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June 07, 2020 References:  David Sinclair’s “Lifespan”,  We live about 120 years at the maximum.  There are many theories of why we age.  The strongest of them consider a variety of forces that degrade our bodies.  For example, at age 60 we make only 10% of the stem cells we made when we were 20.… Continue reading Understanding Longevity I: How Your Genes Work

May 31, 2020 References:  Iran J Immunology, Healthline, Nat Commun, Diet vs Disease, Nature,  Do you have occasional floods of odd symptoms when you eat?  Chest pains?  Gas? Bloating? ER Visits?  No Answers?  I’ve heard of all of those, and we don’t always have simple answers.  And we see more of these in CIRS (Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome) than… Continue reading Salicylate Intolerance, Food Allergies, and CIRS

May 24, 2020 Reference: The Guardian, NYture, Weston Price Foundation, Just a month or so ago Japan was mired in Olympic cancellation controversy and foot-dragging over their response to the COVID-19 threat.  Dire warning about an upcoming disaster with headlines of doom were common.   Now, they have only had 16,000 cases and 784 deaths out of 126… Continue reading Corona Success In Japan, How Did They do It?

May 18, 2020 References: ZME Science, SSRN, Vitamin D Council, Science, SSRN-Philipines,  This might be the most important action you can take to build your immune system up to fight COVID-19.  Yes, most important is just to not get it by lowering your risk of exposure, social isolation, hand washing, avoiding face touching, etc.  But focus here, Vitamin D appears… Continue reading COVID-19 Strategy: Focus on Vitamin D

May 11, 2020 References:  Consumer Reports, Lancet, Marine Pollution Bulletin,  During these COVID-19 times, you and I are not going to restaurants.  We are ordering carry out.  It comes in plastic containers.  We take those home and plop them in the microwave.  With that, you are getting about a credit card worth of plastic a week into… Continue reading Don’t Eat Plastic

May 04, 2020 COVID-19 Strategy: Selenium References:  Science Direct, Am Jr Clinical Nutrition, Wikipedia, Health Ambition, Uckele Health, Advances in Nutrition, Lancet, Nutrients, Archives Int Med, Medical News,  LIttle things sometimes turn out to be really big.  You haven’t heard of selenium very much as it’s a pretty arcane little niche of medicine.  There are about 25 selenoproteins in humans.  Five of them play a pivotal… Continue reading COVID Strategy Selenium

April 27, 2020 References:  Vine Health Care, Am Council on Science and Health, CBS News, Oxygen Saturation Sensor, Science Direct NAD, Ever heard of Methylene Blue?  Possibly as a cheap party trick for making your pee look green on St. Patrick’s Day.  Don’t do that.  It does interfere with some other drugs that folks may be taking.  But what about COVID’19… Continue reading Novel Strategy for COVID-19: Methylene Blue

April 19, 2020 References: Frontiers Immunology, Sahlgrenska Academy, Jr Clinical Investigation, Mole Cellular Immunology, Immune Aging, Hematology,  When you were born, your immune system was a clean slate.  It had no antibodies, no T cells, no memory B cells, nada.  But you had a secret weapon: a full dose of Mom’s antibodies.  Newborns don’t get sick for about 5-6 months as they… Continue reading Novel Strategies for COVID-19: Plasma Transfusion

April 12, 2020 References: RealClearPolitics,  WayBackMachine, The Lancet, ProceedNatAcadSci , ClinGov, New York Post, ChildrensHealthDefense, BMJ, EndocrineConnections, Future Microbiology,  COVID-19 does NOT CAUSE ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome).  It looks like it but that’s not what is happening primarily. ARDS is happening but that is secondary and comes from too much oxygen by ventilators. Listen to Dr. Kyle-Sidell, an intensivist in New York, explain that his COVID… Continue reading Novel Strategies for COVID-19: Hit Back with Vitamins C and D

April 04, 2020 References: New York Times, Foreign Policy , Bloomberg, NBCNews, ScienceDirect, RejuvenationResearch, Linus Pauling Institute, Cell Life Sci, [Genes and Development, Preprints, BioRxiv, Nature,  All right, you are staying home. (Not everyone is! See Cell Phone Tracking. And you are thinking about face masks. (You should, that is a central tenant of Taiwan’s world-class control action.). You even heard of getting TB vaccination (called BCG) as a means of boosting… Continue reading Covid Strategy: Hit back with NAD