Health Matters: Take Back Your Health - with Dr. Robert H. Lustig | The Empowering Neurologist

May 3, 2021 | The Source of Our Most Challenging Epidemic …

Health Matters: No.1 Heart Surgeon: Cardio Is a Waste of Time for Weight Loss! Philip Ovadia

Apr 20, 2023 | Dr Philip Ovadia is an American heart surgeon, founder of Ovadia Heart Health and the author of the new book, “Stay Off My Operating Table”.

Health Matters: How to Lose Belly Fat — Dr. Eric Westman

Jul 27, 2022 | Stubborn belly fat -- it's a common issue that plagues so many people! Keto diets can help you get rid of that "maddening middle" by keeping your carb intake very low -- because excess carbs turn into fat. You also need to be careful with the fats & oils you add to your food. If you're struggling to lose stubborn fat even on a keto diet, cut back on butter, oil, mayonnaise, and other added fats. Overdoing these is one of the most common reasons for people not losing weight, even if they're in ketosis.

Foods to avoid on a low-carb diet! — Dr. Eric Westman »

Gene Therapy Offers Hope for Untreatable Cancers | DW News

Dec 12, 2022 | A teenager in Britain has been cleared of cancer after a revolutionary new treatment for leukaemia. The treatment is called base editing, and involves genetically engineering a patient's DNA. Doctors have hailed its success as a breakthrough and say could be used to treat a wide range of other diseases.

The Bitter Truth about Sugar & How It Causes Inflammation | Robert Lustig

March 11, 2022 | The guest on this week’s ‘Feel Better Live More’ podcast is Dr Robert Lustig, Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology at the University of California. He’s a leading public health expert who has long been exposing the myths of modern medicine and the food industry. His passion is communicating how sugar and ultra-processed food is fuelling the chronic disease epidemic that we are all facing today.

Global Junk Food: How the Fast-Food Industry Is Making Poor Countries Fat | ENDEVR Documentary

In Europe, food manufacturers have signed up to ‘responsibility pledges’, promising no added sugar, preservatives, artificial colours or flavours and not to target children. So why are they using tactics banned in the West in the developing world? There, they have created ultra-low-cost products with higher levels of salt, sugar and saturated fats. Filmed in Brazil, India and France, we investigate the new tactics of brands like Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Domino’s Pizza.

Drogenkonsum mit fatalen Folgen: Wenn Cannabis gefährliche Psychosen auslöst | REUPLOAD | SPIEGEL TV

Jul 22, 2022 Als entschieden wurde, dass Cannabis in Deutschland bald legal werden soll, haben sich Millionen Kiffer gefreut. Schließlich funktioniert die kontrollierte Abgabe in anderen Ländern bereits ziemlich gut. Zur Wahrheit gehört aber auch, dass Cannabis immer häufiger zu schweren Psychosen führt – mitunter mit fatalen Folgen.

Gesundheitsschäden sind deutlich sichtbar. Meiner Meinung nach sollte der Gebrauch solcher Drogen illegal bleiben. Es ergibt absolut keinen Sinn, den Konsum solcher Drogen zu legalisieren, insbesondere in einer Zeit, in der es immer schwieriger wird, normale Zigaretten zu konsumieren. – © Mark Alexander

Have Scientists Found the Breakthrough Cure for Depression? | 60 Minutes Australia

Jul 14, 2022 | It's the hardest thing in the world for a man to do. To admit he's scared - that he needs help. All the more reason to admire the courage of the men in this story - among them, footballer Mat Rogers, who lost his father Steve to depression earlier this year. And the Rogers family isn't alone. One in four Australians will suffer from depression - five Australian men take their own lives every day. Five suicides a day. But there is good news. Scientists now say they've isolated the gene that actually causes depression. And there's a bold new prevention programme aimed where it can do the most good - at the most vulnerable, our teenage kids.

Fat Fiction : Movie

Premiered Jul 29, 2021 Fat Fiction reveals how the United States government relied on questionable evidence to support one of the most damaging public health recommendations in the history of our country: the “low fat diet.” Featuring world leaders in low-carb nutrition:

Dr. Mark Hyman, Functional Medicine Doctor and Director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine and the UltraWellness Center and Chairman of the board of the Institute for Functional Medicine.

