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Chiropractic Care · January 4, 2013
Chronic Lower Back Pain and Manipulation: Does It Really Work?
Chronic lower back pain is a serious problem today, both in terms of cost of treatment and lost productivity. Plus, it just plain sucks if you’re the patient. Let’s just get this out of the way right up front: My…
Breast Cancer · January 3, 2013
How to Prevent Breast Cancer: Does Mammography Help?
All women want to learn how to prevent breast cancer. For far too many, this equates to mammography, since this helps with early detection. Is this good enough? Before we go any further, I need to make one thing very…
Anti-Aging · January 1, 2013
Annual Medical Check Up – Benefit or Waste of Time?
It’s as accepted as apple pie and baseball. You get your annual medical check up to stay healthy. This way you can catch bad stuff before it gets worse, right? Wrong. Wrong? How can that be wrong?? The same way hormone…
Influenza · December 31, 2012
Flu Vaccine 2012-13: Does it Work?
It’s flu season Again. Time to run out and get your flu vaccine 2012-13 version before you too become infected. Everyone’s doing it, but does it work? As a result of the near universal recommendation from your physician…
Osteoporosis Cures and Bone Health · December 30, 2012
What biphosphonates do to bone? – (07-02-04)
Suppressed Bone Turnover by Long-Term Bisphosphonate Treatment Accumulates Microdamage but Maintains Intrinsic Material Properties in Cortical Bone of Dog Rib Sorry for the long title, but this article adds more weight…
Cholesterol · December 30, 2012
Selenoprotein synthesis and side-effects of statins – (03-29-04)
Selenoprotein synthesis and side-effects of statins I must admit that this biochemical pathway much have been covered while I was sleeping in biochemisty… I have always felt that the side effects from statin drugs was…
Allergies · December 30, 2012
Rosmarinic acid in perilla extract inhibits allergic inflammation – (07-16-04)
Rosmarinic acid in perilla extract inhibits allergic inflammation And, just in case you were exposed to BPA in the womb, there is hope. Perilla extract has been used for some time now and is found in many natural…
Celiac Disease · December 30, 2012
Range of Neurologic Disorders in Patients With Celiac Disease – (06-18-04)
Range of Neurologic Disorders in Patients With Celiac Disease Celiac disease (allergy the the gluten portion of certain grains such as wheat) is one of those conditions that exemplifies the problem with mainstream…
Diabetes and Obesity Tips · December 30, 2012
Prevention by lithium treatment – (03-22-04)
Stress-induced structural remodeling in hippocampus: Prevention by lithium treatment I thought this article was very interesting considering how much our approach to psychiatric disorders have shifted away from the…
Vitamin D · December 30, 2012
Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency Among Healthy Adolescents – (06-18-04)
Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency Among Healthy Adolescents The results of this study are a little surprising (24% of kids were deficient), but I can assume that our demonizing of sunlight is much to blame. There have…
Heart Disease · December 30, 2012
Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome – (07-16-04)
Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome and Its Relation to All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in Nondiabetic European Men and Women 15%. That is the number this study found in normal, everyday people. I would…
Prostate Cancer · December 30, 2012
Prevalence of Prostate Cancer among Men – (07-02-04)
Prevalence of Prostate Cancer among Men with a PSA Equal or less than 4.0 ng/ml Remember studies like this when the American Cancer Society puts out their propaganda about “prevention” of prostate cancer by getting your…
Ovulation · December 30, 2012
Prevalence and Features of the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome – (06-18-04)
Prevalence and Features of the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome This article suggests a prevalence as high as 8% of PCOS which puts it as the most common endocrine abnormality of reproductive aged women in the US. PCOS has…
Allergies · December 30, 2012
Prenatal exposure to bisphenol A up-regulates immune responses – (07-16-04)
Prenatal exposure to bisphenol A up-regulates immune responses, including T helper 1 and T helper 2 responses, in mice In English, this article basically re-affirms how important the prenatal and natal periods are in…
Members · December 30, 2012
Physicians’ continuing education is sponsored by the drug companies – (03-29-04)
Requiring doctors to take part in continuing medical education doesn’t improve heart attack care The bottom line that is probably at the heart of why research takes decades to reach clinical practice is that many…
Diabetes (Type 2) · December 30, 2012
Oxidative Capacity, Lipotoxicity, Mitochondrial Damage in Type 2 Diabetes – (07-02-04)
Oxidative Capacity, Lipotoxicity, Mitochondrial Damage in Type 2 Diabetes It’s always nice to have articles validating a multi-pronged approach to treating chronic diseases. While paying attention to the glycemic…
Probiotic · December 30, 2012
Our sterilized society is responsible for the increased rates of atopic disorders – (06-10-04)
The defence of dirt This is a neat commentary about the theory that our sterilized society is responsible for the increased rates of atopic disorders. I strongly agree with this theory. The increased rates of…
Miscellaneous · December 30, 2012
Musculoskeletal pain in Europe – (03-29-04)
Musculoskeletal pain in Europe As a chiropractic physician, I am not surprised that the authors were basically beating up on the medical profession in their handling of musculoskeletal complaints. I see many patients in…
Healthy Pregnancy · December 30, 2012
Low Maternal Dietary Intakes of Iron, Magnesium, and Niacin Are Associated with Spina Bifida in the Offspring – (06-18-04)
Low Maternal Dietary Intakes of Iron, Magnesium, and Niacin Are Associated with Spina Bifida in the Offspring This is one of the reasons I tell patients that the pharmaceutical prenatals are general some of the poorest…
Diarrhea / Constipation / Irritable Bowel · December 30, 2012
Link between irritable bowel syndrome and fibromyalgia – (03-29-04)
Link between irritable bowel syndrome and fibromyalgia may be related to findings on lactulose breath testing This is an interesting one. Although the diagnosis of fibromyalgia no longer seems to be the “flavor of the…
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