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Vagus nerve regulates inflammation and metabolism

5/26/15 5/26/15

CKD (chronic kidney disease) expected for 50% over age 30

Chronic kidney disease incidence is rising steeply and projected to affect half the population aged 30 to 64. Key causal factors are metabolic syndrome with insulin resistance and hypertension. These are made worse by added sugars than by salt.

3/16/15 3/16/15

Low-normal thyroid function and cardiometabolic disorders

Observational studies suggest that low-normal thyroid function may be implicated in the pathogenesis of CVD. Low-normal thyroid function could also play a role in the development of MetS, insulin resistance and CKD...

10/8/14 10/8/14

Nuts reduce inflammation and all-cause mortality

In the absence of allergy, the evidence supports the consumption of nuts as wholesome foods with anti-inflammatory and metabolic benefits, exactly what paleo diets intend to accomplish.

9/16/14 9/16/14

Prediabetes increases cancer risk

Prediabetes, elevated levels of blood sugar that are still 'within' the normal range, increases cancer risk among its mob of other afflictions as further validated by a meta-analysis just published in Diabetologia.

4/12/14 4/12/14

Breast cancer and glucose intolerance

Breast cancer, insulin resistance and blood sugar dysregulation are associated, and more evidence for the breast cancer link with glucose intolerance is presented in a study just published in PLOS ONE.

4/6/14 4/6/14

Thyroid in heart, metabolism, brain, kidney; vital importance of T3

Thyroid disorders have widespread impact and although subclinical hypothyroidism and low triiodothyronine (T3) syndrome are common they are frequently overlooked in practice.

12/16/13 12/16/13

Magnesium: insulin, brain, heart and inflammation

Magnesium may be the critical nutrient most commonly drained by modern environmental stress to suboptimal levels... Recent studies add evidence to its indication for insulin resistance, diabetes, cognitive impairment, atrial fibrillation, cardiovascular disease, and neurogenic inflammation.

3/22/13 3/22/13

Insulin resistance is a risk factor for breast cancer even with normal fasting glucose and insulin

Well before fasting glucose and insulin rise out of the normal range, background surges of insulin associated with decreased insulin receptor sensitivity do harm throughout the body and, as confirmed by a study just published in the Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research shows, promote breast cancer.

2/28/13 2/28/13

Sugar calories are worse for diabetes and obesity than others

Attentive clinicians who have been exhorting their patients for years to avoid excessively stimulating insulin production with sugar are heartily welcoming the superb research just published in PLoS One (Public Library of Science) that drives a stake through the heart of the mistaken notions that calories from sugar have the same effect as others, and that obesity causes diabetes.