How to choose a probiotic
The world of commercial probiotics is evolving rapidly as the science of the microbiome continues to unfold. Unfortunately, the current crop of commercial probiotics provide limited benefits, as they are generally concocted in a haphazard fashion. Most current commercial probiotics are a slap-dash collection of microbes, each of which is believed to be beneficial or at least not harmful.They provide limited benefits that include helping suppress the proliferation (but not usually eradicating) unhealthy species such as Klebsiella and Staphylococcus, encourage production of intestinal mucus and strengthening the intestinal i...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 23, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open microbiota probiotic super gut Source Type: blogs
High Cholesterol Lowered Significantly By Eating This One Vegetable
A plant that lowers "bad" cholesterol, a risk factor for heart disease. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - January 20, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Cholesterol Source Type: blogs
This High-Fat Diet Protects Against Dementia, Research Suggests
Foods included in the diet include seafood, low-carb vegetables, cheese, eggs, coconut oil and olive oil. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - January 19, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Dementia Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Dan James Has Been Working on His Masterpiece for Years
Through two long weeks I wandered, stumbling through the nights guided only by the stars and hiding during the days behind some protruding rock or among the occasional hills I traversed.
Without sound we lay there, the beast exerting every effort to reach me with those awful fangs, and I straining to maintain my grip and choke the life from it as I kept it from my throat. Slowly my arms gave to the unequal struggle, and inch by inch the burning eyes and gleaming tusks of my antagonist crept toward me, until, as the hairy face touched mine again.
‘How queer it seems,’ Alice said to herself, ‘to ...
Source: The Orthopedic Logbook - January 9, 2022 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Remo Aguilar Tags: News Business Source Type: blogs
This Humble Vegetable Reduces Heart Disease Risk
A vitamin found in this superfood can protect against heart disease by preventing cholesterol plaque build-up in the arteries. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - December 24, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Heart Disease Source Type: blogs
The Produce Cartels
Gabriella Beaumont-SmithIn July 2021, President Biden signed anexecutive order (EO) directing multiple federal agencies to take action to inject more competition into the marketplace. The EO expands regulations across multiple sectors, includingagriculture. Yet it mostlyignores how thegovernment ’s current actionsimpede competition across numerous agricultural industries, to American consumers ’ detriment.One such barrier is themarketing order—a domestic regulation that allows fruit, nut, and vegetable farmers to control how their product is sold in the United States. The current marketing order on South Texas onions...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 21, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Gabriella Beaumont-Smith Source Type: blogs
Ditch the Short Lived New Year ’s Resolutions This Year
How to create healthy habits that actually stick
By Katey Chambers
With the new year quickly approaching, you might be starting to think about your health goals, such as losing weight, eating healthier, starting an exercise routine and/or finding ways to manage your stress. And let’s be honest, these might be the same goals you had at the top of your list last year, am I right?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
So what prevented you from reaching your goals? How will this year be different? Sometimes, the difference between success and failure is simply in the approach. The reason most people abandon their ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - December 20, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katey Chambers Tags: confidence creativity featured happiness health and fitness self-improvement gut health microbiome Source Type: blogs
Like cow manure on your vegetable garden
The post Like cow manure on your vegetable garden appeared first on Dr. William Davis. (Source: Wheat Belly Blog)
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 18, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel flora microbiota prebiotic Source Type: blogs
This Vegetable Will Make You Look 50% More Attractive (M)
...or try the supplement that contains the same critical pigment. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - December 12, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Attractiveness Social psychology subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
This Common Vegetable Lowers Blood Pressure
The vegetable lowered the blood pressure of those already taking medication. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - December 9, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs
These Foods Boost Happiness To The Maximum
Fruits and vegetables boost happiness even quicker than health. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - November 2, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Motivation Source Type: blogs
Stolen Recipes
About a month ago, I did something I never envisioned I might do. I was in CVS waiting for the pharmacist to give me a flu shot, and while I was waiting, I browsed the magazine rack. I looked at one which was entirely recipes. There was a recipe which kind of caught my eye: it was for " Loaded Cauliflower Soup " . I would have bought the entire magazine, but then I looked at the price: a stunning $12.99...for a MAGAZINE with a flimsy cover (not even a real book).So I opened said magazine and snapped a photograph of the recipe on my phone instead. I suppose one could call that theft, except that I did not remove the magazin...
Source: Scott's Web Log - October 17, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Low-Carb food recipes Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 11th 2021
In conclusion, this study examined how age and the process of aging are associated with changes in the microbiome of the small intestine, using validated sampling and processing techniques. The most significant differences are higher relative abundance of the phylum Proteobacteria and decreased relative abundance of Bacteroidetes in older subjects when compared to the youngest group. The higher relative abundance of Proteobacteria appeared to affect other duodenal microbial taxa, leading to decreased microbial diversity and increased relative abundance of coliforms and of anaerobic bacteria. The small intestine is vital to...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 10, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
How Much of the Benefit of a Healthier Diet is Due to Natural Calorie Restriction Mimetics?
How much of the benefit of a healthier diet arises from the effects of natural calorie restriction mimetic compounds? That question is an interesting one from a scientific perspective, but the answers are probably not all that valuable in a practical sense. We have a fairly good idea as to the size of the benefits to long-term health obtained via a better diet, and separately by eating less of that diet, the practice of calorie restriction while still obtaining sufficient micronutrients. Calorie restriction mimetic compounds trigger some of the same beneficial cellular stress response mechanisms as does a low calorie diet,...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 5, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
October 2021: Washing Your Hands: Even More Important Than You Think
No pictures this time. I wish I did have images. At the time, I was focused on getting my patient out of there and thinking that I would probably sound like an idiot talking to the ophthalmologist. Fanning up and down, I could see unattached whiteness floating in the vitreous between the lens and the retinal lining of the globe. I didn't think it was blood, but there was no trauma, the patient wasn't diabetic, and he had no bleeding dyscrasias or anticoagulants on board. Frankly, I wasn't sure what I was seeing.The transfer center picked up on the first ring. "I have this patient who says he can't see out of his ri...
Source: Lions and Tigers and Bears - October 1, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
