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Carolyn Dean MD ND | Wednesday, December 21, 2016 “’America’s Other Drug Problem’: Copious Prescriptions for Hospitalized Elderly” is the title of an Aug 30, 2016 Medscape article. You get the gist from the title and it’s a problem that I’ve been writing about for years. As I’ve said many times, when I was in […]

Written by Honor Whiteman Published: Wednesday 23 November 2016 Antidepressant medication is considered a primary treatment for major depression, but the drugs fail to fully work for more than half of Americans who use them. Now, researchers suggest a way to boost their effectiveness: breathing-based yoga. In a pilot study published in the Journal of […]

Ingredients: 1 can compliant white beans, rinsed and drained 2 cloves garlic 2 Tablespoon sesame tahini, compliant mayo, or nut butter 1/4 teaspoon chili powder, if allowed 1/2 teaspoon cumin sea salt, pepper, lemon juice to taste a little olive oil How to make it: Blend all ingredients in food processor until smooth, adding olive […]

These flax crackers are crispy and fun to eat, and a great way to get the benefits of flax. They go great with canned fish, cheese, guacamole, or just by themselves as a quick snack. Ingredients: 1 cup ground flax 1 Tablespoon whole flax seeds (optional) 1 cup brown rice flour (substitute other flours as […]

Ingredients: 2 eggs 1 cup rice flour 1-1/2 cups almond meal 1/2 cup agave syrup 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves (optional) 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger (optional) How to make it: Preheat oven to 300F Prepare cookie sheets by greasing them or covering with parchment paper Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl Drop […]

History tells us that today’s chickens are descendants of wild fowl that roamed the dense jungles of primeval Asia. Thousands of years later, France’s King Henry IV stated in his coronation speech that he hoped each peasant in his realm would have “a chicken in his pot every Sunday” (a quote later paraphrased by President […]

There’s a link between Oxidative Stress and Magnesium deficiency (MgD) Abstract Magnesium deficiency (MgD) has been shown to impact numerous biological processes at the cellular and molecular levels. In the present review, we discuss the relationship between MgD and oxidative stress (OS). MgD is accompanied by increased levels of OS markers such as lipid, protein […]

Protandim, a fundamentally new antioxidant approach in chemoprevention using mouse two-stage skin carcinogenesis as a model. Liu J1, Gu X, Robbins D, Li G, Shi R, McCord JM, Zhao Y. Author information 1Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Neuroscience, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America. Abstract Oxidative stress is an […]

  Hybertson BM1, Gao B, Bose SK, McCord JM. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22020111 For the past 40 years or so, oxidative stress has been increasingly recognized as a contributing factor in aging and in various forms of pathophysiology generally associated with aging. Our view of oxidative stress has been largely “superoxide-centric”, as we focused on the pathological sources […]

What is tooth decay? Dental caries (tooth decay, cavities, rotting teeth) is a bacterial infection that causes destruction of the teeth. The bacteria consume sugar and food debris on the teeth, gums and sulcus (the space between a tooth and its surrounding gum), producing acids, enzymes and toxic by-products. These acids corrode and destroy the […]