Carrie Fisher’s Inflammatory Lifestyle
Carrie Fisher, best known as Princess Leia in Star Wars. was a brilliant writer and producer as well as a productive actress. She appeared in Shampoo, The Blues Brothers, Hannah and Her Sisters, When Harry Met Sally and other movies, and wrote several best-selling books.
Aspirin’s Benefits from Plants
Today’s aspirin is a manufactured copy of the salicylic acid from willow bark plus acytl chloride (acetylsalicylic acid). The bark of willow trees has been used medicinally for more than 5000 years. Doctors have known for more than 200 years that salicylates in plants can prevent clotting
Diabetes: A New Explanation
No matter how much insulin the pancreas makes, eating sugar causes the liver to make excess ChREBP that prevents the liver from responding to insulin and the liver then converts extra calories to sugar as well as the fat that it normally produces.
Zsa Zsa Gabor Dies at 99
This is the story of a beautiful woman who married eight times mostly to older men for fortune and favors, plus a ninth husband who was 27 years younger and gained fame and fortune by marrying her. She wrote several autobiographies, including the 1970 book, How to Catch a Man, How to Keep a Man, How to Get Rid of a Man.
Statins, Low Vitamin D and Muscle Pain
Many people who take statin drugs complain of muscle pain and muscle damage. A new study associates this statin-induced muscle pain with low blood levels of vitamin D (Atherosclerosis, 11/22/2016). An eight–week randomized, double–blind crossover trial of...
Jean Shepard and Parkinson’s Disease
On September 29, 2016, country music lost one of its all-time greats. Most of you have heard Jean Shepard singing “Dear John Letter” with Ferlin Husky, the first post-World War II record by a female country singer to become the number one country song and sell more than a million records.
Retaining Strength with Aging
If you don’t exercise regularly and vigorously, expect to lose a significant amount of muscle strength as you age, and expect that loss of strength to reduce the quality of your life. A 15-year follow-up study showed that older people who lift weights at least twice a week had a 46 percent lower death rate within the study period.
Exercise Can Help to Treat (and Prevent) Cancer
Exercise is now recommended as part of the treatment for cancer by the American College of Sports Medicine, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, the American Cancer Society, the Oncology Nursing Society, the Commission on Cancer and the Cancer Foundation for Life.
Denton Cooley, the Fastest Heart Surgeon
Heart surgeon Denton Cooley, who just died on November 18, 2017, was better than his peers in just about everything he did. He founded the Texas Heart Institute in 1972, where he and his team performed almost 120,000 open heart operations, 258,000 cardiac catheterizations and 270 heart transplants.
Meat and Colon Cancer: New Studies
This week, a study from Spain adds to the evidence that eating any type of meat (red, white processed, cured or organ meat) is associated with increased risk of colon cancer, and that cooking and processing meat increases risk.