Stay Strong Immune Boosting Seminar

“Stay Strong” Immune Boosting Seminar

with Ricardo Boye N.D.

November 10,2011 5:30 pm -7:00 pm

YOU are YOUR first line of defense in fighting the cold and flu. This seminar is designed to give you the tools, through tips and strategies, to naturally boost the immune system and conquer the 2011-2012 cold
and flu season. We will unveil our new Immune-Boosting packages and treatments at this event and give the attendees the first opportunity to book these customized Immune-Boosting specials!!

Topics to be discussed:

• Most Important nutrient to keep you healthy.
• Exercise, nutrition, sleep and their roles in
  boosting the immune system
• Special attention for kids – ear aches, fevers,
  and the ugly cough.  Are you prepared for
  the season’s challenges?

And many more interesting
topics!!!!!

Reserve your spot today as space is limited!!!!!!

Where: The Spa on Green Street

When: November 10, 2011

Time:  5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

Cost: $10.00 to reserve your spot, which will then be applied as a Spa
credit for use on the day of event.

Embracing Health Radio #65 – Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder

Howdy Folks! Long time no see, I know……been keeping busy here at SGS with alot of good work done in TX helping my patients out over there, as well as moving things along here at the Spa. I’m excited to be taking more of an active role in the management over here, and plan to do a series of trainings with both the front desk and the staff, and we expect to see alot of good things come from it, namely helping more and more people become healthier! That’s what it’s all about, what we’re all about, and it is our commitment to you to provide excellence in healthcare, wellness and customer service. It all works together to create the best ‘guest experience’ here at our facility, and we’ve got many great specials coming up that you won’t want to miss out on.
For now, I’d like to post my recent radio show link. This past Friday I introduced a very delicate topic for the first time – Autism Spectrum Disorder – and I’ve hesitated to speak about this for some time due to various reasons in the industry. It is a hotly debated topic with plenty of opinions that seem to contradict each other at times. Though I’ve worked with these cases many times over the years, there seems to finally be a relaxing in the tensions here between the different opinionated camps, where some say it’s all genetic and others say it is all about the environment, toxicity and even vaccinations. I personally believe we have to take all the data into account and form reasonable hypotheses which then have to be tested rigorously to arrive at greater conclusions. Now, some new recent research is strongly pointing to the environmental links here, and it appears more research – good research – will come out of it. Find out more by listening in!
Next, I speak about a very interesting topic that caught my attention — the topic of hygiene and sanitation in our modern society, where some scientists think we have taken this too far. I did not finish my thoughts on this area, so I will be talking more about it on tomorrow’s show, so tune in for that. In any case, here’s the link and I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for tuning in and supporting our efforts to improve the quality of healthcare in our country. We all deserve it, we all need it. See you later!

Click here => Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder: Is Environment a Greater Risk Than Genetics in Autism?; The Hygiene Hypothesis and the Good Germ/Bad Germ Theory: Scientists Discover That Antimicrobial Wipes and Soaps May Be Making You (and Society) Sick

Embracing Health Radio #64 – How Food Companies Trick You – Part II; Chemicals in our Food – the New Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen; Sunshine – Healthy or Harmful?

Hi there folks — listen to part II of ‘How Food Companies Trick You into Thinking their Junk Food is Healthy’.  You don’t want to miss these highly deceiving tactics employed by the big food giants to falsely market their products as healthy when in reality they are far from it.  This is actually from a post written by Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, MD who is a ‘nutritional watchdog’ of sorts because of his advocacy efforts for improved public policies regarding nutrition and obesity.  He is the founder and Medical Director of the Bariatric Medical Institute in Ottawa, dedicated to the (nonsurgical) treatment of overweight and obesity since 2004.  If you missed part I, scroll back a few posts and you will find it there.

Also, I talk about a recent report released by the nonprofit group Environmental Working Group where they discuss the hazards of pesticides in our foods, and their ‘dirty dozen’ list of most heavily sprayed crops as well as the ‘clean fifteen’ list of least sprayed crops.

Furthermore, I discuss the conundrum about sunshine — we are told to stay out of it and we are also told we need it.  What gives? Learn about:

1. Low Vitamin D levels:  a potential contributor to mental disorders in children?
2. FDA unveils new rules for sunscreen claims
3. Noted UK oncologist speaks out about getting more sun and how he recommends sun to prevent skin cancer

This and much much more on this edition of Embracing Health —- enjoy!

