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'Drug driving' leads to more fatal crashes than drunk driving
Post Date: 2018-06-03 12:07:30 by BTP Holdings
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'Drug driving' leads to more fatal crashes than drunk driving NBC News Paul A. Eisenstein 2 hrs ago © Joe Raedle/Getty Images A Miami police officer speaks to a driver at a DUI checkpoint in Miami, Florida. An increasing number of drivers involved in fatal crashes are testing positive for drugs, especially opioids and marijuana, according to a new study by the Governors Highway Safety Association — though it is unclear whether drug use is actually the culprit in those crashes. The report raises serious concerns at a time when the U.S. is facing an epidemic of opioid usage and as more and more states legalize marijuana for medical and recreational usage. But the ...
Secret to Longevity May Lie in Microbiome & Gut
Post Date: 2018-06-03 09:45:47 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Scientists fed fruit flies with a combination of probiotics and an herbal supplement called Triphala that was able to prolong the flies' longevity by 60 percent and protect them against chronic diseases associated with aging. You are what you eat. Or so the saying goes. Science now tells us that we are what the bacteria living in our intestinal tract eat and this could have an influence on how well we age. Building on this, McGill University scientists fed fruit flies with a combination of probiotics and an herbal supplement called Triphala that was able to prolong the flies' longevity by 60 % and protect them against chronic diseases associated with aging. The ...
The main reason your body begins to slow down with age — and how to put it off as long as possible
Post Date: 2018-06-02 03:33:52 by Tatarewicz
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Nutrient Insider If you’ve noticed your lungs don’t work like they used to, you’re not alone. Many people suffer significant diminished lung function after the age of 60. But most begin to notice it after age 40. It’s one of the main reasons athletes struggle to perform at the same level as they approach middle age. Believe it or not, your lung function actually begins to decline long before you notice any shortness of breath or heavier breathing after exercise. Some people notice it in the declining sharpness of their memory. Others notice it in their muscles and joints. They become stiff and tire faster. Their muscles also begin to lose strength. For some this is ...
More Drivers Killed Under the Influence of Drugs Than Alcohol
Post Date: 2018-05-31 13:36:56 by Ada
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A new report found fatally injured drivers are increasingly under the influence of one or more drugs.Surge More Fatal injuries due to drunk driving have decreased, while fatal injuries due to drug-impaired driving have increased.(STR/AFP/Getty Images) Some 22.3 percent of fatally injured motorists who were tested for drugs tested positive for marijuana in 2016, a figure that researchers say has "increased substantially" in recent years as states have legalized the drug for recreational or medicinal use, according to a new report. The finding, in a study released Thursday by the Governors Highway Safety Association, was one of several regarding the growing prevalence of drugs ...
5 Potential Benefits of Cryotherapy, Including Pain Relief
Post Date: 2018-05-31 06:55:57 by BTP Holdings
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5 Potential Benefits of Cryotherapy, Including Pain Relief Dr. Josh Axe More than 550,000 whole-body cryotherapy sessions have been performed around the world since 2011. (1) Cryotherapy has become an increasingly trendy “therapy” in recent years in the alternative healthcare space. Even well-known celebrities and athletes, like LeBron James and Shaquille O’Neal, have reported using cryotherapy to support exercise recovery and performance. While cryotherapy might seem like a novel and exciting concept, the use of very cold temperatures to reduce pain, support healing and elevate moods is actually nothing new. People all over the world have used cold packs and ice baths to ...
Top 10 Strategies for Prevention of Cancer
Post Date: 2018-05-29 08:33:31 by Tatarewicz
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CHN... Minimize exposure to risk factors including smoking, drugs (including illegal and prescription) and excessive alcohol intake. Maintain body weight in within a healthy range. The obese and even overweight are more likely to get cancer. Practice regular, daily deep breathing. Stay physically active. A sedentary lifestyle is linked cancer. Eat (and drink) more veggies. Reduce intake of processed dairy and meat. Avoid fried and otherwise processed and refined fats. Reduce caloric intake (especially refined flour and sugar) and use intermittent fasting (1-3 days a month). Supplement with essential vitamins and minerals intelligently and strategically. Use relaxation techniques ...
