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August 13, 2023 Your PPI Stomach Acid Drug May be Killing You The PPI class of drugs (proton pump inhibitors) are the main drugs used to treat GERD in America. They are very effective at reducing stomach acid. The pH of your stomach, designed to be pH 2 in order to efficiently digest protein, essentially… Continue reading Your PPI Stomach Acid Drug May be Killing You

August 06, 2023 The REAL Cause of Post-Partum Depression It was all over the news. CNN, and others, all announcing the discovery of a new drug to treat post-partum depression. Zuranolone has been approved by the FDA to be marketed under the name Zurzuvae. Zuranolone is a positive allosteric modulator of GABA-A receptors. GABA functions… Continue reading The Real Cause of Postpartum Depression

July 24, 2023 Sugar Changes Your Gut Biome – And Makes You Fat I bet you have never heard of microbiota-induced or commensal Th17 cells. Well, you should know about them because they are what you are fighting over in your struggle to not be fat. It’s not simple, but the evidence is there. Here… Continue reading Sugar Changes Your Gut Biome

July 16, 2023 Good Hydration May Be a Longevity Key You are likely sick of ads for electrolyte drinks, filled with sugars, for rehydrating yourself. Beautiful/handsome sweaty young athletes swilling down bottles of sugar water, made from high fructose corn syrup and a shake of salt just don’t do it for me. I tend to… Continue reading Good Hydration May be a Key to Longevity

July 09, 2023 Taurine For Longer Life, In Mice and Worms Taurine was first discovered in ox bile, hence the name. It is an amino acid but not one used in proteins. Plants have virtually zero taurine and vegans will have none in their diet. It is not an essential amino acid for humans as… Continue reading Taurine for a Longer Life, If You are a Worm

July 03, 2023 What is Your APOE4 Gene and How Does it Work? You need to know your APOE4 status! About 25% of folks have one APOE4 gene and 2% of us have two. When you have two, your risk of developing Alzheimer’s is about 80%. Even one doubles your risk from 17-20% to 40%.… Continue reading What is Your APOE4 Gene and How Does it Work

June 26, 2023 Low Plasmalogens in Midlife Predict Later Heart Disease We have known for some time that folks on dialysis have much more heart disease and die of heart attacks at about 4 times the rate of the rest of the population. They make pretty good “canaries” to monitor why their heart disease is… Continue reading Low Plasmalogens in Midlife Predict Later Heart Disease

June 19, 2023 Your Oral Microbiome and Exercise Capacity Did you know you have a distinct biome of bacteria, viruses, and fungi in your mouth? More specifically, on your tongue? There are some 10 billion bacteria in your mouth, gums, and tongue, that represent some 700 distinct species. These bacteria do important work. Your oral… Continue reading Your Oral Microbiome and Exercise Capacity

June 11, 2023 Controlling Chronic Pain with Turmeric Curcumin is an interesting spice. It is foundational to curry and the yellow in mustard. The spice has 3 components but it is only the bis-demethoxy-curcumin, missing two methyl groups, and comprising only 3% of the spice that is the active ingredient for inducing super-long chain GTAs,… Continue reading Turmeric and Chronic Pain

June 04, 2023 How to Cure Migraine: Forever! “Dad, I’ve got the worst headache I’ve ever had. It came on suddenly.” My own son, calling me from the mid-Atlantic on a plane from Switzerland, coming to a family reunion. This is the worst possible thing you can tell a parent. He must have an aneurysm… Continue reading How to Cure Migraine – Maybe Forever