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HOW TO COPE WITH OUR CURRENT DOUBLE WHAMMY OF COVID + FLU

It’s not enough that every single day’s headline has something stressful: ICE shootings; Greenland/Venezuela/Ukraine; Feds withholding aid for food and medicine; but now both COVID and flu are on the rise. January and February are the big flu months and what’s left of the DOGE decimated CDC is warning that another pandemic of a new […]

COFFEE and LONGEVITY (GOOD NEWS!)

I’ve written in the past about telomeres, a word derived from the Greek telos (end) and mere (part). Telomeres are essential components of every living cell and affect how we age. They are the caps at the end of each strand of our chromosomal chains of DNA, protecting the chromosome much like the plastic tip […]

INTERESTING NEWS ABOUT TAKEAWAY FOOD AND BAKED BRIE

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, […]

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 […]

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