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September 28, 2015 Cow Milk and Breast Cancer   Reference: Plos1 Sept 2015   Sept 28, 2015   Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) is widespread in cows. When you test milk from large dairy farms (where all the milk is mixed together) you get 100% of milk samples containing the virus. When you test milk from farms with 100 cows… Continue reading Cow Milk and Human Breast Cancer

September 21, 2015 The Devil In Milk: the A1 vs A2 Protein Story   Sept 21, 2015   Reference: The Devil in Milk by Keith Woodford Diabetologia Elliott   Did you know that there are several forms of milk? The protein casein is not the same in every cow. Most European (black) cows have what is called A1 casein. Most Asian and African cows… Continue reading The Devil in Milk: The A1 Casein vs A2 Conundrum

September 14, 2015 The Sprint Study: How Low Should Your Blood Pressure Be?   Sept 14, 2015   Reference: New York Times , NIH National Heart and Blood Institute Sept 2015   This is really a big deal.   I’m very relieved to hear it because it was just two years ago that a huge meta-analysis said it was no big deal… Continue reading How Low Should You Go?

September 07, 2015 Fish Oil and Preventing Schizophrenia   Reference: Nature Communications August 2015, Graph August 7th, 2015   Schizophrenia is a scary disease.   The loss of reality, delusions, paranoia are all disturbing for the individual and society around them.   So catching it early and preventing it is a pretty exciting thought. The authors in this study took 81 young… Continue reading Fish Oil and the Prevention of Schizophrenia

August 31, 2015 Blue Zone Solution – How to Live to 100   Reference:   Blue Zone Solutions by Dan Buettner   August 31, 2015   What’s a Blue Zone?   It’s the places in the world where people live up to 100. This is a research-based book that looks at those little “hot spots” where there are the most centenarians and… Continue reading How To Live to be 100 – Make a Blue Zone

August 24, 2015 Low Fat Diet Loses Weight Better than “Low Carb” – Supposedly!   Reference: Cell Metabolism, August 2015,   Washington Post   This is a fascinating. A study of exactitude, but with tons of confounding possibilities.   Here is what was done. Nineteen obese adults (BMI of 36 and % body fat around 40%), wanting to lose weight, were… Continue reading Low Fat Versus Low Carb Diet Study – Misleading Pseudoscience

August 17, 2015 Sleeping on your Side Lowers Risk for Alzheimer’s   Reference: Jr Neuroscience August 2015, New York Times   August 17, 2015   Sleeping on your side may reduce your risk for Alzheimer’s!   How so? Well, the above referenced study was done in rats, so we aren’t certain it works in humans, but it appears to reflect what… Continue reading Sleeping on your Side Washes Your Brain the Best

August 10, 2015 Spicy Foods Help You Live Longer   Reference: British Medical Journal, August 2015   Hurray!   Tabasco Sauce, Sriracha Sauce, Cholula Sauce, …. is on the menu again.   In a study from China following 487,735 people for 7.2 years (that’s a lot of people years) we find that eating spicy foods, particularly using chilies, adds years… Continue reading Spicy Foods Help You Live Longer

August 03, 2015 NRF2   Reference: NRF2.com, Pall in APS, Thieme, Wikipedia, Science Direct   August 3, 2015   Ever heard of Nrf? (Nuclear factor erythroid derived) I bet you thought Nerfs were some blue cartoon character, or better yet, a foam ball with which you could play office basketball. Not so. Nrf 2 is a protein that is in every tissue in your… Continue reading Nrf2

July 27, 2015 Raising Growth Hormone with Exercise   Reference: Godfrey Sports Med   Date July 27, 2015   You want muscle. More is better (up to a point). And we lose a bit every year as we age. We also lose growth hormone as we age.   Growth hormone is your repair hormone. Yes, it makes you grow when… Continue reading Raising Growth Hormone with Exercise