How to help those around you become magnificently healthy and Undoctored
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 10, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Undoctored U Wheat Belly Lifestyle anti-aging blood sugar bowel flora Depression Detox diabetes Dr. Davis gluten gluten-free grain-free health Inflammation joint pain Thyroid triglycerides Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
MKSAP: 32-year-old woman with loose stools, bloating, and weight loss
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians. A 32-year-old woman is evaluated for a 6-month history of loose stools, bloating, and a 3.2-kg (7-lb) weight loss. Her medical history is otherwise unremarkable. Her brother has type 1 diabetes mellitus, and her mother has a utoimmune thyroid disease. She reports […]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 - February 8, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mksap" rel="tag" > mksap < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Gastroenterology Source Type: blogs
Do statins reduce heart scan scores?
If you have a CT heart scan score (also called coronary calcium score), what effect do statin cholesterol drugs have on stopping or slowing the increase in score? (Increasing scores pose increasing risk for heart attack and other cardiac events.)
NONE. If you do nothing at all, the score increases by 25% per year, on average. If you take a statin drug, aspirin, and follow a low-fat diet, what my colleagues call “optimal medical therapy,” the score increases . . . 25% per year—no difference. Yet this is the “solution” that conventional doctors push on their patients, a “treatment” t...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 7, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open cholesterol coronary calcium ct scan do statin drugs reduce heart scan scores reduce coronary calcium reverse coronary calcium reverse heart disease undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
The truth about fatty liver
The majority of doctors will tell you that there is nothing you can do to reverse fatty liver and that health problems such as cirrhosis and liver failure may be in your future that they will address with the awful “solution” of liver transplant.
The truth is the opposite: fatty liver is easily and readily reversible in virtually everybody, provided you take action before irreversible changes take place and are given the right information and tools. In this video, I discuss the three basic phenomena that drive fat deposition, liver damage, and inflammation that lead to this condition:
Carbohydrate consumption ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 23, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open bowel flora carbohydrates carbs Inflammation NAFLD nash triglycerides undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Finding meaning in the intersection between marriage and medicine
When I first saw Jea-Hyoun, in a medical meet-cute straight out of a romantic comedy, she was being evaluated for thyroid cancer. I was an allergy/immunology fellow harried by a pile of paperwork. She was a patient, in the same building where she saw patients of her own as a psychiatry and family practice resident, […]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 - January 19, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/charles-feng" rel="tag" > Charles Feng, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Practice Management Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
“I Want Complete Labs Ordered Before My Physical”
By HANS DUVEFELT, MD
Many patients make this or similar requests, especially in January it seems.
This phenomenon has its roots in two things. The first is the common misconception that random blood test abnormalities are more likely early warning signs of disease than statistical or biochemical aberrances and false alarms. The other is the perverse policy of many insurance companies to cover physicals and screening tests with zero copay but to apply deductibles and copays for people who need tests or services because they are sick.
It is crazy to financially penalize a person with chest pain for going to the ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Education Medical Practice Physicians Primary Care blood tests Hans Duvefelt Labs Source Type: blogs
A young man with gradual onset extremity paralysis in all 4 limbs
This case comes fromJon B. Cole, one of our EM faculty and unparalleled toxicologist, and director of the Minnesota Poison Control Center. @jonbcole2 https://twitter.com/jonbcole2Here is his incredible list of publications for early career, with h-index of 18 and i10 index of 33!CaseA young man was brought to the ED by friends with a complaint of progressive weakness to the point of extremity paralysis on arrival. He spoke no English and spoke a language for which only a phone interpreter was available. He was awake, alert, and oriented, but had 1/5 strength in all 4 extremities, such that...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - January 2, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
The Dreaded Cricothyrotomy
I'll admit it. I hate the cricothyrotomy. It's not because I haven't done one for a decade or because it is a complicated procedure. Or because I dread the thought of leaving a permanent cosmetic defect on someone's neck. Or because it is a procedure performed as a last resort under extreme time pressure on a hypoxic patient who will almost assuredly die if you fail.It has something to do with the word failed, as in failed airway. That surgical airway is there because the physician could not gain effective control of the patient's airway using all of the other airway tools at his disposal. We all understand that failure...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - January 2, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 16th 2019
This study shows that CA are released from periventricular and subpial regions to the cerebrospinal fluid and are present in the cervical lymph nodes, into which cerebrospinal fluid drains through the meningeal lymphatic system. We also show that CA can be phagocytosed by macrophages. We conclude that CA can act as containers that remove waste products from the brain and may be involved in a mechanism that cleans the brain. Moreover, we postulate that CA may contribute in some autoimmune brain diseases, exporting brain substances that interact with the immune system, and hypothesize that CA may contain brain markers that m...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 15, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Do You Ever Wake Up Depressed and Don ’ t Know Why? Here ’ s What to Do
Feeling depressed for no reason? Here’s what you should know.
