Health & Wellness

2019 saw UK dementia deaths decline by largest number in 20 years

Gabriella Swerling
The Telegraph
Wed, 02 Dec 2020 17:28 UTC

Dementia deaths have declined by the largest number in 20 years, Government figures have revealed.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its first ever figures linked to dementia and Alzheimer's disease deaths, which also include comorbidities, for England and Wales

Researchers found that in 2019 there were 530,841 deaths registered. Of these, there were 66,424 deaths due to dementia and Alzheimer's disease (12.5 per cent) compared with 69,478 deaths in 2018.

The ONS also found that there was a "significant decrease" in the age-standardised mortality rate in 2019 in comparison to 2018 (a decline from 123.8 per 100,000 people in 2018, to 115.1 per 100,000 people in 2019).

Comment: See also: Studies show ketogenic diet's promising results for all stages of dementia

And check out SOTT radio's: The Health & Wellness Show: Dementia and the Absolute Terror of Losing One's Mind

Iron will to live: 102 year-old woman has survived the Spanish Flu, cancer and Covid

Tamar Lapin
New York Post
Thu, 03 Dec 2020 03:16 UTC

Angelina Friedman

A 102-year-old New York woman who lived through the 1918 Spanish Flu and overcame cancer survived not only one — but two bouts with the coronavirus.

Angelina Friedman — a Westchester County nursing home resident with "an iron will to live" — battled COVID-19 back in March, as well as in October, her daughter told WPIX-TV.

"She's not the oldest to survive COVID, but she may be the oldest to survive it twice," Joanne Merola told the outlet.

The centenarian was born Angelina Sciales on Oct. 18, 1918, on a ship taking immigrants from Italy to the Big Apple in the midst of the influenza, Merola said.

Friedman's mother died in childbirth on the ship, and she was raised with the help of her two sisters.

Her father later joined Friedman and her 10 siblings in America and the family settled in Brooklyn.

Comment: This woman has one strong immune system - we salute her! As for testing positive for Covid a second time, that is debatable, considering the high rate of false positives from PCR tests.

Covid-19 was present in America BEFORE being officially confirmed in China, study by US health protection agency says

RT
Wed, 02 Dec 2020 12:53 UTC

Patient being treated from Covid-19 at Roseland Community Hospital in Chicago

Coronavirus had been infecting people in the US even before China reported its first cases on December 31, 2019, research by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Red Cross has revealed.

American medics officially registered their first Covid-19 patient on January 19, 2020, but the findings in a paper published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases suggest the virus may have been circulating in the US prior to that.

Comment: The coronavirus COVID-19 was present in the general population before it was officially declared a pandemic.

Gut microbiome linked to poor sleep via metabolite production

Nick Lavars
New Atlas
Sun, 29 Nov 2020 00:01 UTC

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New research has shone further light on the connection between the gut microbiome and sleep.

Among the many negative health outcomes that may be driven by changes to our gut microbiome is poor sleep, with recent research uncovering links between it and alterations to the community of bacteria living in our bellies. A new study out of Japan's University of Tsukuba is shining yet more light on this relationship, describing how depleted diversity of microbes in the gut can led to disrupted sleep in mice.

The research follows similar studies carried out on mice and fruit flies earlier this year, in which scientists found changes to the gut microbiome could lead to high blood pressure and fragmented sleep, as well as early death from sleep deprivation. The latest work carried out at the University of Tsukuba focuses on the role this bacteria plays in affecting sleep via the production of the neurotransmitters serotonin and dopamine.

To investigate this connection, the researchers gave a group of mice strong doses of antibiotics over the course of four weeks. This depleted the diversity of bacteria in their intestines, which led to significant differences in their metabolites compared to a control group of mice fed the same diet.

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5 burning questions about the new COVID vaccine in the UK

Kit Knightly
Off-Guardian
Wed, 02 Dec 2020 02:01 UTC

The United Kingdom government has today announced its approval of the first Covid19 vaccine for general use. 800,000 doses are slated to be released for general use by the end of the week, and has already signed a contract for 40 million more doses (to go along with over 300 million doses of as-yet-unreleased vaccines from other companies).

With the newest phase in the Covid19 roll-out set to begin, it's time we addressed the five biggest questions about this vaccine, its effectiveness, its safety and whether or not we'll be forced to use it.

