Reviews
16% of Cancer Described as Avoidable! – What About The Rest?
The research, published in Lancet Oncology and carried out at the International Agency for Research on Cancer, studied international data for 27 cancers in 184 countries in order to identify the factors which contribute to the development of the diseases. The results suggest that 16% of all cancers are a result of infections, and of that sub-set 80% occur in less developed regions.[1]
The WHO another data crunching megalith estimates that 6% of cancers in wealthy nations and 22% in low- and middle-income countries are caused by infectious agents: viruses such as HBV, HPV and hepatitis C virus (HCV), bacteria such as Helicobacter pylori and waterborne parasites.
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Fatigue, Immunity and Inflammation:– Their Resolution Using Natural Medicine.
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Michael E. Ash BSc DO ND,Prof Garth L. Nicolson Ph.D and Robert Settenari Ph.D explain the relationship between energy defecit, mitochondrial membrane quality, the immune system, inflammation and how to recover from persistent fatigue using validated natural medicine.
Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin (TSLP) – What We Need To Know & Why
The LEAP Project
Many Nutritional Therapists will consult people with a well-defined allergy or in some cases a range of symptoms that reflect an allergic response that do not meet the recognised IgE diagnosis. Some of these people will also be experiencing what is known as the ‘allergic march’ – the development of secondary allergenic profiles such as asthma after already having an established food allergy, such as peanut or shellfish.
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A Nutritional Proposal For Improving “Mental health” with a focus on depression
At present no chronic disease has a greater drag on global function than mental illness.[1] A remarkable 40% of the European population is affected in any given year with depressive symptoms, and these numbers are rising.
Core symptoms include depressed mood, anhedonia (reduced ability to experience pleasure from natural rewards), irritability, difficulties in concentrating, and abnormalities in appetite and sleep (‘neurovegetative symptoms’). In addition to mortality associated with suicide, depressed patients are more likely to develop coronary artery disease and type 2 diabetes. Depression also complicates the prognosis of a host of other chronic medical conditions. The chronic, festering nature of depression contributes substantially to the global burden of disease and disability.
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So How Much Vitamin D do I Need?
In practice life a number of questions arise relating to all supplemental suggestions and vitamin D is no different.
• What do I need to be healthy?
• How do I know what my levels are now?
• How do I raise my levels if I need to?
• What foods, supplements or lifestyle changes do I need to do?
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Glycophospholipids and their Effect on Fatigue
Michael Ash interviewed colleague Dr Rita Ellithorpe MD for CAM on the clinical application of a patent pending form of phospholipids known as glycophospholipids and commercially sold as NT Factor and referred to as Lipid Replacement Therapy® (LRT®).
Unusually for many food supplements, glycophospholipids have been the primary ingredient in a number of research papers, some of which has had Dr Ellithorpe as a primary contributor. Her colleagues in this work have included Prof Garth Nicolson and Dr Settenari. References relating to some of these studies may be found at the end of the interview. LRT® is scientifically validated in 9 preclinical and clinical trials over the past 15 years, with millions of doses safely taken by consumers. More than 25 articles in scientific and medical journals have been published on its benefits.
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Amla: An Ancient Super Berry Emerges from India
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The most revered medicinal berry in the entire subcontinent of India—Amla berry, or Emblica officinalis—is said to come from the first tree to appear on earth, manifested out of the tears of Brahma while he was meditating.[1]
Taking a Good Family History Made Easy
My Family Health Portrait is the Web-based tool from NHGRI and the U.S. Surgeon General’s Family History Initiative that helps you create your own family health history. Using any computer, an Internet connection and an up-to-date Web browser, you provide your health information to build a drawing of your family tree and a chart of your family health history. Both the chart and the drawing can be printed and shared with your family members and your doctor.
Tracing the illnesses suffered by your parents, grandparents and other blood relatives can help your doctor predict the disorders to which you may be at risk, and help you take action to keep you and your family healthy.
Free Genetic Testing
There is a genetic test that is pretty good at predicting some degree of one’s individual susceptibility. It’s a genetic test that is free, and we don’t use it very effectively. That’s your family medical history. How many of us, or indeed any health care practitioner, really takes a great and etailed family meical history. So many times practitioners ask a few subjective questions and may then simply make a note that it appears non relevant or, “non-contributory.”
I would suggest that rarely is the family history non-contributory unless this is somebody who is adopted and has no information about any of their blood relatives, because there are clues and we should be using those more effectively. Part of the problem is that taking a family history takes time, and often the patient doesn’t quite recall the details of what happened to aunts and uncles and so on.
There is a tool, which I think many hundreds of thousands of people have used, that the Surgeon General has put up on her department’s Website. If you click on this link “surgeon general family history,” it’ll take you to that tool. This is something for patients or clients to enter information about their own family members as far as their medical experiences. It ends up getting put into this software and then gets printed out as a standard format.
That gives the patient or client the chance to do all of the time-consuming work of getting the information. This saves time in clinic, but also lets you really examine the history in a quick and self reported manner that may well mean that you make better and more informed recommendations concerning prevention strategies.
I recommend you look it over and consider adding the link to your welcome to my clinic pack.
Probiotics Can Make Dendritic Cells Stop Singing the Blues
GUT is one of my favourite journals, as they regularly explore the ‘alternative’ approaches to colon health management with a vigour that appeases the clinician in me, and a rigour that calms the scientist.
A paper published in early 2012[1] add’s further knowledge to the role that probiotics and the active components produced by lactic acid bacteria have on mucosal health and intestinal balance. An especially pleasing discovery – for an old long term user of this word – is their inclusion of the term dysbiosis, with a summary explanation in the opening paragraph, as there is no abstract. I have reproduced it below:
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Cod Liver Oil vs TB
In a feature article in the Christmas 2011 edition of the well-known British Medical Journal, Professor Emeritus Malcolm Green revisited an 1848 study looking at the potential benefits of Cod Liver Oil in the treatment of Tuberculosis.[1]
In the study, carried out by physicians at the Hospital for Consumption, Chelsea (now the Royal Brompton Hospital), 542 patients with consumption (tuberculosis) received standard treatment with cod liver oil. These patients were compared with 535 ‘control’ patients who received standard treatment alone (without cod liver oil).[2]
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