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Can vitamins help prevent Alzheimer's disease?

October 10, 2006 Many HSI members are well aware that an elevated level of homocysteine (an amino acid) increases the risk of heart disease and other cardiovascular problems... Read More >

Categories: Alzheimer's prevention dementia folate and memory loss homocysteine and Alzheimer's vitamin C vitamin E vitamins amino acids

Free yourself from the "Whack-A-Mole" approach to pain relief with the help of this new, natural dynamic duo

October 1, 2006 Free yourself from the “Whack-A-Mole” approach to pain relief with the help of this new, natural dynamic duo In what has started to resemble a frenzied game of Whack-A-Mole, drug developers just can’t seem to get it right–suppress one problem, and another (often worse) is bound to pop up in... Read More >

Categories: andrographis COX 2 inhibitors COX-1 cytokines glucosamine Hydraflexin inflammation nl-2006-10 pain relievers peptic ulcers reduced blood pressure stomach lining
Newsletter Issue: October 2006

Olive Oil and Dietary Fats

September 26, 2006 Dietary fats are bad for you - right? HSI members aren't going to fall for that one. As members and other e-Alert readers are well aware, there are good fats and bad fats, but an overall avoidance of fats is simply an unhealthy idea... Read More >

Categories: dietary fats healthy fats olive oil

What's going on over at JAMA?

September 20, 2006 JAMA is the Journal of the American Medical Association, and you don't get any closer to the medical mainstream than that. Nevertheless, JAMA editors published a new study last week that highlights the heart health benefits of green tea... Read More >

Categories: green tea and heart JAMA alternative medicine

The way of K

September 12, 2006 Your bones and your heart want the same thing: plenty of vitamin K. This past April, in the e-Alert "Fire in the Joint" (4/25/06), I told you how a deficiency of vitamin K may be associated with abnormalities in bone and cartilage... Read More >

Categories: bone health heart health vitamin k

Abdominal Fat

September 11, 2006 I have a friend named Chris who tells me he's pretty much given up trying to get rid of his middle age spread. I'm sure many of us can empathize with his frustration... Read More >

Categories: abdominal fat heart disease Weight Loss

A heart-protective, bone-strengthening option for dealing with menopause

September 1, 2006 A heart-protective, bone-strengthening option for dealing with menopause Plenty of hormone replacement therapies promise to relieve the typical symptoms of menopause. But just because your inner thermometer is no longer to the boiling point and you finally start to feel like your old self again, it doesn’t mean you’re in... Read More >

Categories: body weight bone density EstroG-100 menopause symptoms nl-2006-09
Newsletter Issue: September 2006

Relationship between magnesium and CRP

August 7, 2006 CRP is an acronym for C-reactive protein, a plasma protein produced in the liver in response to inflammation. And because atherosclerosis (narrowing of the arteries) goes hand-in-hand with inflammation, elevated CRP is considered an... Read More >

Categories: atherosclerosis c-reactive protein crp narrowing of the arteries

Vioxx — FUBAR

July 6, 2006 For giant drug company Merck and the New England Journal of Medicine, the Vioxx fiasco has now made the full journey from SNAFU to FUBAR. Along the way, we've been given a glimpse of the astounding greed and deception that goes on when a drug... Read More >

Categories: Celebrex consumer safety drug companies FDA FUBAR heart attacks Merck New England Journal of Medicine pharmaceutical companies prescription drugs side effects SNAFU sudden cardiac death Vioxx

Homocysteine

July 5, 2006 So why isn't "homocysteine" a household word? That's also simple: Drug makers don't have a drug that will lower homocysteine, so you don't hear the word repeated 50 times a day in a barrage of TV commercials... Read More >

Categories: homocysteine

Transcendental meditation and your health: Calming the monkey mind

June 29, 2006 Studies have shown that a popular form of meditation known as transcendental meditation (TM) may help patients control blood pressure. A team of researchers recently mounted a study to test the effects of TM on subjects with coronary heart... Read More >

Categories: blood pressure transcendental meditation

Benefits of folate (folic acid)

June 27, 2006 How important is folate? That's easily answered by looking at four health risks associated with folate deficiency: heart disease, stroke, cognitive decline and birth defects... Read More >

Categories: folate
Allan Spreen, M.D.
Dr. Allan Spreen, Chief Medical Advisor

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