Dr. Sarah Hallberg, Obesity Expert has reversed Type 2 Diabetes in hundreds of patients by ignoring the guidelines and prescribing a high fat, low carb nutrition plan.

Dr Jason Fung, Nephrologist and author of The Obesity Code, a book for reversing Type 2 Diabetes with LCHF and Intermittent Fasting.

Professor Tim Noakes, author of the Lore of Running.

Nina Teicholz, Journalist and author of the Big Fat Surprise.

Gary Taubes, Journalist and author of Good Calories, Bad Calories and The Case Against Sugar.

Dr. Rob Lustig, Pediatric Endocriniologist at University of California, San Francisco

Dr. Bret Scher, Cardiologist and Lipidologist practicing in San Diego

Dr. Eric Westman, Director of the Lifestyle Medicine clinic at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina

Dr. Brian Lenzkes, Internal Medicine Doctor Jonny Bowden, Nutritionist and author of The Great Cholesterol Myth

Dr. Zoe Harcombe, phD obesity researcher who wrote her thesis on the lack of evidence behind the US Dietary Guidelines

Professor Andrew Mente, McMaster University and researcher on the PURE Study

Alyssa Gallagher, Registered Dietician, Certified Diabetes Educator at Humphries Diabetes Center in Boise, Idaho

Doug Reynolds, Founder of LowCarb USA


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Diabetes - A Lucrative Disease | DW Documentary

Jul 7, 2022 In our modern consumer society, Type 2 diabetes has become a widespread disease. Companies are developing drugs that are increasingly expensive, but not necessarily more effective. Health authorities are powerless.

Diabetes is spreading rapidly, all over the world. The disease destroys lives and puts a strain on public budgets. The UN is calling on governments to take action.

Diabetes is proof that modern societies are incapable of adequately treating chronic disease. It affects around 430 million people worldwide, with two main metabolic disorders falling under the name diabetes. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease that must be treated with lifelong doses of insulin, while type 2 can develop when a person’s diet is too high in fat and sugar and they do not engage in enough physical activity.

With turnover of $46 billion, diabetes is a massive and extremely lucrative market. Constantly promised miracle cures have not led to satisfactory treatment, with patients either taking too many drugs or no longer being able to afford them. It’s a desperate situation, and the only ones benefiting seem to be pharmaceutical companies.

A medical focus on blood glucose levels has led to an overreliance on medication, sometimes without due concern for dangerous side effects. Patients become trapped in a cycle of treatment, which in many cases still does not halt the disease’s progression. This can lead to amputations, blindness and heart attacks.

And yet there are alternatives that could flatten the curve of the type 2 diabetes epidemic, while reducing health care spending. Improved diet can be a preventative measure, and a strict adherence to diet can also bring about remission in the case of Type 2 diabetes.

But these solutions require effort, as well as a complete rethinking of chronic disease management. Filmed on three continents, this documentary features industry whistleblowers, patients, researchers and medical professionals. It also confronts pharmaceutical companies about their responsibility for the situation.

The French Paradox: How Rich Food and Wine Could Help You Stay Healthy | 60 Minutes Australia

How's this for a diet; fat? Okay. Red meat; not a problem. Cheese and cakes; you can eat them to your heart's content. And it gets even better. Fancy a glass or two of wine to wash it down? Go ahead, it's good for you. It's fun and it works - in fact, it's why French women don't get fat. Of course, this dream diet has been around for centuries. It's known as the French Paradox and it defies all logic. How come they thrive on all that rich food and wine AND have lower rates of obesity and heart disease than we do. Well, being French, you can bet style has something to do with it.

This is no surprise. We have known about the French paradox for years. But this is a very good and informative short documentary on the pleasures of life in France and the health benefits from the French way of life and ways of eating and drinking. These are pleasures that we in the Anglosphere are increasingly denied; and when one defies the zeitgeist and indulges in such pleasures, there are plenty of boring and often ignorant people around, killjoys who think they know it all, who try and send one on a guilt trip for the indulgences. Fie on them all!

