Some of the unpronounceable chemicals found in nail polish may cause health issues. If you plan to keep polish on fingers and toes this summer, you might want to really read the labels. Find out more here:
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Maybe You Should Rethink that Daily Aspirin.
More than half of middle age and older adults are taking an aspirin a day to prevent heart attack or stroke. Well many shouldn’t be, the food and drug administration only recommend using the drug for people who have already had an event or are at extremely high risk.
So before you pop that daily pill find out if the risks outweigh the benefits.
To read the article from NPR click here
High Heels are Harmful
As much as a many women love wearing heels and give little thought to the consequences outside of of a little soreness at the end of the night, it’s time to evaluate the real cost of those sky high shoes. Things like damaged leg tendons, hammer toe, and bunions sound unattractive and down right scary but they are all side effects of wearing damaging high heels long term. To read more about the effects of your footwear click here
Outcomes of Military Patients better with Chiropractic than Standard Medicine alone
An article by uschirodirectory.com discusses the results of a study conducted by Goertz et al. in 2013 and posed the question of if chiropractic care should be included in Standard medical treatment for lower back pain. Back pain is a prevalent problem throughout our society. While this study centers on the effects of Chiropractic and Standard Medical care as it applies to people in the military, every one should consider how these findings apply in their own life. Read more here
Creepy-Crawly that may help treat Cancer
Our office gets a great newsletter from FootLevelers, the company that makes the custom orthotic foot supports we use for our patients. This week they shared a very interesting article on Sea Cucumbers. Sea cucumber has been used in the traditional Chinese for centuries for it’s medicinal properties. The West is finally getting on board. Sea cucumbers are anti-viral, anti-bacterial and cytotoxic, which means that it could kill cancer cells. Read more in this article from FOXNEWS.
Patient Alert
Recently the New York Attorney General has accused four of the Nation’s largest dietary supplement providers of selling fraudulent and possibly dangerous herbal supplements. The FDA targeted the national retailers Target, Walmart, GNC, and Walgreens for selling products that contained little if any of the herbs their labels claimed. In fact most of the products contained only fillers; some of which were allergen hazards such as gluten and powdered legumes and lacked any sort of warning label. Current events have highlighted the need for patients to purchase supplements though health care professionals who have access to safe, reliable sources of health products. You can read more here .
Scientists discover how to “switch off” autoimmune diseases
Scientists at the University of Bristol have made a fantastic breakthrough in the fight against debilitating autoimmune diseases such as MS, Type 1 Diabetes, and others by revealing how to stop cells attacking healthy body tissue. Rather than the body’s immune system attacking its own tissue, researchers have discovered how cells change from being aggressive to protecting against such diseases.
“Scientists were able to selectively target the cells that cause autoimmune disease by dampening down their aggression against the body’s own tissues while converting them into cells capable of protecting against disease.
This type of conversion has been previously applied to allergies, known as ‘allergic desensitisation’, but its application to autoimmune diseases has only been appreciated recently.
The Bristol group has now revealed how the administration of fragments of the proteins that are normally the target for attack leads to correction of the autoimmune response.
Most importantly, their work reveals that effective treatment is achieved by gradually increasing the dose of antigenic fragment injected.”
We hope that this latest insight into how the human body functions will lead to the widespread use of this therapy as treatment for many autoimmune disorders.
You can find the article and more on the subject on the website of the University of Bristol.
Eating Organic Significantly Reduces Pesticides In System
At our office we strongly encourage our patients to detox and eat healthy. Having toxins in your system can cause multiple health problems. We are very excited about this study, which will hopefully bring to light how bad toxins, including pesticides, can really be for you.
A new study published in the journal Environmental Research found that eating an organic diet for a week reduced pesticide exposure. The research was led by Dr. Liza Oates, who examined pesticide metabolites in the urine of 13 individuals who consumed a diet of at least 80% organic over 7 days, and a diet of conventional food for 7 days. Dr. Oates’ team found that the total pesticide metabolite levels were reduced by up to 96% by eating organic, with an average reduction of 50%. This study shows that eating an organic diet can reduce the exposure to chemicals that have been associated with health risks. As stated by Dr. Oates, “Recent studies have raised concerns for the health effects of these chemicals even at relatively low levels.”
It’s nice to see a study showing that choosing organic can make a significant difference in your toxin levels! Hopefully this will bring forth more research in this area.
WHO Declares The International Spread Of Polio A Public Health Emergency
If you plan on traveling internationally any time soon then you better make sure your Poliovirus Vaccine is up to date. Countries with current Poliovirus cases include: Pakistan, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Equatorial Guinea, Iraq, Cameroon, Syria, Ethiopia, and Somalia.
At end-2013, 60% of polio cases were the result of international spread of wild poliovirus, and there was increasing evidence that adult travelers contributed to this spread. During the 2014 low transmission season there has already been international spread of wild poliovirus from 3 of the 10 States that are currently infected: in central Asia, in the Middle East, and in Central Africa. A coordinated international response is deemed essential to stop this international spread of wild poliovirus and to prevent new spread with the onset of the high transmission season in May/June 2014; unilateral measures may prove less effective in stopping international spread than a coordinated response. The consequences of further international spread are particularly acute today given the large number of polio-free but conflict-torn and fragile States which have severely compromised routine immunization services and are at high risk of re-infection. Such States would experience extreme difficulty in mounting an effective response were wild poliovirus to be reintroduced.
Check out the WHO article Here
You can find the breakdown of cases per country Here
You can find the Polio Eradication Website’s article on temporary recommendations Here
Questions are to be sent to: polioihr@who.int
That fluttery feeling in your chest
Atrial Fibrillation is an electrical disorder that causes rapid electrical signals in the heart that may reach hundreds of beats per minute. The rapid-fire signals interfere with the ability of the upper chambers to contract in an organized way.
I was sent a very user friendly explanation of ‘Afib’ – a great explanation of the problem in understandable terms can be found here.
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