How COVID-19 vaccine can destroy your immune system

Joseph Mercola
Mercola.com
Wed, 11 Nov 2020 17:34 UTC

According to a study that examined how informed consent is given to COVID-19 vaccine trial participants, disclosure forms fail to inform volunteers that the vaccine might make them susceptible to more severe disease if they're exposed to the virus.

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Objective:Health: ITN - Masks Still Don't Work. Meat is Still Good For You

Sott.net
Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC

Welcome to another In The News (ITN) show from Objective:Health, where we troll the latest health headlines to bring you up to speed on the latest in ongoing stories.

This week we first look into masks... again. The recent news is that the long awaited Danish mask study has finally been published and it shows exactly what we'd expect (spoiler alert) - there is no statistically significant difference between wearing or not wearing mask. Surprise!

Then move on to the latest in the elites trying to change the way everyone eats to genetically modified, lab-grown, processed garbage that has no right to be called food. Purina is putting bugs in their pet foods, McDonald's announces the release of their apparently long-awaited veggie burger and a new study shows vegans and vegetarians are more likely to break bones than meat eaters.

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The strangely unscientific masking of America

Jenin Younes
American Institute for Economic Research
Fri, 27 Nov 2020 00:01 UTC

I remember vividly the day, at the tail end of March, when facemasks suddenly became synonymous with morality: either one cared about the lives of others and donned a mask, or one was selfish and refused to do so. The shift occurred virtually overnight.

Only a day or two before, I had associated this attire solely with surgeons and people living in heavily polluted regions. Now, my friends' favorite pastime during our weekly Zoom sessions was excoriating people for running or socializing without masks in Prospect Park. I was mystified by their certitude that bits of cloth were the only thing standing between us and mass death, particularly when mere weeks prior, the message from medical experts contradicted this new doctrine.

On February 29, the U.S. surgeon general infamously tweeted: "Seriously people - STOP BUYING MASKS. . . They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus." Anthony Fauci, the best-known member of the coronavirus task force, advised Americans not to wear masks around this time. Similarly, in the earliest weeks of the pandemic, the CDC maintained that masks should be worn only by individuals who were symptomatic or caring for a sick person, a position that the WHO stood by even longer.

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The genetics of side-effects

Horizon Magazine
Wed, 25 Nov 2020 11:48 UTC

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Some 95% of people have a gene variant that affects their response to at least one drug.

Henk-Jan Guchelaar knows all too well the serious problems that the side-effects of medication can cause. As a professor of clinical pharmacy at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, he has spent the last two decades trying to get the link between medicine and our genes recognised more widely.

The stories he hears from patients and their families bring home the impact that these gene-drug interactions can have. It can even have fatal consequences, as one man described to him.

'He told me about his wife, who had breast cancer and underwent surgery. The prognosis was very good. The tumour was removed by the surgeon but, to prevent micro-metastases, his wife had to receive six courses of (chemotherapy drug) fluorouracil. During the second infusion of the drug, the patient collapsed, went to the intensive care unit and died,' he said.

Comment: One wonders when they'll apply this same thinking to vaccines...

Meat is magnificent: Water, carbon, methane & nutrition

Diana Rodgers, RD
sustainabledish.com
Tue, 17 Sep 2019 08:25 UTC

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." - John Muir

There was a recent article in The Washington Post entitled "Meat is Horrible", once again vilifying meat, that was full of inaccurate statements about the harm cattle impose on the land, how bad it is for our health, and how it should be taxed. Stories like this are all too common and we've absolutely got to change our thinking on what's causing greenhouse gas emissions and our global health crisis.

Comment: Red meat consumption is actually excellent for optimal human health

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Health & Wellness

2019 saw UK dementia deaths decline by largest number in 20 years

Iron will to live: 102 year-old woman has survived the Spanish Flu, cancer and Covid

Covid-19 was present in America BEFORE being officially confirmed in China, study by US health protection agency says

Gut microbiome linked to poor sleep via metabolite production

5 burning questions about the new COVID vaccine in the UK

How COVID-19 vaccine can destroy your immune system

Objective:Health: ITN - Masks Still Don't Work. Meat is Still Good For You

The strangely unscientific masking of America

The genetics of side-effects

Meat is magnificent: Water, carbon, methane & nutrition

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