4 ways music boosts mental activity in Alzheimer's patients
Post Date: 2018-05-28 08:55:33 by Tatarewicz
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Having trouble seeing this newsletter? Click here to read online. Advanced Natural Wellness Have you ever noticed that certain songs can transport you back in time? Back to a specific moment that evokes a cherished memory? Or that you can hear a song on the radio that you haven’t listened to for 10 or 15 years and suddenly remember every word, note and nuance of it? Some music is so familiar and upbeat that you can’t resist tapping your feet and pumping your arms every time you hear it, no matter where you are or what you’re feeling at the time. And here is something that’s even more amazing. In patients with Alzheimer’s disease, this reaction to music ...
Antibiotics in Meat Could Be Damaging Our Guts
Post Date: 2018-05-28 08:37:07 by Tatarewicz
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NYT... The F.D.A. banned the use of antibiotics for growth promotion in animals last year. One organic cattle farmer is sure the ban is being flouted. In 2015, Sandy Lewis, a small-time organic cattle farmer in upstate New York, bought 13 bulls, for around $5,000 each, from a breeder in Oklahoma. A few weeks after the animals were trucked to his farm near the Vermont border, Mr. Lewis discovered that two of the bulls had died. He could see holes in their abdomens from where they had gored one other. A field autopsy proved inconclusive. When two more bulls among the new herd fell sick, Mr. Lewis shipped them off to Cornell University to be examined. One died along the way, but a blood ...
Are doctors obsolete? “Deep learning” AI system trounced doctors in predicting heart failure in patients, boasting 97 percent accuracy
Post Date: 2018-05-26 14:17:39 by Horse
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Deep learning computers developed by Case Western Reserve University have been handily outperforming medical doctors in detecting cancer and diagnosing heart failure. With $9.5 million in funding from the National Cancer Institute, they’ve developed tools that can analyze digital pathology images of cancers of the lung, head, neck and breast to accurately identify those patients who could be spared undergoing risky chemotherapy. For example, the researchers have found that their system is better than human experts in distinguishing malignant and benign lung nodules using CAT scans. This is a very valuable advancement when you consider the fact that around 98 percent of the nodules ...
ThereÂ’s Something About Yogurt
Post Date: 2018-05-26 08:15:22 by Tatarewicz
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Several new studies suggest yogurt might reduce inflammation—a process linked to different types of diseases. A couple years ago, I was taking a swim with my very pregnant friend when I asked her if it was hard to keep straight all of the doctors’ health recommendations for expectant mothers. Not really. For practically every symptom, she said, their recommendations were roughly the same: “Take a walk, eat a yogurt.” It was another example of the Cult of Yogurt. Even though some varieties have more sugar than a Twinkie, perhaps no other man-made food is so often recommended by medical professionals—and to treat such a wide variety of ailments. Whenever ...
Why New Antibiotics Are So Hard to Find
Post Date: 2018-05-26 02:15:20 by Tatarewicz
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A dispatch from the front lines of the war against antibiotic resistance. An 86-year-old patient arrives with a grisly foot injury.1 It’s badly infected—not a surprise, given his chronic untreated Type 2 diabetes. What is surprising is that meropenem, a broad spectrum antibiotic, and vancomycin, known as the antibiotic of last resort, have absolutely no effect. The doctors know something bad is going on. But, even expecting the worst, the test results surprise them. The man’s foot is infected with not one, but three different bacteria: Staphylococcus aureus, Acinetobacter baumannii, and Acinetobacter lwoffii. Each is multi-drug resistant. The hospital, located in Brazil, ...
With death rate up, US life expectancy is likely down again
Post Date: 2018-05-25 07:59:49 by Ada
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NEW YORK -- The U.S. death rate rose last year, and 2017 likely will mark the third straight year of decline in American life expectancy, according to preliminary data. Death rates rose for Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, flu and pneumonia, and three other leading causes of death, according to numbers posted online Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. inRead invented by Teads Full-year data is not yet available for drug overdoses, suicides or firearm deaths. But partial-year statistics in those categories showed continuing increases. Just as important, there was little change in the death rate from the nation's No. 1 killer: heart disease. In the past, ...
