(HealthDay News) -- When it comes to getting cutting-edge treatments for cancer, teens and young adults might be missing out.
In a study of young oncology patients, researchers found that 38 percent of those under 15 participated in a clinical trial, while just 27 percent of those over 15 were enrolled in a clinical trial. With the overall cancer survival rate lower among teens and young adults than it is among younger children, access to clinical trials appears to be a contributing factor, the researchers noted. In many cases, a clinical trial simply wasn't available for the adolescents, according to the study, which was published in a recent issue of the Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.
"We've known for several years that older adolescents and young adults don't have the same clinical trial rate as younger patients but didn't know all of the reasons why," explained study author Dr. Peter Shaw, director of the Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Program at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
"This study showed that the number one cause they're not put into clinical trials was that there aren't clinical trials available for them. Another reason is that many are referred to adult oncologists who may not be as familiar with pediatric disease and its patterns," said Shaw. "And that translates into worse survival rates, because clinical trial enrollment is correlated with better survival when it comes to cancer."
The current study included data from 640 children, adolescents and young adults with cancer who were treated at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh between July 2001 and June 2006. Five hundred and one were under 15. Overall, 36 percent were treated in a clinical trial, according to the study.
In the older age group, 57 percent weren't enrolled in a clinical trial because none were available. In children under 15, that number was 41 percent.
"Now that we realize that there's such a deficit, we have to make hard decisions about which clinical trials to run. Funding has been cut and that impacts how the Children's Oncology Group operates. Less protocols can be open," said Shaw.
"This is a historical problem. Some of the diseases span an 18-year range and have never been the domain of either pediatrics or adult oncology," said Dr. Richard Gorlick, division chief of pediatric hematology/oncology at The Children's Hospital at Montefiore in New York City.
"There's not necessarily a fixed dividing line when you think of pediatric or medical [adult] oncology," said Gorlick. "There's been a blurring of the age boundary, and adolescents and young adults should be treated by a provider who has the most expertise in their particular cancer area. The rare adolescent who has colon cancer would probably be better suited to being treated by a medical oncologist. But an adolescent with sarcoma, lymphoma or leukemia may do better with a pediatric oncologist. It all depends on the diagnosis."
Ideally, Shaw said that adolescents and young adults diagnosed with cancer will see both a pediatric and a medical oncologist to make sure they're getting the best treatment possible. Or, even better, he said, is to find an adolescent and young adult cancer treatment program.
More information
To gain a better understanding of the risks and benefits of clinical trials in cancer treatment, visit the Teens Living with Cancer.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Friday, January 25, 2008
The Truth About Cholesterol
What causes an increase in serum cholesterol?
The answer is easy. It is a four letter word - ACID.
The body creates and releases cholesterol in the blood stream to buffer and protect against dietary and metabolic acidity.
Cholesterol is our friend. It is dietary and metabolic acid that makes us sick, tired and fat.
I am telling you this because there are millions of Americans trying to lower their cholesterol with statin drugs putting them at risk for the very thing they are trying to prevent - a stroke or heart attack.
It is acid that causes heart attacks and strokes not cholesterol. The truth about cholesterol is that cholesterol is released into the blood stream to buffer or chelate dietary and/or metabolic acids and protect the heart and blood vessels from acid breakdown.
According to recent research, the benefits of statin drugs are highly overrated, and the 13 million Americans using them may get little, if any, benefit.
In fact, according to Dr. Robert O. Young, a research scientist at the pH Miracle Living Center states, "statin drugs reduce cholesterol but do not reduce the dietary or metabolic acids that cause strokes and heart attacks. To reduce cholesterol without reducing the acid is setting the stage for a potential stroke or heart attack."
Recent studies on statin drugs show no reduction in deaths for people over the age of 65 -- regardless of how much the drug lowered their cholesterol -- and no benefit at all for women of any age!
Even though Americans are bombarded with ads touting the benefits of statins, close study of drug company ads tell a different tale. In small print, an ad for Lipitor stated that 'in a large clinical study, 3% of patients taking a sugar pill or placebo had a heart attack compared to 2% of patients taking Lipitor."
The trial lasted over three years, meaning that for every one hundred people taking Lipitor for at least three years, only one person avoided having a heart attack. The other 99 got no benefit. Other studies have indicated that as many as 250 patients would need to be treated in order to benefit one person.
