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Dr Mark Sircus to release new book on Medical Marijuana

noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:48:00 +0000

by: Mark Sircus., AC, OMD

A medicinal marijuana user should not be considered a criminal in any state. Most major medical groups, including the Institute of Medicine, agree that marijuana is a compound with significant therapeutic potential.
- Dr. Gregory T. Carter

The United States government is at war with its own people (war against drugs) and is stubbornly facing down governors of states, state legislators and through the years a host of organizations. The rebellion against federal fanaticism against marijuana started with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the country's largest public service workers' union, which passed a resolution years ago endorsing medical marijuana at its national convention in Chicago. Then the Presbyterian Church (USA) and Citizens Against Government Waste came out publicly for humane medicine and the legalization of medical marijuana. Read more...

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Snow Shoveling Really Does Raise Heart Attack Risk: Study

noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:36:00 +0000

(HealthDay News) -- Snow shoveling does increase the risk of heart attack, a new study confirms.

While many people believe this, there has been little actual evidence, according to researchers at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. So they decided to look for proof.

They reviewed the records of 500 patients who went to Kingston General Hospital with heart problems over two winter seasons. Of those patients, 35 (7 percent) started experiencing heart symptoms while shoveling snow.

"That is a huge number," Dr. Adrian Baranchuk, a professor in Queen's School of Medicine and a cardiologist at Kingston General Hospital, said in a university news release. Read more...

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Synthetic HDL Could Fight Heart Disease

noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:17:00 +0000

(HealthDay News) -- A synthetic high-density lipoprotein (HDL) -- the "good" cholesterol -- may hold promise for combating chronically high cholesterol levels and the deadly cardiovascular disease it can cause.

The synthetic HDL, created by Northwestern University researchers, is close in size to natural HDL with a near-matching general surface composition. It also has the ability to bind irreversibly to cholesterol.

"We have designed and built a cholesterol sponge. The synthetic HDL features the basics of what a great cholesterol drug should be," study co-leader Chad A. Mirkin, a Northwestern professor of medicine and also materials science and engineering, said in a news release issued by the school.

The findings were published online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Read more...

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Ginger Supplements Might Ease Inflammation Linked to Colon Cancer

noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:25:00 +0000

(HealthDay News) -- A small, preliminary study finds that ginger root supplements seem to reduce inflammation in the intestines -- a potential sign that the pills might reduce the risk of colon cancer.

However, more study needs to be done, and the researchers aren't yet recommending that people head to the supplements' aisle or start gobbling up more ginger at meal times.

"If you want to add ginger to part of a healthy diet, that's great. But you can't make any conclusions about definite health benefits" based on the study findings, said lead author Suzanna M. Zick, a naturopathic physician and research associate professor at University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor.

The study, funded by the U.S. National Cancer Institute, was published online Oct. 11 in Cancer Prevention Research.

Ginger, an herb, is found in supplements and in many foods such as ginger snaps and Asian dishes. Research has supported its use to treat stomach problems such as nausea and vomiting; the U.S. National Library of Medicine says it's "likely safe," although some people may develop mild side effects. Read more...

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Food Prep May Be as Important as Ingredients Themselves

noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:33:00 +0000

(HealthDay News) -- The methods used to produce or cook food may have as much impact on your health as the actual food, U.S. researchers report.

Grilled, fried or broiled animal products such as meats and cheeses contain a class of toxins called "advanced glycation end products" (AGEs), which have been linked to inflammation, insulin resistance, diabetes, vascular and kidney disease, and Alzheimer's disease, say a team from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.

AGEs are also produced when food products are sterilized and pasteurized.

In a new study, the Mount Sinai researchers found that healthy people can have elevated levels of AGEs in their blood and that levels tend to be higher in older adults than in younger adults.

The study of 172 healthy men and women, ages 18-45 and ages 60-80, found that AGE levels were 35 percent higher in participants age 64 and older than in those younger than age 45. Read more...

