At last, here's the real reason you can take vitamins, minerals and herbs by the handful and still suffer poor health.
A man with kidney cancer, given days to live, was alive and well 15 years later thanks to this supplement. It's the second most popular pain reliever in Germany after aspirin -- yet it's almost unknown in the U.S. Injured athletes who take it get back on the field twice as fast as those who don't. Studies show the nutrient thins the blood, breaks up blood clots and heals inflamed blood vessels like magic. One mother said her lifelong migraine problem disappeared immediately. And I got rid of a 20-year spastic colon problem!
Does it sound incredible that one supplement can help all these diseases -- and more? Then ask yourself this: What if you had NO vitamins in your diet - none at all? You'd be very sick.
Guess what: this nutrient is just as important as vitamins and you're getting approximately ZERO.
How’s this for weird? In spite of all the admonitions to eat a low-fat, high-fiber diet, it appears that a quick high-fat splurge actually might protect you from muscle damage caused by heart attack.
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have discovered that a short-term, high-fat diet helped protect mice against tissue injury from heart attacks. Although the researchers are quick to add that they don’t know yet whether the diet will work the same way for human beings, this may someday lead to a change in dietary recommendations.
Unexpected Findings
A large body of research had established that people who have higher cholesterol levels are at increased risk for heart attack -- but that’s not the whole story. Surprisingly, in people with certain conditions (such as heart failure), having high cholesterol means that they have a better chance of surviving a heart attack.
This seemingly paradoxical bit of information led associate professor Keith Jones, PhD, University of Cincinnati Health cardiologist, assistant professor Jack Rubinstein, MD, and doctoral student Lauren Haar to do their own research on the topic. They designed a study on mice that were fed a menu intended to create cholesterol levels akin to those in humans who eat a high-fat diet. Some were fed the high-fat diet for just one day... others, for one to six weeks. A control group of mice was fed a standard, lower-fat diet. Then the researchers measured the high-fat diet’s effect in two ways -- over a short period of time and over the long term -- as it related to heart attack survival. (Yes, they induced heart attacks in the mice.)
Researchers found that...
- Heart damage in mice that had been on the high-fat diet for up to two weeks was, on average, 70% less than in mice on the six-week high-fat diet and the control diet.
- No cardio protection occurred in mice on the long-term (six-week) high-fat diet. In a second experiment, the 24-hour high-fat diet was followed by a control diet for 24 hours before heart attacks were induced -- and those mice also experienced greater protection from heart attack damage versus mice who were fed regular grain and vegetable-based chow -- confirming that it is, in fact, the short-term, high-fat feeding that provided the most protection. Haar presented these findings at the 2011 Experimental Biology Meeting sponsored by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics on April 13, 2011.
Bring On the Fat? Not So Fast
As intriguing as the study results are, we can’t get too carried away by them, caution Dr. Jones and Dr. Rubinstein. For one thing, it’s not known how to time a short-term fat splurge for optimal heart attack protection, if indeed that’s possible in humans. Also, it’s well-known that heavy people with weight-related health issues tend to have more heart attacks, so for this group, any high-fat program must be approached with extreme caution. That said, this research presents an intriguing model for the future, and the researchers intend to continue studying the heart-protective effects of a short-term fat splurge -- for now, in animals. In the meantime, don’t trade in your poached salmon and spinach for a bacon cheeseburger. Evidence shows that a regular anti-inflammatory diet low in saturated fat and high in healthful monounsaturated fats -- from fish, avocados, olive oil, etc. -- offers the best long-term protection against heart disease. But we do now know that an occasional indulgence might not harm you at all... in fact, it might help you... but we can’t say for sure yet.
Source(s):
Lauren Haar, doctoral student, systems biology and physiology graduate program, University of Cincinnati.
Keith Jones, PhD, associate professor, department of pharmacology and cell biophysics, University of Cincinnati.
Jack Rubinstein, MD, health cardiologist, assistant professor of medicine, division of cardiovascular diseases, University of Cincinnati.
"Within two months, every tumor had shrunk, dried up and fallen off," said Tom to Dr. Gary Null about the miraculous disappearance of his rapidly spreading cancer.
