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Every step you take, every food you eat, affects your heart function, and rapidly, especially a Big Mac…

Every step you take, every food you eat, affects your heart function, and rapidly, especially a Big Mac…

Boy, it’s like having a Big Brother following us around and dinging our endothelial function (how well the most intimate lining of our blood and lymph vessels work) whenever we ‘sin’. If we eat junk food, lie around and snub exercise, or cram high saturated fat into our mouths, within several hours the critical function of the lining of our blood and lymph vessels (the critical fluid highways of our body) can be eroded by 50%! This is yet more research showing that a good diet does matter. And that the effect of how we live and eat, good or bad, [...]

Every step you take, every food you eat, affects your heart function, and rapidly, especially a Big Mac…2019-01-04T18:17:16-06:00

Do cell phones ruin our blood pressure and at how many calls a day?

One night I was in Australia at a restaurant next to a table filled with a group of Asian businessmen. Someone’s phone rang. All 15 of the men wearing black suits or stripped shirts leaned down under the table to check their phones in their bags. I also leaned down under the table and held my purse up to my ear to listen for a phone ring through the material. A phone continued to ring. I looked across and the gents remained in this downward doggie facing position staring right back at me, all of us still hearing the phone but [...]

Do cell phones ruin our blood pressure and at how many calls a day?2019-03-24T12:49:07-05:00

What food can you inexpensively purchase at any market, which keeps hormones safe and makes ‘immortal’ cancer cells die?

For years many of us have used this food as a small thoughtless garnish on top of other foods, without realizing the pharmaceutical actions and magic that lay within its tasty cells? It’s difficult to believe that the lowly parsley holds such amazing benefits. Parsley is one of the highest food sources of an amazing flavonoid called apigenin. Celery and chamomile are also other common sources of apigenin, but parsley contains the highest amount of this compound. Apigenin is turning out to be an easy to eat and inexpensive protector against cancer. Here’s the back copy. One way that cancer cells [...]

What food can you inexpensively purchase at any market, which keeps hormones safe and makes ‘immortal’ cancer cells die?2019-04-03T09:58:00-05:00

How to Minimize BRCA Gene Risks for Some Women

I have many patients who upon discovering that they carry a BRCA gene mutation consider bilateral breast mastectomies. But the BRCA genes also carry increased risk of multiple cancers, from pancreatic to melanoma, and other diseases, so you can’t have a total body-ectomy. But you can put your baby to your breast. Two studies support that breastfeeding protects against breast cancer if the mother has BRCA1, but not if she has BRCA2, in fact having children increases the risk in women with the BRCA2 genetic mutation. The lack of protection for carriers of the BRCA2 mutation suggests that the biological pathway [...]

How to Minimize BRCA Gene Risks for Some Women2019-02-01T20:56:18-06:00

What do women have over men, especially as they age?

Much to the lament of women who are still reeling over the famous quote, “It’s easier to get hijacked by a terrorist than for a single woman to find a man after she turns 40.” as we age, men die younger, and women live longer. This is true in all societies and in all countries. Science has been trying to find the underlying answer for a long time. Is it that women talk about their emotions more to their friends so they have less pent up anger? Is it that we accessorize? Or women take better care of themselves, going to [...]

What do women have over men, especially as they age?2019-02-06T13:20:05-06:00

Angelina Jolie’s Decision… comments on BRCA genes and taking charge.

I cannot assume to judge anyone else’s health decisions. Angelina lived through her mother’s treatment and eventual death from ovarian cancer, and now Ms. Jolie has 6 children herself to consider. I applaud her for her pro-activity. It is just that these genetic mutations cause potential increases in risk for a wide number of cancers, and cutting out each organ at risk is not plausible. So I certainly hope that Ms. Jolie is being guided by her physicians to look at other proactive measures, such as boosting ER beta signaling which helps keep cells normal and prevents them from turning into [...]

Angelina Jolie’s Decision… comments on BRCA genes and taking charge.2018-08-08T09:36:17-05:00

What ONE TINY food acts like a medication to lower blood pressure?

Adding this food, flaxseeds, to the diet of folks with heart disease and high blood pressure (peripheral artery disease-PAD) greatly lowered blood pressure by 10 mm of HG systolic (top number) and 7 mm of HG diastolic (diastolic) after 6 months. One small group even had their blood pressure lowered more, equivalent to taking medication. “This is the largest decrease in blood pressure ever shown by any dietary intervention," said Dr Delfin Rodriguez speaking to the American Heart Association from the University Hospital Holguin, Cuba. This is yet another example of just how powerful healthy foods can be. These improvements in [...]

What ONE TINY food acts like a medication to lower blood pressure?2019-02-06T12:30:11-06:00

What can protect our smartness as we age? And doesn’t take too much effort!

I love Canadian research, especially into what keeps us smarter (and thinner). Three Montreal Institutions got together and studied a protocol that only took a short amount of time—four days a week—and got folks not only smarter, but carved out their waists and improved their insulin sensitivity. These people, granted the study was small, a pilot study, got 3 bangs for their exertion buck: they got smarter, healthier and leaner. Just by doing this 4 days a week, for 4 months. What did the study do? It did what every body in health care (in-the-know) is raving about: peak burst performance, [...]

What can protect our smartness as we age? And doesn’t take too much effort!2019-02-06T13:15:44-06:00

Which hormone and vitamin team up together in a melodic duo to protect brains and nerves, even in traumatic brain injuries or with aging?

Hormones and vitamins function (and dysfunction) together. We will see more and more of this in the future. Once again, hormones link elegantly with nutrients to offer protection and a greater chance of healthier nerve function, fewer symptoms, and of warding off disease. Researchers at Emory University have discovered that Vitamin D, along with progesterone, boost each other’s neuroprotective actions. In this new era of enlightened functional medicine, getting at the root cause of illness, not just tamping down the symptoms, and mixing vitamin and hormones, is the wave of the future. The marriage I am speaking of here is the [...]

Which hormone and vitamin team up together in a melodic duo to protect brains and nerves, even in traumatic brain injuries or with aging?2019-02-05T13:08:50-06:00

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Medical Disclaimer: The information contained in this website is not intended to replace a one-on-one relationship with a qualified health care professional and is not intended as medical advice. It is intended as a sharing of knowledge and information from the research and experience of Dr. Lindsey Berkson and the experts who have contributed to the field of research. You are encouraged to make your own health care decisions based upon your research and in partnership with a qualified health care professional of your choosing.

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