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December 03, 2012 Vitamin D and Breast Cancer “Climb the Hill”   Reference:  Sharif B Mohr Anti-Cancer Research,  Engel Cancer Epid Biomark Pre   We’ve talked about Vitamin D and cancer for a couple of years.  There has been all sorts of data going back and forth as to whether it is safe or not.  Without the benefit of… Continue reading Vitamin D and Breast Cancer “Climb the Hill”

November 28, 2012 Too Much Vitamin D!   Yes, we have found a ceiling.   Reference:  American Heart Association Meetings in Orlando, Nov 18, 2011 Report from Intermountain Medical Center, Dr Jared Bunch   For a column that has spent some effort to advocate for Vitamin D and its benefits, it’s important for us to also know where our upper… Continue reading Too Much Vitamin D! Yes, we have found a ceiling

November 27, 2012 Making a Data Dashboard on Your Metabolic Risk for Diabetes – for FREE Reference:  Watkins et al, Stockholm Diabetes Meeting 2010   When you drive your car, you have a variety of tools in front of you.  You have a speedometer, a gas gauge, a radio dial, a thermostat, a seat belt monitor etc. … Continue reading Making a Data Dashboard on Your Metabolic Risk for Diabetes – for FREE

November 19, 2012 Insulin and Inflammation: Making a Data Dashboard   Reference:  Scientific American  Dec 16 2009   Last week we talked about making glucose an important part of our “data dashboard” as we learn how to manage our own chronic risks.   This week, it’s insulin. What is insulin?  I’ve been taught my entire life that insulin is the hormone that… Continue reading Insulin and Inflammation: Making a Data Dashboard

November 12, 2012 Slowing Cancer Growth by Vegetables   Reference:  Barnard, Nutrition Cancer, Soliman Evid Based Alternative Med   To detect a cancer, you need about a billion cells.  That size of a lesion can be picked up on mammogram.  To get to a billion, you have to have cells double about 30 times. (Try it on your calculator.) … Continue reading Slowing Cancer Growth by Vegetables

November 07, 2012 Make a Data Dashboard – Glucose and Diabetes   Reference:  American Journal of Medicine, June 2008.   This is big.  Understanding glucose and its role in your health goes to the very heart of our modern epidemics.  We now understand that disordered glucose metabolism is key to our risks for heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s, and… Continue reading Make a Data Dashboard – Glucose and Diabetes

October 31, 2012 Brain Fog From Carbs  Reference;   Roberts et al, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Oct 16th  2012   This is a great study.  Dr. Roberts followed 940 people, ages 70 to 89, who were healthy and had no signs of cognitive impairment.  They were tracked for four years of follow-up and then reevaluated.  200 of the… Continue reading Brain Fog From Carbs

October 22, 2012 Melatonin May Help Prevent Breast Cancer Reference:  Breast Cancer Res Treat, Knower et al  Melatonin is your sleep hormone.  You make it in your pineal gland when it gets dark.  As you get older, you gradually make less. (A lot less:  from some 400 down to 20) It works as a sleeping pill,… Continue reading Melatonin May Help Prevent Breast Cancer

October 17, 2012 Sleep and Weight Gain – Are you Getting Enough?   Reference:Annals of Internal Medicine, Monday, Oct 15 2012,  Broussard et al   Can’t lose weight and just don’t know why?  Consider your sleep and how much of it you are getting.  This important study builds on other similar studies in that journal.  The study found some… Continue reading Sleep and Weight Gain – Are you Getting Enough?

October 09, 2012 Is there Something Fishy about Fish Oil?   Reference:  Sang Me Kwak in Archives of Internal Medicine Is fish oil really not that good for you?  From Korea, Dr Kwak and his team looked at 14 studies with over 20,000 total patients to come up with the suggestion that there may be no extra… Continue reading Is there Something Fishy about Fish Oil?