Oral Microbiome – A Communication Battlefield
Friends: The term “Microbiome” is becoming more familiar to the lay public daily. People are becoming more aware of its importance to health, vitality,…
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Sugar Alcohols Linked to Heart Disease – Part 2
Friends:Ideally, understanding safe limits is a primary directive to clarify the ingestion of sugar alcohols, or any nutrient for that matter, before an…
Read article ↗Small Intestine Microbiome Considerations and Sporebiotics
Friends:When most people hear the word “microbiome,” they think about our gut with its vast array of competing and synergistic bacteria. The microbiome is…
Read article ↗H.pylori the Underestimated Infection
Friends:Not that much is discussed about this, but this stomach bacteria called H. Pylori, is a significant health issue. Helicobacter pylori, a…
Read article ↗D-Ribose and Beyond – Part 3
Friends:As discussed in my previous article, AGEs (Advanced Glycation End products) are the inevitable byproducts of nonenzymatic glycation and oxidation…
Read article ↗D-Ribose: The intriguing but Tricky Sugar – Part 2
Friends: I am starting section 2 with the ending of the first section: “Herein lies the question in human applications of what is too much, too long, and…
Read article ↗D-Ribose: The intriguing but Tricky Sugar – Part 1
Friends:Let me begin by saying supplement D-Ribose powder works typically immediately on one’s sense of energy and vitality–quiteimpressive!I can attest…
Read article ↗Parkinson’s Disease and Gut Bacteria – Part 2
Recent discoveries have implicated the gut microbiome in the progression and severity of Parkinson’s disease; however, how gutbacteria affect such…
Read article ↗Parkinson’s Disease and Gut Bacteria – Part 1
Special kudos to Megan Brooks for providing some background information on the gut bacteria Desulfovibrio and its gut/brain implications. Friends:…
Read article ↗Natural Biofilm Disruptors and Oral health
Friends:As we have explored and discussed in the past several columns, Quorum Sensing helps bacteria communicate and coordinate theirbehavior.Many…
Read article ↗Biofilm/QS – Focus on Serratiopeptidase – Part 3
Friends: In these past two articles, we explored biofilms and the unique, fascinating, and relatively less-known form of its communication intelligence…
Read article ↗MICROBIOME-A COMMUNICATION BATTLEFRONT
This discussion delves into areas different from my usual posts. It touches on concerns that dovetail into the remarkable current science about the world…
Read article ↗Our Microbiome, an incredible chemical environment and battlefield!
Friends:Please consider.Our microbiome has many times more cells and diverse DNA, from bacteria, and yeasts, just in the gut than from all the cells…
Read article ↗“ZERO CALORIE SWEETNER LINKED TO HEART ATTACK AND STROKE (Erythritol)…CNN”
Hello friends! This is a very early and premature capture of a sensational headline about the sugar-alcohol molecule, erythritol.It centers around the…
Read article ↗Breaking the Sugar Barrier – Part 1
Hello Friends: It seems like a tired topic; however, there is always more to learn and a new surprise or enlightenment now and then. Let’s approach this a…
Read article ↗“Getting Around Statins” – Part 3
In the World of Foods and Nutraceuticals Our society is programmed and trusting, in many cases this is good but not complete, to believe that the ultimate…
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DRILLING DOWN ON LDL Friends: The title of the topic, “Getting around statins.”, begs the question, are there concerns, aside from bestowing numerous…
Read article ↗“Getting Around Statins” – Part 1
Friends: As we know, doctors often and routinely prescribe statins for people with high cholesterol to lower their total and LDL cholesterol and reduce…
Read article ↗The Amino Acid Merry-go-round – Part 3
Friends: From our previous discussion on the amino acids, we established that a particularly essential amino acid, leucine, which is a branched amino…
Read article ↗The Amino Acid Merry-go-round – Part 2
Hello Friends: It’s understood and obvious that protein is needed to build muscle and new body tissues. But protein without an inadequate level of the key…
Read article ↗The Amino Acid Merry-go-round – Part 1
Hello Friends: In understanding the role of dietary protein in our health and development, it’s important to realize that protein is basically a general…
Read article ↗Our Bones and Muscles Act As An Endocrine-like Organs and Other Interesting Nutritional Tidbits – Part 2
Hello Friends: Part One briefly described some of the fascinating endocrine-like functions of our bones and muscles. In Part Two, we will explore some…
Read article ↗Our Bones and Muscles Act As An Endocrine-like Organs and Other Interesting Nutritional Tidbits – Part 1
Hello Friends: As humans, we tend to prefer things to be neatly categorical–everything to fit either in this box or that box–ambiguity often invites more…
Read article ↗Our Complicated Love Affair with Milk!