Little wonder that the vocabulary items and expressions used in English to describe these pleasures are borrowed from the French language. Expressions such as savoir vivre and joie de vivre come immediately to mind. Of course there are others.

These expressions can be translated into English; but when translated, they become rather meaningless.

France is a wonderful country and the French are a wonderful people; further, the French know how to live life to the fullest. They could teach us Brits, Americans and Australians a thing or two about how we should live. To use my own recent quote–Nowadays, people recognise the dangers in everything, but recognise the pleasures in nothing.–sums up attitudes to life in the Anglosphere. Now, in order to know how to live, we must look to France and the French.

Vive la belle France ! – © Mark Alexander

Polio May Be Spreading in Britain for First Time in 40 Years…

MAIL ONLINE: Officials have found traces of a vaccine-derived poliovirus in sewage samples in North and East London / Thought that someone vaccinated with live vaccine shed part of virus and spread it to unvaccinated people / Parents are being urged to ensure their children's vaccinations are up to date, particularly after the pandemic / Officials said risk to public 'extremely low' with one in 100 chance of paralysis and high vaccine uptake

Polio may be spreading in the UK for the first time in nearly 40 years, health chiefs warned today as they declared a 'national incident'.

Officials have found traces of a vaccine-derived version of the virus in sewage samples in parts of London and say it is 'likely' transmitting within the community.

Parents are being urged to ensure their children are up to date with their polio vaccinations, particularly after the pandemic when school immunisation schemes were disrupted.

Polio spreads through coughs and sneezes or contact with objects contaminated with faeces, causing permanent paralysis in around one in 100 cases. Children are at a higher risk. » | Connor Boyd, deputy health editor for MailOnline | Wednesday, June 22, 2022

'Tumors Just Vanished': Cancer Patients Now in Remission after Drug Trial

Jun 7, 2022 • Treatment with the immunotherapy dostarlimab showed promising results in a small trial of more than a dozen rectal cancer patients, according to new research, but further study is needed and it is too early to call it a cure. CNN's Erin Burnett speaks to Dr. Andrea Cercek, an oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Vitamine - das Märchen vom Mangel

May 12, 2022 • In kaum einer anderen Ernährungsfrage klaffen Forschungsergebnisse und Verhalten der Bevölkerung so weit auseinander wie beim Thema Vitamine. Vitaminpräparate sind seit Jahren ein internationales Milliardengeschäft, weil die Mär vom Mangel erfolgreich erzählt wird. Doch welche Vitamine brauchen wir wirklich? Steckt nicht alles Notwendige in einer gesunden Ernährung? Mittlerweile setzen immer mehr Nahrungsmittelhersteller auf sogenanntes Functional Food, mit Vitaminen angereicherte Lebensmittel. Doch das kann zu einer Überdosierung bis hin zur Erhöhung der Sterblichkeit führen, warnen Wissenschafter. Ein NZZ Format über das fragwürdige Geschäft mit Vitaminpräparaten.

Coffee Bad, Red Wine Good? Top Food Myths Busted

THE GUARDIAN: We’re being bombarded with conflicting advice on what we should and shouldn’t put into our bodies. Finally, here are the definitive answers, according to the experts

Illustration: Lalalimola/The Guardian/Getty Images
Modern nutritional science is only a hundred years old, so it’s no surprise that we’re constantly bamboozled by new and competing information about what to put into our bodies – or that we sometimes cling to reassuringly straightforward food myths which may no longer be true. In a world where official dietary advice seems to change all the time, and online opinions are loud and often baseless, we ask eight food and drink experts to cut through the noise and tell it like it is. » | Rebecca Seal | Saturday, May 14, 2022

Cancer de la prostate : les signes qui doivent alerter

Le risque de développer un cancer de la prostate augmente proportionnellement avec l'âge. À partir de 80 ans, il est de 50%. B. BOISSONNET / BSIP
LE FIGARO : NOS CONSEILS SANTÉ - Plus cette maladie est prise en charge précocement, meilleur est son pronostic. Encore faut-il être à l'écoute des premiers symptômes.