Tom had already gone through surgery once for skin cancer on his forehead. Unfortunately, his skin cancer was melanoma. Just 10 days after the operation, the cancer was back with a vengeance. It reappeared on his forehead, and quickly spread to his arm, upper body and chest.
Four doctors all agreed: There was nothing they could do to cure this cancer. They all still wanted to operate. But Tom wanted to live -- not just get sliced up.
Read on to learn what Tom did to save his life...
Better Way to Stop Your Headaches
If you don’t suffer from migraines yourself, odds are that you know someone who does. I myself need only to take a drive on a sunny day and watch the sunlight flash through the leafy trees to trigger a headache that feels like a vice being tightened around my head. I’m certain that the 36 million Americans who cope with these blinding headaches would be thrilled to find a way to stop the pain before it starts.
That’s why I was so interested to hear about a new study that takes a look at possible preemptive strategies against migraines based on the tiniest warning signals -- signals that actually have nothing to do with head pain. Scientists are learning that these early alerts may precede the start of migraines by several hours to several days. Peter Goadsby, MD, PhD, director of the headache program at University of California, San Francisco, Headache Center, told attendees at the recent American Headache Society conference that these signals, which come about during a premonitory -- or warning -- phase of a migraine, also may hold clues as to why the headaches occur. Dr. Goadsby was someone I knew I wanted to talk to.
"What’s reasonably clear is that many patients experience a common pool of symptoms during the premonitory phase," he told me. "That can mean neck discomfort, unusual tiredness, yawning, changes in appetite, excessive urinating or thirst, craving something sweet or savory, or mood changes, such as feeling unusually cranky or anxious." In fact, he said, "It’s all pretty primitive symptomatology from a brain perspective." And it’s there if you know what to look for!
Dr. Goadsby told me that in a study that he and colleagues published in Neurology, 97 migraine sufferers recorded their nonheadache symptoms on electronic diaries for three months and noted when migraines struck. Patients were able to correctly predict the onset of full-blown headaches from premonitory symptoms in 72% of diary entries. The most common of these symptoms were fatigue (experienced by 72%), difficulty concentrating (51%) and stiff neck (50%). Yawning, which occurred in about one-quarter of the headache sufferers, was a whopping 96% predictive of migraines.
The following is the complete list of premonitory symptoms reported in the study: Feeling tired or weary, dizziness, lots of energy or hyperactivity, excessive yawning, face paler than usual, stiff neck, light sensitivity, noise sensitivity, blurred vision, sensitive skin, constipation, frequent urination, nausea/vomiting, unusual hunger or food cravings, excessive thirst, feeling intolerant or irritable, feeling unusually emotional, difficulty with thinking, difficulty with reading or writing, difficulty with speech, difficulty with concentration.
So what’s different in all of this from the more familiar symptoms of migraine -- known as the aura stage, which includes seeing flashing lights or wavy lines? For one thing, the warning signs studied by Dr. Goadsby tend to show up a lot earlier -- in some cases, three days before the headache pain. Even more interesting is how the chicken-and-egg question is being turned on its head with this research. Until now, doctors and patients have focused on identifying behaviors that they assume play a role in triggering migraine -- eating chocolate, for example. With the new research, it seems that the urge to eat chocolate actually could mean that the attack has already started, with the sign being a craving for sweets.
Current research is concentrating on using functional imaging of the brain to reveal which regions are involved in migraines and how they interplay with symptoms.
Already, however, the latest findings give migraine sufferers something new to try, says Dr. Goadsby. Every migraine sufferer knows that interrupting the pain early can cut the headache short. Now, by taking medicines such as naproxen or ibuprofen at the first sign of a premonitory symptom, they may be able to reduce or even prevent the pain.
Lifestyle adjustments may help as well. Avoiding a noisy party, bright lights or too much red wine, for instance, once you experience an early symptom could be a very wise move indeed.
"Generally, if you recognize the symptoms, a good strategy is to pull back from typical triggers when you feel them," Dr. Goadsby says. "To not stay up late, not skip a meal, not push the envelope when the envelope is already pretty thin. Keeping a step ahead of triggering a migraine means practicing regularity in all things."
Source(s):
Peter Goadsby, MD, PhD, researcher, director, Headache Center, University of California, San Francisco, Headache Center.
Be well,
Carole Jackson
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