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August 07, 2022 Turkey Tail Mushrooms and Breast Cancer You know turkey tail mushrooms. If you ever walk in the woods, you will see them as one of the more common mushrooms growing off tree trunks, like a circular shelf. If you look at the bottom of them, they look like a turkey tail, fanned out. They… Continue reading Turkey Tail Mushrooms and Breast Cancer

August 01, 2022 Vitamin D Improves Clinical Function in Heart Failure In 2004, a report of two cases from Great Britain of infants presenting in severe congestive heart failure was published. Literally, 6-week-old infants, were admitted to ICUs with huge, dilated hearts and all indications of severe congestive heart failure. There were found to be recent immigrants… Continue reading Vitamin D Improves Clinical Function in Congestive Heart Failure

July 24, 2022 Glutathione, The Most Accurate Predictor of Cognitive Decline Do you know what glutathione is? Wikipedia reports that it is your body’s most important natural antioxidant and is “capable of preventing damage to important cellular components caused by reactive oxygen species such as free radicals, peroxides, lipid peroxides, and heavy metals. That makes it hugely… Continue reading Glutathione, the Most Accurate Predictor of Cognitive Decline

July 17, 2022 Lactulose to Supercharge your GI Tract You have never heard about lactulose before. That’s amazing because you probably should be on it for the rest of your life! This is interesting. What is lactulose? It is an undigestable sugar made of galactose and fructose linked together. We have no enzymes to digest… Continue reading Supercharge your Gut with Lactulose

July 10, 2022 Ketones Turn on Uncoupling Your body has two fuel sources. Carbohydrates and fat. You could add protein but generally speaking, protein is used for muscle building and extra is broken down into glucose. If you have any carbohydrates (glucose) around, your body will naturally default to running on that first. Here is… Continue reading Ketones Turn on Uncoupling

July 03, 2022 Uncoupling Proteins – Or A Calorie is Not Just a Calorie “A calorie is a calorie is a calorie”. You have heard this bored into your head a thousand times. You don’t believe it. And you are right. You can’t lose weight and you are certain “Something is amiss.” It is. Sometimes… Continue reading Uncoupling Proteins – Sometimes a Calorie is Not a Calorie

June 26, 2022 If You Love Your Milwaukee Custard Ice Cream, Don’t Read This Column Sepsis is what kills the most people in hospitals. It is when uncontrolled infections take over in a runaway spiral of inflammation. Most of that inflammation is driven by the lipids off of the surface of gram-negative bacteria from the bowel like… Continue reading If You Love Custard Ice Cream – Don’t Read this Column

June 19, 2022 Melatonin, Your Night Time Mitochondrial Repair Tool You thought melatonin was your “sleep hormone” that you made every night. Well, that was how it was discovered. And that is still true. But did you know that it is much, much more? Both plants and animals make it in mitochondria and chloroplasts where… Continue reading Melatonin, your Nighttime Mitochondrial Repair Tool

June 12, 2022 You Want to Be in Ketosis Yup. Every day. You want to be in ketosis! What is ketosis? What is a ketone? Let’s explain. A ketone is a carbon-oxygen double bond that is naturally made whenever your body shifts into “fat-burning”. But it is so much more. It turns out to be… Continue reading You Want to be in Ketosis

June 05, 2022 The Diabetes Risk Index: A New Predictor of Future Diabetes Risk Diabetes is the human Achille’s Heel. Getting it is bad. Being overweight correlates highly with being diabetic. The problem is that nature wants you to be fat. We evolved in ecosystems where food was not plentiful year-round, and prolonged periods of… Continue reading The Diabetes Risk Assessment for the 92% of Us Who are Insulin Resistant