C'est un attribut masculin situé juste en dessous de la vessie, qui ne fait généralement pas parler de lui jusqu'à l'aube de la soixantaine. Ensuite, il se rattrape. Tout le monde connaît de près ou de loin un homme qui, arrivé à l'âge de la retraite, s'est fait diagnostiquer un cancer de la prostate. Pas de surprise ici : il s'agit du premier cancer masculin en France, nettement devant les cancers du poumon et du côlon. «À 80 ans, un homme sur deux a un cancer de la prostate. Et si tous les hommes vivaient tous jusqu'à 100 ans, ils développeraient tous ou quasiment cette tumeur», souligne le Pr Alexandre de la Taille, chirurgien urologue à l'hôpital Henri-Mondor, à Créteil. » | Par Cécile Thibert | Publié : jeudi 14 avril 2022 ; mis à jour : vendredi 15 avril 2022

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US Man Gets Genetically-modified Pig Heart Transplant | DW News

Jan 11, 2022 • In a nine-hour procedure, surgeons transplanted the heart taken from a one-year-old pig into a 57-year-old man. The pig was gene-edited, bred and killed for this purpose.

Women Who Eat Little Meat and Dairy Put Their Health At Risk, Says Scientist

THE TIMES: The health of many young women is being compromised by a lack of vital nutrients in their diet because they consume little or no red meat and dairy products, a senior scientist has warned.

Ian Givens, professor of food chain nutrition and director of the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health at Reading University, said half of females aged between 11 and 18 were consuming below the minimum recommended level of iron and magnesium and a quarter consumed too little iodine, calcium and zinc. » | Ben Webster, Environment Editor | Monday, January 10, 2022 [£]

Maryland doctors transplant pig’s heart into human patient in medical first: Patient is doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery, doctors say, though it’s too soon to know if it is a success »

The Pandemic Has Your Blood Pressure Rising? You’re Not Alone.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Average blood pressure readings increased as the coronavirus spread, new research suggests. The finding portends medical repercussions far beyond Covid-19.

Last year was a tough one. Americans grappled with a global pandemic, the loss of loved ones, lockdowns that splintered social networks, stress, unemployment and depression.

It is probably no surprise that the nation’s blood pressure shot up.

On Monday, scientists reported that blood pressure measurements of nearly a half-million adults showed a significant rise last year, compared with the previous year.

These measurements describe the pressure of blood against the walls of the arteries. Over time, increased pressure can damage the heart, the brain, blood vessels, kidneys and eyes. Sexual function can also be affected.

“These are very important data that are not surprising, but are shocking,” said Dr. Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, president of the American Heart Association, who was not involved in the study.

“Even small changes in average blood pressure in the population,” he added, “can have a huge impact on the number of strokes, heart failure events and heart attacks that we’re likely to be seeing in the coming months.” » | Roni Caryn Rabin | Monday, December 6, 2021

Tea and Coffee May Be Linked to Lower Risk of Stroke and Dementia – Study

THE GUARDIAN: Research looking at 365,000 people aged 50-74 finds moderate consumption could have health benefits

Drinking coffee or tea may be linked with a lower risk of stroke and dementia, according to the largest study of its kind.

Strokes cause 10% of deaths globally, while dementia is one of the world’s biggest health challenges – 130 million are expected to be living with it by 2050.

In the research, 365,000 people aged between 50 and 74 were followed for more than a decade. At the start the participants, who were involved in the UK Biobank study, self-reported how much coffee and tea they drank. Over the research period, 5,079 of them developed dementia and 10,053 went on to have at least one stroke.

Researchers found that people who drank two to three cups of coffee or three to five cups of tea a day, or a combination of four to six cups of coffee and tea, had the lowest risk of stroke or dementia.

Those who drank two to three cups of coffee and two to three cups of tea daily had a 32% lower risk of stroke. These people had a 28% lower risk of dementia compared with those who did not drink tea or coffee. » | Andrew Gregory, Health editor | Tuesday, November 16, 2021