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Different gut bacteria in Alzheimer patients

Ross Pomeroy
Real Science
Mon, 23 Oct 2017 04:26 UTC
Gut Bacteria
© Vogt et al./Scientific Reports
A team of researchers primarily based out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison examined the gut microbiota of twenty-five Alzheimer's patients at the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and compared their samples with those of twenty-five control subjects matched for age, gender, and health.

Overall, Alzheimer's patients had reduced microbial diversity, as well as a few noteworthy differences in bacterial abundance.

"Alzheimer's disease participants had decreased abundance of Firmicutes and Actinobacteria, and increased abundance of Bacteroidetes compared to control participants," the researchers reported.

Firmicutes bacteria may aid in glucose metabolism. Diabetics and obese individuals have fewer of them. Many Actinobacteria, and particularly a subset called Bifidobacterium, are used as probiotics and possibly fight inflammation in the body. On the other hand, Bacteroides have been detected at higher levels in patients with Parkinson's disease, another neurodegenerative disorder.
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The creation of the Rockefeller pharma industry


The Body Watch
Sun, 22 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
Rockefeller
Modern medicine has some good points, for sure, and is great in an emergency, but it's time we learn that today's mainstream pharma industry (Modern medicine), with its focus on drugs, radiation and surgery, is at its foundation a Rockefeller creation. But how did the pharma industry come to be so prominent in our modern world?

Where it all began - John D. Rockefeller(1800s)

Let's go back in time to the late 1800s. John D. Rockefeller, the head of the Rockefeller family had just become very rich through extracting oil from the ground. Now he is looking for ways to capitalize his oil, and he comes across the idea of using coal tar - a petroleum derivative - to make substances that affect the human mind, body and nervous system.

Wait... Petroleum Drugs?

Yes, these drugs are excellent at masking or stopping symptoms, but overall do not cure the underlying cause of a disease.

Rockefeller then bought out part of the massive German pharmaceutical cartel, I.G. Farben. This was the very same cartel that would later assist Hitler by manufacturing chemicals and poisons for war. Funny how it all comes together huh?

Comment: See also: Modern day health propaganda revealed

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The Global Food & Health Crisis: Monsanto's bogus science

Rosemary Mason & Colin Todhunter
Global Research
Thu, 19 Oct 2017 18:19 UTC
Monsanto
© Future Shock: Imagining India
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is the new director general of the World Health Organization (WHO). With a $4 billion annual budget, WHO's decisions affects us all and its decisions also affect the bottom line of some of the most powerful corporations on the planet.

Health is political. And health is big business. For instance, WHO makes dietary and nutrition recommendations that can affect the likes of Nestle, Unilever, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, General Mills and Kellogg's. WHO devises a list of essential medicines that governments should stock for the health of their people, thereby affecting the sales of major pharmaceutical companies. It also helps other UN agencies procure billions of dollars of pharmaceutical products by vetting manufacturers to ensure they meet WHO standards and specifications.
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Jon Rappoport: Insider reveals how the opioid crime network operates

Jon Rappoport
jonrappoport.wordpress.com
Tue, 17 Oct 2017 17:38 UTC
Washington Post
© Washington Post
PBS Frontline (2/23/2016):
"The opioid epidemic has been called the worst drug crisis in American history...with overdoses from heroin and other opioids now killing more than 27,000 people a year..." (Note: prescription opioids are now a very significant gateway-drug leading addicts into heroin.)
CBS News (8/1/2017):
"Nearly 92 million U.S. adults, or about 38 percent of the population, took a legitimately prescribed opioid like OxyContin or Percocet in 2015, according to results from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health."
On the condition of anonymity, an insider with intimate knowledge of the opioid crime network spoke with me. He is not a participant or a criminal. He has spent years exposing the network.

Comment: Former DEA official's '60 Minutes' bombshell: Congress worked with Big Pharma to hook America on opioids

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Rat studies find Monsanto's GMO corn is toxic to liver, kidneys, intestines and testes

Daniel Barker
Natural Target
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 00:00 UTC
monsanto field
Ever since agribusiness giant Monsanto began pushing its GM crops on the public, the company has maintained that the technology is safe, and that consumption of Frankenfood products, such as genetically-modified corn, causes no ill effects in either animals or humans.

Monsanto propaganda holds that GMOs have been proven safe, but the truth is that few real safety studies have ever been conducted, while much of the existing scientific literature on the subject is bogus industry-backed drivel. However, despite Monsanto's efforts to control the narrative, independent researchers have been finding evidence that contradicts the company's claims.

GM Watch recently published the results of one such study, conducted by two researchers at the Faculty of Medicine at Tanta University, Egypt.

The researchers fed Monsanto GM corn - a genetically-altered version of a local Egyptian corn variety - to laboratory rats over a 90-day period, with a control group being fed a non-GM variety of local corn.

Comment: The Bad Seed: The health risks of genetically modified corn

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Health

Blood Flow Restriction Training: The easier, faster and safer way to build muscle

Dr. Mercola
mercola.com
Sun, 22 Oct 2017 15:00 UTC
Kaatsu training

Kaatsu training
If you haven't heard of Kaatsu training before, you're in for a treat. While still a novelty in the West, Kaatsu training was developed in Japan five decades ago. Ka means "additional" and atsu means "pressure." An English layman's term for the practice is "blood flow restriction training," and involves performing strength training exercises while restricting blood flow to the extremity being worked.

A significant benefit of the method is that you can do strength exercises using just 30 to 50 percent of the weight you'd normally use while still reaping maximum benefits. In a way, you're trading weight for repetitions, in that you're using less weight but doing more reps - up to 20 or 30 repetitions opposed to the 10 or 12 you might normally do.

