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CoQ10 Found to Cut in Half Heart Failure Death Rate
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| chemical structure of Ubiquinone (Coenzyme Q) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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Researchers also reported a significant decrease in the number of
hospitalizations for heart failure patients being treated with Coenzyme
Q10 (CoQ10). About 14 percent of patients taking the supplement
suffered from a major cardiovascular event that required hospital
treatment, compared with 25 percent of patients receiving placebos.
In heart failure, the heart becomes weak and can no longer pump enough oxygen- and nutrient-rich blood throughout the body. Patients often experience fatigue and breathing problems as the heart enlarges and pumps faster in an effort to meet the body's needs.
The study is scheduled to be presented Saturday at the annual
meeting of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of
Cardiology, in Lisbon, Portugal.
"CoQ10 is the first medication to improve survival in chronic heart failure since ACE inhibitors and beta blockers more than a decade ago and should be added to standard heart failure therapy," lead researcher Svend Aage Mortensen, a professor with the Heart Center at Copenhagen University Hospital, in Denmark, said in a society news release.
Popular Statin Found to Cut Exercise Benefits
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| The HMG-CoA reductase pathway, which is blocked by statins via inhibiting the rate limiting enzyme HMG-CoA reductase. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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The finding that simvastatin — a generic type of statin sold under
the brand name Zocor — may cut the benefits of exercise underscores new
questions about the pros and cons of taking such cholesterol-lowering
medicines.
"Fitness has proven to be the most
significant predictor of longevity and health because it protects
people from a variety of chronic diseases," said John Thyfault, an
associate professor of nutrition and exercise physiology at MU.
"Daily physical activity is needed to maintain or improve fitness, and thus improve health outcomes. However, if patients start exercising and taking statins at the same time, it seems that statins block the ability of exercise to improve their fitness levels."
"Daily physical activity is needed to maintain or improve fitness, and thus improve health outcomes. However, if patients start exercising and taking statins at the same time, it seems that statins block the ability of exercise to improve their fitness levels."
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Why the Egyptians only had sex in the summer: Researchers find key time for conception was in July and August to coincide with the Nile flooding
Ancient Egyptians primarily had sex in the summer, new research reveals.
The most popular time for love-making was July and August meaning that 20 per cent more babies were born in March and April than in other months.
As a consequence, most deaths among women of childbearing age also occurred in these months.
Archaeologists working at a
cemetery in the Dakhleh Oasis in Egypt excavated 765 graves and were
able to establish the month of each person’s death because the graves
were all pointed towards the rising sun.
Live Science reported that they uncovered the graves of 124 babies that had died 18 to 45 weeks after conception – putting these two pieces of information together enabled the researchers to piece together the most popular time for love-making.
The findings are particularly surprising because in other ancient Mediterranean cultures fewer babies are thought to have been conceived during the hot summer months because the heat lowered libido and possibly affected sperm count.
It is thought that in ancient Egypt beliefs about fertility and the Nile flood may have been responsible for the baby booms.
The residents of the Dakhleh Oasis believed that the river was the key to their land’s fertility and the floods occurred during the summer months meaning that there were widespread celebrations.
The researchers believe that the peak in spring births continued until the 1920s or 30s.
In contrast, conception rates
fell to annual lows in January and this is believed to have been because
Christian believes required abstinence during Advent and Lent.
Additionally, it is thought that early Egyptian Christians were encouraged to avoid sex on Saturdays, Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Finally, it is believed that some form of contraception must have been in use and it is thought that recipes including crocodile dung were so unpleasant that they put people off intercourse altogether.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2326247/Why-Egyptians-sex-summer-Researchers-key-time-conception-July-August-coincide-Nile-flooding.html#ixzz2TaNOEIOf
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The most popular time for love-making was July and August meaning that 20 per cent more babies were born in March and April than in other months.
As a consequence, most deaths among women of childbearing age also occurred in these months.
