2010 is a year marked by an explosion in gene-related nutritional science, with significant findings to improve the health of one and all. In contrast, the same type of gene science applied to the function of commonly used drugs is showing their true colors. These toxic poisons should be avoided for all but the most desperate use in true medical...

Mainstream public health officials are now turning on Big Pharma. As I pointed out in my recent posting, Statins Develop Mainstream Cracks in Their Image, the Big Pharma PR machine is running into a brick wall. The attack is widening, with a new study proclaiming that “The ratio of benefits to harms among patients taking new drugs tends to vary inversely...

Women considering pregnancy should do everything in their power to reach and maintain an optimal body weight prior to conception. A new study finds that being overweight is linked to a 14% less chance of a successful pregnancy, jumping to 28% for obese women.

In an unprecedented change of posture the New England Journal of Medicine has reversed itself on the issue of whether Vytorin causes cancer. In the initial release of data back in July NEJM stood by Merck and Schering-Plough, who hired an Oxford consultant to rule that a 50% statistically significant increased risk of cancer was by chance. I pointed out...

Hypertension, COPD, obstructive sleep apnea, poor cardiac function, and aorta stiffness are well known disorders linked with poor brain health and neurodegeneration. Hypertension in midlife has been associated with more brain atrophy in later life, but it is now understood that elderly with low blood pressure have more brain atrophy than those with...

Every person over the age of 20 has declining bone health. More bone is lost than added from that point forward. This increases the risk of bone loss. There is another factor that influences bone health and it is seen in the fine print of prescription medication warnings. It is an elephant in the room as a risk factor for osteoporosis. It is drug-induced...

Agriculture Linked To Frog Sexual Abnormalities

Does obesity increase risk for iron deficiency? A review of the literature and the potential mechanisms.

Induction of cell apoptosis in 3T3-L1 pre-adipocytes by flavonoids is associated with their antioxidant activity.

Dietary protein impact on glycemic control during weight loss.

Glutathione production is regulated via distinct pathways in stressed and non-stressed cortical neurons.

Vitamin K, an example of triage theory: is micronutrient inadequacy linked to diseases of aging.