(Click here to listen =>)  “How Food Companies Trick You into thinking Junk Food is Healthy part II; Chemicals in our Food: Learn Which Foods Contain the Most Pesticides and Also the Least; All About the Sun – Healthy or Harmful?”

Embracing Health Radio Show #63 – Evaluating the Modern-Day Workplace; Cell Phones and Cancer; Exercise Eases Anxiety Disorders; How Food Companies Trick You Part I

Top of the morning to everyone!  Happy Monday and hope everyone enjoyed the weekend as this was the last weekend before the official start of  summer, and it’s been toasty already here in north Georgia.

A couple of things here for this week’s radio show — I talk about our modern day workplace and how researchers are looking into part of the equation to weight maintenance from the energy expenditure  side of things, also known more commonly as calorie burn.  Most of us think immediately to exercise, but this recent research report looked at forms of activity that have nothing to do with formal exercise.  Not to long ago, we had to move alot more as part of our daily lives — whether we farmed or worked in industrial settings or other forms of manual labor.  Now, most people work at desks like myself, and we have to rethink the modern day workplace to make up for this lack of  activity.   You may not think it adds to much, but  the body to expend many more calories that over months can add up to quite a bit, about 120 to 140 calories per day over weeks and months is alot.  The foods that we eat can then be more used for energy rather than stored.  I present this to simply add to your understanding of the whole issue that presents itself to us today regarding body composition.  It’s important to know the metabolic/hormonal complications as well as the lifestyle/calorie imbalances that have occurred too.

Next, some discussion on resistance training and how it helps generalized anxiety disorders, much more than aerobic exercise.  There’s something about stressing your body appropriately and how that affects your whole outlook and mood.  The take away is to include short bouts of some form of intense exercise into your fitness program.

Then we get into a recent World Health Organization warning about cell phones and their potential risk in cancer.  They have put cell phone radiation in the same category as dry cleaning chemicals and pesticides.  That’s something you need to know and consider for your overall health.

A recent poultry drug was pulled from the market – Roxarsone – because of its arsenic content.  From this point, I talk about chemicals in our food and our environment and give you some perspectives on minimizing risk factors for disease by chemical accumulation.

Finally, part I in a series of “How Food Companies Trick You Into Thinking that Junk Food is Healthy” —– you won’t want to miss this one from the desk of Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, MD – founder and medical director of the Bariatric Health Institute in Ottawa, Canada.

Enjoy, and have a great week!   

(click here =>) In the News: Less Active at Work, Americans Have Packed on More Pounds: What the Modern Day Workplace Should Look Like; Resistance Training Improves Generalized Anxiety Disorder; Cell Phone Radiation May Cause Cancer, Advisory Panel Says; Poultry Drug to Be Pulled From Market Due to Arsenic Concern; How Food Companies Trick You into Thinking Junk Food is Healthy

Embracing Health #60 – New Radio Post Talking About Life Extension, Protein and Alzheimer’s

Here’s a fresh new radio post that just aired today on WBCX, where I talked about a few interesting topics you might be interested.  First, some new technologies being created through stem cell research that can extend lifespan, and especially restore severe damage to organ systems.  Next, I discuss a recent research paper in Nutrition Journal where once again, we see that diets higher in protein, compared to high-fiber higher carbohydrates, are much better to drop body fat and improve blood pressure control.  Then, I talk about the recent guidelines that were released last month that help to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease earlier, as it is becoming a serious threat to our economic health structures.  Tune in and click below to hear the rebroadcast.  Below that, I post the show notes for your reference.  Enjoy!

Ricardo

 Extreme Life Extending Technologies Are Around the Corner: Take a Peek into the Future of Medicine; More Data Supporting a High Protein Diet for Weight Loss Yielding Better Results, Including Better Blood Pressure Control; New Alzheimer’s Guidelines Stressing Early Diagnosis

 

David Kekich of Maximum Life Foundation

Dear Future Centenarian,

Do you remember how much you paid for your first digital watch, pocket calculator or mobile phone? It was probably a whole lot more than you pay for equivalents now, right? In fact, you can barely give away the products you paid so much for then. But you were the first kid on the block to own one, and you paid a premium price.

Extreme life extending technologies won’t be cheap when they are introduced either. And you can bet they’ll be a lot more than you would ever expect to pay for a cell phone. In fact, they most likely may only be affordable to the well off. Sure, prices will drop… and fairly rapidly. But what if you are at the age when you don’t have time to wait?

We will soon be entering the era in which money can buy significant amounts of additional healthy life. So saving for later years has never been more beneficial than it is now, and that benefit will grow rapidly.

