Two concepts are often currently applied to selenium in adult men in the United States: •Intake is generally enough to maximize blood glutathione peroxidase activities. •In such men, selenium supplementation does not reduce risk of prostate cancer. In contrast to these concepts, 30 healthy middle-aged men were studied to test the following hypothesis: 6-week supplementation [...]
Selenium and Iodine Supplementation on Thyroid Function
February 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Researchers in New Zealand studied the effects of taking selenium and iodine on thyroid function. They subdivided a total of 100 seniors into 4 groups: a placebo group, a group taking 100 mcg of selenium, a group taking 80 mcg of iodine, and a group taking both the iodine and selenium. Supplements were taken for [...]
Scoliosis Patients Wanted!!!!
January 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dr. Morningstar is currently seeking anyone with idiopathic scoliosis as an adult or adolescent. He is in the testing stages of a new dynamic functional brace for scoliosis, and is in the data collection process. Because it is experimental, the brace is available to all patients at a 90% cost reduction, which equates to the [...]
Breastfeeding not that good??!!
January 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It seems like common sense that breastfeeding is the absolute best thing a mother can do for her baby. In the animal world, a newborn animal cannot survive without its mother’s milk, and often will not survive on formula. However, this doesn’t stop infant formula/baby food companies from trying to pay for research that says [...]
Hawthorn Better Than Lipitor for Lowering LDL Cholesterol
December 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Australian and Chinese researchers recently showed that a Hawthorn and Kiwi extract lowered LDL cholesterol (the bad cholesterol) better than Lipitor. Their study, published in the American Journal of Chinese Medicine, evaluated the effects of Hawthorn and Lipitor in mice fed either a normal diet or one very high in cholesterol. They found that the [...]
An Apple Smoothie a Day……?
December 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
German researchers find that apple smoothies deliver a higher quantity of bioavailable polyphenols to the colon than apple juices or ciders, and may therefore be effective in the prevention of chronic colon diseases. In the office we have long advocated eating whole foods and whole food supplements rather than juices. This study supports the idea [...]
Health Benefits of Almonds
December 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Imagine that….. yet another study demonstrating that eating healthy can actually make you, well, healthy. Iranian researchers gave 30 adult men 60 grams of almonds a day for 4 weeks. At the end of the 4 weeks, the men experienced significant reductions in their LDL (bad) cholesterol, their total cholesterol, and their apolipoprotein B100 (bad). [...]
15 Dangerous Drugs Big Pharma Shoves Down Our Throats
December 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet Posted on November 19, 2010, Printed on December 16, 2010 http://www.alternet.org/story/148907/ In the pharmaceutical industry’s rush to get drugs to market, safety usually comes last. Long studies to truly assess a drug’s risks just delay profits after all — and if problems do emerge after medication hits the market, settlements are [...]
Avandia pulled from European market
December 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The almost simultaneous rulings from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) marked an attempt to draw a line under the debate over the safety of Avandia, which has dogged GSK for three years. In the wake of research suggesting Avandia could be linked to an increased risk to [...]
Cholesterol Drug Pulled From Market
December 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Drug maker Bayer pulled its popular cholesterol-lowering medication off the market today amid reports of a deadly side effect. According to the Food and Drug Administration., Bayer Pharmaceuticals voluntarily withdrew Baycol, known generically as cerivastatin, as a result of the 31 patients deaths associated with the drug over the last four years. The drug’s rare [...]
