Original article written by Dr. Mercola. Please also read the article written by Dr. Pinna, Dr. Pinna on Vitamin K, which explains the chemistry and hormones involved. The past decade has brought an explosion of research revealing the many beneficial roles vitamin D plays in keeping you healthy. But there’s a new kid on the [...]
Vitamin Supplements Associated With Increased Risk for Death By Emma Hitt, PhD, from Medscape October 10, 2011 – In women aged 55 to 69 years, several widely used dietary vitamin and mineral supplements, especially supplemental iron, may be associated with increased risk for death, according to new findings from the Iowa Women’s Health Study. Although [...]
Original article posted on December 19th, 2011 DIABETES, OSTEOPOROSIS AND EXERCISE A few months ago, a report came out in the medical news that the basic underlying regulator of insulin and blood glucose was not the pancreas, but the skeletal system! THE TWO SPECIAL HORMONES Osteocalcin appears to control blood glucose and fat deposits and [...]
Get Vitamins from Food, Not Pills By Dr. Gabe Mirkin, M.D. One in three women and one in four men in the United States take vitamin pills regularly. This month, a study that followed 182,099 people in California and Hawaii for an average of 11 years showed that taking multivitamin pills neither decreased nor increased [...]
The CDC says 70 million obese people in U.S. today! It has occurred to me and other physicians that the current epidemic of obesity that is covering the planet is not a result of greedy humans who cannot control themselves, but, perhaps, of a viral infection their brains. There are several centers in the brain [...]
It seems contra-intuitive, that Calcium, the mineral found in Mother’s Milk can cause heart attacks–but, the proof is there big time. A study conducted in New Zealand, where cows are common, on over 40,000 patients, demonstrated that calcium supplements, taken by people over 40 years of age, increased heart attacks by 30 percent! Here is [...]
