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Recently I read an interesting study that examined the mortality rates in the United States between 1980 through 2023, including the time before, during, and after the COVID epidemic. Researchers took it one step further: they obtained mortality data from other high-income countries to compare the mortality rates between the countries while accounting for the […]
Lately I’ve written about magnesium, and I often talk about eating cruciferous vegetables every day. I decided to fall back to one of my favorite recipes from my mother-in-law, Ruth, modify it a little, and give you a recipe for a great salad you can enjoy this holiday weekend. Nutritional information is at the bottom. […]
The title said, “Could your energy drink be fueling cancer?” “Now what?!” was my first thought. Researchers reported in a press release that the amino acid taurine may help cancerous cells make energy to fuel their growth. Because taurine is found in energy drinks and protein supplements, I wanted to check whether this is something […]
In the last Memo, we were left with the researchers’ question: if magnesium intake and BP were not related to a neuroprotective effect, what was? The researchers had some idea based on prior research: inflammation. Let’s take a look at what they found on the follow-up to their original study. The methodology and subject pool […]
If there’s one thing we can usually agree on, it’s that we want to retain as many of our important memories as we can along with the ability to learn new things. That’s why a couple of recent studies on the mineral magnesium caught my attention. Both were published in the past two years by […]
When I woke up this morning, I knew I had another year to do what I do but with more urgency. If you want to know the story, read last year’s Memo to understand. Why more urgency? Simple: I’m not any younger and while I try to age with a vengeance, the clock keeps ticking […]
Last week, I left you with a question about a hypothetical situation: What if my grandmother’s bedsores had become infected to the degree that it spread throughout her body; she still had congestive heart failure but didn’t have pulmonary effusion at that time. What would be the primary cause of death? With so many health […]
You may be wondering why the TAP-IT study created that stop-in-my-tracks moment. In the mid-1980s, my grandmother Frances was 80 years old and was always my biggest fan. She had congestive heart failure, so doctors tried the needle procedure, which drained close to 20 lbs. of fluid from around her lungs; you can imagine the […]
Have you ever had a moment where you were reading something, listening to an audio, or watching a video where you just had a moment of realization and absolutely stopped in your tracks? The reason is that you got hit with a discovery of some fact that you didn’t know. More than that, you realized […]
If you remember the last Memo, I said that the active ingredient in red yeast rice (RYR) was monacolin K, which is chemically identical to a current statin medication: lovastatin. The problem with RYR in supplements is that the amounts of monacolin K varied depending on the exact type of Monascus mold used—it could be […]
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