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September 24, 2010 The Trouble with Wheat, or “How You Got Fat Silently”  Reference: Your Hidden Food Allergies are Making You Fat, Rudy Rivera 2002 Date:  Sept  24th, 2010  Wheat, the staff of life.  Bread of Life.  Sort of like a holy topic.  But there’s trouble just below the surface.  We eat a lot of wheat.  Donuts,… Continue reading The Trouble with Wheat I, or “How You Got Fat Silently”

September 16, 2010 B Vitamins May Delay Alzheimer’s  Reference:  Online Public Library of Science Sept 9, 2010 Competency: Brain Health  B Vitamins are an interesting bunch.  They are water-soluble and tend to get washed out easily.  If we are on water pills for high blood pressure we tend to lose a lot B vitamins.  If our “one… Continue reading B Vitamins May Delay Alzheimer’s

September 09, 2010 Your Mother Made You Fat!  Reference:  Journal of Nutrition 140(9) 1595 2010 Competency: Good Fats, Bad Fats  Here is the experiment just published in the Journal of Lipid Research (what, you didn’t read that one!) that gives another piece of evidence that you can blame it all on your mother.  If you give four… Continue reading Your Mother Made You Fat!

September 01, 2010 Migraine Linked to Glutamate Balancing Gene  Sept 1, 2010 Reference: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/News-scientists-expose-migraine-causing-gene-083110.aspx Competency:  Brain Health  This is a first.  An international collaboration of genetic databases looking at 3,000 patients with chronic migraine to 10,000 folks without migraine, and then expanding that to another 3,000 migraine sufferers and 40,000 controls found a common set of genetic… Continue reading Migraine Linked to Glutamate Balancing Gene

August 23, 2010 How Much Vitamin D is Enough?   Reference: Time Magazine, August 20, 2010How much is enough?   The American Institute of Medicine, in 1997, decreed that up to 2000 IU a day is safe, but that any more could be toxic.  With that warning, the whole world of organized medicine has been very cautious to… Continue reading How Much Vitamin D is Enough? – Not a Question for the Packers

August 16, 2010 Cancer Cells LOVE Fructose   Reference;  Cancer Therapy, August 1, 2010  Heaney et al We know that cancer cells can use glucose for energy.  That’s common knowledge.  But table sugar is made of two compounds bonded together.  One is glucose, the other is fructose.  High fructose corn syrup (HCFS) is actually very similar to… Continue reading Cancer Cells LOVE Fructose – The “ReTox Diet”

August 10, 2010 Give me a List!  Hidden Names of MSG   Competency: Brain Health  Ok, ok already!  I’ve gotten dozens of requests from folks to have a simple list for MSG for your wallet or fridge.  MSG is such a dangerous food additive, we all simply need to find ways to get it out of… Continue reading Hidden Names for MSG

July 30, 2010 Turmeric:  The Spice of Life   Competency:  Brain Health, Heart Health   Reference:  Life Extension Magazine Review Article, August 2010 (Subscribe to this magazine!)  Turmeric is the yellow in mustard and curry.  It is a spice used in Indian food for five thousand years, and in Aryuvedic medicine just as long.  And it should… Continue reading Turmeric: The Spice of Life

July 14, 2010 Fisetin, the Supplement that Protects you Against AGEing  Competency: Brain Health  Reference:  Maher, Pro Natl Acad Sci 2006 103(44), 16568   Fisetin is a very interesting compound that may just be the next hot topic on life-extending strategies.  It is a polyphenol compound that’s found most commonly in strawberries but is otherwise not really… Continue reading Fisetin, the Supplement that Protects you Against AGEing

July 01, 2010 Neuroexcitotoxicity #7:  Aspartate and Aspartame.  Is it safe?  Competency Brain Health Reference:  Russell Blaylock and “The Taste that Kills”  We know glutamate.  90% of excitatory neuro-effects in the brain are run by glutamate.  It’s a small amino acid that is found in food and protected from getting into our brain by the blood-brain… Continue reading Neuroexcitotoxicity #7: Aspartate and Aspartame. Is it safe?