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October 13, 2014 Cleveland Clinic Leads America Again – Adds Functional Medicine Clinic   Reference:   Cleveland Plain Dealer Sept 22, 2014  The Cleveland Clinic has been one of the most admired clinics in America. It was the birthplace of open-heart surgery and for many years has been one of if not the premier destination for open-heart surgery… Continue reading Cleveland Clinic Leads American Health Care the Right Way

October 06, 2014 Reversal of Cognitive Decline – A Path for Alzheimer’s Care?   Reference: Breseden Aging Sept 2014  Can you imagine, reversal of cognitive decline? This might be a huge leap forward in this scourge called Alzheimer’s. To date, we really don’t have one treatment that has worked well. Now, Dr. Breseden presents three patients (tiny… Continue reading Reversal of Cognitive Decline – A Path for Alzheimer’s Care?

September 29, 2014 Quercetin for Cancer, Bones and Allergies  References:  Tsuji J Bone and Min Metab 2013, Mei JCAM 2013,  Kaur JNCI  What’s Quercetin?  You probably haven’t heard of it.  It is a flavone antioxidant that is present in lots of vegetables.  Onions and apples are always cited.   There have been off and on news articles about quercetin helping reduce prostate… Continue reading Quercetin – A Novel Super-Antioxidant

September 22, 2014 Artificial Sweeteners Make your Fatter   Reference:  Nature Sept 2014 Nature Suez  All right, you are a little overweight and want to slim down a touch.  Instead of fully sugared soda, you decide to get just the zero-calorie soda instead, sweetened with an artificial sweetener.  You won’t gain weight, right?  In fact, you can drink that… Continue reading Artificial Sweeteners Make your Fatter

September 15, 2014 Leptin: A Primer for Weight Control   Reference: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences  Just what is leptin?   Nice that you would ask. You have likely heard about it and remain slightly fuzzy. Isn’t it “one of those obesity hormones?” you might ask. Well, yes. It is the hormone made by your… Continue reading Leptin: A Primer for Weight Control

September 08, 2014 The High Fat Diet Wins! Reference:  Annals of Internal Medicine,  New York Times  The first-ever, randomized diet study that does not restrict calories (which no one can do) and simply compares a low fat diet to a high fat diet is now published and in the books.   The low fat folks were told to… Continue reading High Fat Diet WINS!

September 02, 2014 A Cure for Sleep Apnea? Reference: Science Daily, Sleep Medicine 2014  Sleep apnea is increasingly being recognized as a huge risk for men. It keeps climbing up the risk ladder as causes of heart disease.   What is it? It’s the subtle collapse of the upper airway that blocks normal, effortless breathing while asleep. What ensues… Continue reading Sleep Apnea – A Cure?

August 18, 2014 One Single Enzyme May be the Key to the Development of Diabetes   Reference: August 14th issue of Molecular and Cellular Biology  There may just one enzyme the gets us in trouble when we get overweight.  About 40% of Americans are currently in that state of diabetes or prediabetes, and that’s if you count a… Continue reading One Single Enzyme May be the Key to the Development of Diabetes

August 04, 2014 Marijuana and Multiple Sclerosis   Reference:   American Academy of Neurology Guidelines 2014  Time to get serious about this strange plant, cannabis.  In this review, Dr. Koppel reviews 33 studies of  cannabis, THC or oral cannabis extract in the treatment of MS, seizures, Parkinson’s and other disorders.  It included multicenter trials that also had placebo-controlled… Continue reading Marijuana and Multiple Sclerosis

July 21, 2014 Live Longer with Mindfulness   Reference:  Nature, CNN   Let’s connect how long you live with some basic science and physiology, and then stress.   Every chromosome you have has a protective end on it called a telomere.  That is a repeating set of “nonsense DNA” that gets shortened each time the cell divides (It gives space… Continue reading Live Longer With Mindfulness