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noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:19:00 +0000

(HealthDay News) -- People who are diligent about keeping their heart healthy have a good chance of staving off cancer as well, researchers report.

Individuals who don't smoke and who maintain a healthy body-mass index (BMI), normal blood pressure and two to four other "ideal" measures of heart health have a 38 percent lower risk of developing cancer, according to research scheduled for presentation Wednesday at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association in Orlando, Fla.

The study authors hope the score they've developed will help doctors drive home the message that prevention is key to both cancer and heart disease.

"Physicians need motivation to really push the issue of prevention with patients," said lead author Laura J. Rasmussen-Torvik, an assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. Read more...

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Personal Responsibility for Ones Health

noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:03:00 +0000

The following is a testimony from an RN and her perspective on the current medical system and personal responsibility for ones health.

Dr. Young,

Yes, this is a true video concerning drugs. As a nurse, I have watched reactions to medications. Sometimes the reactions became so severe the patient was not functional. Once in a while.....a doctor brings in a patient, takes them off all medications because nothing is working and everything is going wrong. Basically they would dry them out. If the patient was with it mentally, well let's say I can't repeat what they said. In other words, they told the doctor where to put it and that they had tried to make them a medical junkie and refused to take further medication. As a nurse, I felt like a pill pushing junkie maker. Read more...

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Heart disease, stroke, heart failure, and premature death

noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:02:00 +0000

Heart disease, stroke, heart failure, and premature death all linked to insufficient vitamin D levels

The results of a study presented on November 16, 2009 at the American Heart Association's Scientific Conference in Orlando, Florida, confirmed a strong association between the presence of reduced vitamin D levels and a greater risk of coronary artery disease, stroke, heart failure and dying over follow-up in men and women 50 years of age and older.
Brent Muhlestein, MD and his colleagues at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City followed 27,686 subjects with no history of heart disease for an average of 1.2 years. Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels obtained during routine clinical care were classified as normal at over 30 nanograms per milliliter (ng/mL), low at between 15 to 30 ng/mL or very low at less than 15 ng/mL. Read more...

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New Clues to Treating Ovarian Cancer Relapse

noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:47:00 +0000

(HealthDay News) -- New research finds that women with ovarian cancer relapse who start chemotherapy as soon as levels of a biomarker for the cancer rise don't live significantly longer than women who wait until symptoms begin to reappear.

Blood levels of the marker, known as CA125, often precede the reappearance of symptoms in an ovarian cancer relapse, but there has been some debate on the usefulness of monitoring CA125 levels.

"I think the main outcome of this study is going to be to give people confidence that we're not compromising anybody's treatment [if we delay chemotherapy]," said Dr. Andrew Berchuck, director of the division of gynecologic oncology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C.

And the test cost is miniscule (about $50) compared to tens of thousands of dollars for many other tests, he added. Read more...

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Sweet potato nutrition - six amazing facts you need to know

noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 03:57:00 +0000

One of the most nutritious foods on the traditional Thanksgiving menu is the sweet potato. These orange-skinned root vegetables offer a host of health benefits (especially when cooked without the unnecessary sugar and marshmallows). If you want to raise health consciousness around the dinner table this holiday season, try throwing some of these six sweet potato facts into the conversation:

1. High nutritional value
A 7-ounce (1 cup) serving of sweet potatoes contains 65% of the minimum necessary daily amount of Vitamin C. Sweet potatoes are also high in calcium, folate, potassium and beta-carotene. Beta-carotene is an antioxidant which converts to Vitamin A in the body: one serving of sweet potatoes can provide you with as much as 700% of the US RDA for Vitamin A. The Center for Science in the Public Interest rates sweet potatoes as the number one most nutritious vegetable because they such are so nutritionally rich. Read more...

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Drug rehab programme attracts 500 applicants on first day

noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:33:00 +0000

The Nation

As many as 500 drug addicts applied for the drug-rehabilitation programme when it was launched yesterday, Public Health Minister Wittaya Buranasiri said, adding that the goal was to have at least 400,000 drug addicts join the programme voluntarily by next year.