What’s really behind ‘gluten sensitivity’?
Post Date: 2018-05-25 06:51:46 by Tatarewicz
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Armin Alaedini, (an immunologist at Columbia University) has recently hit on a more objective set of possible biological markers—much to his own surprise. "I entered this completely as a skeptic," he says. Over his career, he has gravitated toward studying spectrum disorders, in which diverse symptoms have yet to be united under a clear biological cause—and where public misinformation abounds. His team published a study in 2013, for example, that debunked the popular suggestion that children with autism had high rates of Lyme disease. "I do studies [where] there is a void," he says. In NCGS, (nonceliac gluten sensitivity) Alaedini saw another poorly defined ...
Medical Breakingthrough Any Type Of Cancer Can Be Cured In Just 2-6 Weeks Life well lived
Post Date: 2018-05-23 23:45:45 by Horse
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THE LINK BETWEEN GUT BACTERIA AND MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
Post Date: 2018-05-23 23:33:20 by Horse
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Scientists have uncovered a new molecular pathway connecting the gut with the brain, and if we can learn how to control it, we may be able to slow down or even stop multiple sclerosis and other neurological disorders, scientists say. The new research is the latest in a wave of recent discoveries about how the brain and gut are linked together, affecting everything from our emotions to our neurological health and more – and the latest study suggests we can influence that link. “We essentially discovered a remote control by which the gut flora can control what is going on at a distant site in the body, in this case the central nervous system,” lead researcher and neurologist ...
Heart Failure A Death in Slow Motion
Post Date: 2018-05-23 06:09:54 by Tatarewicz
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ProPublica This story was co-published with the Houston Chronicle. James “Lee” Lewis had waited years for a new heart, praying for the day he would be free of the mechanical pump doctors implanted in him in 2015. The device had extended his life after his heart began to fail, but he hated that its wires and the portable battery pack kept him tethered to land and off his fishing boat. At St. Luke’s, Patients Suffer as Renowned Heart Transplant Program Loses Its Luster The Houston hospital and its legendary surgeon Denton Cooley performed some of the world’s first heart transplants back in the 1960s. In recent years, though, it has had some of the worst heart transplant ...
Two Major Legal Victories in Federal Court Case to End Water Fluoridation
Post Date: 2018-05-22 18:48:27 by Horse
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In November 2016, the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) together with a coalition of organizations and private citizens, including Food & Water Watch, American Academy of Environmental Medicine, International Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology, and Moms Against Fluoridation, presented a petition1 to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) calling on the agency to exercise its authority to prohibit the addition of fluoridation chemicals to the public’s drinking water supplies under Section 21 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). FAN’s petition was made on the grounds that a large body of animal, cellular and human research shows that fluoride is neurotoxic at ...
Hepatitis B Vaccine Implicated in Vax-Unvax Study (Mice) – Media Silent
Post Date: 2018-05-22 18:15:27 by Horse
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GUANDONG, China —Sun Yat-sen University’s (a Top 10 university in China) Dr. Zhibin Yao is not a household name in the American autism community, but perhaps he should be. Not only is he American-educated (University of Pittsburgh) and the author of 33 peer-reviewed studies, but he’s also the lead author of two of the most important biological studies ever done analyzing how, exactly, a vaccine can cause autism. In 2015, Dr. Yao was the lead author of “Neonatal vaccination with bacillus Calmette–Guérin and hepatitis B vaccines modulates hippocampal synaptic plasticity in rats,” the first study that ever looked at the impact ANY vaccine might have ...
As Landmark Glyphosate Case Moves to Trial, Man Dying of Cancer to Have Day in Court With Monsanto
Post Date: 2018-05-22 17:10:53 by NeoconsNailed
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A California man dying of cancer will soon become the first person ever to take agrochemical giant Monsanto to trial over allegations that the company has concealed findings that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the company's popular weedkiller Roundup, causes cancer. Before DeWayne Johnson, a 46-year-old father of three, was diagnosed with non- Hodgkin lymphoma at the age of 42, he worked for a school district in California, "where his responsibilities included direct application of Roundup and RangerPro, another Monsanto glyphosate product, to school properties," according to his "landmark" lawsuit (pdf). "Monsanto does not want the truth about Roundup ...
