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Hormone · July 14, 2013
Preprandial Rise in Ghrelin Levels Suggests a Role in Meal Initiation – (08-06-01)
Preprandial Rise in Ghrelin Levels Suggests a Role in Meal Initiation I don’t have much to say on this issue at this time. The hormone ghrelin is a newly discovered hormone and may show to play a role in weight…
Asthma · July 14, 2013
Premenstrual Drop in Progesterone May Explain Perimenstrual Asthma – (06-11-01)
Premenstrual Drop in Progesterone May Explain Perimenstrual Asthma I must admit that the idea of using progesterone to treat asthmatic complaints is new to me, it would be something I would be very comfortable with…
Ear Infections · July 14, 2013
Otorrhea in Children After Tubes for Persistent Middle-Ear Effusion – (06-07-01)
Otorrhea in Children After Tubes for Persistent Middle-Ear Effusion So…once the tubes are punctured through the eardrum we are surprised that drainage for the ear persists in a chunk of young patients? I have a better…
Fatty Liver · July 14, 2013
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease; a Feature of the Metabolic Syndrome – (08-06-01)
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease; a Feature of the Metabolic Syndrome We have identified a host of conditions associated with impaired insulin sensitivity such as hypertension, heart disease, hypercholesterolemia and…
Inflammation · July 14, 2013
Markers of bone, cartilage, and synovial tissue w/ knee osteoarthritis – (06-21-01)
Markers of bone, cartilage, and synovial tissue w/ knee osteoarthritis More and more, a new theory of osteoarthritis is emerging–one which views OA as a systemic condition affecting the nutrition of the joints surfaces…
Inflammation · July 14, 2013
Low Circulating Vitamin B6 Is Associated With Elevation of the CRP – (06-21-01)
Low Circulating Vitamin B6 Is Associated With Elevation of the CRP Many of the B vitamins have a large impact on our health in a variety of ways. This article suggests that B6 has a direct ability to lower inflammatory…
Oxidative Stress · July 14, 2013
Lipid peroxidation, plasma antioxidant micronutrients in Crohn disease – (08-06-01)
Lipid peroxidation, plasma antioxidant micronutrients in Crohn disease There is a very important take home message here in this article. The article assesses the antioxidant status of patients with Crohn’s disease and…
Hormone · July 14, 2013
Lifespan extension in mice with defects in growth hormone production – (06-11-01)
Lifespan extension in mice with defects in growth hormone production I realize that this is a rodent study, but the implications are so strong if they hold true for humans (as I believe they will…). One of the current…
Hormone · July 14, 2013
Latest HERS Report Links HRT to Increased Risk for Urinary Incontinence – (05-20-03)
Latest HERS Report Links HRT to Increased Risk for Urinary Incontinence I’m starting to think that maybe I’ll try this stuff!! Increases risk of heart disease and breast cancer, doesn’t improve quality of life, most…
Inflammation · July 14, 2013
Impaired Nighttime Sleep in Healthy Old vs Young Adults – (05-20-03)
Impaired Nighttime Sleep in Healthy Old vs Young Adults Associated with Elevated IL-6 and Cortisol Levels Wow!! The implications of this study are quite exciting. Basically, a marker of inflammation (interleukin-6) and…
Headaches · July 14, 2013
Headache Prophylaxis – (08-06-01)
Headache Prophylaxis This article was a compilation of Medline abstracts put together by Mescape Neurology with a link to 18 articles with abstracts. 2 of these dealt with natural substances. One with glucosamine (not a…
Thyroid · July 14, 2013
Groups Urge FDA Not to Recall Abbott Laboratories’ Synthroid – (06-21-01)
Groups Urge FDA Not to Recall Abbott Laboratories’ Synthroid It’s always interesting to follow a heated debate over what many times appears to be an ineffectual therapy. I have seen many patients whose lab values came…
Food Allergy · July 14, 2013
Food hypersensitivity: association with atopic diseases – (05-20-03)
Food hypersensitivity: association with atopic diseases I still feel that food allergy is a very commonly overlooked contribution to chronic diseases. Here we see further report for this contribution with dairy being…
Arthritis · July 14, 2013
Food Allergy and Seronegative Arthritis – (08-06-01)
Food Allergy and Seronegative Arthritis: Report of Two Cases This is really an article that touches on many aspects. First, food allergy is a very important aspect in health and should be evaluated or at least…
Diet Choices for Your Best Health · July 14, 2013
Flavonoids, Whole Juice From Purple Grapes Inhibit Platelet Function and Enhance Nitric Oxide Release. – (06-21-01)
Flavonoids, Whole Juice From Purple Grapes Inhibit Platelet Function and Enhance Nitric Oxide Release Many people jumped on the news release over the past few years that red wine is good for our health. Indeed, the…
Osteoarthritis · July 14, 2013
Efficacy of intra-articular sodium hyaluronate in knee osteoarthritis – (05-20-03)
Efficacy of intra-articular sodium hyaluronate in knee osteoarthritis I still believe that this type of therapy and also future advances in cartilage transplants do hold strong hopes for the future of many advanced…
Insulin · July 14, 2013
Effects of Oral Steroidal Contraception and Insulin Resistance – (07-19-01)
Effects of Oral Steroidal Contraception and Insulin Resistance Consider a treatment that is considered benign by many women and doctors such as the birth control pill. This has been taken to the extent that some have…
Breast Cancer · July 14, 2013
Dietary (n-3)/(n-6) Fatty Acid Ratio – (05-20-03)
Dietary (n-3)/(n-6) Fatty Acid Ratio: Possible Relationship to Premenopausal Breast Cancer Risk Many researchers believe that the healthiest ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acids is one to one, one to two (twice as…
Colon / Colorectal Cancer · July 14, 2013
Dietary fibre and colorectal adenoma – (05-20-03)
Dietary fibre and colorectal adenoma Research came out a little over a year ago that stated that fiber did not protect against colon cancer. These findings were pretty well publicized in local news. Unfortunately, the…
Hormone · July 14, 2013
DHEA May Be Effective Treatment for Female Sexual Dysfunction – (06-21-01)
DHEA May Be Effective Treatment for Female Sexual Dysfunction In using salivary analysis to check for hormone levels (saliva checks for the free forms of hormones, not the ineffective protein bound forms that most…
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