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September 30, 2013 Bridge, the Game for Aging Brains   Reference: NYT on Kids and Bridge,  A Place for Mom Blog on Bridge   Bridge anyone?  We tell you to use your brain in puzzles and intellectually challenging projects as you age.  We suggest you stay socially invested.  We want you to be active and get out of your… Continue reading Bridge, The Perfect Game for the Aging Brain

September 17, 2013 Estrogen Balance, Metabolism and Stress   Reference:  A4M Advanced Endocrine Module with Eldred Taylor   Just about the most common complaint women tell me when they get to be 55 and postmenopausal is, “Why can’t I sleep and why is all this stuff showing up around my middle?  My waist is expanding and I’m… Continue reading Estrogen Balance, Metabolism and Stress

September 09, 2013 Taste Receptors in your Gut Are Dysfunctional in Diabetes   Reference:  Diabetes, Sept 2013   I bet you didn’t know that you had taste receptors in your intestine!  I didn’t.  But it makes sense when you think about how things go awry in diabetes.  And that’s just what this very interesting and seminal research figured… Continue reading Taste Receptors in your Gut Are Dysfunctional in Diabetes

September 02, 2013 Mindfulness Meditation Reduces Cortisol   Reference:  J Med Assoc Thai   Cortisol is a curious hormone.  We make a burst of it first thing in the morning.  Its job is to make your feel alert and awake, full of “vim and vigor”.  Your blood level zooms from 2-4 up to 16-20 between 4 am and… Continue reading Mindfulness Meditation Reduces Cortisol

August 26, 2013 Vitamin E and the Alzheimer’s Connection   Reference:  Mangialasche Neurobiol Aging   Vitamin E, in its alpha-tocopherol form has been a bit of a bust as a supplement to prevent aging-related cognitive decline.  That has been a big disappointment too.  It didn’t work with heart disease (least week) and it made prostate cancer worse, (two… Continue reading Vitamin E and the Alzheimer’s Connection

August 12, 2013What do You Know About Vitamin E? Reference:  Second International Symposium on Tocotrienols. April 2012 There has been a fair amount of publicity in the last year or two regarding Vitamin E as being a problem.  In particular, the HOPE studies showed the Vitamin E did not really help heart disease or cancer in almost… Continue reading What do You Know about Vitamin E?

July 22, 2013 Feces Transplant  Reference:  Jr. of Clinical Gastroenterology Khoruts June 2013   Yuck!  Warning.  You may be grossed out so just skip this week.  Or you may be fascinated.  Here are the facts about your colon.  90% of the cells in the human body are in the colon.  Said another way, there are 10 distinct… Continue reading Feces Transplant to Fix Your Refractory D. difficile

July 15, 2013 Do Omega Fatty Acids Cause Prostate Cancer?   Reference:  Brasky, J Natl Cancer Institute July 11, 2013   Headlines! Fish Oil causes prostate cancer.  Oh, dear.  Now what?  Is it real?  What did they find?  Here are the details.   After screening 800 men that went on to develop prostate cancer versus 1300 men that didn’t,… Continue reading Do Omega Fatty Acids Cause Prostate Cancer?

July 08, 2013 Vitamin D and Hypertension Risk   Reference: European Genetics Conference in Paris, Jun 2013   It’s summer, the sun is out, we are all outside playing in the beautiful sunshine.  And getting our Vitamin D.  That means we are lowering our blood pressure.  At least according to Dr. Karani S, the lead researcher in the… Continue reading Vitamin D and Hypertension Risk

July 01, 2013 Silver Antibiotic, Rediscovered   Reference:  Science Translational Medicine,     This isn’t a huge study but it is very interesting.  Dr. Morones-Ramirez and colleagues show that silver makes some antibiotics work better when applied to mice with lab-induced gram-negative infections.   That’s interesting.  Silver was also shown to help break up biofilms in which bacteria can… Continue reading Silver Antibiotic, Rediscovered