A Roman mosaic depicting the flooding of the
Nile from the 1st century BC. Researchers say beliefs about the impact
of Nile floods on fertility may explain birth patterns in the region
Live Science reported that they uncovered the graves of 124 babies that had died 18 to 45 weeks after conception – putting these two pieces of information together enabled the researchers to piece together the most popular time for love-making.
The findings are particularly surprising because in other ancient Mediterranean cultures fewer babies are thought to have been conceived during the hot summer months because the heat lowered libido and possibly affected sperm count.
It is thought that in ancient Egypt beliefs about fertility and the Nile flood may have been responsible for the baby booms.
The residents of the Dakhleh Oasis believed that the river was the key to their land’s fertility and the floods occurred during the summer months meaning that there were widespread celebrations.
The researchers believe that the peak in spring births continued until the 1920s or 30s.
The medina district in the settlement of Al-Qasr
in the Dakhla Oasis of western Egypt, where the researchers studied the
skeletons of children to find the time of the year they were born
Additionally, it is thought that early Egyptian Christians were encouraged to avoid sex on Saturdays, Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Finally, it is believed that some form of contraception must have been in use and it is thought that recipes including crocodile dung were so unpleasant that they put people off intercourse altogether.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2326247/Why-Egyptians-sex-summer-Researchers-key-time-conception-July-August-coincide-Nile-flooding.html#ixzz2TaNOEIOf
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Your doctor's diet is a death wish
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| Fruits and vegetables, rich in vitamins, potassium and fiber, represent an important feature of hunter-gatherer diets. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
I bought the journal for a dollar and read it aloud to my friend. As far as I can tell, the author, Harlan Jacobsen, is not a doctor, a dietician or any other of the titled “knowledgeable” people in medicine. He is a patient who developed diabetes and took it upon himself to read everything he could find on the subject. And he found what some of us in medicine have lately discovered – classic medicine and the dieticians have got it wrong.
After reading the works of Weston A. Price and many others outside the purview of “groupthink” medicine, Jacobsen changed his diet to one of high-fat natural foods, and his diabetes has disappeared. He eats essentially a Paleolithic diet: Grass-fed meat with its fat, nuts and berries, a few vegetables and little of the new, high-sugar hybridized fruits, and he supplements with fish oil and Vitamin D. He is 81, and not on prescription meds.
A few of his quotes are great: “Check your acquaintances. Bet every fat friend eats nothing but low fat, (high sugar) …”
“Your body was made to run on fat.”
“You have bought into the ‘big lie.’”
“Most of my high school buddies are at least 50 pounds overweight. Many have had either a hip or knee replacement [or] bypass surgery.”
“Personally, I feel lonely as the only one not on any prescription drugs.”
“Eliminate sugar, flour, eat all the animal fat, olive oil, coconut oil and protein you want:
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Good gut bacteria could provide new treatment for obesity and diabetes
Scientists have discovered a type of gut bacteria that could protect against obesity and help treat type 2 diabetes.
The breakthrough suggests foods that stimulate the production of the bacteria in the digestive system could help burn off pounds quicker than by eating less or exercising more.
A study found that the levels of gut bacteria Akkermansia muciniphila were compromised in obese and type-2 diabetic mice.
But feeding them oligofructose
prebiotics - a dietary supplement to promote the growth of beneficial
bacteria - boosted the bacteria back to normal levels.
This in turn led to a faster metabolism which helped the lab rodents shed weight. They also suffered less inflammation and lowered their insulin resistance, a symptom of type 2 diabetes.
The amount of chemicals called endocannabinoids that control glucose also rose, according to the findings published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The breakthrough suggests foods that stimulate the production of the bacteria in the digestive system could help burn off pounds quicker than by eating less or exercising more.
A study found that the levels of gut bacteria Akkermansia muciniphila were compromised in obese and type-2 diabetic mice.
