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BE FAST for Stroke
So what did the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (actual brain surgeons) add to the mix? They added the acronym BE, which then makes the entire acronym BE FAST. What do the new letters stand for? B: loss of balance. I didn’t see any details about how to test that. It may be self-evident that someone […]
Suspect a Stroke? Act FAST
The other day, for no particular reason at all, I got really dizzy for a moment. I wasn’t spinning in circles or doing anything else that might have caused it, so I did what I always do: I acted FAST and looked for signs and symptoms of a stroke. The American Heart Association (AHA) has […]
Sucralose: A Treatment for Auto-Immune Disease?
In test-tube and rodent research, researchers have found that sucralose given in high amounts may help reduce the immune response, thereby preventing the body from attacking itself, which is the essence of an auto-immune disease. How about that? For all the negative comments about sucralose, wouldn’t it be a kicker if it turns out that […]
Eyedrops for Alzheimer’s?
A recent study is looking at eyedrops for glaucoma and the potential prevention or possible treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. I have a vested interest in that because I have glaucoma and use a form of the medication in question for it. The function of the medication is like a localized diuretic; the medication is absorbed […]
The Best Heart-Healthy Diet
In assessing popular diets to find out which one follows the AHA heart-healthy dietary guidelines the best, the panel did a credible job. Instead of just using their expertise, which is substantial, they developed an objective way of assessing each popular diet. They did have one diet that received a point for each of the […]
How Popular Diets Impact Your Heart
When the American Heart Association (AHA) speaks, news organizations tend to report what they say and people tend to listen. It’s doubly true when they rank all the popular diets according to how they relate to heart health. Because we seem to live in a society based on the “see food, eat food” diet, that […]
How Fasting Impacts Your Mitochondria
The research scientist in the webinar focused on mitochondria and aging in his part of the presentation. He has helped research and develop a nutrient that appears to help with mitophagy, the process of removing and replenishing old mitochondria. The naturally produced chemical is called urolithin A. It’s produced naturally by the microbiome in response […]
Dietary Supplements: Certified
Recently I watched a webinar on mitochondrial health and athletic performance co-sponsored by the American College of Sports Medicine and a nutritional company. The speakers were a clinical researcher and a PhD dietitian for a professional basketball team. I’m going to review what the clinical researcher talked about on Saturday. Today I’m going to focus […]
How Coffee Relates to CVD
Researchers in Germany used a unique approach in the Hamburg City Health Study: they selected the first 10,000 volunteers. Volunteers who didn’t drink coffee were eliminated from the study, so they ended up with 9,009 subjects. The researchers collected dietary data along with a variety of other demographic and physiological variables, integrating lifestyle-related behavior, comorbidities, […]
Research Update: Coffee and Heart Rhythms
In one of the first jobs I ever had, the foreman would pour a half-cup of coffee and fill it up with water; he’d had a heart attack and his doctor told him to limit his coffee intake. Fifty years ago, physicians recommended that people avoid coffee if they had high blood pressure or had […]
