Health, Nutrition and Science Thread

[ELIAKIM]

Getting quite a lot of pain in my left shoulder and neck from being pulled over to the ground with the dogs at the weekend. I wouldn't be surprised if there is some bruising, will ask the massage therapist to look at it for me tomorrow and give me her report, plus make an appointment with the GP. Haven't heard from the police yet about the incident. 

Sweet dreams. 

[Aquarius]

Getting quite a lot of pain in my left shoulder and neck from being pulled over to the ground with the dogs at the weekend. I wouldn't be surprised if there is some bruising, will ask the massage therapist to look at it for me tomorrow and give me her report, plus make an appointment with the GP. Haven't heard from the police yet about the incident. 

Sweet dreams. 

My goodness, that sounds awful @ELIAKIM ... I hope you get the help you need, from your doctor, your therapist, and from the police!  

[ELIAKIM]

Histamine and Sleep 
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I take anti-histamines sometimes for skin condition flare-ups. 

[ELIAKIM]

Love my nuts and seeds ground up on yogurt. 

In fact, research suggests that the small foods can reduce your risk of a whole host of problems, including cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
Dr Mosley continued: “A five-year Spanish intervention study, involving over 7,000 older adults, found that the group who was asked to eat nuts more than three times a week were over 40 percent less likely to die from cancer.
“And that was after controlling for other lifestyle factors like alcohol consumption, physical activity and smoking. 
“Those are some big numbers.”

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/hea...lower-risk

My dad loved his nuts too, he used to put two walnuts together to crack them.  

[ELIAKIM]

White Thyme Oil -v- Germs Under Microscope. 

A short. I like to see the scientific evidence. 

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7k44gVI6Eso

[ELIAKIM]

The history of the anti meat agenda
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[Aquarius]

Love my nuts and seeds ground up on yogurt. 

In fact, research suggests that the small foods can reduce your risk of a whole host of problems, including cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
Dr Mosley continued: “A five-year Spanish intervention study, involving over 7,000 older adults, found that the group who was asked to eat nuts more than three times a week were over 40 percent less likely to die from cancer.
“And that was after controlling for other lifestyle factors like alcohol consumption, physical activity and smoking. 
“Those are some big numbers.”

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/hea...lower-risk

My dad loved his nuts too, he used to put two walnuts together to crack them.  

That's a good idea ... I will try this too.

[ELIAKIM]

Have doctored images led to 20 years of wasted Alzheimer’s research? Mystery of the ‘potentially falsified’ data at the heart of fight to treat dementia
Anyone who has watched Casualty or 24 Hours In A&E, or read a book about life as an emergency doctor, would expect my job — as an A&E consultant — to be filled with dramatic life and death situations; stabbings, car accidents and cardiac arrests.

But the reality is that I spend most of my time dealing with the impacts of ageing and societal problems such as smoking, diet, drugs, alcohol, loneliness and poverty. These are the ‘slow burn’ problems that send people to A&E when there’s been an acute exacerbation of a general decline.

And one of the most common types of patients we see in A&E departments are those with gradually worsening dementia; somehow managing to cope at home until the day he or she develops a urinary infection, falls over and needs admission for antibiotics and rehabilitation.

Dementia is the disease we now all fear most, more than cancer.

Recalling the excited headlines recently about ‘breakthrough’ Alzheimer’s treatments, the good news is there’s a drug that can sort dementia — so you’d think that, soon, this won’t be a problem any more; we don’t need to worry.

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Dementia - the impaired ability to remember, think, or make decisions - is the disease we now all fear most

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Yet what if this isn’t what it seems? What if the principle underlying the years of research and billions spent on developing these drugs is based on faked data? What if all that money— and time — could have been better spent on looking for other treatments?

Today, in the first of a regular column, I’m going to explain what’s really going on behind the latest health news stories — starting with ‘potentially falsified’ data that lies at the heart of dementia research — unravelling the science to help you make informed choices about your health and medical care. Because the days of accepting blindly what you are told should be banished to history.

