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 27, 2012] Pharmaceutical companies always love to expand their claims on the usefulness of their chemicals, or so-called drugs. Statin drugs, which are heavily used to reduce serum cholesterol, are no exception. During the last decade, through medical experts, pharmaceutical companies have continued their attempts to claim that statin drugs are helpful…
In today’s Carbohydrates Can Kill podcast show, I am going to discuss Alzheimer’s disease and Carbohydrates with you. Alzheimer’s disease has been one of the diseases, which occur during one’s later life, such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus, cancer, and more. From the pathophysiological perspective, these diseases have been considered as a result of aging…
[JEV News, January 20, 2012] The premier episode of the special Carbohydrates Can Kill Podcast series on Alzheimer’s disease and carbohydrates was aired on Wednesday, January 18, 2012. This episode is intended for helping its listeners have a grasp of the terrible disease —- dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. It is a summary of many study…
An article, “Bariatric surgery reduces CV events, but mechanisms remain a mystery”, was published in the January 3, 2012 issue of the online magazine, heartwire. [1] Apparently, these researchers are lost in the maze of academia and still unable to link all the dots for a perfect map. [2, 3] In the article, “Bariatric Surgery:…
[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…
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…
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…
