Berkson’s Blogs

Don’t need to get off the couch, just pop a pill? Title of one report of this article reads: Exercise in a bottle could become a reality. This research comes form the University of Sydney. They discovered the first blue print of 1000 molecules that are your body’s reaction to exercise. Now they are looking for meds to turn these molecules on. Modern medicine is all about patent meds. If a natural supplement can do an equal or better job with less adverse issues, you will probably not hear about. Until it becomes a drug. Or is tagged on to a [...]

UCLA researchers had already taken fruit flies, as their life spans are a short 8 weeks but age equivalent to human seniors and showed that days before  they die their gut linings become more “leaky”. In a later study, they found that bacterial changes in the microbiome of the gut preceded the gut-increased permeability (leakiness or holes between epithelium). They were able to tweak the gut bacteria, reduce leaky changes, and even in older flies, prolong their life span. "Age-onset decline is very tightly linked to changes within the community of gut microbes," said David Walker, a UCLA professor of integrative [...]

Soy is unrightfully dissed a lot. One of the liveliest debates I ever had on my radio show in Austin when it was on, was with Dr. David Brownstein. He is a great friend, but he is against soy, I am not. I have a whole chapter in Safe Hormones, Smart Women called, To Soy Or Not To Soy and the basic answer is, for me, bring the soy on. It is a huge protector against hormone driven cancers, especially breast and uterine. BUT is has to be whole food or fermented and not in soy isolates or pills or separate isoflavones [...]

CHARACTER CHARACTER(the moral fiber of who we are), research is saying, is not very malleable. What you see is what you get in mates & co-workers. Change can happen, but often success is slow if not minimal. Want your boss or mate to be more empathetic or kind or connecting or honest? Pretty much folks are who they are over many situations. If they are one particular way with you, they are most likely that way with others. If they did that to their last relationship, they will probably do that with you. It is not set in stone. Change can happen. But most often not. [...]