With the prevalence of Lactose Intolerance, a team of international scientists was assembled to study ancient European milk drinking habits. The research…
Read article ↗Our Endothelium, Free Radicals, Immune, and LDL in Health and Disease – Part 2
Friends: As discussed in Round One of our “endothelium” topic, it is a thin layer of cells that lines our blood vessels that have profound effects on our…
Read article ↗Our Endothelium, Free Radicals, Immune, and LDL in Health and Disease – Part 1
Our Endothelium, Free Radicals, Immune, and LDL in Health and Disease Part 1 - April 14, 2022 Friends, this will be a two-part discussion with the second…
Read article ↗Fascinating Microalgae – Uniquely Spirulina and Viral Infection – Part 2
THEIMMUNESYSTEMMIRACLEWORKER: Several timely excerpts for the present Dr. Koz column from the San Francisco Medical Research Foundation; (Reprint, Healthy…
Read article ↗Fascinating Microalgae – The Overview – Part 1
Wild or cultivated algae Spirulina, chlorella, and Klamath are all blue-green algae (or cyanobacteria), known for their health benefits. All are…
Read article ↗Primordial Molecules Offers Promising Health Benefits
Friends:Out of the earth, there are fascinating, ancient, health-rendering, probiotic, and mineral-rich, natural fermentation soil complexes–Humic and…
Read article ↗Beyond Bone Broth – Food Choice and Philosophies – Part 3
BEYOND BONE BROTH–How it all comes togetherThe role of a healthy skeletal frame, bone cells and tissue structures are key objectives for all of us…
Read article ↗Beyond Bone Broth – Food Choice and Philosophies – Part 2
In Part One we examined the intriguing and trending dietary practices currently part of our culture which is becoming a more demarcated separation between…
Read article ↗Beyond Bone Broth – Food Choice and Philosophies – Part 1
The motivation, and acceptance of dietary supplements, have well-established, marketable objectives of optimizing our nutrition, overall health, enhancing…
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From monosaturated dietary fatty acid, oleic acid, the body can synthesize fatty acids ethanolamides such as PEA (Palmitoylethanolamide) and…
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“Adipose tissue (WAT-white adipose tissue) is no longer considered to be an inert tissue that stores fat. This tissue is capable of expanding to…
Read article ↗Sarcopenia Part 2
Dear Friends:Sarcopenia, as discussed in Part One, means a decline in muscle mass, strength, and physical performance that tend to most typically be…
Read article ↗Sarcopenia – Part 1
Hello Friends, this is the first of two parts on an under-discussed subject call Sarcopenia.Sarcopenia is an unhealthy condition long-assumed associated…
Read article ↗Nutrigenomics
Dear Friends:Nutrigenomics refers to studying the effects of nutrients on the expression of an individual’s genetic makeup. Currently, this definition is…
Read article ↗Introducing the Microbiome and its Capabilities – Part 1
Dear Friends:Here’s something to think about. If we consider our physical human body that’s contained within our human form, is the sum of our cells,…
Read article ↗Endocannabinoids – Part 2
Friends:The ECS (Endocannabinoid System) is essential for life, though ironically, our understanding and the explosion of world-wide active research, is…
Read article ↗Endocannabinoids – Part 1
Friends:The many forms of relatively newly discovered endocannabinoids are vital lipid-based molecular compounds that provide multiple key physiological…
Read article ↗Dysbiosis and Leaky Gut – Microbiome – Part 2
Dear Friends: Regarding other areas of gut health and balance, there are two major phyla of gut bacteria— aerobes and anaerobes, with variable ratios…
Read article ↗A New Look At Body Fat and Fatty Acid Amines – Part 1
Dear Friends:Nutrigenomics refers to studying the effects of nutrients on the expression of an individual’s genetic makeup. Currently, this definition is…
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Read article ↗GCI Nutrients Offers Three Vegetarian DHA Products
GCI Nutrients Offers Three Vegetarian DHA productsNovember 29, 2012FOSTER CITY, CA – GCI Nutrients USA, a worldwide ingredient supplier, offers three…
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