Part one, provided information you probably suspected all along. The article, “Takeaway Food Consumption and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors” appeared in Medical News Today. The piece was accompanied by a photo of what could have been a condo doorman handing a couple of boxes of succulent broiled salmon and grilled spinach delivered from an upscale restaurant, […]
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THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU AGREE TO YOUR NEXT CT SCAN
Ponder this about the radiation exposure from imaging studies: Because CT scans are less expensive (for example $600-$1,000 abdominal CT with contrast) than an MRI ($2,000-$3,000), insurance companies require a lot of prior authorizations before they’ll agree to pay for the latter. In addition, CT scans are faster and the equipment is less expensive for […]
NORTHWESTERN INADVERTENTLY ENTERS ANTI-AGING MEDICINE
This all started with a postcard I received from Northwestern, “Do You Have Difficulty Walking?”, beckoning me to enter the FIRST research study. This is not “first,” like “first, second,” but an acronym (not mentioned on the card) for quite a mouthful: Fisetin to Reduce Senescence and Mobility Impairment in Peripheral Artery Disease. “Fisetin?”, I […]
TREATING YOUR EPSTEIN BARR FLARES
We’ll now pick up from last week’s Health Tip on chronic Epstein Barr infection, a/k/a chronic mononucleosis. Once, usually in your teens or twenties, you had a doozy of a sore throat, swollen glands in your neck, a fever, and were exhausted, maybe even pain on the left side of your abdomen from a swollen […]
EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS (EBV): The “Mono” You Never Knew You Had
For a while the original Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (also called Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) was attributed solely to EBV…
IMPORTANT NEW UPDATES ON LONG COVID
Simply because the numbers of patients with long COVID is so vast (400 million worldwide, 200 recorded symptoms), you can bet there’s a lot of research going on trying to figure out how to test for it and how to cure it. Just last week, Nature Communications published the results of yearlong interviews of almost […]
WHY ISN’T MY CONCERN ABOUT “PARASITES” BEING TAKEN SERIOUSLY?
The number one reason, far and away, is the minimal amount of education medical students and residents get about the vast number of diseases caused by parasites. Very little is discussed about symptoms, diagnosis, and correct treatment. Most students never even see a parasite under a microscope. Physicians in the U.S. seem to think parasites […]
NAD+: GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT ANTI-AGING THERAPY
There have been major breakthroughs on a worldwide scale when it comes to understanding how we age and steps, serious steps, we can take to not only slow it down but to all appearances, reverse the process. Over history, seekers after a Fountain of Youth came, literally and figuratively, to dead ends, but Ponce de […]
CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE “DISCOVERS” LOW DOSE NALTREXONE
Well, maybe not all of conventional medicine. But almost every day, in order to find material for Health Tips, I scan through the JAMA Journal of the AMA websites, Medscape, and their links, as well as a couple of nutritional and natural medicine sites. After thirty years, I know what I’m looking for and can […]
YOUR “LOW ESTROGEN FACE” AND HOW WE CAN HELP
Sex hormones are not to be taken lightly. Some recent research measuring blood levels of estrogen in several hundred young women and then making facial “composite photos” showed that those with normal to high (but not too high) levels of estrogen were more physically (read “sexually”) appealing. Go overboard with estrogen and all sorts of […]
TYLENOL AND AUTISM: THE FACTS
You’ll not get the true facts about this from our President, whom, if you remember, also once suggested that injected disinfectant, like bleach, might kill the COVID virus. However, people being people, Poison Control Centers from around the country did get hundreds of calls from COVID patients who, listening to an authority figure, used a […]
COLON CANCER ON THE RISE AMONG PEOPLE UNDER 50
You may find this a bit unbelievable but as recently as the 1960’s there was still a debate about whether smoking caused lung cancer. Many doctors puffed happily away, even in hospital corridors and advised the same of their patients. The smokiest room in any hospital was the Doctors’ Lounge. The reason for this protracted […]
UNDERSTANDING GLP-1 MICRO DOSING
You’re tired of being overweight, and you’ve been a victim of the tyranny of the last ten, twenty pounds or much more as long as you can remember. You’ve tried everything. You’ve been dieting and nothing happens that ever lasts except hunger. You exercise to exhaustion, lose some pounds and gain them back. No matter […]
NEW TOOLS TO REDUCE YOUR CHRONIC INFLAMMATION
This is really important. Your longevity, the number of years you’ve got left this side of the sod, and equally important, how you will physically feel during those years, what diseases you may (or may not) develop will pretty much depend on the state of your inflammation. Did you ever wonder why some obese people, […]
A CHECKLIST OF OVERLOOKED CAUSES OF CHRONIC FATIGUE
If there’s one single symptom that brings patients most frequently into the offices of WholeHealth Chicago, it’s this: “I’m tired all the time and doctors can’t find anything wrong.” The “can’t find” you all are experiencing is the real problem of today’s health care system. It’s that notorious fifteen-minute medical encounter of primary care medicine: […]
ANTI-AGING THERAPIES: THE PEPTIDE SERMORELIN
I’ve written about peptides in a previous Health Tip; the most famous peptides on the planet being the two GLP-1 meds, semaglutide and tirzepatide. GLP, by the way, stands for “Glucagon-Like-Peptide”, glucagon being a hormone produced by your pancreas that raises your blood sugar. GLP-1 does the opposite, lowering your blood sugar, triggering weight loss. […]
ANTI-AGING BASICS
Slowing the rate at which you age isn’t just for old people trying to stay on the topside of the sod… If you’re under 40, supplements can provide plenty of coverage and set a perfectly reasonable goal of reaching your upper 90s or early 100s. Do understand that living a long life isn’t much use if […]
COVID FINALLY CATCHES ME AND RELATED COVID NEWS
This then explained my tickly cough and progressively worsening sore throat. My BinaxNOW Home Test was “positive”, so I phoned in Paxlovid for myself.
LITHIUM: YOU’LL BE AMAZED AT WHAT THIS ELEMENT CAN DO FOR YOU
Scientists who study the birth of the Universe believe there were only three elements at the very start: Hydrogen, Helium, and Lithium. All three are “everywhere”. Lithium, which means ‘from stone’, is really not a ‘stone’, but rather a very light metal, so light that in pure form, it can float. If you were inclined […]
TED BUNDY (REMEMBER HIM?) AND THE EFFECTS OF LEAD ON A CHILD’S BRAIN
I wasn’t sure I really wanted to read “Murderland”, a newly published book about the many serial killers from the Pacific Northwest. Throughout the 20th century, places like Tacoma and Seattle sounded seriously spooky. Writers dubbed them “Poisonvilles”, smelters crossed skylines belching toxic lead, arsenic, cadmium unchecked into the air, water, and soil of the […]