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How Marijuana Affects your Heart

How Marijuana Affects your Heart

On February 24, 2023 CNN reported about research that demonstrated how marijuana affects your heart. Dr. Ishan Paranjpe is a resident physician at Stanford University who conducted this study. It has not been published yet, as the findings will first be presented on March 5, 2023 at t
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Increasing your Steps per day will Decrease Dementia

Increasing your Steps per day will Decrease Dementia

A new study showed that increasing your steps per day will decrease dementia. This study was originally published in JAMA Neurology on Sept. 6, 2022. Results of the study showing that increasing your steps per day will decrease dementia 78 ,430 adults in the UK aged 40 to 79 years wer
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Gut Bacteria Interact with Vitamin D Blood Levels

Gut Bacteria Interact with Vitamin D Blood Levels

It is important to realize that a University of California San Diego study group found how gut bacteria interact with vitamin D blood levels. Usually clinicians rely on 25-hydroxy vitamin D (25(OH)D) levels to assess whether patients are vitamin D deficient. However, this study found
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Third Hand Smoke Is Also Dangerous

Third Hand Smoke Is Also Dangerous

New research detected that third hand smoke is also dangerous. There are three kinds of exposures to cigarette smoke. First hand smoke comes directly to the smoker from smoking cigarettes. Second hand smoke occurs when another person is in the same room as a smoker. This way there is
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Cancer Can Be Random

Cancer Can Be Random

A new publication claims that cancer can be random. They found that 66% of all cancers occur spontaneously as mistakes in the DNA when cells are dividing . The Hopkins researchers found further that 29% of cancers are due to environmental factors and 5% occur due to genetic dispositio
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Good Nutrition Can Manage Chronic Inflammation

Good Nutrition Can Manage Chronic Inflammation

Dr. Mitchell Fleisher explained that good nutrition can manage chronic inflammation. He presented his talk at the 24th Annual World Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine (Dec. 9-11, 2016) in Las Vegas that I attended. It was entitled “Effective Anti-Aging Nutritional Management of Chronic I
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Healthy Lifestyle Prevents Cancer

Healthy Lifestyle Prevents Cancer

A study in JAMA Oncology dated May 19, 2016 reported that a healthy lifestyle prevents cancer. Two health studies were pooled, the Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study. This included 89,571 Caucasian women and 46,399 Caucasian men. These were divided into
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Plant Protein Is Better Than Animal Protein

Plant Protein Is Better Than Animal Protein

A large study from Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA showed that plant protein is better than animal protein. They showed this with a large group of study participants. And they used a fixed end point, namely mortally rates. The prospective cohort study of US health care professional
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The Fear Of Salt

The Fear Of Salt

The fear of salt is associated with the medical dogma that lasted for several decades that salt over consumption would elevate blood pressure. We know that high blood pressure will cause heart attacks and strokes. Over the years governments have been influenced by health associations.
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New Findings About Cancer Gene

New Findings About Cancer Gene

Recently the news spread that elephants have 20-times the amount of a cancer suppressing gene, called p53. Elephants have about 100 times the cells of humans, but their cancer rate is only 5% in a lifetime, which lasts 50 to 70 years. Humans on the other hand have a cancer rate of bet
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