Lifecare Chiropractic
James Bogash, DC
Amy Strock, DC
1830 S. Alma School Rd
Bldg 7, Ste 135
Mesa, AZ 85210
(480) 839-CARE (2273)
While this should not come as a big surprise, it is yet another indication of how far we've fallen when it comes to raising healthy children. A breastfed infant was more likely to be given fruits and veggies, while their non-breastfeeding cohorts got commercial infant drinks. I would view this as more of an attitude towards the health of our infants. We have become so brainwashed as to think that formula is just as good as breastmilk and there will be no health consequences. Increasing evidence suggest that rapid weight gain in the first 6 months will increase risk of downstream diabetes and heart disease, and formula fed babies will show a greater weight gain.
***The gut–joint axis: cross reactive food antibodies in rheumatoid arthritis***
While the research has supported this for some time, clinicians have been slow to catch up. Bottom line is that the GI tract has a strong ability to tone up or tone down the entire body's immune response. Insult the GI tract too much with food allergies and a signal will go out to the rest of the body that we're under attack, raising our overall defense and increasing likelihood of our body mistakenly attacking our own cells. An elimination diet is absolutely essential for anyone with an autoimmune disease. Additionally, our view of autoimmune disorders is changing. While we have always viewed AI conditions as dysfunctions of the immune system that need to be surpressed, evidence is increasing that the immune system is actually doing what it's supposed to be doing, but that the tissues themselves (DNA in Lupus, myelin sheat in MS, Type II collagen in RA...) are being excessively damaged. THIS is what needs to be fixed, NOT the immune system.
***Melanoma growth is reduced in fat-1 transgenic mice: Impact of omega-6/omega-3 essential fatty acids***
While this is a mouse study, it is not the first to look at the influence of healtier fats on melanoma growth. We have become fearful of the sun based on "experts" recommendations and fear of increased melanoma in children. Common sense seems to have eluded this topic. Does anyone really think kids today are spending more time in the sun? Heck, I don't even think sunscreen was invented when I was a kid and we sure as heck didn't sit inside and play video games all day. So there have to be other factors at play, and poor quality fatty acid intake is most likely a major player. In addition, the fearmongering of the sun has created a near epidemic of Vit D deficiency which is wreaking havoc on our risk of other chronic diseases.
***The prevalence of vitamin D inadequacy amongst women with osteoporosis: an international epidemiological investigation***
Speaking of wreaking havoc, in this study a whopping 64% of the women with osteoporosis were Vit D deficient. I can honestly say that I have never had a patient come into my office on any type of anti-resporptive agents (like Fosomax or Actonel) that was told to take Vit D. Most, but not all, are told to take calcium. Given that Vit D at 2-4000 IU per day is practically free (and sunlight IS free), the safety of taking 10,000 IU daily is well accepted and that Vit D has such a broad range of positive effects, there is absolutely no reason not to recommend this to everyone with osteoporosis.
***Metabolic profiling reveals a contribution of gut microbiota to fatty liver phenotype in insulin-resistant mice***
Another mouse study...this one finds that a high fat diet was converted by the bacteria in the gut in such a way as to increase the risk of liver damage and increase insulin resistance. So how does this impact our GI tract when we are bombarded with nonessential antibiotics and the bacterial types that we have spent several hundred thousand years gettting acquainted with are not replaced? The buzzword around antibiotic overuse is always antibiotic resistance, and this is, in reality, only a very small measure of the damage antibiotic overuse does to our physiology and risk of chronic diseases.
***Acid-Base Status Affects Renal Magnesium Losses in Healthy, Elderly Persons***
Magnesium is definately on the list of the top few very important nutrients that we are chronically deficient in. Poor quality diets contribute to this, but more of an animal based diet leads to increased acidity which needs to be bufferred in the kidneys. The result is a loss of magnesium to protect us from the increased acidity. Really a catch-22...increased acidity is not tolerated well by our cells and lead to a variety of chronic diseases (cancer comes to mind), but to take care of the acidity we lose magnesium which has it's own list of chronic diseases that result from deficiency. The bottom line is that an plant based diet is healthier for us all around. But, you will lose weight on the Atkins' diet...
***Relationship between total cholesterol/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio, triglyceride/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio, and high-density lipoprotein subclasses***
While this study does not really add anything new (we already know that as triglycerides goes up due to insulin resistance then HDL will go down) it is a nice refresher to remind us that HDL has subclasses. The HDL2 subfraction is generally considered the most protective, and in this study, the authors found that, as triglyceride ratios changed for the worse, the HDL subclasses moved towards the "less friendly" type.
***Fatness at birth predicts adult susceptibility to ovarian suppression: An empirical test of the Predictive Adaptive Response hypothesis***
I can honestly say that I do not routinely ask patients about their birth status (premature, weight, weight gain in the first 6 months...) but given the increasing evidence for gestational events to preprogram the fetus, this is not an unrealistic route to take. In this study, the authors found that, when pregnant women were well fed, their adult daughters had higher estrogen levels and these levels were harder to reduce with exercise. That would equate to a greater risk of breast and endometrial cancers. Wow!! Talk about needing to stratify responders in an "exercise to reduce breast cancer" epidemiological study!!
***Prenatal exposure to ultrasound waves impacts neuronal migration in mice***
This is another one of "those" topics that you just can't discuss with a pregnant woman. The fact is, there has NEVER, EVER been any safety studies on long term effects of ultrasounds during pregnancy. Before anyone jumps on me for this statement, consider these few items. A study a few yrs back found that ultrasound during pregnancy increased the likelihood that the infant will be left handed. Not much, but it does suggest that US affects something deep in our programming. Now we have this study, that finds that US during pregnancy in mice affect the way the neurons moved around during development and even stopped some of them from making it to the areas of the brain they were destined for. Lastly, we have several organizations coming out against the use of 3-D US in retail centers because they say the safety of these types of tests are not established. So, other than exposure at one time (typical OB office will US often enough to make up that difference), how is the 3-D different enough from normal US to be a concern? Throw on top of this that US rarely lead to a change in the outcome of a pregnancy, and you have to ask yourself--why so many US for our pregnant women and how is this affecting their unborn child?
***Prediction of Hip Fracture Risk by Quantitative Ultrasound: Comparison of Three Technologically Different Bone Ultrasound Devices***
One of the problems with current DEXA technology for bone density is that it does not adequately evaluate bone quality; just bone density. A bone can be very dense and still fracture--bones' strength comes from it's amazing architecture with crosslinks and bridges within the bone as well as the strength of bone's shell - the cortex. With each step with take, bone actually flexes to some degree. It is bone's architecture that keeps it from snapping at this point. Purely cortical increases in bone density would most likely actually increase the risk of fracture because there would be no "give." Ultrasound will likely give us addtional insight into a bone's quality once we perfect the technique.
James Bogash, DC and Amy Strock, DC
1830 S. Alma School Rd, Bldg 7, Ste 135, Mesa, AZ 85210
(Alma School Road, just south of the Superstition Freeway/Highway 60)
Chiropractic Health Care for Chandler, Mesa and Tempe Arizona
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