Wheat Belly: Ten Rules for Healthy Eating
A hundred thousand years ago, you’d have no doubt what and how to eat. You would wake up every morning, grab your spear, club or axe and go kill something, wander and gather berries, nuts, or dig in the dirt for roots and tubers, or set traps for fish and reptiles. If you succeeded in the hunt, you would consume every organ that included thyroid, thymus, pancreas, stomach, liver, as well as meat. You’d drink water from streams and rivers, allow skin surface to be exposed to sunlight. You would NOT shower with soap or shampoo, apply hand sanitizer, drink chlorinated water, consume foods laced with herbicides and...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 20, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates autoimmune gluten-free grain-free grains Inflammation undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Nitrates, nitrites, and nitrosamines
There seems to be a lot of confusion about the issues of nitrates, nitrites, and nitrosamines, so much that some people—including book authors and doctors—are declaring that they are entirely benign and not an issue for health. Let’s try and clear up the confusion.
Much of the confusion stems from the fact that nitrates and nitrites occur in many foods, including vegetables and fruit. Upon ingestion, nitrates and nitrites are converted to nitric oxide, the master vasodilator (artery relaxing agent) that thereby contributes to healthy arteries and blood pressure. So there is nothing intrinsically wrong wit...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 16, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Why are Americans so deficient in iodine?
Despite being an essential nutrient, so many people fail to obtain an adequate intake of iodine, even fewer obtain an ideal intake.
Yet getting iodine is so easy and inexpensive. But don’t rely on the doctor to tell you how or why, as he/she is too busy planning your next procedure or trying to hand you a drug prescription, since doctors really don’t know how to dispense genuine health.
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Let’s talk about iodine. Now I’ve talked about iodine before. It’s in the Wheat Belly Total Health program. It’s in the Undoctored Wild-Naked-Unwashed program. But I feel like the iodine mes...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 12, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates fibrocystic breast iodine Thyroid undoctored wheat belly Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs
Ingestible Pill Stays Inside Stomach, Monitors Digestion
There are a variety of gastrointestinal conditions that may be better treated if clinicians had an idea of what’s going on inside the stomach. But, the stomach is full of acid and it eventually expels whatever drops into it, making it difficult to have sensors operate inside for long periods of time. Researchers at MIT have now developed a way to drop sensors into the stomach that will remain there until patients are ready for them to come out.
The new devices are made of hydrogels, a gelatin-like substance, and sodium polyacrylate, a highly absorbent material. They are about the size of a pill, but once swallowed ...
Source: Medgadget - February 12, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: GI Materials Source Type: blogs
Planet-friendly, plant-based home cooking
With all the news about the health and environmental advantages of eating less meat, many people are trying to eat more plant-based meals. But where do you begin?
Instead of trying to cook an entire vegetarian meal from scratch, start with one small step and build from there, says Dr. Rani Polak, founding director of the Culinary Healthcare Education Fundamentals (CHEF) coaching program at Harvard’s Institute of Lifestyle Medicine. “For example, buy some canned beans. You can then make a simple bean salad with a little olive oil and lemon juice. Or if you have a favorite recipe for beef stew, try swapping in beans for ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Julie Corliss Tags: Cooking and recipes Food as medicine Health Healthy Eating Heart Health Source Type: blogs
Hyperthermia and ST Elevation
DiscussionBrugada Type 1 ECG changes are associated with sudden cardiac death (SCD) and the occurrence of ventricular dysrhythmias. Patients that develop a Type 1 pattern without any precipitating or provoking factors have a risk of SCD of 0.5-0.8% per year. In patients that only have this pattern induced by a sodium channel blocking agent have a lower rate of SCD (0 - 0.35% per year)[1]. Drugs that have been associated with Brugada ECG patterns include tricyclic antidepressants, anesthetics,cocaine, methadone, antihistamines, electrolyte derangements, and even tramadol. [2]. Our patient had a Brugada Type 1 patt...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - January 30, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
What will you do for this altered and bradycardic patient?
Written by Pendell MeyersA female in her 60s with COPD, DM, hypothyroidism, CAD, and severe bladder cancer presented from a nursing home with altered mental status, hypotension, hypoxia, and bradycardia.Here is her initial ECG (no prior for comparison):What do you think?Here is another ECG minutes later:There is a regular wide complex bradycardia.There are P-waves at a rate of approximately 100bpm with no clear relationship to the QRS complexes, diagnostic of complete heart block.The QRS morphology is wide (computer QRS duration 179 msec) but it does not fit any clear bundle branch block pattern (it is similar to LBBB but ...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - January 13, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
Are We Ready for MRI That Can Detect the Human Soul?
