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July 14, 2014 Green Tea Prevents Alzheimer’s   Reference: Kuriyama Am J Clin Nutrition  Right now Alzheimer’s is the leading cause of dementia in America, affecting about one-third of folks over age 80.   Going forward, the prediction is that it will soon affect some 50% of adults in their later 80s.   That’s not a very happy thought.… Continue reading Green Tea Prevents Alzheimer’s

July 07, 2014 Coconut Oil – Mouth Wash Extraordinaire   Reference:  Kris Gunnars in Authority Nutrition, Asia Jr of Public Health  Coconut oil has been around a long time.  Much of the tropical world uses it, prior to the advent of cheaper vegetable oils.   There are many studies that show it to have a beneficial effect on heart… Continue reading Coconut Oil – Mouth Wash for Your Plaque

June 30, 2014 Kamut Wheat:  God’s Wheat for IBS, Heart Disease, and Whatever Else Ails You!   Reference:  Sofi Br J Nutrition 2014, Suligoj, Sofi Eur J Clin Nutr  Wheat likely evolved somewhere around the Black Sea.  Ballard, the guy who found the Titanic, explored the Black sea and found evidence of a sudden vast deluge as the Mediterranean overran the… Continue reading Kamut Wheat: Pharaoh, Irritable Bowels and Hardened Hearts

June 16, 2014 Vitamin D and Survival with Breast Cancer and Colon Cancer   Reference:  European Cancer Journal Feb 2014  That’s the summary.  It’s all in the title.  Folks with higher D levels and breast or colon cancer live longer. What was the D level they were seeking?  Pretty easy to achieve.   75 nmoles is 30 ng. … Continue reading Vitamin D and Survival of Breast Cancer and Colon Cancer

June 02, 2014 Zinc Deficiency, Common or Not?   Reference: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation  What do you know about zinc? Pretty mundane stuff and sort of boring.   Until you are deficient. You may have used a zinc supplement to help cool off a cold. Probably a bit successfully as many of us are a bit deficient.   Intake… Continue reading Zinc, My Second Favorite Mineral

May 26, 2014 Curcumin for Depression – Eat More Curry!   Reference:  Sanmukhani Phytotherapy Research   Depression!  Ugly.  At least 10% of us have it at any given time. “You are mentally ill,” we say and turn away.  Not only do you suffer, but you get left out in the cold.  So we give you all sorts of… Continue reading Curcumin as Good as Prozac for Depression

May 19, 2014 We Get Fat Because….?  We never have winter.   Reference:  Ludwig JAMA  May 16 2014   You have heard it said a hundred times.  “You are fat because you overeat!”   That means the flaw is in you.  You don’t have enough willpower.  You must be lazy as well as glutinous.  We quote the laws of… Continue reading We get fat because….? We never have winter

May 12, 2014 Pycnogenol: Long Overdue Claim to Fame   Reference: Enseleit European Heart Journal Stuard Panminerva Med   French maritime pine bark. That’s it! Pine bark. Who would have thought it had medicinal value? Well, the Europeans have been interested in it for over 30 years and have over 300 publications about it. In America, we seem to… Continue reading Pycnogenol: Sex, Tinnitus, Alzheimer’s and Heart Attacks

May 05, 2014 CoQ10 and Heart Failure   Reference   Mortenson European Heart Journal 2013  Half of us die with heart failure as one of the significant contributing factors to our death.  That’s what death is, your heart finally giving up.  A failing heart can only pump 20% or so of its volume with each beat.  A healthy… Continue reading CoQ10 and Heart Failure

April 28, 2014 Omega 7 Fatty Acids – As good as OO7   Reference  Stefan, Diabetes Care 2012  If you knew that Harvard Medical School had applied for a patent on a here-to-fore unstudied omega fatty acid, would you be intrigued?    Palmitoleic acid is called an Omega-7 because it has a double bond after 7 carbon atoms.  It is… Continue reading Omega 7 Fatty Acids – As good as OO7