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December 31, 2023 4th Stage of Water You can tell me the three known stages of water, right? Liquid, gas, and ice (solid). Did you ever think there might be a fourth? Would you be a bit surprised if I ventured to suggest that multicellular life on planet earth might depend on that fourth phase?… Continue reading The Fourth Phase of Water

December 24, 2023 Diosmin and the Glycocalyx Diosmin is not new to medicine. It was discovered in 1925 and is widely present in citrus peel. It has been used in Europe since 1969 and has been found to be safe and effective. Its first uses were peripheral artery disease and the treatment of diabetes. That’s… Continue reading Diosmin and the Glycocalyx

December 17, 2023 Glycocalyx Barriers are Key to Your Health Ever heard of “glycocalyx”? Nobody else has either. If you have any trouble with your gut, or have any form of heart trouble including high blood pressure, you need to pay attention. The term “endothelial dysfunction” is bandied about freely when we talk about high… Continue reading Care of Your Glycocalyx is Key to Your Health

December 11, 2023 Hormonal Effects of Omega 3 Fats Compared to Saturated Fat One of the “Great Dietary Transitions” of humans with the advent of civilization occurred in the 1950s, and no one noticed. All of our animals were moved from pastureland to feedlots. That fundamentally changed the fat content in their meat. Examination of… Continue reading The Hormonal Effects of Omega Fats

December 03, 2023 Oxidized Phospholipids And Autoimmune Diseases The Holy Grail of medicine is “just what starts it all”. We have yet to find that unified hypothesis of disease that would explain how the human body gets in trouble. Inflammation is a pretty broad excuse and doesn’t quite get down to the details that matter.… Continue reading Oxidized Phospholipids and Autoimmune Disease

November 26, 2023 Red Meat and Processed Meat and the Risk of Diabetes It’s been a hunch for years but has never been properly studied. Immigrant studies back in the seventies first gave a clue. Japanese immigrants to Hawaii had the rate of diabetes and heart disease as other Hawaiians in the 1950s, only to… Continue reading Red Meat and Processed Meats Cause Diabetes

November 19, 2023 An Influenza Shot Can Reduce Your Risk of Alzheimer’s by 40% No kidding. A well-done study from the U. of Texas (Houston) shows just that. The researchers took 2.6 million older adults to find 930 thousand matched pairs who did or didn’t get flu shots. The risk reduction was 40%. This study… Continue reading A Flu Shot Reduces Your Risk of Alzheimer’s

November 12, 2023 Visceral Fat Shrinks Your Brain The gut-brain-immune triad is more complex and more important that any of us imagined. For starters, if you take 10,001 older Americans (average age 52) and do a whole body MRI scan with volumetric calculations of brain regions and body fat, notably visceral fat, you can show that quantity… Continue reading Visceral Fat Shrinks Your Brain

November 05, 2023 Visceral Fat Causes Artery Disease Visceral fat is the fat around your organs. It is internal fat and very different than subcutaneous fat. Subcutaneous fat is what you pinch on your side or arm or wherever. Subcutaneous fat is designed to store calories in order to make it through winter or any… Continue reading Visceral Fat Causes Artery Disease

October 29, 2023 Visceral Fat is in Your Muscles Too! Last week we learned that not all fat is the same. So-called “visceral fat” is inside your abdominal cavity and wrapped around your organs. It is intensely inflammatory” and associated with virtually all the disabling, degenerative diseases of aging. “Why are my knuckles so big?’… Continue reading Visceral Fat is in Your Muscles Too