Statins cause side effects in 10% to 15% of users that include diarrhea, muscle pain, cognitive impairment and sexual dysfunction, and they cost about $1,000 a year.
"Most people are taking something with no change of benefit and a risk of harm," says Dr. James M. Wright, a professor at the University of British Columbia and director of Canada's Therapeutics Initiative, an organization which examines the data on drugs and decides how well they work.
Dr. Young states, "if you want to protect the heart and blood vessels from die-ease you need to maintain the alkaline design of your body."
To do this Dr. Young suggests an alkalizing seven step program that includes the following:
1) 2 to 3 ounces of liquid chlorophyll 3 times a day.
Dr. Young recommends 100% pure chlorophyll from Da Souza's.
2) Eating 10 to 12 servings of fruits and vegetables everyday.
3) 1 to 2 ounces of poly-unsaturated fats from flax, hemp, avocado and/or fish.
4) Drinking 3 to 4 liters of 9.5 alkaline pH water everyday.
5) Eating at least 7 to 8 grams of mineral salts everyday.
6) Whole body exercising everyday with a rebounder or a VibrapHirm.
7) Testing your urine pH every morning and night to make sure it is in the healthy range of
7.2 or better.
The answer is easy. It is a four letter word - ACID.
The body creates and releases cholesterol in the blood stream to buffer and protect against dietary and metabolic acidity.
Cholesterol is our friend. It is dietary and metabolic acid that makes us sick, tired and fat.
I am telling you this because there are millions of Americans trying to lower their cholesterol with statin drugs putting them at risk for the very thing they are trying to prevent - a stroke or heart attack.
It is acid that causes heart attacks and strokes not cholesterol. The truth about cholesterol is that cholesterol is released into the blood stream to buffer or chelate dietary and/or metabolic acids and protect the heart and blood vessels from acid breakdown.
According to recent research, the benefits of statin drugs are highly overrated, and the 13 million Americans using them may get little, if any, benefit.
In fact, according to Dr. Robert O. Young, a research scientist at the pH Miracle Living Center states, "statin drugs reduce cholesterol but do not reduce the dietary or metabolic acids that cause strokes and heart attacks. To reduce cholesterol without reducing the acid is setting the stage for a potential stroke or heart attack."
Recent studies on statin drugs show no reduction in deaths for people over the age of 65 -- regardless of how much the drug lowered their cholesterol -- and no benefit at all for women of any age!
Even though Americans are bombarded with ads touting the benefits of statins, close study of drug company ads tell a different tale. In small print, an ad for Lipitor stated that 'in a large clinical study, 3% of patients taking a sugar pill or placebo had a heart attack compared to 2% of patients taking Lipitor."
The trial lasted over three years, meaning that for every one hundred people taking Lipitor for at least three years, only one person avoided having a heart attack. The other 99 got no benefit. Other studies have indicated that as many as 250 patients would need to be treated in order to benefit one person.
Statins cause side effects in 10% to 15% of users that include diarrhea, muscle pain, cognitive impairment and sexual dysfunction, and they cost about $1,000 a year.
"Most people are taking something with no change of benefit and a risk of harm," says Dr. James M. Wright, a professor at the University of British Columbia and director of Canada's Therapeutics Initiative, an organization which examines the data on drugs and decides how well they work.
Dr. Young states, "if you want to protect the heart and blood vessels from die-ease you need to maintain the alkaline design of your body."
To do this Dr. Young suggests an alkalizing seven step program that includes the following:
1) 2 to 3 ounces of liquid chlorophyll 3 times a day.
Dr. Young recommends 100% pure chlorophyll from Da Souza's.
2) Eating 10 to 12 servings of fruits and vegetables everyday.
3) 1 to 2 ounces of poly-unsaturated fats from flax, hemp, avocado and/or fish.
4) Drinking 3 to 4 liters of 9.5 alkaline pH water everyday.
5) Eating at least 7 to 8 grams of mineral salts everyday.
6) Whole body exercising everyday with a rebounder or a VibrapHirm.
7) Testing your urine pH every morning and night to make sure it is in the healthy range of
7.2 or better.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
How To Prevent or Reverse Cataracts
What causes cataracts?
The answer is simple - dietary and metabolic acid.
So what is a cataract?
A cataract is a dietary and/or metabolic acid that has been buffered or chelated with an alkaline buffer, such as calcium. Simply stated a cataract is a stone in the eye.
How do you prevent or reverse cataracts?
