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Inflammation · December 9, 2013
Lipolysis of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins generates PPAR ligands – (03-10-03)
Lipolysis of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins generates PPAR ligands: Evidence for an antiinflammatory role for lipoprotein lipase. Sorry for the long, biochemically title, but it’s good for shock value. PPAR receptors…
Prostate Cancer · December 9, 2013
Lack of significant genotoxicity of purified soy isoflavones – (03-31-03)
Lack of significant genotoxicity of purified soy isoflavones (genistein, daidzein, and glycitein) in 20 patients with prostate cancer. This article is interesting given the fact that men with history of prostate cancer…
Autoimmunity · December 9, 2013
L monocytogenes infection as complication of TNF alpha blockade – (03-18-03)
L monocytogenes infection as complication of TNF alpha blockade. I know that, to many patients with autoimmune conditions like Crohns and RA, these drugs can work miracles. However, many (if not most) of the patients on…
Heart Disease · December 9, 2013
Homocysteine and Risk for Congestive Heart Failure – (03-18-03)
Homocysteine and Risk for Congestive Heart Failure. Well, while mainstream medicine is deciding whether homocysteine is really a risk factor and if it is, whether it is cost effective to test, patients are dropping left…
Healthy Pregnancy and Women's Health · December 9, 2013
Epidural Analgesia and Severe Perineal Laceration – (03-18-03)
Epidural Analgesia and Severe Perineal Laceration. While I’m never going to have a baby, I strongly question the rampant use of epidurals for pregnancy. They are accepted as safe with no effects on the baby and yet the…
Hormone · December 9, 2013
Effects of Estrogen plus Progestin on Health-Related Quality of Life – (03-18-03)
Effects of Estrogen plus Progestin on Health-Related Quality of Life. Sorry to be in the negative mode, but the subject of HRT is becoming so dead in the water that it is laughable. The drug companies are so desperately…
Healthy Pregnancy · December 9, 2013
Effect of Epidural Anesthesia on Breast-Feeding of Healthy Newborns – (03-18-03)
Effect of Epidural Anesthesia on Breast-Feeding of Healthy Newborns. Their articles…not mine!! J Am Board Fam Pract 16(1):7-13, 2003 Background: Epidural anesthesia is commonly administered to laboring women. Some…
Whiplash · December 9, 2013
Development in pain and neurologic complaints after whiplash – (03-18-03)
Development in pain and neurologic complaints after whiplash. I realize that this article is a little off the usual topic, but I am a DC after all. Basically, there has been many attempts to minimize the injuries…
Diet Choices for Your Best Health · December 9, 2013
Decreased Carotenoid Concentrations Due to Dietary Sucrose Polyesters – (03-10-03)
Decreased Carotenoid Concentrations Due to Dietary Sucrose Polyesters Do Not Affect Possible Markers of Disease Risk in Humans. Okay, here’s the story…dietary sucrose polyesters (read “Olestra”) lower serum carotenoid…
Diet Choices for Your Best Health · December 9, 2013
Cardiac Benefits of Fish Consumption May Depend on the Type of Fish Meal Consumed – (03-18-03)
Cardiac Benefits of Fish Consumption May Depend on the Type of Fish Meal Consumed. Wow!! Here’s another incredible research finding. Fish 3x or more per week lowered risk 49% of total IHD death and 58% lower risk of…
Healthy Kids · December 9, 2013
Breastfeeding & Risk of Hospitalization for Respiratory Disease in Infancy – (03-18-03)
Breastfeeding & Risk of Hospitalization for Respiratory Disease in Infancy. Okay…how much more money do we want to spend on determining that breast milk is superior to formula? Pick a benefit, pick a long term benefit…
Gut Health 101 · December 9, 2013
Bowel dysfunction after laparoscopic antireflux surgery – (03-10-03)
Bowel dysfunction after laparoscopic antireflux surgery. I can’t help but wonder if the bowel symptoms (diarrhea being the most common) are merely another indication of altered GI physiology that led to the reflux in…
Hypertension · December 9, 2013
Blood Lead, BP, and Hypertension – (03-31-03)
Blood Lead, BP, and Hypertension. Heavy metals are widely overlooked by mainstream medicine despite heavy research into their affects on human health. Here we see links with hypertension. Of additional note on BP is…
Vitamin B12 · December 9, 2013
B-12 Status Associated w/ Bone Mineral Content, Density in Frail Elderly – (03-10-03)
B-12 Status Associated w/ Bone Mineral Content, Density in Frail Elderly. I’m a very big fan of Vitamin B12, especially in my senior patients. It is a very common deficiency due to poor absorption from decreased stomach…
Diabetes (Type 2) · December 9, 2013
Amino Acids Strongly Enhances Insulin Secretion in Type 2 DM – (03-31-03)
Amino Acids Strongly Enhances Insulin Secretion in Type 2 DM. In patients with diabetes, the pancreas begin to putter out and ultimately produces less and less insulin (as opposed to syndrome X, where hyperinsulinemia…
Childhood Obesity · December 9, 2013
A Primer on Early Childhood Obesity and Parental Influence – (03-18-03)
A Primer on Early Childhood Obesity and Parental Influence. This one always gets me. Overweight children and overweight dogs are 100% the fault of the parent. Well…maybe 96%. Parents need to educate themselves on the…
Cancer · December 9, 2013
2-Methoxyestradiol, a Promising Anticancer Agent – (03-31-03)
2-Methoxyestradiol, a Promising Anticancer Agent. It is very interesting that researchers are viewing this compound as a potential anti cancer compound. Past issues of the Updates have reviewed the concept that…
Cholesterol · December 7, 2013
The NEW Statin Guidelines: This is the Best We Got?
I keep thinking that I’m missing something here. Some magical number that makes these drugs to lower cholesterol worth the hype. I’ve read all the studies and I’ve seen the numbers, but I don’t read ALL of the medical…
Obesity and Weight Loss · December 5, 2013
Abdominal Fat Cells: 2 Reasons Why Bigger is NOT Better
Ever since our office discovered the laser lipo unit, it seems like the research supporting this approach to curb inflammation has been everywhere. Or maybe, just like the new car you just bought you thought no one else…
Insulin · December 4, 2013
What to Do About the Metabolic Syndrome? – (03-04-03)
What to Do About the Metabolic Syndrome? This one still eludes me. We are talking about a condition (hyperinsulinemia) that is estimated to be as high as 25% of the population and has a major impact on blood pressure…
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