We’re on the verge of ordering organs grown to replace those that are failing. Stem cell transplants that heal our age-damaged tissues are right around the corner. BioTime’s subsidiary ReCyte Therapeutics, Inc, will utilize its ReCyte™ technology to reverse the developmental aging of human cells. Then it will be used to generate embryonic vascular and blood progenitors from the ReCyte cell lines for therapeutic use in age-related vascular and blood disorders such as coronary disease and heart failure.

I’m thrilled to see this revolutionary stem cell therapy actually approaching the clinic. BioTime’s CEO, Dr. Michael West, can reset the telomere clock of aging in stem cells created from normal adult cells. And all of this is done without the use of embryos or cloning. ReCyte is forthrightly announcing it will cure conditions caused by normal human aging. This is truly revolutionary.

These new “pluripotent” stem cells, made from your own cells, are identical to embryonic stem cells in that they do not age and can be designed to become any cell type in your body. They can also be multiplied and stored indefinitely. Only when these cells have started down the path to their final cell state does the biological clock begin ticking.

ReCyte has announced it will begin banking individuals’ cells this year in preparation for regulatory approval. When ReCyte has enough of these cardiovascular repair cells (and regulatory approval in some legal jurisdiction), they will be given back to patients via transfusion. There will be no immune reaction, because they are your own cells. We know what they will do because you have lots of these cells already, though they are as old as you are. The new cells though, will be only weeks or months old biologically and will displace the older and less effective endothelial precursor cells.

Once in your body, your new rejuvenated stem cells will produce the various cells needed to replace old and damaged heart and vascular cells. These new cells will be vigorous, fully functioning, and youthful. In time, you will have, essentially, a new heart and vascular system – without surgery. The same technology can and will be used to rejuvenate your immune system.

These cells are inside you now. The actual mechanism of action, the replacement of aged cardiovascular cells with new cells, is taking place in your body even as you read this article. If it didn’t work, you would already be dead. BioTime is exploiting natural biological processes, but they will use rejuvenated versions of your own cells.

Until now, four out of ten of us were destined to die from age-related cardiovascular disease. If you’re one of them, your healthy life span will be extended significantly by endothelial precursor therapy. Initially, BioTime’s therapy will be expensive, but not as expensive as the cost of treating an end-stage heart condition. In time, most of the procedure will be roboticized. Costs will plummet.

Coming later, you’ll see artificial cells and engineered bacteria that scour our bodies for harmful levels of waste products in the elderly. Then, you’ll see artificial immune systems, much superior to what you have now, complete rejuvenation when the SENS program matures, and eventually, full-blown nanomedicine. That will give you tools you need to reverse aging, and to keep you from aging. You’ll be able to get everything from drugs, to bioimplants, to cell repair and enhancements, built atom by atom.

Which brings us back to money. As biotechnology advances, the more important money to pay for it becomes. Being self-sufficient and not depending on a broken healthcare system can save your life.

With each passing year, the amount of additional healthy life you could purchase increases. While that increase is comparatively gentle now, and the amount of extra life modest, both will become much larger in ten or twenty years.

Long Life,
David Kekich

Comparison of high protein and high fiber weight-loss diets in women with risk factors for the metabolic syndrome: a randomized trial

Lisa A Te Morenga, Megan T Levers, Sheila M Williams, Rachel C Brown and Jim Mann

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Nutrition Journal 2011, 10:40 doi:10.1186/1475-2891-10-40

Published: 28 April 2011

Abstract (provisional)

Background

Studies have suggested that moderately high protein diets may be more appropriate than conventional low-fat high carbohydrate diets for individuals at risk of developing the metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. However in most such studies sources of dietary carbohydrate may not have been appropriate and protein intakes may have been excessively high. Thus, in a proof-of-concept study we compared two relatively low-fat weight loss diets – one high in protein and the other high in fiber-rich, minimally processed cereals and legumes – to determine whether a relatively high protein diet has the potential to confer greater benefits.

Methods

Eighty-three overweight or obese women, 18-65 years, were randomized to either a moderately high protein (30% protein, 40% carbohydrate) diet (HP) or to a high fiber, relatively high carbohydrate (50% carbohydrate, >35g total dietary fiber, 20% protein) diet (HFib) for 8 weeks. Energy intakes were reduced by 2000 – 4000 kJ per day in order to achieve weight loss of between 0.5 and 1 kg per week.

