Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 3rd 2018
This article, however, is more of a commentary on high level strategy and the effects of regulation, coupled with a desire to forge ahead rather than hold back in the matter of treating aging, thus I concur with much more of what is said than is usually the case.
For decades, one of the most debated questions in gerontology was whether aging is a disease or the norm. At present, excellent reasoning suggests aging should be defined as a disease - indeed, aging has been referred to as "normal disease." Aging is the sum of all age-related diseases and this sum is the best biomarker of aging. Aging and its diseases ar...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 2, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Even Eliminating the Top Four Causes of Age-Related Death Gains Few Years of Life
Aging is a general process of deterioration, and any specific age-related disease, even one of the fatal conditions, is only a very narrow manifestation of that broad deterioration. It is a fantasy to think that any one specific age-related condition can be cured, entirely removed from the full spectrum of damage that is aging, in isolation, and without impact to the rest of aging. The only way to cure an age-related condition is to repair all of the forms of cell and tissue damage that cause it, and each type of damage has widespread effects beyond its contribution to any one named disease. Aging is treated all at once, o...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 28, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Pharmacogenomics: The Science of Personalizing Drugs Based On DNA
Individuals share about 99.97 percent of their DNA and only the remaining 0.03 percent is responsible for the differences in skin, hair or eye color, height, shoe size or sunspots. Scientists discovered somewhat recently that our bodies also metabolize drugs differently so it would make sense to prescribe medications based on the knowledge hidden in our DNA. In some cases, physicians already do that. Here’s what you need to know about pharmacogenomics and the future of prescription drugs.
It’s all in your genes
Why do some people eat creamy French cakes all the time, only do sports when they have to run after the bus a...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 27, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Pharma Genomics Medical Professionals Patients Researchers DNA dna testing drugs genetics Health Healthcare Innovation medication pharmacogenetics pharmacogenomics precision health precision medicine technology Source Type: blogs
The new cholesterol guidelines: What you need to know
The new cholesterol guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association are out! These guidelines — last updated in 2013 — have been highly anticipated by the cardiology and broader medical community. They have been approved by a variety of additional professional societies, including the American Diabetes Association. Thus, the majority of physicians are very likely to follow them. So, what exactly is new and what do you need to know?
It starts with a healthy lifestyle, with statins for those who need them
A healthy diet and regular physical activity are recommended for all age groups as ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - November 26, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Deepak Bhatt, MD, MPH Tags: Health Heart Health Source Type: blogs
We Need Get Insulin Added to the National " Preventive Medication Coverage " List
For 2018 World Diabetes Day (which is on November 14 of each year, the date of discoverer Frederick Banting ' s birth), I avoided much " celebration " or even acknowledgement. Its not that I don ' t care -- indeed, I can remember my involvement of working to get Congressional recognition of the day and helping to persuade the then-UN representative with written letters to that the United States ' citizens actually supported the day ' s (and month ' s) creation way back in the early 1990 ' s. Prior to that, diabetes wasn ' t even acknowledged outside of the medical profession.That said, in many ways, I hate these honorary "...
Source: Scott's Web Log - November 19, 2018 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2018 drug prices insulin Source Type: blogs
We Need Get Insulin Added to the National " Preventive Medication Coverage " List
For 2018 World Diabetes Day (which is on November 14 of each year, the date of discoverer Frederick Banting ' s birth), I avoided much " celebration " or even acknowledgement. Its not that I don ' t care -- indeed, I can remember my involvement of working to get Congressional recognition of the day and helping to persuade the then-UN representative with written letters to that the United States ' citizens actually supported the day ' s (and month ' s) creation way back in the early 1990 ' s. Prior to that, diabetes wasn ' t even acknowledged outside of the medical profession.That said, in many ways, I hate these honorary "...
Source: Scott's Web Log - November 19, 2018 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2018 drug prices insulin Source Type: blogs
Mrs. Verma Goes to Washington
By ANISH KOKA MD
Seema Verma, the Trump appointee who runs Medicare, has had an active week. The problem facing much-beloved Medicare is one that faces every other government-funded healthcare extravaganza: it’s always projected to be running out of money. Medicare makes up 15% of the total federal budget. That’s almost $600 billion dollars out of a total federal outlay of $4 Trillion dollars. The only problem here is that revenues are around $3.6 trillion. We are spending money we don’t have, and thus there there is constant pressure to reduce federal outlays.
