Health & Wellness

Magnesium facts

Carolyn Dean, MD, ND
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service
Thu, 09 Nov 2017 20:01 UTC

Even though I've spent the last 20 years focused on one mineral, magnesium, it's made me a generalist, not a specialist, because magnesium does so much for the body. Most people are deficient in magnesium. So I've listed below the top 10 facts and 12 functions associated with magnesium. There are several contraindications to magnesium therapy, but most often withholding it is unwise. Moreover, in magnesium-deficient individuals, high dose vitamin D can cause their magnesium levels to be further depleted. The large number of magnesium deficiency diseases (more than 60) makes it difficult for doctors to diagnose their true cause .[1]

Sixty-five conditions associated with magnesium deficiency

According to the FDA, I am not permitted to say that magnesium can treat diseases. Doing so pushes magnesium into the drug category because the FDA (a non-medical body) says that only drugs can treat disease. However, I contend that magnesium deficiency is constantly being misdiagnosed as many different diseases, so I am merely suggesting that people treat their magnesium deficiency. Using high doses of magnesium (600-1200 mg elemental magnesium per day) for migraines, high blood pressure, angina, diabetes, high cholesterol, muscle cramps and spasms, nerve tingling and burning, is far less invasive than immediately prescribing drugs. I've observed thousands of people using therapeutic doses of a non-laxative form of magnesium with tremendous success.

Comment: See also: Magnesium: The Spark of Life

The Insulin-Illness Connection

Mark Sisson
Mark's Daily Apple
Wed, 08 Nov 2017 16:24 UTC

Most discussion of chronically-elevated insulin levels (hyperinsulinemia) and insulin resistance revolves around their relationship to bodyweight. This is unsurprising. Bodyweight's what "sells tickets." It's why most people get interested in diet, health, fitness, and nutrition-to lose weight or avoid gaining it.

But improving insulin sensitivity and reducing fasting insulin levels have major ramifications for your health, longevity, and resistance to disease. And it's not just because "weight gain is unhealthy." Insulin itself, in excess, exerts seriously damaging effects. Today, I want to impress upon you the importance of controlling your insulin response by laying out some of the health problems that stem from not controlling it.

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Heavy metals and foods that can help the body detox them

Anna Hunt
Waking Times
Mon, 06 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC

Heavy metal toxicity—from metals such as mercury, aluminum, copper, cadmium, nickel, arsenic, and lead—represents one of the greatest threats to our health and well-being.” ~ Anthony William

Heavy metals such as arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, and mercury, can be very toxic. Regardless of this risk, they are commonly used in industrial, agricultural, medical and technology applications. As a result, they have become one of the many substances polluting our environment and threatening human health.

How Heavy Metals Affect the Human Body

Most people are exposed to heavy metals throughout their lives. For many, this exposure happens on a daily basis. Subsequently, these heavy metals bioaccumulate deep inside the body's tissues and pose a significant threat to your health long-term. They put immense stress on the human body, slowly poisoning the body, damaging organs, and weakening the immune system.

Comment: It's important to research, research and research before embarking on a heavy metal detoxification protocol. The release of metals during a detox can be very taxing on the body of those who are particularly sensitive and a healthy strategy of knowing what needs to be done in order to mobilize and chelate toxins out will help ensure as safe a process as possible.

Back to basics: 'Dumbphones' with simple functions catching on as people ditch evil smartphones

Nicole Brewer
CBS Philly
Mon, 06 Nov 2017 21:59 UTC

Less is more

"Track my sleep, track my workouts," said David Dahan of Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

"I use it a lot for mobile banking," added Megan Killea of Philadelphia.

"Snapchat," laughed Alicia Dyson of North Philly.

Gone are the days when phones are used to simply talk or text. But, what if we could go back to just that?

"Disconnect for a while, stress-free," said Patrice White.

Comment: That's one way to disconnect, at least a bit.

Just go online when you're stationary at a desktop or laptop. In all other situations, keep your head up and your eyes open.

Shattered lives: The business of hysterectomies

Laurie Featherstone
Hormones Matter
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 21:37 UTC

In January 2015, I was referred to a gynecologist, having a small fibroid and an irregular menstrual cycle. A young female doctor entered my room asking how my baby was moving for me. After explaining that I was not here for a pregnancy checkup, she excused herself and returned a short time later. I told her about the fibroid and the irregular periods. She asked if I intended to have more children, I did not. She asked what I was currently using for birth control. I told her that I was in a relationship with someone who'd had a vasectomy and so I did not require hormonal birth control. She asked if I'd ever been on birth control. I had, after the birth of my daughter the military offered Depo Provera. I explained that it caused weight gain and possibly some depression. She then said

"if I were you, I'd choose a hysterectomy, and I'd elect the robot. Less down time, little scarring, and less than a 3% complication rate, and not to mention, no more menstrual cycle".

My appointment was less than 10 minutes, and surgery was scheduled within a couple weeks. I took my doctor's advice. Not until after the hysterectomy, did I understand the ramifications of that decision.

Comment:

Stem cells heal young boy's potentially fatal skin disease

Max Blau
Stat News
Wed, 08 Nov 2017 19:17 UTC

Complications of the little boy's genetic skin disease grew as he did. Tiny blisters had covered his back as a newborn. Then came the chronic skin wounds that extended from his buttocks down to his legs.

