[JEV News, February 3, 2012] In the third episode of the special series on Alzheimer’s disease for the Carbohydrates Can Kill Podcast Show, aired on this Wednesday, February 1, 2012, Dr. Mary Newport and I are discussing how medium-chain triglycerides have helped her husband, Mr. Steve Newport, halt his symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease and improve…
Welcome back to the Carbohydrates Can Kill Show on Alzheimer’s Disease and Carbohydrates. I am Robert Su, M.D. Let’s continue the discussion about history of dementia. Alzheimer’s disease or AD is another of the most common types of dementia among older people nowadays. According to history, during the ancient time, dementia was linked to old…
[JEV News, January 13, 2012] On January 9, 2012, heartwire, an online magazine, published a not-so-surprising article, “Statin use associated with significantly increased risk of diabetes: WHI analysis.” I have long suspected that many studies with contradiction to this finding are flawed and might be the work of ghostwriting. If you are familiar with the…
The prevalence of diabetes mellitus has continued to increase. As of 2010, in the US alone, 25.6 millions or 11.3% of its population, aged 20 years or older, were diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetics. During the same time, 79 millions of Americans, aged 20 years or older, were pre-diabetic. [1] In August 2011, World Health Organization…
Constipation is one of the most common problems that many of those who switch their diet to carbohydrate restriction have encountered. [1, 2] It is a miserable situation because the individual needs a urgent relief from the increasing pressure inside his abdomen, at the same time, the waste inside his rectum is so much hardened…
Hyperglycemia is the cardinal clinical finding of diabetes mellitus, regardless of its types. Understandably, to qualify for the diagnostic criteria of diabetes mellitus, the timing and the level of hyperglycemia are specifically defined, e.g. FPG (fasting plasma glucose) >=110 (6.1 mmol/l) and <126 mg/dl (7.0 mmol/l) = Impaired Fasting Glucose; and FPG >=126 mg/dl (7.0…
[JEV News, December 16, 2011] I wrote for the JEV News last week, on December 9, 2011, about the announcement on Medicare coverage for obesity screening and counseling as a preventive service for seniors who are obese with a Body Mass Index more than 30 Kg/M2. I praised the new coverage an excellent initiative by…
The “Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure” offers the following guidelines: “(1) In persons older than 50 years, systolic blood pressure greater than 140 mmHg is a much more important cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor than diastolic blood pressure. (2) The risk of CVD…
[JEV News, December 2, 2011] During the last few years, more studies cite the benefits of Vitamin D and its deficiency in those people who do not expose themselves to sunlight for producing Vitamin D physiologically. Some of the studies produce new findings that many tissues and organs are equipped with Vitamin D receptors to…
In medical studies on the association between the strength of a factor (variable) or factors and the outcomes of the disease, they may find a range of optimum only at the elbow of a J curve, while confirming a positive relationship in its long arm, and at the same time, observing an inverse relationship in…
