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February 15, 2016 Alkaline Diets Slow Down Cancer   Reference: Science Daily Feb 2016   The pH of your cells is normally ever so slightly alkaline on the outside, and ever so slightly acidic on the outside.   Absolutely neutral pH is 7.0, and 7.2-7.6 is what you find on the outside of normal cells.   Cancer cells have a pH roughly… Continue reading Alkaline Diet Slows Down Cancer

February 08, 2016 CLA: Inflammation Breaker? Fat Burner or Too Risky?   Reference: Science News, Diabetes 2007, Dairy Herd 2001, FASEB, Authority Nutrition Published Feb 8, 2016   Mark Cook was a University of Wisconsin scientist when he got interested in CLA. Mark was probably the first and leading researcher to investigate these trace fat molecules that are already present in our food.  … Continue reading CLA: Inflammation Breaker or Too Dangerous?

February 01, 2016 Birth Method and Health Outcomes via the Gut  Reference: JAMA Pediatrics Jan 2016   When a baby is born naturally, it usually is facing downwards. That makes it easiest to flex and turn its head through the vaginal canal. Now, recalling the 20 or so babies I’ve delivered in my career, I do recall that… Continue reading Birth Method, Gut Bacteria and Health Outcomes

January 25, 2016 Total Transparency Manifesto   Reference: TTM Website, Leanna Wen TED Talk, Doctor’s Magical Thinking, Doctor’s Paid, Open Payments Database, What Can Patients Do?   Ok, this isn’t about nutrition per se, but the dynamics of health care behind the scenes.   Fundamentally, that had led to many parts of health care being “backwards”, and I wanted to explain that to you.… Continue reading Total Transparency Manifesto

January 18, 2016 FGF21 – The Holy Grail of Longevity   Reference: Youm PNAS 2016, Diabetes, Daily Mail,   We’ve found it!   Ponce de Leon had it wrong. It wasn’t in Florida. They found it at Yale. That’s Connecticut.   Published this last week is another article on FGF21. And it shows how you can add 40 % to the longevity… Continue reading FGF21, the Fountain of Youth

January 11, 2016 Metabolic Alzheimer’s: Why Homocysteine Matters   References:   Bredesen Aging 2015, NEJM 2002, AJCN 2005, Hooshman Neurology 2010   First of all, do you know what Homocysteine is?   It’s a fairly simple concept. It is an amino acid that you have in every cell in your body. It swaps a methyl group back and forth with methionine, and passes it off… Continue reading Homocysteine and Metabolic Alzheimer’s

January 04, 2016 Pregnanolone and Memory:  The Importance of “Neurosteroids”   Reference: Elsevier Science Direct 2014, Life Extension Published Jan 4, 2016   Ever heard of pregnanolone?   Probably not, and shouldn’t be expected to. But if you are over 50, you likely should know about it. Your body is making much less now than you used to, and that may… Continue reading Pregnanolone: Memory Cure

December 28, 2015 PEMF: A New Magic Wand for Arthritis Therapy   Reference: Bioelectromagnetics Nov 2015   Do you know what PEMF is?   It stands for pulsed, electromagnetic field therapy.   Pulses of a magnetic field are generated by a device and those fields are applied to various tissues.   It has been available in Europe since at least the… Continue reading PEMF: A New Magic Wand for Arthritis

December 21, 2015 Pycnogenol: Brain Booster   Reference: Journal Neurosurgical Sci Dec 2015, Medical News Today   Published Dec 21, 2015   Want to boost your memory 37%?    Wow, you mean I wouldn’t forget to pick up eggs on the way home? And what on earth is pycnogenol? First of all, pycnogenol is an extract of French Maritime Pine… Continue reading Pycnogenol: Brain Booster

December 14, 2015 Lose a Gram of Fat, Lose Diabetes   Reference: Newcastle University, Diabetes Care   Published: Dec 14, 2015   Lose a gram of fat, lose diabetes. What a claim! But it is absolutely clear that losing weight does reverse adult-onset diabetes. In that light, how does this claim make sense?   It turns out that the fat you… Continue reading Lose a Gram of Fat, Reverse Diabetes