Many of society’s most devastating diseases — cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and Alzheimer’s, to name a few share a common denominator: faulty angiogenesis, the body’s growth of new capillary blood vessels. Given excessive or insufficient blood vessel growth, serious health…
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Bacterial Ecologists are teaching us that bacteria can be precious creatures that produce great health benefits to all living organisms including Humans.
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Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria “talk” to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find has stunning implications for medicine, industry — and our understanding of ourselves.
The facts and the challenged history are in and they do not look good for the corn sweetener industry.
Finely we have a long awaited verdict and main stream Science can now show the added dangers of this insidious Industrial product that is added to most foods consumed in America.
Nena Dockery discusses how people lose the natural enzymes in their body to help with digestion as they age, and how that can make digestion an issue for older populations.
In 2005,Jamie and his youngest brother Ben, along with close friend Jeff Cole, built PatientsLikeMe.com to give patients control and access to their healthcare information and compare it to others like them.
Atkins peaked in 2003. Detox is on the way out. Remember Macrobiotics from the 80s? What about Mediterranean eating? The Mediterranean diet was popular in the 1970s thanks to Ancel Keys. It faded for a couple decades then started a…
“Routine use of . . . LDL subfraction tests to estimate cardiovascular disease risk is premature,” according to a recent review in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Huh? What the . . . ? I’m starting to see advertisements for…
Dr. Clyde Wilson teaches nutrition at the medical school at Stanford University in the University California, San Francisco USCF. He teaches both introductory nutrition and advanced sports nutrition courses at the department of athletics at Stanford.
Did you know that there are better blood tests than total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol to predict future risk of heart problems such as coronary heart disease? After all, the Centers for Disease Control says that half of all heart…
A good ol’ cheap drug is just as effective as the newer, sexier, expensive drugs as a first step in controlling high blood pressure, according to investigators reporting at the annual American Heart Association meeting in Orlando, FL. Since the…
The American Heart Association offers a free, anonymous, online calculator that give you a rough idea of your chance of a heart attack or dying from heart disease over the next 10 years. That should settle the question in the…
Dr. Clyde Wilson teaches nutrition at the medical school at Stanford University in the University California, San Francisco USCF. He teaches both introductory nutrition and advanced sports nutrition courses at the department of athletics at Stanford.
Bacterial Ecologists are teaching us that bacteria can be precious creatures that produce great health benefits to all living organisms including Humans.
Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria “talk” to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find has stunning implications for medicine, industry — and our understanding of ourselves.
