Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Rand Paul(R-KY) will be asking theJusticeDepartment to open an investigation into Dr.Anthony Fauci’s executive assistant for the alleged destruction of records related to the origins ofCOVID-19.
Paul announced Wednesday that he and fellow Republicans would be pursuing a DOJ referral for Fauci’s assistant after failing to secure enough votes from Democrats on the panel to request a court order granting her immunity to share information about Fauci’s alleged illegal activity.
An Arizona man who was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease has figured out how to halt and reverse the symptoms, but discovered that no one seems to care. Hans Bogensberger, an 82-year-old retired nuclear physicist from Sun City, believes the principles of quantum physics explain what happened and would like to share how he did it with others suffering from the disease.
He didn't just stop the disease from progressing, but he reversed the symptoms. The hair on the top of his head has started growing back. He now competes in fencing and is the fencing champion for his age group in Arizona.
Parkinson's occurs when the body doesn't produce enough dopamine, destroying or disabling brain cells and neurons. This results in tremors, loss of balance, hallucinations, loss of memories and more. Until now, Parkinson's could not be stopped, only slowed.
Bogensberger developed Parkinson's in his late 60s or early 70s, and it progressed to the stage where he could hardly walk. He lost his long and short-term memory, and could no longer create poetry or remember geography and science.
Two or three years ago, entering his 80s and feeling miserable with all of the symptoms, Bogensberger felt like returning to the sport of saber fencing, which he played when he was 13 to 14 years old. It was one of a few simple things his brain could easily remember. He could barely stand up to do it.
Maybe there is a reason GOD FORBIDS EATING UNCLEAN ANIMALS!
A multi-state outbreak of a dangerous liver disease is being investigated by officials after more than three dozen people have been sickened.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is investigating an outbreak of hepatitis A across four states. Thirty-seven people have been sickened and 30 have been hospitalized. No deaths have been reported.
Short brisk walks can match the health benefits of higher daily step goals, a new study suggests. Iuliia Burmistrova/ Moment/ Getty Images
Higher daily step counts have long been linked to a lower risk of premature death, but not everyone has the time or capacity to walk a lot every day.
Now, a study has found that increasing walking speed may be just as effective as increasing step count in lowering the risk of both all-cause and cardiovascular deaths.
The research found that people who achieved fewer than 5,000 steps per day at a rapid pace had a mortality risk similar to that of those who did 10,000 steps per day at a slower pace.
The researchers suggest that even if you cannot achieve a high daily step target, walking regularly and speeding up your pace when you do walk could have similar benefits.
Although the 10,000 steps a day recommendation has been widely acknowledged as an arbitrary number, experts agree that walking more is good for your health and may decrease your risk of premature death.
Ever wonder why certain medications are called "wonder drugs"?
Sometimes it's because of the tremendous health benefits the drug provides for a particular condition, like insulin for type 1 diabetes or antibiotics for pneumonia. Or, it might be because the drug is good for many different conditions: aspirin has often been called a wonder drug because it can relieve pain, treat or prevent cardiovascular disease, and even prevent cancer.
Could metformin be joining this list? It's approved in the US to treat type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exercise by people ages 10 and older. But in recent years, interest has grown regarding its potential to prevent or treat a variety of other conditions, including aging. Yes, aging. If that's true, "wonder drug" might be an understatement.
Among foods that inspire a cult-like following, pork often leads the pack, as evidenced by the65% of Americanseager to name bacon the country’s national food.
Unfortunately, that popularity comes at a cost. Along with being the most commonly consumed meat in the world, pork may also be one of the most dangerous, carrying some important and under-discussed risks that any consumer should be aware of (1).
A review of participant health insurance records revealed that, compared to participants in the lowest performance category, those with the highest scores had a lower risk of death from any cause over the median seven-year follow-up.
High scores in balance and agility, lower-body strength, and cardiorespiratory fitness were associated with the greatest reduction in mortality risk.
That’s likely because balance, agility, and strength play a “central role” in fall prevention and injury avoidance, said Milica McDowell, MS, DPT, C-EP, a physical therapist and exercise physiologist who was not involved with the study.