Reduce acidity and increase alkalinity.
Women who have higher dietary intake of lutein and zeaxanthin -- compounds found in yellow or dark, leafy vegetables and green fruits like avocado -- as well as more vitamin E from food and supplements appear to have a lower risk for developing cataracts, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Why?
Because lutein and zeaxanthin are alkaline buffers of dietary and metabolic acids.
"The oxidative hypothesis of cataract formation posits that reactive oxygen species can damage lens proteins and fiber cell membranes and that nutrients with antioxidant capabilities can protect against these changes," the authors write as background information in the article. Vitamin E, vitamin C, beta carotene, lutein and zeaxanthin are all believed to have antioxidant or anti-acid properties. Lutein and zeaxanthin are the only carotenoids -- yellow or green plant pigments -- present in the lens of the human eye and may also protect against cataracts by buffering dietary and metabolic acids.
William G. Christen, Sc.D., of Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, and colleagues analyzed dietary information from 35,551 female health professionals who enrolled in the Women's Health Study in 1993. The women were then followed for an average of 10 years, and the diets of those who developed cataracts were compared with the diets of those who did not.
A total of 2,031 women developed cataracts during the study. When the participants were split into five groups based on the amount of lutein and zeaxanthin they consumed, those in the group who consumed the most (about 6,716 micrograms per day) had an 18 percent lower chance of developing cataracts than those who consumed the least (1,177 micrograms per day). The one-fifth who consumed the most vitamin E from food and supplements -- about 262.4 milligrams per day -- were 14 percent less likely than the one-fifth who got the least (4.4 milligrams per day).
"In conclusion, these prospective data from a large cohort of female health professionals indicate that higher intakes of lutein/zeaxanthin and vitamin E are associated with decreased risk of cataract," the authors write. "Although reliable data from randomized trials are accumulating for vitamin E and other antioxidant or anti-acid minerals and vitamins, randomized trial data for lutein/zeaxanthin are lacking. Such information will help to clarify the benefits of supplemental use of lutein/zeaxanthin and provide the most reliable evidence on which to base public health recommendations for cataract prevention by vitamin supplementation."
According to Dr. Robert O. Young, a research scientist at the pH Miracle Living Center, states, "one of the best sources of lutein and zeaxanthin is from avocado. Avocado is also a good source of Vitamin E and other healthy oils that can help reduce the formation of stones or cataracts by reducing dietary and metabolic acids."
The answer is simple - dietary and metabolic acid.
So what is a cataract?
A cataract is a dietary and/or metabolic acid that has been buffered or chelated with an alkaline buffer, such as calcium. Simply stated a cataract is a stone in the eye.
How do you prevent or reverse cataracts?
Reduce acidity and increase alkalinity.
Women who have higher dietary intake of lutein and zeaxanthin -- compounds found in yellow or dark, leafy vegetables and green fruits like avocado -- as well as more vitamin E from food and supplements appear to have a lower risk for developing cataracts, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Why?
Because lutein and zeaxanthin are alkaline buffers of dietary and metabolic acids.
"The oxidative hypothesis of cataract formation posits that reactive oxygen species can damage lens proteins and fiber cell membranes and that nutrients with antioxidant capabilities can protect against these changes," the authors write as background information in the article. Vitamin E, vitamin C, beta carotene, lutein and zeaxanthin are all believed to have antioxidant or anti-acid properties. Lutein and zeaxanthin are the only carotenoids -- yellow or green plant pigments -- present in the lens of the human eye and may also protect against cataracts by buffering dietary and metabolic acids.
William G. Christen, Sc.D., of Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, and colleagues analyzed dietary information from 35,551 female health professionals who enrolled in the Women's Health Study in 1993. The women were then followed for an average of 10 years, and the diets of those who developed cataracts were compared with the diets of those who did not.
A total of 2,031 women developed cataracts during the study. When the participants were split into five groups based on the amount of lutein and zeaxanthin they consumed, those in the group who consumed the most (about 6,716 micrograms per day) had an 18 percent lower chance of developing cataracts than those who consumed the least (1,177 micrograms per day). The one-fifth who consumed the most vitamin E from food and supplements -- about 262.4 milligrams per day -- were 14 percent less likely than the one-fifth who got the least (4.4 milligrams per day).
