Kimberly ’ s Two-Month Wheat BellyTransformation
Look at Kimberly’s dramatic transformation in appearance after just two months on the Wheat Belly lifestyle: the lateral dimensions of her face are reduced, her cheeks are no longer bloated, the around-the-eye swelling is gone and her eyes are bigger. She lost “only” 20 pounds but, judging by the “deflation” of her facial features, it looks more like 100 pounds—this is what happens when you reverse the body-wide inflammation caused by wheat/grain consumption.
“I didn’t recognize myself! This side-by-side spoke volumes! I’ve lost about 20 pounds so far. I was 237, no...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 21, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open Inflammation Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Suffering from “chemo brain”? There’s hope and many things you can do
Some of the most common symptoms experienced by cancer patients are memory problems, difficulties with multitasking, and reduced attention and concentration. Historically, cancer patients with these symptoms were often diagnosed with depression. Research over the past decade has revealed that many cancer patients experience such symptoms as a consequence of specific damage to the brain caused by either their tumor or their treatment.
While radiation to the brain has long been linked to causing cognitive difficulties, the effects of chemotherapy on brain structure and function have only recently been discovered. We now know...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - November 20, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jorg Dietrich, MD, PhD Tags: Brain and cognitive health Cancer Memory Radiation Source Type: blogs
A healthy 30-something presented with nausea, vomiting, benign positional vertigo and atrial fibrillation
A healthy 30-something presented with nausea, vomiting, vertigo and atrial fibrillation. The vertigo is triggered by head movement and relieved by holding still. He has severe nausea with it, and epigastric discomfort.He had an ECG recorded because epigastric discomfort can be due to inferior MI:This patient is healthy and on no medications.His electrolytes are normal.He does not drink alcohol or use drugs.Thyroid was not checked, as A Fib from thyroid would be very rapid.What is unusual here, and why?What is the likely cause of the atrial fibrillation?There is no real evidence of ischemia.There is atrial fibri...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - November 4, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Bariatric surgery . . . . for kids?!
That’s precisely what the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is recommending: more weight loss surgery for overweight kids.
This sort of perverted advice reflects the deep and widespread failure of the healthcare system to address nutrition and health, resorting instead to an awful surgical “solution” that, contrary to the AAP’s declaration that it is a proven safe option, is filled with complications, nutritional deficiencies, dysbiotic alterations in bowel flora, hormonal disruptions, and—not all that rarely—death. (Granted that it was over 10 years ago, but the first patient ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 31, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open bariatric surgery gastric bypass lap bad Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
You ’ re not still taking levothyroxine, are you?
The post You’re not still taking levothyroxine, are you? appeared first on Dr. William Davis. (Source: Wheat Belly Blog)
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 23, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle autoimmune hashimoto's Thyroid undoctored Source Type: blogs
Vitiligo: More than skin deep
Vitiligo (pronounced vit-uh-LIE-go) is a medical condition in which patches of skin lose their color. This occurs when melanocytes, the cells responsible for making skin pigment, are destroyed. Vitiligo can affect any part of the body, and it can occur in people of any age, ethnicity, or sex.
Affecting approximately 1% of the population, vitiligo can be an emotionally and socially devastating disease. Particularly frustrating to many is its unpredictable progression, which can be slow or rapid.
Thus far, there is no cure for vitiligo. But new hope is on the horizon, thanks to recent research that is improving our understan...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 26, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kristina Liu, MD, MHS Tags: Autoimmune diseases Health Skin and Hair Care Source Type: blogs
Handheld MasSpec Pen for Molecular Cancer Detection During Surgeries
Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have developed a new handheld pen for rapid intraoperative cancer detection. Their work demonstrates that the tool can identify different molecular profiles between cancerous and non-cancerous tissue without harming the sampled tissues. This exciting development can one day improve cancer diagnosis and allow for more precise surgical removal of tumors.
Currently, surgeons rely on tissue sectioning and histology to determine whether or not the tumor has been fully excised. This process, which takes at least 30 minutes and requires trained operators, is time- and reso...
Source: Medgadget - August 30, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Siavash Parkhideh Tags: Diagnostics Oncology Pathology Surgery Source Type: blogs
Is there a role for surgery in treating Hashimoto ’s thyroiditis?
This study raises the possibility of a role for surgery for patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis who continue to feel poorly despite optimal treatment with thyroid hormone.
However, the study, while well done, is a relatively small one. We need longer-term follow up and confirmation with additional studies done on diverse populations.