Presiding over the launch of programme, Wittaya said the drug problem in Thailand had become more severe, threatening people's security of life and property. Approximately 1.3 million drug users were identified this year alone, which is six times higher than the international standard. He said that up to 60 per cent of the drug problem was concentrated in Bangkok and its vicinity, which is why the government is making this part of the national agenda and will uphold the principle that drug abusers were patients in need of rehabilitation.

Wittaya said the ministry has prepared drug rehabilitation centres at 928 community and district hospitals, adding that the first day of the campaign yesterday attracted 500 applicants, which far exceeded the target of 300 applicants. Read more...

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Vitamin B6 and methionine slash lung cancer risk by 50 percent

noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:47:00 +0000

Lung cancer, which usually develops in the cells lining air passages, will be diagnosed in about 222,520 Americans this year, according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI). In addition, the NCI says nearly half that many people -- about 157,300 -- will die from the disease in 2010.

Although lung cancer is notoriously difficult to treat successfully, French scientists have discovered several natural substances that offer substantial protection from the malignancy. In a huge study of almost 400,000 participants, those who had higher blood levels of vitamin B6 and the essential amino acid methionine (found in many forms of protein) had the lowest risk of lung cancer -- even those who were former or current smokers.

For the study, which was just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Paul Brennan, Ph.D., of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France, and colleagues documented B vitamins and methionine levels based on serum samples from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort study. In all, they investigated 385,747 research subjects from 10 European countries. By 2006, 899 had been diagnosed with lung cancer; they were compared to 1,770 control participants and all were individually matched by country, sex, date of birth, and date of blood collection. Read more...

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Getting the Most from Your Vitamins and Minerals?

noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:49:00 +0000

Q: Getting the Most from Your Vitamins and Minerals?
What is the optimum time of day to take vitamin and mineral supplements? Are there certain foods that interfere with absorption?
A: There are no rules about the best time of day to take supplements. My advice is to take them when they agree with you most. Many people find taking pills of any kind as part of a morning routine makes it easier to remember, so taking them with breakfast is a popular option. Vitamin and mineral supplements can cause nausea, heartburn, and other gastric disturbances, especially when taken on an empty stomach. For best absorption and the least irritation to the stomach, I generally suggest taking your supplements with a meal containing fat. This is particularly important for the fat-soluble vitamins (A, D and E). Experiment with taking your supplements with lunch or dinner, if they cause you problems with breakfast. Read more...

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Researchers discover oldest yet known remains of winery in Armenia

noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:25:00 +0000

Archeologists from the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) recently uncovered an ancient wine-making facility in an Armenian cave that they say dates back roughly 6,000 years. The facility -- complete with wine press, fermentation vats, storage containers, utensils and even preserved grape seeds and other organic grape materials -- is now the oldest known wine press ever discovered.

The materials in the cave were uniquely well-preserved because a layer of sheep manure had fossilized the remains and protected them from mold, fungi and various other destructive forces that would have long since destroyed them. But thanks to the concrete-like layer of dung, researchers were able to catch a glimpse of ancient history in a new and unique way.

"Because of this unique preservation, we find all of these previously unknown but imagined organic materials," explained archeologist Gregory Areshian from UCLA's Cotsen Institute of Archeology, and co-leader of the expedition, to the Los Angeles Times. Among these organic materials were withered grape vines, grape seeds and even preserved remnants of pressed grapes. Read more...

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Dental disease as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease

noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:19:00 +0000

Background
Some years ago, the Finnish government sponsored a comprehensive study of the health risks of the Finnish people. They measured the rates of all kinds of diseases and did statistical correlations to see if there were any correlations. In an article published in British Medical Journal (BMJ), 1989 Mar 25;298(6676):779-81 showed that there was an unexpected correlation between dental disease and systemic disease (stroke, heart disease, diabetes). After correcting for age, exercise, diet, smoking, weight, blood cholesterol level, alcohol use and health care, people who had periodontal disease had a significantly higher incidence of heart disease, stroke and premature death.Read more...