"In conclusion, these prospective data from a large cohort of female health professionals indicate that higher intakes of lutein/zeaxanthin and vitamin E are associated with decreased risk of cataract," the authors write. "Although reliable data from randomized trials are accumulating for vitamin E and other antioxidant or anti-acid minerals and vitamins, randomized trial data for lutein/zeaxanthin are lacking. Such information will help to clarify the benefits of supplemental use of lutein/zeaxanthin and provide the most reliable evidence on which to base public health recommendations for cataract prevention by vitamin supplementation."
According to Dr. Robert O. Young, a research scientist at the pH Miracle Living Center, states, "one of the best sources of lutein and zeaxanthin is from avocado. Avocado is also a good source of Vitamin E and other healthy oils that can help reduce the formation of stones or cataracts by reducing dietary and metabolic acids."
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Soy Helps to Reduce Belly Fat
A daily serving of soy may help postmenopausal women avoid gaining fat around the middle, preliminary research suggests.
In a study of 18 postmenopausal women, researchers found that those who drank a soy-based shake every day for three months tended to gain less abdominal fat than those who had a milk-based shake.
Soy contains compounds called isoflavones that are help to buffer the the hormone acid estrogen.
So in theory, soy isoflavones could help reduce the amount of stored fat that binds to hormones like estrogen.
The new findings appear to be the first to show that soy protein may affect abdominal fat distribution, according to the researchers, led by Dr. Cynthia K.
Sites of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
They report the results in the medical journal Fertility and Sterility.
The study included 18 women in their 50s who had been menopausal for one to five years. Half were randomly assigned to drink a soy-based shake each day, while the rest were given a shake containing the milk protein casein.
The women were told to drink half of a shake with breakfast, and the other half with dinner, and to substitute the daily drink for other foods in their diet in order to avoid weight gain.
After three months, the researchers found, women who drank the soy shake showed less of a gain in abdominal fat, even though both groups showed similar changes in weight and overall body fat.
It's not clear why soy protein might affect belly fat in particular, according to Sites and her colleagues.
"Whatever the mechanism," they write, "our data suggest that soy protein containing isoflavones may prevent the accumulation of fat in the abdominal depot."
Because excess abdominal fat is especially related to higher risks of symptoms associated with excess acidity, such as diabetes and heart disease, limiting the well-known middle-age spread is important. They think larger, longer-term studies should continue to investigate the potential of soy protein.
According to Dr. Robert O. Young, a research scientist at the pH Miracle Living Center states, "organic sprouted soy contains the highest concentrations of isoflavones.
Isoflavones are excellent buffers of dietary and metabolic acids, especially hormones. I recommend a low heat dehydrated organically sprouted soy, with a 28 to 1 ratio. That means it takes 28 pounds of soy sprouts to make 1 pound of finished concentrated soy sprout powder.
This soy sprout powder is great to add to water or to a green shake. It is also a great source of protein at 41% by volume. I recommend at least 1 to 2 ounces a day of the concentrated soy sprouts which would be the equivalent of eating 2 to 4 pounds of organic sprouts."
Resources:
Fertility and Sterility, December 2007
In a study of 18 postmenopausal women, researchers found that those who drank a soy-based shake every day for three months tended to gain less abdominal fat than those who had a milk-based shake.
Soy contains compounds called isoflavones that are help to buffer the the hormone acid estrogen.
So in theory, soy isoflavones could help reduce the amount of stored fat that binds to hormones like estrogen.
The new findings appear to be the first to show that soy protein may affect abdominal fat distribution, according to the researchers, led by Dr. Cynthia K.
Sites of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
They report the results in the medical journal Fertility and Sterility.
The study included 18 women in their 50s who had been menopausal for one to five years. Half were randomly assigned to drink a soy-based shake each day, while the rest were given a shake containing the milk protein casein.
The women were told to drink half of a shake with breakfast, and the other half with dinner, and to substitute the daily drink for other foods in their diet in order to avoid weight gain.
After three months, the researchers found, women who drank the soy shake showed less of a gain in abdominal fat, even though both groups showed similar changes in weight and overall body fat.
It's not clear why soy protein might affect belly fat in particular, according to Sites and her colleagues.
"Whatever the mechanism," they write, "our data suggest that soy protein containing isoflavones may prevent the accumulation of fat in the abdominal depot."
Because excess abdominal fat is especially related to higher risks of symptoms associated with excess acidity, such as diabetes and heart disease, limiting the well-known middle-age spread is important. They think larger, longer-term studies should continue to investigate the potential of soy protein.
