Blood Fats, Joints and Pain

Overwhelmed We think of high cholesterol as mainly causing heart issues. But excessively high blood fats, like bad cholesterol and triglycerides, have been linked to more tendon injuries and pain. Wow. The basic mechanism is that too many blood fats overwhelm white blood cells and the cells that make up tendons. Wow again. Balance There are many NATURAL answers to lowering and BALANCING blood fats, healthfully. There are many adverse side effects to cholesterol lowering drugs. And, it's not prudent to bring blood fats down to extremely low levels. Remember, cholesterol is the parent (starting) compound of hormones. And cholesterol is [...]

The female body is more complex than the male. We are set up to be able to give birth. So every thirty days this feminine terrain goes through so many biological changes, it’s like being able to put on a major rock concert every single month. Women, on every tissue level, are intricate to the max. At the same time, female organs of detox are smaller. So we don’t handle pollutants, cigarette smoke metabolites, alcohol, meds or even disease, the same way men do. This is called gender specific medicine.  Nature built us differently. So to stay healthy we have to [...]

Fluoroquinolones can be pretty toxic, especially many of the newer ones. They can cause many adverse events, including tendinitis and tendon rupture, prolongation of the QT interval (not good for your heart), and peripheral neuropathy, according to a joint panel of the US Food and Drug Administration. Where I work in Texas, the head MD sent out a memo that we are not writing scripts for these any more. But many of my patients come in still on these. Fluoroquinolones also damage mitochondria. These are our energy houses. They are our energy. Our money in the bank. I had a patient [...]

A new study of more than 275 operations at Massachusetts General Hospital, Journal Anesthesiology 2015) showed:   * Some mistake or adverse event occurred in EVERY 2nd operation. * And in 5% of observed drug administrations. * 1/3rd of the errors resulted in adverse drug events or HARM to patients.   The authors of the study said, "While the frequency of errors and adverse events is much higher than has previously been reported in peri-operative settings, it is actually in line with rates found in inpatient wards and outpatient clinics, where error rates have been systematically measured for many years."   [...]

Paper presented on FODMAP diet at American College of Gastroenterology 2015 Annual Meeting to Gastroenterologist Who Mainly Believe Food Has Nothing To Do With Gut Health   I went to my "kind and smart" (but not wise) gastroenterologist and brought him a pre and post colonoscopy of a 27-yr old patient of mine that had been told she needed a total removal of her colon, stat. After a 3-month program, including but not limited to food improvement, which also included strategic meds, she had a completely normal follow-up colonoscopy and kept her colon. I carried over both pre and post colonoscopy [...]

When I remodeled my home several years ago I went “green”. My neighbors wondered why I spent more money when it wouldn’t raise my house value? Well, it boosts my brain value. Harvard research now shows that people who work in well-ventilated spaces with below-average levels of indoor pollutants and carbon dioxide have significantly higher cognitive functioning scores, than those who work in offices with typical levels. In lay terms, the less gunk in your air, the less gunk in your brains.   13 protective to-dos? Paint homes with no-VOC paints. They are really no completely non-VOC paints as advertised, but [...]

I am not interested in hearing how to stay healthy from healthy 20-year old food gurus. I want to hear it from those in their 60's and 70's who have been through heck and back again and look and are in amazing health and dance their dialogue!