What initially reeked of fake news has now been proven real: theShenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology has invested $126 million to build a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner to identify the human soul.According to news sources, the scanner will produce a resolution that ’s 1,000 times more powerful than conventional MRI and will be able to image objects that are 1 millimeter wide. The researchers’ ambitions know no limits, and as one unnamed scientist said,“We may for the first time capture a full picture of human consciousness or even the essence of life itself. Then we can define them and explain how th...
Source: radRounds - January 12, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
What makes a cosmetic chemist – Episode 168
Beauty Science News
What makes a cosmetic chemist?
Here’s a story published in the Insider back in November talking about the Luxury skin-care brand Sunday Riley and whether their founder is actually a cosmetic chemist.
But what makes someone a cosmetic chemist?
Nearly all cosmetic chemists working in the mainstream cosmetic industry have a college degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Pharmaceutical or maybe Biology. Most people have Bachelor’s degrees but more and more people are getting Masters degrees from places like the University of Cincinnati.
Alright, so there is the education piece b...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - January 7, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: thejoggler Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
What makes a cosmetic chemist – Episode 168
Beauty Science News
What makes a cosmetic chemist?
Here’s a story published in the Insider back in November talking about the Luxury skin-care brand Sunday Riley and whether their founder is actually a cosmetic chemist.
But what makes someone a cosmetic chemist?
Nearly all cosmetic chemists working in the mainstream cosmetic industry have a college degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Pharmaceutical or maybe Biology. Most people have Bachelor’s degrees but more and more people are getting Masters degrees from places like the University of Cincinnati.
Alright, so there is the education piece b...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - January 7, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: thejoggler Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
Thyroid Tune-Up
I am re-posting a classic Wheat Belly Blog post from a few years ago. Despite all our discussions about thyroid issues, there continues to be an enormous information gap: undiagnosed hypothyroidism, gross mismanagement sufficient to impair weight loss and increase cardiovascular risk, dismissing the importance of iodine, and ignorance among healthcare providers. This Thyroid Tune-up is therefore an updated version of the previous post.
Imagine that all the cars in your neighborhood run poorly because nobody bothers to tune-up their autos. I show you how to tune the cars and, lo and behold, 80% of the cars now run great. B...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 6, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates autoimmune gluten-free grain-free grains hypothyroid levothyroxine Synthroid Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 24th 2018
In conclusion, we found a gradient of increasing blood pressure with higher levels of BMI. The fact that this gradient is present even in the fully adjusted analyses suggests that BMI may cause a direct effect on blood pressure, independent of other clinical risk factors.
PRRX1 as a Possible Point of Control for Remyelination
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2018/12/prrx1-as-a-possible-point-of-control-for-remyelination/
Researchers here outline what is possibly a new point of intervention in the processes that maintain the myelin sheath that wraps nerves. This sheath is vital to the correct operati...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 23, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Beginning Exercise in Late Life Can Regain a Portion of Lost Cognitive Function
In this modern age of transport machinery, desk jobs, and idle leisure, few people exercise as much as they should. A perhaps surprisingly large fraction of the physical and mental decline characteristic of later life is the result of an increasingly sedentary lifestyle. One doesn't have to look much further than a comparison with physically active hunter-gatherer populations to see as much. As a result, exercise looks like a therapy in the context of an older, sedentary population, an intervention that can reverse aspects of aging to some degree. Yet consider that a cessation of neglect always looks good in comparison to ...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 21, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Benefits of a healthy diet — with or without weight loss
This study, called OMNI Heart (Optimal Macronutrient Intake to Prevent Heart Disease) examined 164 overweight and obese adults with prehypertension or Stage 1 hypertension, and replaced some of the carbohydrates in the DASH diet with either healthy protein (from fish, nuts, beans, and legumes) or unsaturated fats (from olive oil, nuts, avocado, and nut butters). Again calories were kept neutral to avoid weight gain or loss. Results showed that substituting healthy protein or healthy fats for some of the carbohydrate lowered LDL (bad) cholesterol, blood pressure, and triglycerides even further than the DASH diet alone.
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Source: Harvard Health Blog - December 19, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine D. McManus, MS, RD, LDN Tags: Diet and Weight Loss Health Healthy Eating Heart Health Source Type: blogs
Heart failure and salt: The great debate
“Let there be work, bread, water, and salt for all.”
— Nelson Mandela
Salt: without it, food can seem tasteless. It is the reason sea water burns our eyes and skin. Some people enjoy salt water baths. Is it good for us? Is it not? Do we really know?
In modern medicine, we tend to have a generally negative feeling about sodium, the element found in salt. Excessive sodium intake is linked to water retention, and it is also a risk factor for high blood pressure. Both excessive sodium intake and high blood pressure are major risk factors for developing heart failure, and for causing complications in those with existing h...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - December 18, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: James Januzzi, MD Tags: Diet and Weight Loss Health Healthy Eating Heart Health Source Type: blogs
