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Can Cordless Phone Use Affect Your Heart? In late 2010, Magda Havas, Ph.D, an electrosmog and electrosensitivity expert, published results of a groundbreaking study in the European Journal of Oncology which demonstrated that some wireless EMFs can adversely affect heart function. Using a NervExpress HRV Monitoring System and a Lifeforce UA-767 digital blood pressure monitor, [...]
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[Emotional stress is often under-rated as major factor in heart disease.] from the article: When divided into three groups based on levels of the stress hormone, the third of study participants with the highest cortisol levels had a fivefold increased risk of dying from cardiovascular causes as the third with the lowest levels. High Cortisol [...]
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[In the 60's, when meditation become more mainstream. the phrase I would often here is: "If you are too busy to meditate, you are too busy." -- And today the phrase I came across was, "It is important to meditate twenty minutes a day.... If you are too busy to meditate, meditate for an hour [...]
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from the article: A final word of wisdom: Just because nuts and alcohol (in small amounts) may be good for the heart, it does not necessarily follow that the ideal food is beer nuts. Say Nuts to Heart Disease Adding nuts to your diet may reduce the risk of heart disease By Richard N. Fogoros, [...]
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Alcohol Interferes With the Restorative Functions of Sleep ScienceDaily Aug. 16, 2011 Large amounts of alcohol are known to shorten sleep latency, increase slow-wave sleep, and suppress rapid eye movement (REM) during the first half of sleep. During the second half of sleep, REM increases and sleep becomes shallower. A study of the acute effects [...]
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I personally think that stem cell research is the most promising research going— why not shift all the money form the Transportation Safety Administration (>$6 billion) to stem cell research? One’s odds of dying by disease are a bit greater than by terrorism…. Scientist Converts Human Skin Cells Into Functional Brain Cells ScienceDaily July 28, [...]
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From the American Heart Association December 22, 2010 The American Heart Association has compiled its annual list of the top 10 major advances in heart disease. “We have come far in the past decade, reducing heart disease deaths by more than 27 percent,” said Ralph Sacco of the University of Miami. “But we know there [...]
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“Top Ten” lists are very popular on the Web. I think it is partially because there is so much information out there that this becomes a way of prioritizing information. (Did it all start with David Letterman?) I may be jaded, but I don’t find all of these facts “amazing” and especially not “the top [...]
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Four of Time Magazine‘s selections for the top medical breakthrough of the last year involve the heart — Avandia, CPR, a blood test for heart attack, and the development of stem cells. On the average, medical practice is about fifteen to twenty years behind the research. So the average patient may have to wait at [...]
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This article suggests an interesting variable in the research about depression, happiness and heart disease — that it is the expression of the happiness, and not just an internal feeling of happiness, that it is the critical variable. It makes me wonder whether this also applies to depression — if one actually expresses the depression [...]
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In 1961, someone made up the term “Nocebo”, taking a clue from the Latin “placebo”, and essentially meaning, “I will harm.” The term became popular in the 90′s, but I haven’t seen it around much these days. I always found it a bit of a strange word, and never used it in a sentence until [...]
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A good friend, who like myself, has been through enough medical trauma to be quite skeptical of medical “science”, just sent me this anxiety-provoking article. Well worth reading: Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science
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Big Pharma is not known for its interest in objectively reporting the effectiveness of a drug. The “Numbers Needed to Treat” is one of the better measures that should be standard information. This is an explanation of “NNT” from Wikipedia — often one of the better resources to turn to in this complicated times… Number [...]
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In trying to sort out what the statistics about the alleged effects of different drugs mean, this was one of the better articles… Treat Me? The crucial health stat you’ve never heard of. Slate Magazine By Darshak Sanghavi Sept. 26, 2006, If anything is supposed to be certain in medicine, it’s that people with high [...]
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Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.“ – Mark Twain’s Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review In my quest to [...]
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The problem with much of the research on coffee and other drugs is that each individual has a unique combination of genes and thus a unique ways of processing the drug. (One man’s meat is another man’s poison.) One of the genes implicated in coffee metabolism is CYP1A2: it makes a difference on how fast [...]
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Higher Exercise Capacity Equals Improved Survival in Older Adults Michael O’Riordan August 17, 2010 (Washington, DC) — Exercise capacity is inversely associated with all-cause mortality in older men, according to the results of a new study [1]. The survival benefit was observed among individuals able to participate in moderate daily exercise, such as brisk walking, [...]
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August 12, 2010 | Mike Lisieski Cephalopods have quite a neat circulatory system …They have a closed circulatory system, meaning that their blood is contained within blood vessels, instead of just filling their body cavity. All other molluscs have an open circulatory system, where blood is still pumped by one or more hearts, but it [...]
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The scaffold is built out of a flexible, biocompatible material with pores that support the fragile cardiac cells and allow access to blood and nutrients. The scaffold for heart repair includes channels, seen here as the larger holes, where the cardiac cells can fuse into long chains. (Credit: University of Washington) New Strategy to Fix [...]
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Scientific American Observations August 2, 1010 Industry-sponsored drug trials more likely to report positive results Katherine Harmon Drugs being counted as trials backed by pharmaceutical companies are more likely to report positive resultsClinical trials to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of new drugs are expensive investments for pharmaceutical companies and other funding organizations—and failures can [...]
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From Why Our Hearts Need Other Hearts Lisa Holland December 27, 2009 1. The Stockholm Female Coronary Risk Study, examined 131 women aged, 35 to 65 years, who were hospitalized for an acute coronary event. The study found that women with little or no social support were two and one half times more likely to [...]
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Heartwire Use of oxygen in MI patients questioned by new Cochrane review June 15, 2010 Sue Hughes Alicante, Spain and Guildford, UK – There is no conclusive evidence from randomized controlled trials to support the routine use of inhaled oxygen in patients with acute MI, a new analysis in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews [...]
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Medical News Today May 16, 2010 UC San Diego Health System is enrolling a small group of patients in a two-year study to examine the safety of a non-invasive cardiac shock wave procedure for patients with chest pain caused by insufficient blood flow to the heart. Angina pectoris is a debilitating form of pain that [...]
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Singularity Hub May 13, 2010 Research recently published in Circulation Review sheds some light on how human stem cells affect myocardial damage. Scientists studied the long term effects of stem cell therapies by introducing human cells into damaged mouse hearts. Dr. Edward Yeh and colleagues at the University of Texas MD Anderson Center in Houston [...]
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