Scientists discovered that probiotics - fibres
found in foods such as bananas - helped maintain gut bacteria that boost
a person's metabolism
This in turn led to a faster metabolism which helped the lab rodents shed weight. They also suffered less inflammation and lowered their insulin resistance, a symptom of type 2 diabetes.
The amount of chemicals called endocannabinoids that control glucose also rose, according to the findings published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Science: Sunlight Could Reduce Death Rate From All Causes
Heather CallaghanActivist Post
Here's something I never thought we'd hear in this lifetime:
We suspect that the benefits to heart health of sunlight will outweigh the risk of skin cancer.A lot of us are secretly, boldly basking for reasons like vitamin D, mood enhancement, happiness, skin issues, liver health, pain and more. Now there's never a reason to fear harm or feel guilty - you could save your heart - and prevent an untimely death!
The espoused fear for about 50 years has been skin cancer rates (which continue to rise), but researchers are finally surmising that years of hiding from the sun could lead to increased heart attacks - a much sooner demise than the risk of skin cancer in later years. Sunlight does so much more than vitamin D production.
A recent landmark study could turn the modern thought on sun exposure right on its head...
Drinking Coffee Kills Pain, Lifts Mood and Sharpens the Mind
Activist Post
New clinical research confirms why office work and coffee go so closely hand in hand. The new study published in the journal BMC Research Notes found that drinking coffee reduces the development of pain during computer work. [i]
Study participants who had consumed coffee (1/2-1 cup) on average 1 hour and 18 minutes before performing a simulated computer office-work task found to provoke pain in the neck, shoulders, forearms and wrists, were found to have "attenuated pain development compared with the subjects who had abstained from coffee intake."
While the researchers attributed the observed effect to the caffeine content in coffee, we believe there is more going on here...
Death by Prescription Drugs Is A Growing Problem
Death by medicine is a twenty-first century epidemic, and America’s war on drugs is clearly directed at the wrong enemy. – Dr. Joseph Mercola [2]
Shelley White
Activist Post
I have briefly focused on mushrooms and cannabis as medicine sources. Now, it is only fair to shine the spotlight on the other side of the medicinal spectrum: prescription drugs. One could go through and list the pros and cons of each individual prescription drug or, to save some time, one could first approach prescription drugs as a whole. Doing so exposes an alarming truth, ringing louder than the individual benefits of each drug. Prescription drugs are currently responsible for more deaths annually than illegal drugs.
According to Tom Frieden, the CDC director himself, “it’s a big problem, and it’s getting worse [3].”
Out of the 783,936 annual deaths from conventional medicine mistakes, approximately 106,000 of those are the result of prescription drug use [1]. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, two-hundred and ninety people in the United States are killed by prescription drugs every day [4].
Even if prescription drugs do not literally kill a patient, though, they slowly kill their mind and body. This alters their ability to innately feel deeply and compassionately, the patient can be stripped piece by piece of their inner awareness and inner consciousness, the very essence of their being.
Shelley WhiteActivist Post
I have briefly focused on mushrooms and cannabis as medicine sources. Now, it is only fair to shine the spotlight on the other side of the medicinal spectrum: prescription drugs. One could go through and list the pros and cons of each individual prescription drug or, to save some time, one could first approach prescription drugs as a whole. Doing so exposes an alarming truth, ringing louder than the individual benefits of each drug. Prescription drugs are currently responsible for more deaths annually than illegal drugs.
According to Tom Frieden, the CDC director himself, “it’s a big problem, and it’s getting worse [3].”
Out of the 783,936 annual deaths from conventional medicine mistakes, approximately 106,000 of those are the result of prescription drug use [1]. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, two-hundred and ninety people in the United States are killed by prescription drugs every day [4].
Even if prescription drugs do not literally kill a patient, though, they slowly kill their mind and body. This alters their ability to innately feel deeply and compassionately, the patient can be stripped piece by piece of their inner awareness and inner consciousness, the very essence of their being.
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