The fact is, doctors don’t always have the right answers, and while you’d expect them always to practise evidence-based medicine, it’s not so simple.

Often, there isn’t the evidence available. Or even if there is, it is not always adopted by the medical community.


more on the link 

[url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11855113/Have-doctored-images-led-20-years-wasted-Alzheimers-research.html]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11855113/Have-doctored-images-led-20-years-wasted-Alzheimers-research.html

[ELIAKIM]

Have doctored images led to 20 years of wasted Alzheimer’s research? Mystery of the ‘potentially falsified’ data at the heart of fight to treat dementia
Anyone who has watched Casualty or 24 Hours In A&E, or read a book about life as an emergency doctor, would expect my job — as an A&E consultant — to be filled with dramatic life and death situations; stabbings, car accidents and cardiac arrests.

But the reality is that I spend most of my time dealing with the impacts of ageing and societal problems such as smoking, diet, drugs, alcohol, loneliness and poverty. These are the ‘slow burn’ problems that send people to A&E when there’s been an acute exacerbation of a general decline.

And one of the most common types of patients we see in A&E departments are those with gradually worsening dementia; somehow managing to cope at home until the day he or she develops a urinary infection, falls over and needs admission for antibiotics and rehabilitation.

Dementia is the disease we now all fear most, more than cancer.

Recalling the excited headlines recently about ‘breakthrough’ Alzheimer’s treatments, the good news is there’s a drug that can sort dementia — so you’d think that, soon, this won’t be a problem any more; we don’t need to worry.

+3
View gallery


Dementia - the impaired ability to remember, think, or make decisions - is the disease we now all fear most

[/url]

Yet what if this isn’t what it seems? What if the principle underlying the years of research and billions spent on developing these drugs is based on faked data? What if all that money— and time — could have been better spent on looking for other treatments?

Today, in the first of a regular column, I’m going to explain what’s really going on behind the latest health news stories — starting with ‘potentially falsified’ data that lies at the heart of dementia research — unravelling the science to help you make informed choices about your health and medical care. Because the days of accepting blindly what you are told should be banished to history.

The fact is, doctors don’t always have the right answers, and while you’d expect them always to practise evidence-based medicine, it’s not so simple.

Often, there isn’t the evidence available. Or even if there is, it is not always adopted by the medical community.


more on the link 

[url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11855113/Have-doctored-images-led-20-years-wasted-Alzheimers-research.html]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11855113/Have-doctored-images-led-20-years-wasted-Alzheimers-research.html

Why is this so? In 2021, Matthew Schrag, a neuroscientist and physician at Vanderbilt University, looked into the original research. He found evidence that the original images that led to the conclusions in the research were apparently doctored.

It’s a story that rocked medicine, and last July, Nature put a warning on the electronic versions of the original research, stating: ‘The editors of Nature have been alerted to concerns regarding some of the figures in this paper.

‘Nature is investigating these concerns and a further editorial response will follow as soon as possible. In the meantime, readers are advised to use caution when using results reported therein.’ We are still awaiting that ‘further editorial response’.

So what? Actually, potentially, this matters quite a lot.

This paper has been cited by 2,288 scientific papers and has had an impact on a whole generation of researchers.

In the meantime, other factors may have been overlooked, such as lifestyle, immune dysfunction, levels of glucose [sugar] in the brain, or inflammation — all given less prominence by the research community in order to continue pursuit of targeting that specific amyloid subtype.

These other factors, as we know, are significant. Just last month, results from a 20-year study of more than 13,000 women in the U.S., showed that simple lifestyle changes — such as physical activity, maintaining a healthy diet and weight, not smoking, and keeping blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar levels in check — can reduce the risk of dementia by up to 42 per cent, which is massive. (This is probably because these help reduce inflammation, a prime driver of disease.)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...earch.html

[ELIAKIM]

What other doctors don't tell you, this doctor says there is two different types of LDL, she explains it with graphics. 

Why I don't prescribe statins for high LDL cholesterol

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