Did You Know?

Posted March 30, 2012

• Proton pump inhibitors like Nexium and Prilosec decrease magnesium levels 100% of the time.

• Folate is essential in the diet. It improves brain performance, but excess folate is actually associated with an increased risk of cancer.

• As we age, it becomes harder to convert CoQ10 to its active form, ubiquinol.

• BJM, 2011 - Breast mammograms increase the rates of breast cancer! Consider thermography.

• In 2012, the FDA ordered ranchers and farmers to limit the drugs Cafzil and Keflex ingested by livestock being bred for food.

• Two out of three diabetics will die from heart attacks or stroke. Cut the sugar, fake sugar and caffeine. These spike insulin and cause heart attacks and strokes!

• Grapefruit juice interacts dangerously with some medications for up 24 hours after consumption.
• Pomegranate juice does the same thing!
• Low cholesterol and triglycerides are associated with nightmares
• Human papillomavirus is associated with throat cancer.
• High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in sodas, now called corn sugar, causes diabetic complications like foot ulcers, eye and nerve damage.
• HFCS causes the liver to dump fats into the blood.
  

Posted on November 23, 2011

• Maternal intake of oily fish during pregnancy reduces children’s asthma risk by 71%.
• Postpartum depression correlates with a DHA deficiency.
• The brain actually shrinks 8% with pregnancy and nursing.
• Iodine deficiency can lead to breast cancer, prostate cancer, thyroid cancer and Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
• Sharp, stabbing needles in the breast is a sign of iodine deficiency.
• Fluoride, in our water, displaces iodine in the body.
  

• The cartilage in joints needs vitamin C to retain it's strength.
• 21% of calories consumed by two-year-olds and up are from soft drinks and fruit juices, loaded with sugar.
• Marshmallows contain gelatin, made from the hooves, tendons, cartilage, etc., of animals at slaughterhouses.
• Iron deficiency may be an important trigger of RLS (restless leg syndrome), as iron is a necessary factor for the enzyme needed to make dopamine.
• Ireland has the highest incidence of schizophrenia and celiac disease in the world and they are probably related, due to the westernized diet of milk and grains.
• Autistic kids should avoid all apples, apple sauce and apple juice because it increases arabinase, which makes the symptoms worse.
  

Posted on Oct. 5, 2011

• Coffee has been proven to be a better stimulant than Ritalin for ADD/ADHD!
• Taking Ritalin for more than 1 year has been linked to Tourette’s syndrome.
• Consuming EPA w/DHEA during pregnancy and lactation improves the intelligence of children, measured at 4 yoa.
• Bed wetting can be from a milk allergy or an omega 3 deficiency. 
• American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jan, ’99, reported that women taking natural progesterone (not synthetic progesterone, prescribed as progestin) had a lowering of total cholesterol and an increase in good cholesterol.
  

Posted on August 26, 2011

Gluten associated, cross reactive foods include:

• Cow's Milk
• American cheese
• Chocolate
• Rye and Barley
• Sesame
• Buckwheat
• Tapioca
• Coffee
• Corn
• Rice
• Potato
• ...and many other grains
  

Posted on July 13, 2011

• Belgian Study of 3600 people with normal blood pressure, followed for 7.9 years - Those who ate less salt were the most likely to die from heart disease.
• Study found that after 13 to 60 months of salt restriction, the average drop in systolic (top number) blood pressure was 1.1 mmHg (millimeters of mercury).
• Reducing sodium (salt intake) causes insulin resistance and promotes diabetes.  In fact, recent studies have found that sodium significantly improves insulin function.
• Our ancestors used to cure meat in salt, yet diabetes and heart disease were unheard of.

• An Australian study found that pain killers such as aspirin, acetaminophen and ibuprofen, common ingredients in over-the-counter cold remedies, may actually reduce immune system response resulting in increased nasal symptoms.

• Sharp, stabbing pains in the breasts, can be due to iodine deficiency.

• In kids, rickets is associated with an increased risk of pneumonia, due to a lack of Vit. D.

• 80% of all vegetarians are iodine deficient and at a high risk of polycystic ovarian syndrome.

• 90% of all African-Americans are Vitamin D deficient.

• Most epidemiologists agree that excess morbidity in winter, from flu and heart disease, is tied to decreased Vitamin D.
  

• Many Chinese herbs contain prednisone. Many ayurvedic herbs from China contain lead.
  

• Bleeding gums can be a CoQ10 deficiency.
  

• Muscle energy (including the heart muscle) is magnesium dependent.