It’s also important to consider that thyroid surgery in patients with advanced Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is difficult. Rates of complications, including injury to the laryngeal nerve (which controls voice) and the parathyroid glands (which maintain normal blood calcium levels), are incre...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Garber, MD, FACP, FACE Tags: Health Thyroid Disorders Source Type: blogs
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The Commonwealth Fund has long tracked premature death as a way to measure the effectiveness of care delivery. The measure includes deaths before age 75 from illnesses that are generally considered treatable, as long as they are detected early and effectively managed. Examples include deaths from diabetes before age 50, measles before age 14, or thyroid disease or appendicitis before age 75.
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - August 7, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David C. Radley Source Type: blogs
Need to check your thyroid? Maybe not
As medical science advances, we have more tests and biomarkers available to help identify illnesses. Yet overdiagnosis and overtreatment that may occur following abnormal results can cause dangerous adverse effects and costly consequences. Hypothyroidism — a lower than normal range of thyroid hormones — may be the poster child for this problem because it is such a common condition.
What is hypothyroidism?
At the front of your neck lies the thyroid, a butterfly-shaped gland that makes the hormone T4. When released into the bloodstream, T4 converts to T3, the most active form of thyroid hormone. Having sufficient levels ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Marcelo Campos, MD Tags: Autoimmune diseases Fatigue Tests and procedures Thyroid Disorders Source Type: blogs
New Definition for DTC Lab Testing Prompted by EverlyWell Business Model
A recent article in Dark Daily convinced me that we need a new definition for direct-to-consumer (DTC) lab testing which has also been called direct-access-testing (DAT) (see:Direct-to-Consumer Lab Test Start-Up EverlyWell Puts Clinical Laboratory Tests on Shelves at CVS and Target). Below is an excerpt from the article:....Julia Taylor Cheek, Founder and CEO ofEverlyWell, a well-financed digital health company based in Austin —hopes to build a... disruptive business in the clinical laboratory industry....Cheek is talking about the same primary business strategy of letting consumers purchase their own lab tests....The co...
Source: Lab Soft News - July 17, 2019 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Clinical Lab Industry News Clinical Lab Testing Diagnostics Direct Access Testing (DAT) Healthcare Innovations Lab Industry Trends Lab Processes and Procedures Medical Consumerism Medical Research Reference Laboratories Test Kits and H Source Type: blogs
Blood tests: There are BIG differences between “ normal ” and ideal
It is not uncommon for there to be considerable differences between what you are told is “normal” for a blood test and what is ideal. The differences are big enough to impair health, even increase risk for numerous diseases, even death.
Here is why labs and your doctor often provide grossly misleading interpretations of blood tests and how you can decipher the real answers. Among the examples:
Vitamin D—The lab says that blood levels of 25-hydroxy vitamin D should be between 10-30 ng/ml. How did they get that value? Easy: They tested the blood levels of many people who live indoors, wear clothes, and don...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 5, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Blood tests undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Blood tests: The BIG differences between “ normal ” and ideal
It is not uncommon for there to be considerable differences between what you are told is “normal” for a blood test and what is ideal. The differences are big enough to impair health, even increase risk for numerous diseases, even death.
Here is why labs and your doctor often provide grossly misleading interpretations of blood tests and how you can decipher the real answers. Among the examples:
Vitamin D—The lab says that blood levels of 25-hydroxy vitamin D should be between 10-30 ng/ml. How did they get that value? Easy: They tested the blood levels of many people who live indoors, wear clothes, and don...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 5, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Blood tests undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
From Chernobyl To Mars: The Future Of Radiation Protection
In the minutes after block 4 of the nuclear power
plant in Chernobyl exploded, no one knew that they are experiencing a disaster
that never happened anywhere before on planet Earth. The public health,
environmental, and even the socio-political consequences were disastrous and we
can still experience the negative impacts. That’s why we posed the question of
what public health authorities, as well as individuals, can do to mitigate the
consequences of radiation exposure, and what digital technologies are available
for radiation detection. In this respect, after our investigations, it even
turned out that it would be benef...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 29, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Space Medicine astronautics chernobyl disaster fiction Health Healthcare Innovation mars nuclear power plant public health radiation radiation exposure radiation protection technology Source Type: blogs
Autoimmune Disease: Start With Wheat & Grain Elimination
If you or someone close to you have an autoimmune condition such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, along with about 195 others, there are a number of steps you can take that reduce, even eliminate the autoimmune inflammation damaging your organs. (Unfortunately, some forms of autoimmune damage cannot be reversed. Autoimmune loss of pancreatic beta cells that lead to type 1 diabetes, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis that damages the thyroid gland, or autoimmune hepatitis that can lead to cirrhosis. for example, cannot be reversed even if the autoimmune p...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 23, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Autoimmunity autoimmune casein Gliadin grain-free omega-3 undoctored vitamin D wheat belly Source Type: blogs