More Looking Out for Your Own Wellbeing
Post Date: 2018-05-21 06:32:00 by Tatarewicz
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At the end of the previous Doc Gumshoe installment, I promised to reflect on what Marty Makary, MD, wrote about in his recent book, Unaccountable. The book is primarily about the lack of transparency that affects the entire medical field when it comes to the question of the individual performance of many of those practitioners into whose hands we entrust our lives. This is especially true of physicians who perform procedures that demand a high degree of skill. Makary himself is a surgeon, practicing at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and he recounts a great many specific examples of that lack of transparency and how it can result in significant harm to patients. A great deal of what physicians ...
Psychiatrist urges awareness of many causes of dementia
Post Date: 2018-05-20 07:49:47 by Tatarewicz
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Taipai Times... A Taipei City Hospital psychiatrist said symptoms of dementia can be triggered in a variety of ways, citing the example of a recent case of non-Alzheimer degenerative dementia he treated that was caused by a syphilis infection, and urged people who suspect they have symptoms to be examined as soon as possible A 70-year-old married man with no history of psychiatric illness or chronic diseases had retired at the age of 55 and lived with his wife, kept regular hours and sometimes invested in the stock market, but at the age of 69, his wife suddenly noticed that his memory began failing, said psychiatrist Huang Chuo-yin (黃卓尹), who treated the man. He ...
How Gut Influences Neurologic Disease
Post Date: 2018-05-20 07:33:02 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- A study sheds new light on the connection between the gut and the brain, untangling the complex interplay that allows the byproducts of microorganisms living in the gut to influence the progression of neurodegenerative diseases. "These findings provide a clear understanding of how the gut impacts central nervous system resident cells in the brain," said corresponding author Francisco Quintana, PhD, of the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases at BWH. "Now that we have an idea of the players involved, we can begin to go after them to develop new therapies." The new research focuses on the influence of gut microbes on two types of cells that play a ...
Himalayan Salt Lamp Benefits + Real vs. Fake Salt Lamps
Post Date: 2018-05-20 07:21:04 by BTP Holdings
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Himalayan Salt Lamp Benefits + Real vs. Fake Salt Lamps Dr. Josh Axe What on Earth is a Himalayan salt lamp? Himalayan sea salt is believed to be composed of dried remnants of the original, primal sea dating back to planet Earth’s creation. I’ve talked before about the health benefits of Celtic sea salt and Himalayan salt, but what if I told you that there are actually lamps made from Himalayan salt? It’s true! They’re called salt lamps or salt rock lamps, and yes, they’re actually made from pink Himalayan salt and are able to light your surroundings — but they’re really not bought for their moderate lighting abilities. There are major claims that a ...
I Left My Filth In San Francisco
Post Date: 2018-05-20 04:27:08 by Horse
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“I Left My Heart in San Francisco” is still a popular tune – but a more accurate title these days might well be: “I Left My Filth in San Francisco” NBC investigators rated the city “one of the filthiest slums on earth.” After surveying 153 blocks in the downtown area, “including some of the city’s top tourist destinations,” they discovered “a dangerous concoction of drug needles, garbage, and feces lining the streets of downtown San Francisco.” Every single block surveyed by the NBC crew had trash littered about. 41 of those 153 blocks had drug syringes and 96 blocks were contaminated with human excrement. One has to wonder why ...
Breaking the mold of pharmaceutical medicine
Post Date: 2018-05-18 06:22:25 by BTP Holdings
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Breaking the mold of pharmaceutical medicine. Medicinal plants have hundreds, and in many cases thousands, of active, inactive and unknown chemical components, called constituents. This complex mix of natural chemical ingredients can work together in subtle ways, often achieving results that none of the individual components could by themselves. This complexity also helps natural remedies to work in a multidimensional way, doing many things at once inside the body. This is especially true of essential oils. Like a key fits perfectly into a lock, the complexity of essential oils is keyed to work inside your body in a safe, balanced and multidimensional way. In contrast, many ...
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