By June 2015, at age 7, the boy had lost nearly two-thirds of his skin due to an infection related to the genetic disorder junctional epidermolysis bullosa, which causes the skin to become extremely fragile. There's no cure for the disease, and it is often fatal for kids. At the burn unit at Children's Hospital in Bochum, Germany, doctors offered him constant morphine and bandaged much of his body, but nothing - not even his father's offer to donate his skin - worked to heal his wounds.

"We were absolutely sure we could do nothing for this kid," Dr. Tobias Rothoeft, a pediatrician with Children's Hospital in Bochum, which is affiliated with Ruhr University. "[We thought] that he would die."

San Diego's hepatitis A outbreak continues to grow, but rate of new infections slowing

Paul Sisson
San Diego Union Tribune
Mon, 06 Nov 2017 20:05 UTC

Though the case count in San Diego's ongoing hepatitis A outbreak increased again Monday, officials said that the number of new infections continues to slow.

In a presentation to the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, Dr. Wilma Wooten, the county's public health officer, showed a chart that indicated there were 31 cases in October, significantly fewer than the 81 reported in September and 94 in August which saw the largest total of the outbreak so far.

After seeing the chart, board chair Dianne Jacob had a to-the-point question.

"Is it getting better, the same or worse?" Jacob asked.

"We feel it's getting better," Wooten replied.

Comment: Previously:

Smell may be the future of diagnostics: Groundbreaking breath tests could detect up to 17 diseases

Natali Rahhal
Daily Mail
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 18:24 UTC

breath test illness, diagnostic testing breath

A little girl in Malawi blows into a bag while a researcher collects her breath. The sample of her breath will be sent back to a lab at the University of Washington in St. Louis, Misouri where it will be tested for scent-compounds of malaria using a new diagnostic technique

Smell may be the key to a future of more accurate, cheaper, non-invasive diagnostics tests for everything from malaria to cancer to Parkinson's disease.

Scientists in Israel are working on a breath test that they say can detect as many as 17 diseases. Meanwhile, a US-based team is testing their device for identifying the breath signature of malaria in Malawi in Africa.

The two developing technologies both use comparisons of chemical compounds found in healthy breath to the compounds found in the breath of someone with a disease.

Though neither version is ready for clinical use, the scientists beyond each hope that smell-testing can soon make diagnostics a painless and far cheaper process for patients.

Comment: See also: Breath analysis can reveal various diseases

Scientists to use immunotherapy to treat schizophrenia

Sputnik
Wed, 08 Nov 2017 15:30 UTC

UK scientists have begun testing a radically new approach to schizophrenia treatment. In the course of the next two years, 30 patients will get infusions of the so-called monoclonal antibody drug each month, which will target their immune systems. Radio Sputnik discussed this new method with professor Olive Howes.

According to the researchers this new treatment will help target the root causes of schizophrenia in a more fundamental way than current therapies do because the focus is on the way brain cells react to the immune system of the body.

In an interview with Sputnik, Oliver Howes, a professor of molecular psychiatry at the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences and a consultant psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital in South London said that currently doctors are using a method to block chemical dopamine from getting released into the patient's bloodstream, but sometimes it fails to address all of the symptoms of the illness.

"If the illness isn't treated it can sometimes lead to death. More often actually it is individuals ending their own lives, so they are much more at risk of that. But what is radically new about our approach is that instead of just blocking the downward consequences, we are trying to target the upstream causes. Particularly the immune system," Howes said.

Dementia has overtaken heart disease as the UK's biggest killer

Sarah Knapton
The Telegraph
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 17:56 UTC

Dementia is now Britain's biggest killer, overtaking heart disease for first time new figures have shown.

Some 70,366 people died from Alzheimer's disease and dementia last year compared to around 66,076 deaths from heart disease.

In 2015 heart disease was the biggest killer with 69,785 death, while 69,182 people died from dementia.

The switch is being driven by the ageing British population, combined with improvements in heart health, as more people are prescribed statins and beta blockers to cope with high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

Charities have called on the government to double its annual £132 million dementia research funding over the next five years. Projections suggest that 1.2 million will be living with dementia by 2040.

Comment: The current epidemic growth in dementia may be linked to decades of misguided advice which have advocated low-fat diets as well as mainstream medicine's obsession with cholesterol lowering drugs. Researchers are discovering that both fat and cholesterol are severely deficient in the Alzheimer's brain. Fat and cholesterol are both vital nutrients in the brain; the brain contains only 2% of the body's mass, but 25% of the total cholesterol.

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Health & Wellness

Magnesium facts

The Insulin-Illness Connection

Heavy metals and foods that can help the body detox them

Back to basics: 'Dumbphones' with simple functions catching on as people ditch evil smartphones

Shattered lives: The business of hysterectomies

Stem cells heal young boy's potentially fatal skin disease

San Diego's hepatitis A outbreak continues to grow, but rate of new infections slowing

Smell may be the future of diagnostics: Groundbreaking breath tests could detect up to 17 diseases

Scientists to use immunotherapy to treat schizophrenia

Dementia has overtaken heart disease as the UK's biggest killer

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