Archive for 'Brain Fitness'
Green Tea: Several Cups A Day Keeps Depression Away
Posted on 21. Oct, 2009 by Kerry D Friesen, M.D..
Depression can be difficult to treat.
Even with the most effective medications, a sixty percent response rate is considered exceptional. Worse yet for most people, continued treatment revolves around minimizing side-effects rather than aggressively addressing the circumstances that allowed the depression to develop in the first place.
Even more confusing are recent clinical studies that suggest [...]
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Inflammation Overload!
Posted on 25. Jan, 2009 by Kerry D Friesen, M.D..
Remember you heard it here first.
There now exists a formidable body of literature linking cardiovascular disease and neurodegenerative disorders. More than ten years ago I found myself lecturing my patients on the not-so- subtle connection between abdominal obesity; insulin resistance; syndrome-X and endothelial-cell dysfunction. With abdominal obesity, fat is progressively packed around internal organs until [...]
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Why I Quit Counting Cholesterol: Confessions Of A Medical Heretic
Posted on 24. Jan, 2009 by Kerry D Friesen, M.D..
The great tragedy of science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
–Thomas Henry Huxley
At one time or another we have all held certain beliefs that later turn out to be not true at all. Most are innocent lies like the tooth fairy or Easter bunny and ultimately no major mental paradigm [...]
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