Archive for 'Prevention'
Vitamin D: The Ultimate Antiviral?
Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by Kerry D Friesen, M.D..
Remember cod-liver oil?
Well a great idea, just got better!
While cod-liver oil is a good source of vitamin D, it contains far too much vitamin A and a only a fraction of the omega 3 fatty-acids recommended.
We now know that vitamin D is the “active ingredient” in cod-liver oil and responsible for most of the [...]
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Talk About Your Antioxidants: Astaxanthin Combats Chronic Inflammation And Much More
Posted on 31. Oct, 2009 by Kerry D Friesen, M.D..
Chronic inflammation underlies most diet and lifestyle related diseases, including high-blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and even Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.
Antioxidants play a pivotal role in combating chronic inflammation and premature aging by reducing the oxidative damage that occurs when cells are stressed beyond their capacity. When left unchecked for months and years, cellular [...]
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The “Color Of Food” Not Food Coloring, Determines Health!
Posted on 28. Oct, 2009 by Kerry D Friesen, M.D..
Recently researchers reported on data from “NHANES”, a survey that monitors the daily diet of Americians, with the following shocking conclusion:
Eighty per cent of Americans increase their risk for diet-related diseases by failing to eat a diet rich in colorful fruits and vegetables.
Rightfully so, America’s Phytonutrient Report, highlighted the importance of the color of fruit [...]
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Finally The FDA Finds That Supplemental Vitamins—”can be useful”
Posted on 23. Oct, 2009 by Kerry D Friesen, M.D..
Earlier this month the Food And Drug Administration released a consumer advisory regarding the use of supplemental vitamins. To everyone’s surprise the advisory admitted that vitamins “can be useful” and that “there are many good reasons” to consider taking them! As a physician that practices “preventing” medicine, I couldn’t agree more.
Vitamins are and always will [...]
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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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I’ll See You In Health! Stephen Colbert Rebuts Ridiculous Crestor Claim
Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by Kerry D Friesen, M.D..
OZ: THE LAND OF INFINITE MEDICAL ANSWERS
(THAT DOESN’T EXIST)
What does it mean when Comedy Central becomes the voice of reason in all things medical?
Only that when you get to the Emerald City and pull back the curtain and discover the Wizard of Oz is really the Wizard of Biz and incapable of solving all of [...]
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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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