According to Dr. Robert O. Young, a research scientist at the pH Miracle Living Center states, "organic sprouted soy contains the highest concentrations of isoflavones.
Isoflavones are excellent buffers of dietary and metabolic acids, especially hormones. I recommend a low heat dehydrated organically sprouted soy, with a 28 to 1 ratio. That means it takes 28 pounds of soy sprouts to make 1 pound of finished concentrated soy sprout powder.
This soy sprout powder is great to add to water or to a green shake. It is also a great source of protein at 41% by volume. I recommend at least 1 to 2 ounces a day of the concentrated soy sprouts which would be the equivalent of eating 2 to 4 pounds of organic sprouts."
Resources:
Fertility and Sterility, December 2007
Monday, January 14, 2008
Alkaline Diet
What is the Alkaline Diet?
Other names: alkaline acid diet, acid alkaline diet
An alkaline diet is a diet that emphasizes, to a varying degree, fresh fruit, vegetables, roots and tubers, nuts, and legumes.
What is the History of Alkaline Diets?
Our hunter-gatherer ancestors consumed a diet very different from what's typical today. The diet was based on minimally processed plant and animal foods. But with the advent of agriculture, the standard Western diet changed greatly.
Grains were introduced into the diet after the appearance of stone tools. Refined grains were available after the invention of automated rolling and sifting devices.
Milk, cheese and other milk products were introduced with the domestication of livestock.
Salt consumption rose when technology to mine, process, and transport it became available.
Meat consumption increased with animal husbandry. It further increased with the advent of technology that enabled grains to be efficiently fed to cattle, which allowed cattle to be fattened quickly.
Sugar consumption has risen since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
Almost all foods that we eat, after being digested, absorbed, and metabolized, release either an acid or an alkaline base (bicarbonate) into blood. Grains, fish, meat, poultry, shellfish, cheese, milk, and salt all produce acid, so the introduction and dramatic rise in our consumption of these foods meant that the typical Western diet became more acid-producing. Consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables decreased, which further made the Western diet acid-producing.
Our blood is slightly alkaline, with a normal pH level of between 7.35 and 7.45. The theory behind the alkaline diet is that our diet should reflect this pH level (as it did in the past) and be slightly alkaline. Proponents of alkaline diets believe that a diet high in acid-producing foods is disrupts this balance and promotes the loss of essential minerals such as potassium, magnesium, calcium, and sodium, as the body tries to restore equilibrium. This imbalance is thought to make people prone to illness.
Why Do People Try Alkaline Diets?
According to some alternative practitioners, the shift to an acid-producing diet is the cause of a number of chronic diseases. Some practitioners recommend the alkaline diet if a person has the following symptoms and other illnesses have been ruled out.
Lack of energy
Excessive mucous production
Nasal congestion
Frequent colds and flu
Anxiety, nervousness, irritability
Ovarian cysts, polycystic ovaries, benign breast cysts
Headache
Although conventional doctors do believe that increasing consumption of fruit and vegetables and reducing one's intake of meat, salt, and refined grains is beneficial to health, most conventional doctors do not believe that an acid-producing diet is the foundation of chronic illness. In conventional medicine, there is evidence, however, that alkaline diets may help prevent the formation of calcium kidney stones, osteoporosis, and age-related muscle wasting.
What is the Evidence for Alkaline Diets?
Large, well-designed clinical trials on the effectiveness of the alkaline diet for general health are lacking.
What are the Safety Concerns?
It's a good idea to consult your doctor before trying a new diet. The alkaline diet should not be used by people with acute or chronic kidney failure unless under a doctor's supervision. People with pre-existing heart disease and those on medications that affect potassium levels in the body should check with their doctor first.
Other names: alkaline acid diet, acid alkaline diet
An alkaline diet is a diet that emphasizes, to a varying degree, fresh fruit, vegetables, roots and tubers, nuts, and legumes.
What is the History of Alkaline Diets?
Our hunter-gatherer ancestors consumed a diet very different from what's typical today. The diet was based on minimally processed plant and animal foods. But with the advent of agriculture, the standard Western diet changed greatly.
Grains were introduced into the diet after the appearance of stone tools. Refined grains were available after the invention of automated rolling and sifting devices.
Milk, cheese and other milk products were introduced with the domestication of livestock.
Salt consumption rose when technology to mine, process, and transport it became available.
