Are Side Effects the Achilles’ Heel of Widespread Use of Statins to Lower Cholesterol?
Introduction: Recently, the American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) released new guidelines that increased the focus on prescribing statins to lower LDL cholesterol levels. With the new guidelines, it is estimated that in the United...
Is Activating Brown Fat the Key to Weight Loss?
Introduction: Not all fat in the human body is the same. One of the major differentiators is based upon the concentration of mitochondria – the energy producing compartments of cells. When there are a lot of mitochondria in fatty tissue, it looks brown, and when there...
Asthma Rates Reaching Epidemic Proportions; the Role of Antibiotics, Probiotics, and Fish Oils
Introduction: Asthma is a breathing disorder characterized by spasm and swelling of the bronchial airways along with excessive excretion of a viscous mucus that can also make breathing difficult. Asthma affects approximately 7% of the population of the United States...
Freeze-Dried Strawberries Significantly Lower Cholesterol Levels
Introduction: The consumption of flavonoid sources such as strawberries, blueberries, apples, dark chocolate, and red wine have all been shown in population studies to be associated with a significantly reduced risk for heart attacks and strokes. For example, data...
Curcumin Shown to Possess a Powerful Anti-aging Effect
Introduction: The latest, and most likely, program theory of aging is the telomere shortening theory. Telomeres are the end-cap segments of DNA (our genetic material). Each time a cell replicates, a small piece of DNA is taken off the end of each chromosome. The...Get The Longevity Matrix
On the Dr Oz show
On the show I discussed the failure of conventional medicine to address the underlying issues in many health conditions offering little more than drugs as biochemical “band aids.”