Depression can become a huge problem in your life, but many people may not actually recognize the signs of depression or symptoms; instead, they’ll just assume that they’re sad.
But if you’re waking up depressed, or feeling depressed for no reason every day, then you may not just be sad or going through a “phase.”
9 Subtle Signs Of Depression I Was Too Depressed To Notice
Wondering “Why am I depressed?” all the time might make you feel like you’re going crazy or that you’ll never feel better again ...
Source: World of Psychology - December 10, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Depression Disorders General LifeHelper Mental Health and Wellness Psychiatry Publishers Self-Help YourTango Emptiness Hopelessness Sad Sadness Seasonal Affective Disorder Suicidal Thoughts Thyroid Source Type: blogs
RSNA 2019 AI Round-Up
Shah Islam
Hugh Harvey
By HUGH HARVEY, MBBS and SHAH ISLAM, MBBS
AI in medical imaging entered the consciousness of radiologists just a few years ago, notably peaking in 2016 when Geoffrey Hinton declared radiologists’ time was up, swiftly followed by the first AI startups booking exhibiting booths at RSNA. Three years on, the sheer number and scale of AI-focussed offerings has gathered significant pace, so much so that this year a decision was made by the RSNA organising committee to move the ever-growing AI showcase to a new space located in the lower level of the North Hall. In some ways it made sense to offe...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 10, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Artificial Intelligence Health Tech Start-Ups AI Hugh Harvey Radiology RSNA RSNA 2019 RSNA19 Shah Islam Source Type: blogs
Cancer Survivors have Double the Risk of Suffering a Later Stroke
We present a contemporary analysis of risk of fatal stroke among more than 7.5 million cancer patients and report that stroke risk varies as a function of disease site, age, gender, marital status, and time after diagnosis. The risk of stroke among cancer patients is two times that of the general population and rises with longer follow-up time. The relative risk of fatal stroke, versus the general population, is highest in those with cancers of the brain and gastrointestinal tract. The plurality of strokes occurs in patients older than 40 years of age with cancers of the prostate, breast, and colorectum. Patients of any ag...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 9, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
The new Revised & Expanded Edition of Wheat Belly being released!
The complete updated Wheat Belly program is now available in the Revised & Expanded Edition of Wheat Belly! (For availability, see below.)
In the original Wheat Belly, I recounted how agribusiness and geneticists altered traditional strains of wheat, yielding the high-yield semi-dwarf strain that now dominates supermarket shelves. Consuming modern foods made from this plant yields peculiar, sometimes crippling, health effects, while dramatic benefits develop upon removing it from the diet. If you’ve been following the Wheat Belly conversations, you are no stranger to the huge successes people have shared on this...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 6, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open autoimmune bowel flora cholesterol diabetes gluten-free grain-free joint pain microbiota prebiotic probiotic Thyroid Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
The new Revised & Expanded Edition of Wheat Belly released!
The complete updated Wheat Belly program is now available in the Revised & Expanded Edition of Wheat Belly! (For availability, see below.)
In the original Wheat Belly, I recounted how agribusiness and geneticists altered traditional strains of wheat, yielding the high-yield semi-dwarf strain that now dominates supermarket shelves. Consuming modern foods made from this plant yields peculiar, sometimes crippling, health effects, while dramatic benefits develop upon removing it from the diet. If you’ve been following the Wheat Belly conversations, you are no stranger to the huge successes people have shared on this...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 6, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open autoimmune bowel flora cholesterol diabetes gluten-free grain-free joint pain microbiota prebiotic probiotic Thyroid Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
The Digital Health Future of Oncology
It’s in the early morning of April 15th, 2030 that when looking at your smart mirror, the latter beeps a warning notification: that new mole on your chin should be checked by your dermatologist. That was to be expected. After all your genetic test revealed that you possess a mutation in the CDKN2A gene. But you also get the recommendation to have your esophagus and stomach checked as your connected smart scale registered a noticeable drop in weight and this mutation also carries an increased risk of gastrointestinal (GI) tract cancer.
With such increased awareness and early stage diagnosis methods, will the cancer de...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 26, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Future of Medicine Personalized Medicine cancer digital health cancer treatment digital technology oncology cancer research cancer care digital health technologies Source Type: blogs