Meat consumption increased with animal husbandry. It further increased with the advent of technology that enabled grains to be efficiently fed to cattle, which allowed cattle to be fattened quickly.
Sugar consumption has risen since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
Almost all foods that we eat, after being digested, absorbed, and metabolized, release either an acid or an alkaline base (bicarbonate) into blood. Grains, fish, meat, poultry, shellfish, cheese, milk, and salt all produce acid, so the introduction and dramatic rise in our consumption of these foods meant that the typical Western diet became more acid-producing. Consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables decreased, which further made the Western diet acid-producing.
Our blood is slightly alkaline, with a normal pH level of between 7.35 and 7.45. The theory behind the alkaline diet is that our diet should reflect this pH level (as it did in the past) and be slightly alkaline. Proponents of alkaline diets believe that a diet high in acid-producing foods is disrupts this balance and promotes the loss of essential minerals such as potassium, magnesium, calcium, and sodium, as the body tries to restore equilibrium. This imbalance is thought to make people prone to illness.
Why Do People Try Alkaline Diets?
According to some alternative practitioners, the shift to an acid-producing diet is the cause of a number of chronic diseases. Some practitioners recommend the alkaline diet if a person has the following symptoms and other illnesses have been ruled out.
Lack of energy
Excessive mucous production
Nasal congestion
Frequent colds and flu
Anxiety, nervousness, irritability
Ovarian cysts, polycystic ovaries, benign breast cysts
Headache
Although conventional doctors do believe that increasing consumption of fruit and vegetables and reducing one's intake of meat, salt, and refined grains is beneficial to health, most conventional doctors do not believe that an acid-producing diet is the foundation of chronic illness. In conventional medicine, there is evidence, however, that alkaline diets may help prevent the formation of calcium kidney stones, osteoporosis, and age-related muscle wasting.
What is the Evidence for Alkaline Diets?
Large, well-designed clinical trials on the effectiveness of the alkaline diet for general health are lacking.
What are the Safety Concerns?
It's a good idea to consult your doctor before trying a new diet. The alkaline diet should not be used by people with acute or chronic kidney failure unless under a doctor's supervision. People with pre-existing heart disease and those on medications that affect potassium levels in the body should check with their doctor first.
more information about Alkaline Diet.
Monday, January 07, 2008
The Journey of Life
You may want to share this with a few of your friends and loved ones. Read all the way to the end. But don't skip ahead. We can easily travel down life's journey....not paying very close attention... maybe even a bit reckless....and then something REALLY scary happens to REALLY get our undivided attention. But will we still be alive when the event is over???
I have both known of and heard of people who jog five miles a day, had just gotten a clean bill of health from the local doc, and dropped dead of a heart attack. Dr. Patrick Sobota just told me about a young couple who were still in their wedding attire when they both stepped off a curb, still holding hands, and were struck and killed by a speeding car.
Your health and fitness is like that. Be careful with your health and fitness. Don't take chances. Pay attention to your diet, nutrition and lifestyle. Don't assume BECAUSE YOU FEEL OK that everything is REALLY ok.
For instance, test your urine everyday and make sure it tests well above a pH of 7.2. Drink high alkaline pH water everyday.
Make sure you get enough exercise, rest, and quality time with your family. Now, follow my instructions and check out these two photographs. Make sure you read the caption under the first one before you proceed to the second photo on the bottom.
Look at the picture above and you can see where this man broke through the guardrail, right side where the people are standing on the road (pointing).. The fellow in this pick-up was traveling from right to left when it crashed through the guardrail.
It flipped end-over-end, across the culvert outlet, and landed right side up on the left side of the culvert, facing the opposite direction from which he was originally traveling.Now look at the 2nd picture below...
Miracles certainly come in handy. And yet, understanding the pH Miracle is a miracle you can give yourself every day of your life. By the way, do you suppose if this man didn't believe in God before .... any chance he might believe in God now? In love, light and faith in pH Miracles, A Prosperous, Peaceful and Happy New Year.
Dr. Robert O. Young & Shelley Redford Young and Family
I have both known of and heard of people who jog five miles a day, had just gotten a clean bill of health from the local doc, and dropped dead of a heart attack. Dr. Patrick Sobota just told me about a young couple who were still in their wedding attire when they both stepped off a curb, still holding hands, and were struck and killed by a speeding car.
