Sugar As A Cause Of Cancer
It has been known for a long time that cancer cells can survive without the ordinary aerobic pathways of energy production. They can get energy from a metabolic pathway, which bypasses normal cell...
View ArticleProtecting Yourself From Environmental Toxins
Environmental toxins are toxins that may be in your drinking water, in what you eat, in the air you breathe, or they enter your body through your skin when you swim in contaminated water or walk on a...
View ArticleYes, There Are Healthy Sugar Substitutes
It is true that sweets are not good for you because they lead to fat accumulation and to diabetes. I explain how this works later in this blog. But who says you cannot sweeten your life with healthy...
View ArticleMeasuring Your Heart Function
Recently I came across a book by Dr. Steven Masley, cardiologist (fellow of the American Heart Association, see Ref.1). The heart’s function is to pump your blood reliably all your life. It is a...
View ArticleForty Percent Of Premature Deaths Can Be Prevented
A new report from the CDC (Center of Disease Control) in the US has revealed that up to 40% of premature deaths could be prevented by simple lifestyle changes. As this link shows every year about...
View ArticleThe Problem Are Sugar And Starchy Foods
Fareed Zacharia interviewed Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta on CNN on Sept. 10, 2014 regarding why sugar is worse than fat. I like to explain why it is important to rethink the issues of fat,...
View ArticleLaser Therapy Going Beyond Skin Deep
There was an interesting workshop alongside of the A4M conference mid December 2014 organized by Jonathan Schwartz who gave an overview of the use of low-dose laser therapy for various clinical...
View ArticleDrink Your Coffee, But…
I have blogged about coffee drinking several times in the past. Coffee consumption and health benefits have become a news item again because of yet another study. The recent media reports are based on...
View ArticleCan Cancer Be Beaten?
For decades we have been indoctrinated that cancer can be beaten, but only marginal progress has been achieved with respect to effective cancer treatment modalities. So, we have become accustomed to be...
View ArticleProblems With The Western Diet
Lately there have been various news reports cautioning us about the Western diet. We eat too much processed food, we eat too much sugar and we have to be careful with how much fat and what kind of fat...
View ArticleObesity Shortens Life
Of all the factors that definitely shorten life, obesity stands out like a giant. Let’s review a couple of facts regarding obesity: Americans who were born between 1966 and 1985 became obese at a much...
View ArticleProcessed Meat Causes Cancer
A report from the World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that processed foods are cancer producing. The report also stated that to a lesser degree red meat is also cancer causing. Overall there are...
View ArticleSafety Of CT Scans And X-Rays
In the December 2015 issue of the LifeExtension Magazine Mr. William Faloon provided an interesting editorial that outlined the dangers of X-rays, particularly of CT scans. Physicians often order CT...
View ArticleWomen Win Turning Older
Supercentenarians may teach us something about the question “Why do women win turning older”? Supercentenarians are people who are 110 years or older. Presently there are 53 of them distributed over...
View ArticleHealing Powers Of Green Tea
Powerful catechins that are a special form of bioflavonoids provide the healing powers of green tea. Research teams have proven that these catechins are only contained in green tea, not so much in...
View ArticleHigh Vitamin D3 Prevents Cancer
In the last few years we learnt a lot about vitamin D3, but the newest thing is that high vitamin D3 prevents cancer. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine reported...
View ArticleHealth Risks Of Night Shifts
One of the news stories in 2016 was about health risks of night shifts. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in 2000 that 15 million workers (16.8 % of the working population) were doing alternative...
View ArticleObesity And Diabetes Can Cause Cancer
Dr. Nalini Chilkov gave a talk about how obesity and diabetes can cause cancer. The original title was “Integrative Cancer Care, Increased Rates of Cancer and Cancer Mortality Associated with Obesity...
View ArticleOnly Moderate Alcohol Consumption Benefits Your Heart
A new study from England finds that only moderate alcohol consumption benefits your heart. The study was released on March 22, 2017 in Great Britain. 1.937 million people (51% women, 49% men) had...
View ArticlePrevention Of Telomere Shortening
Dr. Mark Rosenberg gave a talk on prevention of telomere shortening. This was presented at the 24th Annual World Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine (Dec. 9-11, 2016) in Las Vegas that I attended. The...
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