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Integrative Medicine as Personalized Medicine

noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:09:00 +0000

From: Richard A. Passwater, Ph.D.

From the online Journal of the American Association of Integrative Medicine. JAAIM

http://www.aaimedicine.com/jaaim/june05/veltman-impm.php

Integrative Medicine as Personalized Medicine

Integrative Medicine (IM) is probably better suited for individualizing, personalizing, and customizing modalities, therapies, and treatments than conventional medicine because: The focus of IM is the health and vitality of the person versus attacking the disease; IM practices preventive medicine using conventional, complementary, and alternative approaches, working with the person to identify the best treatment(s) versus medicine of the averages; IM is patient-centered, wherein the person is evaluated on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels, which often takes longer than a 10-minute office visit will allow; IM practitioners communicate with their patients in a different way compared to conventional medicine practitioners; IM practitioners listen to their patients in a different way compared to conventional medicine practitioners; and IM practitioners view chronic disease as a multi-factorial condition versus the belief that one organism or agent results in one disease with one molecule to "kill" or "treat" it and one method of the "proof of efficacy" (double blind, placebo-controlled multi-centered trial) model of conventional medicine. Read more...

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Boost anti-cancer properties of broccoli by spicing it up

noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:28:00 +0000

Ample and well-established research has confirmed that consuming broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables is a great way to help prevent cancer. But new research published in the British Journal of Nutrition has revealed that pairing broccoli with other foods and spices rich in myrosinase, (one of the key anti-cancer compounds found in broccoli) significantly increases the vegetable's cancer-fighting abilities.

Jenna M. Cramer and her colleagues from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's (UIUC) Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition studied and compared the anti-cancer effects of eating broccoli alone, to those exhibited when eating broccoli in combination with other foods rich in myrosinase, an enzyme necessary to convert GRP into SF, without which there would be no way to metabolize SF. Read more...

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Cancer breakthrough: scientists discover harmless bacteria in soil kills cancer tumors

noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:25:00 +0000

Cancer remains one of the most feared diseases on the planet -- and cancer patients being treated by mainstream medicine are usually bombarded with radiation and subjected to toxic chemotherapy that destroys healthy cells and weakens the body while trying to kill tumors.

Thankfully, as we are aware, a growing body of research is revealing that many natural substances have cancer prevention and treatment potential, including Mediterranean type foods that fight prostate cancer (http://www.dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=24272) and walnuts which contain breast cancer preventive phytochemicals.

Now there's evidence a cure for cancer may be all around us and is as common as dirt. In fact, it's something in dirt.

Researcher Aleksandra Kubiak just presented the startling discovery at the Society for General Microbiology's Autumn Conference currently underway at the University of York in the UK. She and other members of a research team from the University of Nottingham and the University of Maastricht have found that a strain of harmless bacteria that is widespread in soil is actually deadly -- not to people but to cancerous tumors. Read more...

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Heavy Smoking Tied to Advanced Kidney Cancer

noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:39:00 +0000

(HealthDay News) -- Smoking increases the risk of advanced kidney cancer, researchers report.

In a new study, a team from Duke University Medical Center reviewed the cases of 845 patients who had had surgery for kidney cancer -- or renal cell carcinoma -- between 2000 and 2009. They found that current and former smokers were 1.5 to 1.6 times more likely to have advanced cancer than nonsmokers.

Heavy smoking (smoking for a longer period of time and smoking more) was associated with advanced renal cell carcinoma. Kicking the habit reduced the risk of advanced disease by 9 percent for every 10 years that a former smoker was smoke-free, the investigators found.

The findings were slated for presentation Sunday at a special press conference at the American Urological Association's annual meeting, in Washington, D.C.

Another study scheduled for presentation at the same briefing found that rates of bladder cancer did not fall along with lower rates of smoking in the United States. Read more...

