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
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
Should you eat cholesterol lowering foods?
The short answer: No, absolutely not.
You’ll find no lack of conversations, however, that tell you to consume more oatmeal, nuts, garlic or soy to reduce total and LDL cholesterol, perhaps thereby avoiding statin drugs. Or add more fiber to your diet or take red yeast rice.
These foods and supplements do indeed reduce total and LDL cholesterol . . . but who cares? Don’t waste your time and energy on this useless exercise, especially efforts to reduce the absurd, outdated, imprecise calculated LDL cholesterol.
But doesn’t reducing LDL cholesterol, the “bad,” in particular reduce risk for cardio...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 28, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Cholesterol wheat belly Source Type: blogs
An Obvious Sign Of Vitamin D Deficiency
Around half of the world’s population is deficient in vitamin D.
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Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - May 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
A Sign Of Vitamin D Deficiency
A variety of vitamin and mineral deficiencies have been linked to this problem.
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Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - May 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
What are the symptoms of vitamin D deficiency?
There are symptoms that suggest you are deficient in this crucial nutrient–but really hormone–called vitamin D. But the truth is that most people will have either non-specific or NO symptoms of vitamin D despite the profound potential consequences of longstanding deficiency.
Understand and correct vitamin D deficiency and you are hugely empowered in long-term health and performance.
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 1, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Vitamin D autoimmune Inflammation wheat belly Source Type: blogs
A Frequent Symptom Of Vitamin D Deficiency
It is estimated that up to 70 percent of people could have a vitamin D deficiency.
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Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - April 26, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
A Common Sign Of Vitamin D Deficiency
Around 60% of people may have a vitamin D deficiency.
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Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - April 14, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
A Mental Sign of Vitamin D Deficiency
Over 1 billion people worldwide have a vitamin D deficiency.
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Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - April 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 1st 2019
In conclusion, long-term aerobic exercise appears to attenuate the decline in endothelial vascular function, a benefit which is maintained during chronological aging. However, currently there is not enough evidence to suggest that exercise interventions improve vascular function in previously sedentary healthy older adults.
Hijacking the Proteasome to Dispose of Unwanted Molecules in Age-Related Disease
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/03/hijacking-the-proteasome-to-dispose-of-unwanted-molecules-in-age-related-disease/
Cells are equipped with a protein disposal system in the form of the proteas...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 31, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Does Klotho Act on Cognitive Function via FGF23?
Klotho is a longevity gene in that more of the protein it codes for acts to modestly extend life in mice. Levels of klotho protein decline with age, and increased amounts appear to produce beneficial outcomes in health and longevity in part via stem cell function. Klotho also influences cognition, and a number of research groups are working on approaches, such as gene therapies to upregulate klotho expression, or delivery of recombinant protein fragments of the full klotho molecule, that might at some point result in ways to enhance cognitive function in humans, old and young alike.
Klotho is known to be closely rel...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 28, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
An Obvious Sign Of Vitamin D Deficiency
Diseases linked to vitamin D deficiency include cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer.
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Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Is the ketogenic diet dangerous?
Answer: No—unless you do it for more than a few months. After a few months, the upfront metabolic and weight benefits will begin to reverse and new health problems arise. We know this with confidence. I raise this question once again because more and more people are coming to me reporting problems. It may take months, even years, but the long-term consequences can be quite serious.
Achieving ketosis by engaging in a very low-carbohydrate, high-fat lifestyle is—without a doubt—an effective means of losing weight, breaking insulin and leptin resistance, reversing type 2 diabetes and fatty liver, redu...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 12, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: ketones bowel flora ketogenic ketotic undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
8 Reasons Why Your Depression May Not Be Getting Better
You’ve been to four psychiatrists and tried over a dozen medication combinations. You still wake up with that dreadful knot in your stomach and wonder if you will ever feel better.
Some people enjoy a straight path to remission. They get diagnosed. They get a prescription. They feel better. Others’ road to recovery isn’t so linear. It’s full of winding bends and dead-ends. Sometimes it’s entirely blocked. By what? Here are a few impediments to treatment to consider if your symptoms aren’t improving.
1. The Wrong Care
Take it from the Goldilocks of mental health. I worked with six physicians and tried 23 medicat...
Source: World of Psychology - March 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Bipolar Depression General Medications Self-Help Treatment depression episode Insomnia Mood Disorder National Network of Depression Centers Sleep support Trauma Treatment Resistant Depression Source Type: blogs
An Everyday Sign of Vitamin D Deficiency
The study found that 68% were vitamin D deficient.
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Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
