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November 28, 2016 Bromine: Secret Toxin?  Reference: Endocrine Society, Oncology Letter, J Clinical Path,   What do you know about bromine? I bet not much. It’s in the halide family, meaning the same family as chlorine and iodine and fluorine. Iodine is the biggest size of the lot, then smaller bromine, then chlorine, and finally tiny fluorine.  The sequence… Continue reading Bromine Toxicity: Real or Not?

November 21, 2016 Vitamin K2 Builds Stronger Bones  Reference: European Jr of Endocrinology    Published Nov 21, 2016   Vitamin K2 is going to be the story of the decade when it comes to bone health. Why? Well, hip fracture is currently happening at a rate of 17% of elderly Caucasian women and 6% of Caucasian men. African Americans… Continue reading Vitamin K2 Builds Stronger Bones

November 14, 2016 Statins Lower Men’s Testosterone  Reference: Pubmed (Endokrynol Pol),  Wikipedia,    I’ve known this for years. You probably have too. I just wanted to read about it and get it in my data base so that I can refer to it freely. I see so many men who come to me with fatigue, lack of “oomph”… Continue reading Statins Lower Men’s Testosterone

November 07, 2016 Lipotropic Shots: Fact or Fiction References:  Priority Health, Empower Pharmacy, Hepatology, Amer Jr Clin Nutr, Blood Review, Ever heard of lipotropic injections? I hadn’t, until a few months ago. When a client came to me and asked if I would give them to her, because her doctor in Arizona was using them and she could lose weight… Continue reading Lipotropic Shots: Fact or Fiction?

October 31, 2016 Boron, Mineral Surprise   References: Science Direct, Wikipedia,   Ever heard of boron? Not a very common mineral in mammals. In fact, it’s considered an “ultra-trace” mineral. Produced by spallation and supernovae, it is not an abundant mineral but is present in many soils at a trace level. There is no obvious known animal use for it as… Continue reading Boron, Mineral Surprise

October 24, 2016 Autophagy: A Nobel Prize Idea  References: Nobel Prize 2016, Science Direct, Wikipedia,    What on earth is autophagy? It’s “eating oneself”, and as morbid as that sounds, it is actually a critical function of cells. In effect, it is the processing of degraded and broken internal cellular components back into energy and basic building blocks.… Continue reading Autophagy: A Nobel Prize Idea

October 10, 2016 Sunlight: A Lot More Than Just Vitamin D  Reference: Science News, Cell,      You know that we need Vitamin D and that we get it only from sunshine. (Well, a tiny bit is artificially added to milk and Cod Liver Oil has some in it). And you know that, in Wisconsin, we stop… Continue reading Sunlight: A Lot More Than Just Vitamin D

October 03, 2016 The Great Sugar Conspiracy  Reference: JAMA Inter Med Sept 2016,     If you are an average American, you are getting roughly 10-15% of your calories from sugar. Hmmm. Of 800,000 foods in America found by Lustig’s graduate students team, 600,000 of them have sugar added to them. When you go to the… Continue reading The Great Sugar Conspiracy

September 26, 2016 Leucine: Muscle Builder Key Reference: Nutrition Express, Journal of Nutrition, The Body Builder, PLOS1,  Leucine is a branched-chain amino acid, one of the essential amino acids your body can’t make and must have for proper health. The branched-chain amino acids make up some 10% of most meats, but up to 33% of whey protein. Whole proteins is… Continue reading Leucine: Muscle Builder Key

September 19, 2016 Vitamin B12 and the Aging Brain Reference: New York Times Sept 6, Wikipedia, Neurology,     Mary Todd Lincoln was a bit imbalanced. She had terrible tragedies in her life, besides the assassination of her husband. But her behavior was erratic and, in retrospect, is thought to have probably been on account of severe B12… Continue reading Vitamin B12 and the Aging Brain