This is a feat that appears to be legislatively im...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 15, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: anish_koka Tags: Health Policy Hospitals Medicare Physicians Anish Koka Government Health care spending Source Type: blogs
Doctors overcorrect too often
Back when cholesterol target numbers ruled unopposed (before 2013), we all checked fasting lipids every three months. Before 2012, we also checked liver function quarterly in hapless riders on the cholesterol pill merry-go-round. That year the FDA announced there had not been enough reports of statin-induced liver problems to recommend routine monitoring. I have many […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 12, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/a-country-doctor" rel="tag" > A Country Doctor, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Cardiology Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 29th 2018
This study shows that some genetic changes linked to cancer are present in surprisingly large numbers of normal cells. We still have a long way to go to fully understand the implications of these new findings, but as cancer researchers, we can't underestimate the importance of studying healthy tissue."
Early Onset of Menopause Correlates with Shorter Life Expectancy
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2018/10/early-onset-of-menopause-correlates-with-shorter-life-expectancy/
Aging is a phenomenon affecting all organs and systems throughout the body, driven by rising levels of molecular damage. The varia...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 28, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Live the Wheat Belly lifestyle, get off prescription medications
Take a look at the list of medications people have been able to stop by following the Wheat Belly lifestyle.
These represent medications prescribed by doctors to, in effect, “treat” the consequences of consuming wheat and grains. They prescribe drugs to treat inflammation, swelling, skin rashes, gastrointestinal irritation, high blood sugars, airway allergy, joint pain, high blood pressure, leg edema and other abnormal effects caused by wheat and grains.
The list includes anti-inflammatory and pain medication, acid reflux drugs, injectable and oral drugs for diabetes, numerous anti-hypertensive agents, asthma i...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 27, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates autoimmune blood sugar bowel flora cholesterol Gliadin gluten-free grain-free grains Inflammation undoctored Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Can Atherosclerosis be Prevented via Early, Large Reductions in LDL Cholesterol?
Atherosclerosis is a universally suffered condition of aging in which oxidized lipids are the seeds for ever-expanding fatty deposits in blood vessel walls. Blood vessels are progressively weakened and narrowed, and this ultimately leads to the catastrophic structural failure of a stroke or heart attack. Atherosclerosis is one of the largest single causes of death in our species.
Cholesterol is carried in the bloodstream, attached to low density lipoprotein (LDL) particles. Lacking any other viable approach to the condition, methods of reducing LDL cholesterol such as statin drugs are widely use to slow atherosclero...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 26, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Increasing Life Expectancy Visualized as an Advancing Wave of Late Life Mortality Risk
Today's open access paper provides an interesting visualization of the slow upward trend in life expectancy that has taken place over the last 60 years. A plot of the distribution of human mortality by age over the last third of life results in a wave-like curve, peaking at around 90 years of age. But those are today's numbers. In the 1960s, the curve had much the same shape, but the peak was at 80 years of age. Life was shorter, but the distribution of mortality at the end of life was much the same.
This is the case despite large changes in the causes of death over this span of decades. Mortality risk due to heart ...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 23, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Is cardiac valves really (a)vascular structures ?
Though heart is known primarily as a pump, it is the four cardiac valves that ensures the critical , non-stop unidirectional flow that sustain the circulation . It is to be recalled these valves originate in the very early days of cardiac development when the primitive heart tube loops , even as the chambers expand from primitive ventricle. Mesenchymal differentiation controlled by various genes that cleaves the valve from myocardial tissue.
While heart by itself is the supreme vascular organ , its surprising few structures inside the heart , like the valves are quiet avascular ( or is it really so ?)
The valves that...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - October 18, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: cardiac embryology Embryology : Heart valve development Infective endocarditis : Pathology valvular heart disease blood supply to heart valves hematogenous spread of infective endocarditis how bacteria reach mitral valve in infective endocardi Source Type: blogs
What Big Pharma does NOT want you to know about LDL cholesterol
Those of you following these Wheat Belly and Undoctored Blog posts know that it is no secret that Big Pharma is a predatory, manipulative, cutthroat industry that employs underhanded and unethical tactics as routine business. Part of their huge economic success is that they are so effective in getting my colleagues, mainstream physicians, to drink their Kool-Aid and do a lot of the dirty work for them. Just witness what happened in the opioid crisis—it couldn’t have happened without the willing participation of physicians.
It’s no different with “treating” cholesterol, total and LDL, with stat...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 10, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates cholesterol LDL lipoproteins low-carb small ldl undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Are menopause and high cholesterol related?
Discussions with Physicians) online on behalf of Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. from July 7 to August 4, 2017, among 5,014 U.S. adults age 45 or older who had been diagnosed with high cholesterol and had used a statin to treat high cholesterol. This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated.
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Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - October 1, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Award Winning Blog Heart Disease Risk Factors Heart Health Menopause and Heart Health Women's Wellness Take Cholesterol To Heart Source Type: blogs
