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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

Here's why you should skip the COVID vaccine

Mike Whitney
Unz Review
Sat, 28 Nov 2020 08:06 UTC

"The world has bet the farm on vaccines as the solution to the pandemic, but the trials are not focused on answering the questions many might assume they are."

Peter Doshi, associate editor of the British Medical Journal and assistant professor of pharmaceutical health services research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein

The new Covid vaccines will make billions of dollars for the big pharmaceutical companies, but here's what they won't do:

The vaccines will not cure Covid
The vaccines will not prevent people from contracting Covid
The vaccines will not prevent Covid-related hospitalizations
The vaccines will not prevent Covid-caused deaths

Now, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "If the vaccine does not protect me from getting Covid (or dying from Covid), then why should I take it?"

Activating the vagus nerve could lower your risk for Covid-19 and other inflammatory conditions

Mark Heid
elemental
Sat, 28 Nov 2020 17:22 UTC

Like other apes, humans are social animals. We evolved to live in codependent communities, and we do poorly if deprived of interpersonal contact.

Everyone has a different threshold for social interaction. But nearly all of us tend to become distressed when cut off from others, and our immune system responds to this distress by ramping up its defenses. A new study in the journal Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews finds that social isolation is associated with a rise in inflammation-promoting molecules, including some that are implicated in severe Covid-19. And past research has linked loneliness to poor cellular immune health and increased viral loads during an infection.

All of these cellular and immune changes are worrying in the context of SARS-CoV-2. Inflammation is a unifying feature of illness, and out-of-control inflammation seems to be a common feature of severe Covid-19.

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Peer-reviewed hydroxychloroquine study finds 84% fewer hospitalizations among early treated outpatients

Chris Pandolfo
The Blaze
Tue, 24 Nov 2020 05:26 UTC

'What differentiates this study is that patients were diagnosed very early with COVID-19 in an outpatient setting, and only high-risk patients were treated early on'

A peer-reviewed study analyzing the effectiveness of a triple drug cocktail including hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID-19 patients found that the treatment was effective and that it significantly reduced hospitalization and mortality rates for those in the treatment group.

The study, authored by the controversial Dr. Vladimir Zelenko in partnership with two German doctors, was accepted for peer-review and will be published in the December issue of the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. An online-only version of the study was published Oct. 26.

Dr. Zelenko and team, Drs. Roland Derwand and Martin Scholz, sought to describe the outcomes of high-risk patients with laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 who received early treatment with zinc, low-dose hydroxychloroquine, and azithromycin. A total of 141 diagnosed COVID-19 patients were prescribed the triple treatment over a five-day period. They were compared with a control group of 377 confirmed COVID-19 patients who did not receive the treatment.

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Health & Wellness

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

Here's why you should skip the COVID vaccine

Activating the vagus nerve could lower your risk for Covid-19 and other inflammatory conditions

Peer-reviewed hydroxychloroquine study finds 84% fewer hospitalizations among early treated outpatients

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