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May 01, 2017 Magnesium: Super-mineral for Bones   References: European Jr Epid April 2017, When you get to be 65, as a women, your highest risk of premature disability and death comes from a broken bone. Higher than heart disease and cancer. Tell me about it. Much the same for me as a male. At age 65.5,… Continue reading Magnesium Supermineral for Bones

April 24, 2017 Have a Sauna, Live Longer   References:  JAMA Internal Med, DrSinatra,  Time, Wikipedia, Toxic-Mold-Syndrome, Townsend Letter,  Saunas make you live longer. Plain and simple. And where in the world do people take saunas? Finland! Lots of saunas. In fact, in this current study, 2,315 men in Finland, ages 42-69, were queried as to their sauna habits and only 12… Continue reading Have a Sauna, Live Longer

April 17, 2017 Asparagus, Cure for Cancer?   References:  Hope for Cancer, AICR, Snopes,   Does asparagus cure cancer? Any cancer? No. And it might make leukemia worse. I’ve been asked twice this week about it, so it must be a hot topic out there in email-land. Repeat, it doesn’t cure cancer. By itself. Is there a nugget of truth… Continue reading Asparagus, Cure for Cancer

April 10, 2017 VIP: Very Important Peptide   References:  Wikipedia, Biotoxin Journey,   Actually it’s VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE. That’s where it was discovered, in the gut. Though it was found in the gut and pancreas, it is also made, in abundance, in the hypothalamus. It has a huge library of effects from extra heart contractility to relaxation of capillaries… Continue reading VIP: Very Important Peptide

April 03, 2017 POMC: The God Protein   References: Wikipedia, Uniprot,   Proopiomelanocortin. Repeat after me. Pro.. opio.. melano.. cortin. Bet you never heard of that before. What is it? It’s the protein that runs you. It’s a large protein that is in your pituitary gland that is made from pre-pro-proopiomelanocortin, a 285 amino acid long peptide that is… Continue reading ProOpioMelanocortin

March 27, 2017 IV Vitamin C Stops Sepsis in Its Tracks   Reference: NPR, Chest, Managed Care, Barry Fowler, Biofactors,   The number three cause of death in America today is the overwhelming infection that causes blood pressure collapse, kidney shut down and death called sepsis. Three hundred thousand people in America die from it each year. As far is deaths in… Continue reading IV Vitamin C Stops Sepsis Cold

March 20, 2017 Eat to Optimize Your Connexins   Reference: Holistic Primary Care, Remer and Mainz Jr Aced Nutr Diet, PRAL, Gap Junctions; Cold Spring Harbor,   We defined connexins two weeks ago as the links between cells that allow them to communicate rapidly and fluidly back and forth, leading to organs acting in similar coordinated fashion. Connexins allow multicellular organisms… Continue reading Eat to Optimize Your Connexins

March 13, 2017 Connexins and Diabetes   References: J. Cell Biology, J Biol Chemistry, FEBS Letter,   Connexins. What we learned last week was basic. Connexins are the proteins that make for connections between cells. They exist in every creature with more than a few cells. For multicellular organisms to exist, connexins have to become part of the picture. And… Continue reading Connexins and Diabetes

March 06, 2017 Connexin Connection   References: Wikipedia, Molecular Fitness, Cell Science,   Ever heard of Connexins? I hadn’t. Until I read Darrell Tanelian’s book. Here is what they are. They are the proteins that make up the connecting channels between cells. Different organs in your body act together in concert because they know they are the same as their neighbor.… Continue reading Connexion Connection

February 27, 2017 Diet Right and Regenerate Your Pancreas   References: BBC News, Cell,   This is a major story. Type two diabetes is what we all get when we live on a diet of too many carbohydrates and too many calories for too long. The effect of carbs is to make us secrete insulin. Insulin is our storage… Continue reading Diet Right and Regenerate Your Pancreas