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Natural Pain Relief · June 16, 2013
Steroid injections, physiotherapy, or a wait-&-see policy for lateral epicondylitis – (03-07-02)
Steroid injections, physiotherapy, or a wait-&-see policy for lateral epicondylitis This article really strikes home because I see a lot of elbow and carpal tunnel cases. In general, these conditions are very easy to…
Gut Health 101 · June 16, 2013
Rheumatoid Arthritis Linked to Low Levels of Anaerobic Bacteria in Gut – (04-15-02)
Rheumatoid Arthritis Linked to Low Levels of Anaerobic Bacteria in Gut It is really nice to see research linking autoimmune conditions to the bacterial flora in the gut. While most patients and their doctors would give…
Diarrhea / Constipation / Irritable Bowel · June 16, 2013
Lactobacillus for Acute Infectious Diarrhea in Children: A Meta-analysis – (04-08-02)
Lactobacillus for Acute Infectious Diarrhea in Children: A Meta-analysis Gosh, I just love meta-analysis that supports stuff we’ve been saying for years. This study shows a reduction in length of diarrhea by .7 days…
Asthma · June 16, 2013
Butterbur, a herbal remedy, confers complementary anti-inflammatory activity in asthmatic patients – (01-21-04)
Butterbur, a herbal remedy, confers complementary anti-inflammatory activity in asthmatic patients receiving inhaled corticosteroids This is a wonderful example of how mainstream medicine and natural medicine can work…
Miscellaneous · June 16, 2013
ADHD in Elementary School Children in North Carolina – (02-18-02)
ADHD in Elementary School Children in North Carolina If this article does not scare the daylights out of you, nothing in the realm of pharmaceuticals will. 10% of children were given the diagnosis of ADHD and 7% of all…
Heart Disease · June 16, 2013
3 Months of Antimicrobials in Acute Non–Q-Wave Coronary Syndrome – (04-08-02)
3 Months of Antimicrobials in Acute Non–Q-Wave Coronary Syndrome This article throws more weight in the ineffective etiology of cardiovascular disease. However, before you run to your cardiologist and ask for…
Cholesterol · June 14, 2013
Very-low–dose niacin on HDL in patients on long-term statin therapy – (06-10-02)
Very-low–dose niacin on HDL in patients on long-term statin therapy Remember that niacin is a well established (but hardly used) therapy for hypercholesterolemia. At therapeutic dosages (roughly 2-3 grams/day) the main…
Inflammation · June 14, 2013
The diet-induced proinflammatory state – (06-10-02)
The diet-induced proinflammatory state The full text of this article is probably one of the most comprehensive and well referenced that I have ever read on this topic. The idea that the diet can be pro or…
Tumors and General Cancer Tips · June 14, 2013
Sulforaphane, H pylori and stomach tumors – (06-10-02)
Sulforaphane, H pylori and stomach tumors This study finds that a substance found in broccoli has the ability to inhibit H pylori infection as well as blocking stomach tumor formation from the H. pylori. We spend so…
Drug Research · June 14, 2013
Study Questions Cost-Effectiveness of COX-2 Drugs – (06-24-02)
Study Questions Cost-Effectiveness of COX-2 Drugs This is one of those articles that raises some eyebrows. The fabulous new selective COX-2 inhibitors are being severely overused. The overview of this study goes into…
Allergies · June 14, 2013
Risk of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in Celiac Disease – (04-08-02)
Risk of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in Celiac Disease Allergy to gluten, a storage protein found in several grains (most notably wheat), has been all over the medical literature lately. Here we see a 3x increased risk for NHL…
Cancer Tips · June 14, 2013
Red Wine, Black Tea Polyphenols Modulate Expression of COX-2 – (06-10-02)
Red Wine, Black Tea Polyphenols Modulate Expression of COX-2 Geez–billions of dollars spent on developing and creating the market for a selective COX-2 inhibitor (quite an interesting tale if you follow Mansanto’s…
Probiotic · June 14, 2013
Probiotics, prevention of antibiotic associated diarrhoea: meta-analysis – (06-10-02)
Probiotics, prevention of antibiotic associated diarrhoea: meta-analysis Now that the literature is virtually flooded with information on the clinical application and safety record of probiotics, we should begin to see…
Inflammation · June 14, 2013
Physical Activity and Inflammation in Middle-aged and Older US Adults – (06-24-02)
Physical Activity and Inflammation in Middle-aged and Older US Adults This study finds that exercise lowers overall levels of CRP, a marker of chronic inflammation. This is really not an unexpected result;moderate…
Diabetes and Obesity Tips · June 14, 2013
Oral Contraceptives and Glucose, Insulin, and Diabetes – (06-24-02)
Oral Contraceptives and Glucose, Insulin, and Diabetes Articles like this are good to see, but the citations appearing in other medical journals does make me scratch my head in wonder. This study did show lower fasting…
Drug Research · June 14, 2013
Nutritional genomics – (06-24-02)
Nutritional genomics Gosh…what can I add to this article? This topic has the potential to be the future of medicine if we would drop the dogma and take the money out of pharmaceutical drugs. There are currently urine…
Diabetes (Type 2) · June 14, 2013
Neuropathy Support Formula: 2 More Vitamins for Neuropathy
I recently covered the use of whole body vibration to improve painful diabetic neuropathy. CoQ10 also has research behind it for preventing it in the first place. I won’t go into how much diabetic neuropathy sucks…
Healthy Living in a Toxic World · June 14, 2013
Lawyers poised to sue US junk food manufacturers – (06-24-02)
Lawyers poised to sue US junk food manufacturers Doesn’t that just take the cake?? Oops…might not have cake after the attorneys get through all this mess. So much for personal responsibility!! If we sue the junk food…
Heart Disease · June 14, 2013
FFA-Induced Endothelial Dysfunction Can Be Corrected by Vitamin C.-(06-10-02)
FFA-Induced Endothelial Dysfunction Can Be Corrected by Vitamin C Kind of makes you wonder how we can see headlines that vitamin C does not protect against heart disease, huh? This study finds that antioxidant therapy…
Depression · June 14, 2013
Addition of Omega-3 Fatty Acid to Meds for Depressive Disorder – (04-08-02)
Addition of Omega-3 Fatty Acid to Meds for Depressive Disorder While this is only a small study, I feel that it is incredibly important. I know that in my office I see many patients on pschoactive drugs. Many of these…
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