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October 22, 2023 Visceral Fat, The Source of All Metabolic Evil “Eeewwww,……gross!” said my anatomy partner in medical school as she lifted out the heart of our cadaver. His heart was almost completely covered with fat. “Is that why he died of heart disease?” she asked. “Oh, no….that’s just part of the accumulated fat,” our… Continue reading Visceral Fat – The Root of All Metabolic Evil

October 08, 2023 How to Repair Post-COVID Heart Inflammation in Children The COVID pandemic is not yet over. As of Oct 6, 2023, some 230 people are dying from COVID-19. Most of those were over age 65 of whom a majority were unvaccinated. Children hardly get COVID at all. That is likely attributable to the protective… Continue reading How to Stop Post COVID-19 Heart Inflammation in Kids

October 08, 2023 Your Brain Shrinks as You Age Is this real? Is this normal? What is happening here? Take 653 cognitively normal adults, 447 men and 206 women, mean age 55 at the beginning and follow them annually with volumetric MRI scans. A total of 7915 scans, roughly 12 each were obtained over that… Continue reading Your Brain Shrinks as You Age

October 01, 2023 How to Stop Heart Disease in Its Tracks Considering that half of us will die from heart disease, that’s a bold statement. If you were to ask 100 cardiologists, they would likely say, “Take a statin.” as their primary tool against heart disease. I am going to show you that they are… Continue reading How to Stop Heart Disease in Its Tracks

September 24, 2023 You Can Make Your Brain Bigger The cardinal sign of Alzheimer’s is a shrunken, withered brain. Science has progressed from recognizing the shrinkage on the macro level to understanding the engine that is driving it. Yale was the first to show by PET scanning with a unique marker of synapses that synaptic… Continue reading You Can Make Your Brain Bigger

September 17, 2023 What Causes Schizophrenia? Schizophrenia is an odd disease. It strikes teenagers (most often) who have otherwise been normal. They often present with a characteristic prodrome of disordered thinking. That prodrome is better treated with fish oil than any other pharmaceutical, reducing the odds of flipping into full fledged schizophrenia by some 50-70%.… Continue reading What Causes Schizophrenia?

September 10, 2023 Chronic Lyme has MRI Scan Changes Consistent with Demyelination Chronic Lyme Disease is a mystery, much like Chronic COVID. There is clearly a similarity with Chronic Lyme and CIRS. We, in the CIRS community, contend that chronic Lyme disease is a cause of about 10% of CIRS with 80% of CIRS being… Continue reading Chronic Lyme disease has Demyelination on MRI

August 27, 2023 Skin Wrinkles Drive Aging We age. Our skin ages. Bummer. Our skin is our largest organ and provides an amazing protection from all the nasty things in our environment. It has collagen providing firmness, elastin adding elasticity and rebound, and glycosaminoglycans to maintain hydration. They are all abundant in young, healthy, unwrinkled… Continue reading Skin Wrinkles Drive Aging

August 20, 2023 Live Longer with Selenium and CoQ10 This sounds like a little fluff study that doesn’t have much relevance. Let me argue that it is quite an important study in that it reveals important principles that are quite interesting. We are looking at one of the core “Hallmarks of Aging”, namely telomere shortening.… Continue reading Live Longer with CoQ10 and Selenium

August 13, 2023 What’s Your Ageotype? Ok, I’m not used to manufactured words. Age “o” type is meant to mean there is a typing methodology to how we age. At least, that is the proposal made by Michael Snyder’s Genetics team out of Stanford. There is more under the surface. What this really reveals is… Continue reading What’s Your Ageotype?