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March 11, 2023 Nrf2 System and Oxidative Stress No, we are not talking about Nerf Balls or Smurfs. The Nrf2 (nuclear factor erythroid 2–related factor 2) system is right up with Nitric Oxide in importance in that it plays a key regulatory role in managing oxidative stress. Oxidative stress is one of the key drivers… Continue reading Nrf2 and Oxidative Stress

March 05, 2023 Nitric Oxide Boosted BEST by…….Chili Peppers When the august American Heart Association has a paper presented at its annual meeting that the consumption of chili peppers reduces heart disease mortality 26%, cancer 23%, and all-cause mortality 25%, you just have to sit up and take notice. Compare this to the all-cause mortality reduction of statins of… Continue reading Nitric Oxide is Boosted Best by………..Chili Peppers

February 26, 2023 Nitric Oxide Loss Drives Adult-Onset Diabetes The very first incremental step of developing diabetes is insulin resistance as shown by the increase of fasting blood glucose into the 90s. The Whitehall Study from Great Britain showed that a fasting glucose of 86 determined the absence of cardiovascular risk, with a 6% increased… Continue reading Diabetes is Caused by Low Nitric Oxide

February 19, 2023 Nitric Oxide and COVID What do all the risk factors for COVID have in common? Heart disease, hypertension, obesity, diabetes, age, male gender. Think for a second. They are a laundry list of Nitric Oxide deficiency syndromes. NO drives your immune system. The first discovery of NO working was with severe influenza in ICUs… Continue reading Nitric Oxide and COVID

February 12, 2023 Nitric Oxide and Your Heart Half of us will die of cardiovascular disease. Hmm. We are as old as our arteries. What causes our arteries to age? Simple, the lack of nitric oxide. We lose about 12% of our nitric oxide per decade. We have talked about cholesterol for decades, without really… Continue reading Nitric Oxide and Your Heart

February 05, 2023 Nitric Oxide – The Fulcrum of Life A fulcrum is something on which a process pivots. Ah! That’s how important NO is. All three theories of aging, stem cell collapse, oxidation, telomere shortening all pivot on the fulcrum of NO and are actuated and prevented with sufficient NO. NO is so important,… Continue reading Nitric Oxide, The Fulcrum of Life

January 29, 2023 One Type of Exercise Protects Your Brain the Best In the era of FitBits and ultrasensitive measuring devices, we can now monitor just about exactly whatever you do, all day long. Using that for a useful purpose becomes the next stage of lifestyle research. Wouldn’t you like to know if there is… Continue reading One Type of Exercise Helps Your Brain the Most

January 22, 2023 Vitamin K2 Might Just be the Holy Grail for Your Heart The two scourges of modern civilization, osteoporosis, and coronary artery disease. They seem to have skyrocketed together over the last 100 years, concurrently with our remarkable extension of life span. Are we getting more of these two wicked demons just because… Continue reading Vitamin K2 Might be the Holy Grail for Your Heart

January 15, 2023 Create More Happiness – Channel Your Inner Finn Ok, ok, not everyone in Wisconsin came from Germany…there have been boatloads of Swedes, Italians, Ukrainians, Poles, Norwegians, and Finns too. But when we hear that Finland just landed “the happiest country in the world” for the fifth year in a row, you might be tempted to… Continue reading Create More Happiness for Yourself – Channel Your Inner Finn

January 08, 2023 Diagnose Autism with a Hair Sample Want to know if your one-year-old child might develop autism with 81% accuracy? That’s the test currently being fast-tracked with the FDA. Since we typically don’t diagnose autism until age 3-5, knowing your risks ahead of time might allow preventative or interventional efforts to be taken.… Continue reading Autism May be Diagnosed with a Hair Sample