Your health and fitness is like that. Be careful with your health and fitness. Don't take chances. Pay attention to your diet, nutrition and lifestyle. Don't assume BECAUSE YOU FEEL OK that everything is REALLY ok.
For instance, test your urine everyday and make sure it tests well above a pH of 7.2. Drink high alkaline pH water everyday.
Make sure you get enough exercise, rest, and quality time with your family. Now, follow my instructions and check out these two photographs. Make sure you read the caption under the first one before you proceed to the second photo on the bottom.
Look at the picture above and you can see where this man broke through the guardrail, right side where the people are standing on the road (pointing).. The fellow in this pick-up was traveling from right to left when it crashed through the guardrail.
It flipped end-over-end, across the culvert outlet, and landed right side up on the left side of the culvert, facing the opposite direction from which he was originally traveling.Now look at the 2nd picture below...
Miracles certainly come in handy. And yet, understanding the pH Miracle is a miracle you can give yourself every day of your life. By the way, do you suppose if this man didn't believe in God before .... any chance he might believe in God now? In love, light and faith in pH Miracles, A Prosperous, Peaceful and Happy New Year.
Dr. Robert O. Young & Shelley Redford Young and Family
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Testosterone Supplements Provide Little Benefit
(HealthDay News) -- Testosterone supplements increase lean body mass and decrease body fat in men over age 60 who have unusually low testosterone but do not improve strength, mobility or mental abilities, researchers report.
Testosterone levels normally decrease as men age, although the amount of decrease varies among men. Losing testosterone is associated with a loss of muscle mass, strength, mental facility and bone mass as well as an increase in body fat, the team noted in the Jan. 2 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Clinical trials of the effectiveness of testosterone supplementation have not been conclusive, added the team from the University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands.
They analyzed quality of life and health data from 207 men between the ages of 60 and 80 who had lower than average testosterone levels. Participants took 80 milligrams of testosterone or a placebo twice daily for six months. The men did not know whether they were taking testosterone or the placebo.
The researchers found that the men who took testosterone had more lean body mass and less fat than their peers but no increase in mobility of strength. Although not statistically significant, the men taking testosterone were slightly more likely to have metabolic syndrome by the end of the study. Metabolic syndrome is a predictor of type 2 diabetes and is characterized by obesity and unhealthy cholesterol levels.
Men taking testosterone also had improved insulin sensitivity but lower levels of "good" high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. Testosterone supplementation was associated with an increase of creatinine in the blood, as well as hemoglobin and hematocrit, measures of red blood cell health. There were no negative effects of testosterone on prostate health, reported the researchers.
"This study is, as far as we know, the largest study of testosterone supplementation with the most end points and a randomized, double-blind design. Adherence was high, and the dropout rate was low," the authors wrote in a prepared statement. "The findings in this study do not support a net benefit on several indicators of health and functional and cognitive performance with six months of modest testosterone supplementation in healthy men with circulating testosterone levels in the lower range."
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Testosterone levels normally decrease as men age, although the amount of decrease varies among men. Losing testosterone is associated with a loss of muscle mass, strength, mental facility and bone mass as well as an increase in body fat, the team noted in the Jan. 2 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Clinical trials of the effectiveness of testosterone supplementation have not been conclusive, added the team from the University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands.
They analyzed quality of life and health data from 207 men between the ages of 60 and 80 who had lower than average testosterone levels. Participants took 80 milligrams of testosterone or a placebo twice daily for six months. The men did not know whether they were taking testosterone or the placebo.
The researchers found that the men who took testosterone had more lean body mass and less fat than their peers but no increase in mobility of strength. Although not statistically significant, the men taking testosterone were slightly more likely to have metabolic syndrome by the end of the study. Metabolic syndrome is a predictor of type 2 diabetes and is characterized by obesity and unhealthy cholesterol levels.
Men taking testosterone also had improved insulin sensitivity but lower levels of "good" high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. Testosterone supplementation was associated with an increase of creatinine in the blood, as well as hemoglobin and hematocrit, measures of red blood cell health. There were no negative effects of testosterone on prostate health, reported the researchers.
"This study is, as far as we know, the largest study of testosterone supplementation with the most end points and a randomized, double-blind design. Adherence was high, and the dropout rate was low," the authors wrote in a prepared statement. "The findings in this study do not support a net benefit on several indicators of health and functional and cognitive performance with six months of modest testosterone supplementation in healthy men with circulating testosterone levels in the lower range."
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