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Cheap Drug Helps Smokers Quit, Study Finds

noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:37:00 +0000

(HealthDay News) -- For people trying to quit smoking, the drug cytisine works better than a placebo, and its comparatively low cost makes it an appealing alternative to newer stop-smoking medications, researchers say.

Over the course of a year, researchers found cytisine, a nicotine substitute, more effective than a placebo in helping smokers stop the habit, and the researchers said its affordability could be an advantage in poorer countries.

"Many smokers can stop without help, but many are addicted and will continue until they die unless they get help," said lead researcher Robert West, from the Health Behaviour Research Center at University College London in England.

"The key feature of this drug is that it is extremely cheap and so affordable by just about anyone in the world who can afford to smoke," he added. Read more...

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Vitamin D May Be Tied to Heart Disease Via Genes

noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 03:01:00 +0000

(HealthDay News) -- New research points to the possibility of a genetic link between vitamin D and heart disease.

People with high blood pressure who had a gene variant that reduces vitamin D activation in the body were found to be twice as likely as those without the variant to have congestive heart failure, the study found.

The finding may lead to a way to identify people at increased risk for heart disease, according to Robert U. Simpson, an assistant professor of pharmacology at the University of Michigan Medical School and his research colleagues.

They analyzed the genetic profiles of 617 people. One-third had hypertension, one-third had hypertension and congestive heart failure, and the remaining third served as healthy controls. Read more...

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Treat cancer - Recent research shows natural combinations boost IV vitamin C

noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:12:00 +0000

The latest research on high dose, intravenous vitamin C continues to confirm its cytotoxic effects on many cancers in tissue culture models. Results have been so promising that oncologists are now researching the combination of vitamin C with standard chemo drugs. Not surprisingly, vitamin C was found to boost the effectiveness of several chemo drugs so much that two clinical trials have been started. But recent research has also uncovered several natural compounds that boost the cancer-killing effects of vitamin C and may pave the way for highly effective, all-natural combination therapies in the future. Read more...

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Scientists Discover How Peppermint Soothes Gastric Pain

noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:40:00 +0000

(HealthDay News) -- New research offers insight into how peppermint helps relieve the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome.

Researchers from the University of Adelaide in Australia report that peppermint activates an "anti-pain" channel in the colon. This contributes to relief of pain from inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract.

"Our research shows that peppermint acts through a specific anti-pain channel called TRPM8 to reduce pain-sensing fibers, particularly those activated by mustard and chili," Dr. Stuart Brierley said in a university news release.

"This is potentially the first step in determining a new type of mainstream clinical treatment for irritable bowel syndrome. This is a debilitating condition and affects many people on a daily basis, particularly women who are twice as likely to experience irritable bowel syndrome," Brierley added. Read more...

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Melatonin plays an important role in healthy digestive and immune function

noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:22:00 +0000

(NaturalNews) Melatonin is known as the regulator of the sleep wake cycle in the body. It is produced in the pineal gland of the brain and monitors sleep cycles while playing an important role in healing and anti-oxidant protection. New indicators are showing that it may play an even more important regulatory role in the digestive system.

The human digestive system is considered by many experts to be the '2nd Brain,' due to its ability to produce neurotransmitters. Additionally, the digestive system works off of similar rhythmic patterns as brain waves and has an advanced communication network that rivals that of the brain. The hormone melatonin appears to play a very important role in regulating much of these patterns in both the brain and gut. Read more...

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Nuts: an important component of an anti-diabetes diet

noreply@blogger.com (DrEddyClinic.com) — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:02:00 +0000

Joel Fuhrman, M.D.

Complications from diabetes result from constant elevations in blood glucose, which damage the blood vessels and other tissues. Excess glucose in the bloodstream results in the formation of Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs) – products formed when sugars react with and consequently damage proteins or fats in the body’s tissues, especially the blood vessels. AGEs are produced at an accelerated rate in diabetics and contribute to complications such as impaired wound healing, diabetic nephropathy, and atherosclerosis.1-4 In addition to the AGE produced in the body due to excess glucose, some can also come from the diet. Read more...

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