unique qualities that enthusiasts cite to explain its alleged health benefits. But the evidence to support those claims is very thin, says Dr. Qi Sun, assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
“If you want to lower your risk of heart disease...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 10, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Julie Corliss Tags: Diet and Weight Loss Drugs and Supplements Heart Health coconut oil Source Type: blogs
The data are in: Eat right, avoid diabetes
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Here’s a new medical study with a conclusion that might just change your life: eat healthy.
Sure, you’ve heard it before, but this time the benefit is the prevention of diabetes. That’s a big deal, especially if, like so many other people. you are at risk for the disease. More on that in a moment.
First, let’s review the study. Researchers publishing in PLoS Medicine describe a study of more than 200,000 people in the U.S. who participated in health surveys over a 20-year period. They found that:
People who chose diets that were predominately of plant-based foods developed type 2...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 5, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Diabetes Health Healthy Eating Prevention Source Type: blogs
