Irregular Menstrual Cycles as a Marker for Risk of Diabetes Articles like this always seem a little surprising for me. The findings of this study are absolutely no surprise to anyone familiar with physiology. Hyperinsulinemia wreaks havoc on steroid hormones synthesis, typically leading to elevated testosterone at the expense of estrogen synthesis. So seeing a […]
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t inherently have a problem with cardiologists. But, for heart disease to be almost entirely preventable and remain the #1 killer in the industrialized world, we’ve absolutely dropped the ball. I just don’t see any excuse for a clearly preventable disease to be the #1 killer. And I cannot accept […]
Unfortunately, when most of us think about the side effects of NSAIDs like ibuprofen, we think ulcers. That’s not to say some 20,000 bleeding ulcers annually leading to death is something to be taken lightly, but it’s merely the tip of the iceberg. The cardiovascular risks of NSAIDs began to appear in the medical literature […]
I was at a marketing event this week and ended up having a conversation about a teenage girl who had epilepsy. Natural remedies for seizures came up in conversation. The seizures had begun about a year ago right around the time that her menstrual cycles started, and her seizures were tied to her menstrual cycles (the […]
Regular readers of the Rantings know that breakfast is not an option. Skip it to increase your risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease. But some of you, despite this knowledge, seem to think that your physiology is different. Just because they create Sumo wrestlers with the “skip breakfast and lunch” diet plan does not mean […]
