Belly Fat & Fatty Livers

3 out of 4 people who have a stroke had high blood pressure first. High blood pressure is often fixable by “life style changes.” Get fitter (work out, achieve an ideal weight, work your blood vessels into a more healthy state) Eat beets (or beet powders i.e. neogenis.com has a great black cherry beet powder drink and i get no money for saying this) and lots of greens (spinach, salad, arugula, etc.) all that help your body produce “nitric oxide” that promotes healthy blood vessels Make sure you are not on any medication that is raising your blood pressure (yep, shockingly [...]

Biocides kill bacteria and nasty microorganisms from growing and spoiling items they are added to, but they may also be causing allergic reactions and even contributing to antibiotic resistance. Biocides are added to diverse consumer products, especially detergents, disinfectants and cosmetics. Contact Allergy Some people are now developing contact dermatitis allergy to their green laundry detergents, and one reason is because of these biocides. Biocides, for example these polysyllabic names like benzisothiazolinone and methylisothiazolinone, can give you rashes or add to adverse reactions to antibiotics you may need in your future. Look at this article published in Contact Dermatitis. 2014 Jul;71(1):41-8. [...]

A study on 190,000 Danes hospitalized and treated for all kinds of serious infections, linked these diverse infections with an increased incidence of getting poorer cognition and lower IQ scores, post infections. This Scandinavian study showed that people with 5 or more hospital contacts with infections had an IQ score of 9.44 points lower than the average! That's a huge dumbing down of thought processing. The study showed a clear dose-response relationship between the number and severity of infections to the effects on cognitive ability. Infections in the brain affected the cognitive ability the most, but many other types of infections [...]

Fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia is chronic pain and fatigue that comes from the brain and spinal chord more than directly from the areas where one hurts. It’s not easy to diagnose or treat. When I was first in practice many doctors thought this problem was all in a patient’s head and dissed its veracity. Now, fibromyalgia is considered the 2nd most common rheumatic disorder behind osteoarthritis. Fibromyalgia is regarded as a lifelong central nervous disorder that creates amplified pain in various body parts. The person with it can suffer greatly and often can’t get off the couch. Commonly used medications don’t seem to [...]