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December 09, 2013 GMO Paper on Roundup Has Been Withdrawn  Reference:  Nature Magazine,     This is an important development.  The Author Giles-Eric Seralini published a blockbusting paper on the effects of GMO corn on lab rats.  His allegations were that GMO produced corn caused all sorts of cancers in rats.  This article has set of a firestorm of… Continue reading GMO Paper on Roundup Has Been Withdrawn

December 02, 2013 What Does Your Health Data Dashboard Include?   References:  See internally   People ask.  Do you know your height and weight?  Your glucose?  Your cholesterol?  After that they get lost.   Here is my summary list so that you can think about it and start to construct what I think should be your critical data. … Continue reading What Does Your Health Data Dashboard Include?

November 25, 2013 Tom Hanks has Diabetes   Reference:  Oct 7th, David Letterman Show JAMA 2012   Tom Hanks is not overweight.  But he got diabetes.  What gives?  We thought that diabetes happens just to folks who are overweight and get insulin resistant.  That’s actually true for the most part, and the risk association is there.  Even with that,… Continue reading Tom Hanks Has Diabetes

November 18, 2013   The Value of Optimism: Longer Life   Reference:  J Pers Soc Psychology   Is your glass half empty, or half full?  Haven’t you heard that question before?  And how often have you reflected on the way you answer?  Do you let yourself sink into worry about what may happen to you, and how you… Continue reading The Value of Optimism: Longer Life

November 11, 2013 Testosterone Therapy and Adverse Outcomes   Reference:  JAMA Nov  Headlines on the morning news, “Men taking testosterone have up to 30% increased risk of adverse events from taking the testosterone”.   8700 men in the VA system with testosterone levels below 300 were treated with topical testosterone therapy.  They were then followed for an average… Continue reading Testosterone Therapy and Adverse Outcomes

November 04, 2013 The Oxytocin Primer   Reference:  Passion, Sex and Long Life by Thierry Hertoghe   What is oxytocin?  It’s one of our pituitary hormones.  It is secreted deep in our brain (paraventricular nuclei in the hypothalamus) by neurons that have a long axon attached to them that runs down into the back of the pituitary.  At the… Continue reading Oxytocin: The Primer

October 28, 2013 Phytonutrients in Fruit and the Cancer Connection   Reference:  Eating on the Wild Side by Jo Robinson   This is such an important topic, we’re doing two weeks.  We covered vegetables last week and now fruit.  To recap the concept.  GMO food is not new.  We, humans, have been genetically modifying food the old-fashioned way for… Continue reading Phytonutrients in Fruit and the Cancer Connection

October 21, 2013 Phyto-Nutrient Content of Vegetables and the Cancer Connection   Reference:  Eating on the Wild Side by Jo Robinson   All right.  So you learned last week that we have spent 5000 years of human history molding plants to fit our taste buds and our economic interests, and didn’t know how to measure for phytonutrients.  As a… Continue reading Phyto-Nutrient Content of Vegetables and the Cancer Connection

October 14, 2013 Methylation – The Name of the Game for your Genes When you Exercise   Reference:  Ronin and Volkov in PloS Genetics, Zierath Cell Metabolism March 2012   What on earth is methylation?  It is the chemical addition of one carbon atom to a molecule.  Your genes are made up of thousands of complex molecules that give… Continue reading Methylation and Exercise

October 07, 2013 Fermented Wheat Germ and Cancer Regulation   Reference:  Demidov, Garami, Wikipedia,  Hidvegi   Solid tumor chemotherapy has not had a stellar run lately.  Folks with cancers from our internal organs (solid tumor, compared to blood tumors) find that the chemo they take may slow the disease, but then it comes back stronger and angrier.  We haven’t been able… Continue reading Fermented Wheat Germ and Cancer Regulation