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October 03, 2011 Managing Your Mitochondria   Reference:  Nutrition Action Health Letter, December 2006   If you thought keeping a trim waistline was a bummer, then you thought it was all about eating less food and exercising more.   At the bottom of it all, that would be true.  But that may be sort of like saying the… Continue reading Managing Your Mitochondria

October 02, 2011 Exercise Increases the Number of Mitochondria in your Brain   Reference:  American Jr Physiology, Sept 2011 Competency:  Brain Health   Mitochondria are your energy factories.  Muscle cells have about 200 of them each while heart cells have as many as 5000.   Some larger brain cells have than many too.  Without the production of energy, we couldn’t… Continue reading Exercise Increases the Number of Mitochondria in your Brain

September 28, 2011 Bones, Sugar and Sex: The Mystery Who-Dun-It   Reference:  New York Times  8/23/2011  – Gerard Karsenty, Columbia University Competency:  Bone Health And you thought bones were all just dry old support systems filled with boring calcium!  Ha!  Not nearly so.   It’s back to the osteocalcin story.  We’ve known for a couple of years that… Continue reading Bones, Sugar and Sex

September 28, 2011 Vitamin B12 and Brain Shrinkage   Competency: Brain Health Reference:  Neurology Oct 2011 Dr Morris et al: Chicago Health and Aging Project  The Chicago Health and Aging Project is a unique longitudinal study looking a discrete group of aging adults.  In this part of the study, Dr. Morris et al from Rush looked at their serum… Continue reading Vitamin B12 and Brain Shrinkage

September 05, 2011 What Happens with GM Foods Anyways?   Reference:  ISIS Report 9/5/11 Meta-analysis of GM Studies in Animals, Gilles-Eric Séralini at Caen University in France  Date:  Sept 5, 2011   Are you a Genetically Modified food-sceptic?  I have been.  Couldn’t be that much of a deal, could it?  We just haven’t gotten traction in America over this… Continue reading What Happens with GM Foods Anyways?

September 01, 2011 Berberine, Super Herb for Metabolic Syndrome, Congestive Failure, MRSA….   Competency:  Natural Plants and Herbs Reference:  World Journal of Cardiology 2010 April 26, 2(4) 71-77   Ever heard of berberine?   Just because it has been used for over 2500 years in Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine doesn’t mean we know about it.  It is actually a pretty… Continue reading Berberine, Super Herb

August 26, 2011 Got Sore Tendons! Curry Can Help   Reference:  Journal of Biological Chemistry 286(32):28556-28566, 2011 Competency:  Inflammation   Curry and sore tendons!  The connections here seem a little weak.  That’s what caught my eye.  How can curry help my sore thumb?  I’ve had tendonitis in it for a couple of months after straining it opening a jar. … Continue reading Got Sore Tendons! Curry Can Help

August 18, 2011 The Cheapest Way to Reduce Your Mortality:  Double Your D   Reference:  William Grant, European Journal of Clinical Nutrition pub online 8/18/2011 Competency Vit D   Dr. Grant present a statistical paper looking at the global risk reduction that occurs with Vit D and the risk reduction that would come to population health.  He estimates that… Continue reading The Cheapest Way to Reduce Your Mortality: Double Your D

August 12, 2011 Breast Cancer Risk and Vitamin D Reference:  Song Yao PLOS, 2011  Competency Vitamin D The very worst kind of breast cancer is so-called “triple-negative” or TN.  It has no receptors for estrogen, progesterone or the HER2 gene that make for sensitivity to endocrine manipulation.  That makes for more aggressive cancer.  The Department of… Continue reading Triple Negative Breast Cancer and Vitamin D

August 05, 2011 Exceptional Longevity and Lifestyle: Not as Virtuous as We thought   Reference:  Jr of American Geriatrics Society, August 5th, 2011, Circulation 2002, p 893-898 Vol 105 Date:  August 8, 2011   To get to be really old, you have to eat right and exercise more! Right?  Well, maybe not.  Published this week in the Journal of… Continue reading Exceptional Longevity and Lifestyle: Not as Virtuous as We thought