The cuffs or bands are just tight enough to allow arterial blood flow but not venous flow. This causes lactic acid and other waste products to build up, giving you the same benefit as heavy lifting without the dangers associated with heavy weights. For this reason, it's a great strategy for the elderly and those who are recuperating from an injury.

Compelling evidence suggests that venous blood flow restriction dramatically increases muscle growth and strength by increasing growth hormone secretion, reducing myostatin and inducing cell swelling - all while circumventing the tissue damage that can occur with traditional high-intensity weight training.
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Health

Researchers find key molecule that can mimic ketosis and lower inflammation

Mae Chan
Prevent Disease
Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:01 UTC
ketogenic diet
Ketogenic diets -- extreme low-carbohydrate, high-fat regimens that have long been known to benefit epilepsy and other neurological illnesses -- may work by lowering inflammation in the brain, according to new research by UC San Francisco scientists.

The UCSF team has discovered a molecular key to the diet's apparent effects, opening the door for new therapies that could reduce harmful brain inflammation following stroke and brain trauma by mimicking the beneficial effects of an extreme low-carb diet.


Comment: What's a ketogenic diet, and can it really boost brain health?


"It's a key issue in the field -- how to suppress inflammation in brain after injury," said Raymond Swanson, MD, a professor of neurology at UC San Francisco, chief of the neurology service at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and senior author of the new study.

In the paper, published in the journal Nature Communications, Swanson and his colleagues found the previously undiscovered mechanism by which a low carbohydrate diet reduces inflammation in the brain. Importantly, the team identified a pivotal protein that links the diet to inflammatory genes, which, if blocked, could mirror the anti-inflammatory effects of ketogenic diets.
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Health

Natural ways to safeguard bone health

Dr. Mercola
mercola.com
Sat, 21 Oct 2017 18:51 UTC
bones
© Getty Images
Osteoporosis is a common problem, affecting an estimated 1 in 10 women worldwide at the age of 60.1 By the time a woman reaches the age of 80, she has a 2-in-5 chance of developing osteoporosis. In most people, sometime during your 30s your bone mass will start to gradually decline. For women, that bone loss can significantly speed up during the first decade of menopause.

Statistics suggest that, worldwide, 1 in 3 women and 1 in 5 men over the age of 50 will experience an osteoporosis-related bone fracture. In 2000, there were 9 million osteoporotic fractures, including 1.6 million hip fractures - a quarter of which occurred in men - which can lead to a significant decline in health and quality of life. Hip fractures can also be life-threatening. Twenty percent of those who break a hip die in the first 12 months following the fracture.

Statistics also reveal that osteoporosis is becoming more prevalent. In the decade between 1990 and 2000, the number of hip fractures increased by 25 percent worldwide.2 So, what can be done about this problem? It's important to realize that osteoporosis is preventable by "proper living," meaning eating right, getting nutritional movement and effective exercise.

Weight-bearing exercises are particularly important for the prevention of osteoporosis, which is characterized by porous and fragile bones. Unfortunately, drugs are typically the first-line remedy recommended by conventional doctors. This is tragic, considering these drugs do more harm than good.
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Health

Fasting is the new frontier in longevity research

Jessica Mathews
CNBC
Fri, 20 Oct 2017 17:42 UTC
rhesus monkeys
© Jeff Miller/University of Wisconsin-Madison
A rhesus monkey on a calorie-restricted diet (left) and a control group monkey (right) who were subjects in a pioneering long-term study of the links between caloric restriction and aging at the University of Wisconsin's Wisconsin National Primate Research Center.
People have been losing weight by counting calories for years. But some recent medical studies are trying to prove that if you want the ultimate benefit of better dietary habits - less diseases and a longer life - your body may need to think you're eating less often, too.

Longevity scientists are studying food fasting to find out if regular periods of going without any food, or making your body think you are going without food, could be a key to lengthening the human lifespan.

"When you consume calories also plays a role," said Sebastian Brandhorst, data analyst at the Longevity Institute, based at the University of Southern California, who is involved in pioneering studies with what is called the fast-mimicking diet (FMD), a way to eat that tricks the body into thinking that a person is fasting.


Comment: Newly published research suggests that a 'fasting mimicking diet' may cure Type 1 diabetes


Backers of the research say the results are encouraging. Under the direction of the Longevity Institute's Dr. Valter Longo, a fasting diet has been tested on yeast, rodents and a small group of humans. The effects produced lead researchers to argue for larger clinical trials in humans. Longo also has launched a for-profit start-up business, L-Nutra, to sell the fasting diet to the public.
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Hearts

Woman suffers from a broken heart after the loss of her beloved dog

Karin Brulliard
Washington Post
Thu, 19 Oct 2017 17:28 UTC
Meha the terrier
© Joanie Simpson
A Texas woman suffered “broken-heart syndrome” following the death of her Yorkshire terrier, Meha.
Joanie Simpson woke early one morning with a terrible backache. Her chest started hurting when she turned over.

Within 20 minutes, she was at a local emergency room. Soon she was being airlifted to a hospital in Houston, where physicians were preparing to receive a patient exhibiting the classic signs of a heart attack.

But tests at Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute -Texas Medical Center revealed something very different. Doctors instead diagnosed Simpson with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, a condition with symptoms that mimic heart attacks. It usually occurs following an emotional event such as the loss of a spouse or child. That link has given the illness its more colloquial name: broken-heart syndrome.

In Simpson's case, the event that she says tipped her over the edge was the recent death of her beloved Yorkshire terrier, Meha.

"I was close to inconsolable," she said. "I really took it really, really hard."

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