Falls are the leading cause of injury among adults ages 65 and older, and the risk of dying from a fall increases with age.
Did you know that the vast majority of the world’s meat consumption (excluding fish) comes from just five animals? Yet the one that tops the list is also the only one the Bible expressly forbids: pork. Many are familiar with this fact, but few understand the reason—and the wisdom behind it.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), meat from pigs, chickens, cows, sheep, and goats accounts for approximately 98 percent of all the meat eaten in the world. Recent FAO reports show that pork makes up the largest share at 36 percent, followed by chicken (33 percent), beef (24 percent), and goat and mutton (5 percent). Many think the Bible’s prohibition against people eating pork is quaint, a tradition, maybe even a superstition, but the real truth is quite practical—and serves to highlight God’s understanding of His own creation and His concern for the wellbeing and health of mankind.
So, let’s take a look at some medical research that provides evidence of the potential health risks related to pork consumption and how this supports the Bible’s dietary instruction regarding pigs.
A significant number of men who undergo prostatic artery embolization (PAE) as their first procedure for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) may eventually require reintervention.
A new paper in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology describes reintervention rates of men with BPH in the years following PAE. According to the data, as many as 25% of these men will require additional treatment within five years of their first intervention. The new data provide valuable insight into outcomes that are not yet well described, authors of the paper contend.
“Published reintervention estimates after PAE have ranged from approximately 16%–51% at 40 years; this wide range reflects differing endpoint definitions (for example, whether medical treatment, repeat PAE, or specific surgical modalities are counted) as well as potential differences in durability, and derive predominantly from single-center series or international registries with limited generalizability to U.S. practice patterns,” writes Tarub S. Mabud MD, MSc, with the division of vascular and interventional radiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York. “The durability of PAE in routine U.S. practice, outside of high-volume academic centers and protocolized trials, remains less well characterized.”
PAE symptoms related to benign prostatic hyperplasia are present in about one in four men by age 55, and in half of 75-year-old men.
Treatment is only necessary if symptoms become bothersome.
The PAE procedure has a lower risk of urinary incontinence and sexual side effects (retrograde ejaculation or erectile dysfunction), when compared with more invasive surgical procedures such as a transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP).
Protein is necessary to build and sustain muscles. This includes skeletal muscles, the muscles that allow your heart to beat and the muscles that open up your airways to breathe
Grocery shelves today are filled with protein-enriched cereal, pasta, chips, pretzels, coffee, bread and even protein-fortified Pop-Tarts.
When a breakfast pastry known mainly for sweetness and convenience is marketed as a protein source, it is clear that food companies are capitalizing on consumers' growing interest in protein.
A team at the University ofChicagoMedicine Transplant Institute has updated the results of the ongoing clinical trial of patients with type 1 diabetes.
Unlike type 2 diabetes, which typically comes on later in life and is caused by lifestyle factors such as obesity, type 1 diabetes, which affects as many as 4 million Americans, is an unpreventable autoimmune disorder in which the immune system destroys insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.
Without insulin, type 1 diabetics' bodies have no way to regulate blood sugar, which can build up in the bloodstream and skyrocket. Instead, their bodies break down fat for fuel, creating acidic byproducts called ketones and eventually cause diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), leading to brain swelling, kidney failure, cardiac arrest and potential death.
In the trial, 10 type 1 diabetics underwent transplantation of islet cells, tiny clusters of specialized cells scattered throughout the pancreas that produce hormones to regulate blood sugar.
After just four weeks, all 10 achieved insulin independence, meaning their bodies were able to produce insulin on their own without costly supplemental injections.
Their A1C, which measures the amount of glucose in the blood, also fell from eight percent on average, which indicates diabetes, to 5.3 percent, which is considered non-diabetic.
Adult male capuchin feeding on bird prey. (Credit: Luciano Candisani, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/))
What happens to a wild animal’s drive to hunt when its next meal is guaranteed? For two groups of monkeys in Brazil, the answer turned out to be simple but telling: the ones with a steady handout hunted far less. The discovery is helping scientists rethink one of the oldest questions about human evolution: why early humans started hunting animals in the first place.
