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Featured articleRare disease - CADASILCADASIL (Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Sub-cortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy) is an inherited disease of the blood vessels that occurs when the thickening of blood vessel walls blocks the flow of blood to the brain. The disease primarily affects the small blood vessels in the white matter of the brain. CADASIL is caused by a variant (mutation) in the NOTCH3 gene.
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Got the other COVID-19?(Weight gain of 19 lbs?)
During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many people are gaining weight due to stress, overeating, lack of exercise etc. Unfortunately, obesity is one of the major risk factors for not only getting COVID-19, but also at risk of getting a more complications, and even death from COVID.
Ketogenic diet
ketogenic diet is a high-fat adequate-protein low-carbohydrate diet. Learn more...
Gray's anatomy
The term human anatomy comprises a consideration of the various structures which make up the human organism. In a restricted sense it deals merely with the parts which form the fully developed individual and which can be rendered evident to the naked eye by various methods of dissection. Regarded from such a standpoint it may be studied by two methods: (1) the various structures may be separately considered—systematic anatomy or (2) the organs and tissues may be studied in relation to one another—topographical or regional anatomyLearn More on Gray's anatomy
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Let Food Thy Medicine, and Medicine Be Thy Food! - Hippocrates!
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Viral infections are on the rise globally as has been seen with the COVID-19 pandemic. Could there be a link with the changes in our gut microbiome, lack of probiotics and increase in the incidence of viral infections? According to the above article, the answer is yes. Free full text articles
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food - Hippocrates
Up to 90% info wrong
- Did you know that up to 90% of the traditional nutritional advice was proven wrong in a research study?
- In another large British study of studies that reviewed 72 academic studies involving more than 600,000 participants, they found that saturated fat consumption was not associated with coronary disease risk.
Study:Dietary cholesterol may not raise cardiovascular risk
Although you have long heard that dietary cholesterol is generally not good for the cardiovascular health, you might be surprised to know that high quality, well conducted research studies have shown no relationship between dietary cholesterol and cardiovascular disease. Learn more on the high-quality research published on circulation, that found no link between dietary cholesterol and heart disease. The opposite of what this study showed was long presumed to be true and was the basis of the erroneous diet heart hypothesis which in turn formed the basis for the many failed dietary recommendations such as the food pyramid.
Blood cholesterol and dietary cholesterol are not the same
The secret of understanding this seemingly contradictory finding, that blood cholesterol increases the heard disease risk but not the dietary cholesterol, is the fact that most of blood cholesterol, is manufactured in our own liver from glucose via Citric acid cycle or Krebs cycle. The stimulus for this liver pathway is the blood sugar control hormone, insulin, which increased dramatically in the last 50 years due to the low fat but high starch diet that was promoted as healthy (called insulin resistance).
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