Results

Participants on both diets lost weight (HP: -4.5 kg [95% confidence interval (CI):-3.7, -5.4 kg] and HFib: -3.3 kg [95% CI: -4.2, -2.4 kg]), and reduced total body fat (HP: -4.0 kg [5% CI:-4.6, -3.4 kg] and HFib: -2.5 kg [95% CI: -3.5, -1.6 kg]), and waist circumference (HP: -5.4 cm [95% CI: -6.3, -4.5 cm] and HFib: -4.7 cm [95% CI: -5.8, -3.6 cm]), as well as total and LDL cholesterol, triglycerides, fasting plasma glucose and blood pressure. However participants on HP lost more body weight (-1.3 kg [95% CI: -2.5, -0.1 kg; p=0.039]) and total body fat (-1.3 kg [95% CI: -2.4, -0.1; p=0.029]). Diastolic blood pressure decreased more on HP (-3.7 mm Hg [95% CI: -6.2, -1.1; p=0.005]).

Conclusions

A realistic high protein weight-reducing diet was associated with greater fat loss and lower blood pressure when compared with a high carbohydrate, high fiber diet in high risk overweight and obese women.

Larry King Returns to CNN for Alzheimer’s Special

May 2, 2011 — In his first CNN special since stepping down from his nightly talk show, Larry King discusses Alzheimer’s disease. The 1-hour special, called Unthinkable: The Alzheimer’s Epidemic, aired last night. It looked at who gets the disease and why, the race to find effective treatments, and a possible cure.

King hung up his suspenders in December, ending Larry King Live, the program he hosted for 25 years, but he was back again Sunday speaking with neurologists and celebrities affected by Alzheimer’s.

Larry King

King talked to Ronald Petersen, MD, director of the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Dr. Petersen treated President Reagan. “If we don’t do something about Alzheimer’s disease right now, Alzheimer’s disease in and of itself may bankrupt the healthcare system,” he warned.

King also spoke with Jeffrey Cummings, MD, director of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. They discussed how doctors are treating patients and what people can do to diminish their risk.

“It’s a progressive fatal disease,” King said during the special. “The number is expected to hit 16 million by 2050 — that’s an epidemic.”

“It’s an epidemic today,” Harry Johns, president of the Alzheimer’s Association, responded. “5.4 million people have the disease and there are 15 million caregivers. The heartbreak is so real for individuals and families and the cost to the country is expected to be 1.1 trillion by mid-century.”

Johns said the greatest researchers from around the world believe there are remedies for Alzheimer’s disease. “They’ve convinced me it can be done. The real question is when it will be done, not if. But if we don’t make those investments at the federal level in America soon, it will be too late for this boomer generation.”

In Maria Shriver’s first interview since the death of her father, Sargent, from Alzheimer’s, Shriver told King she’s concerned there is no national policy.

“I’m really adamant about finding a cure and getting policies in place to help caretakers. I call it a mind-blowing disease because not only does it blow the mind of the person who gets it, but it blows the mind of everybody who loves that person because it’s forever changing.”

Mind-Blowing

Shriver is the author of the children’s book, What’s Happening to Grandpa. “It’s very challenging to look at your father or your mother and have them not know who you are and have to introduce yourself to them over and over again,” Shriver said during the special. “Even though they look like your parent, they’re not your parent; they become really your child.”

King also spoke with Angie Dickinson whose late sister had Alzheimer’s. “It’s a long good bye, isn’t it?” King said.

“Yes, it is,” Dickinson said. “It was horrible to watch her be afflicted.” Dickinson said she is skeptical there will ever be a cure for Alzheimer’s. “I think they will definitely find something to slow it down,” she noted.

For families in the throes of the disease with someone they love, Dickinson recommended, “Love them and I don’t mean just love them with your soul and your head, but with your arms and your company and your touch and whatever pleasure still might be there for them, and don’t ever let up,” she said.

While promoting the special to HLN’s Dr. Drew Pinsky, King said he asked Dr. Paul Dudley White, the first cardiologist in America, in the first recognized medical specialty, if he were starting again today, what specialty he would choose. Dr. White, who treated President Eisenhower, said he’d choose neurology “because the brain is today what the heart was 50 years ago.”

Dr. Pinsky, also known for his show Celebrity Rehab, said he agrees. “It’s the century of the brain. We just had the decade of the brain and now people are really realizing there’s a lot more.”

The special will re-air Saturday, May 7, at 8 pm ET/PT.

 

 

New Alzheimer’s Guidelines Stress Early Diagnosis

Spinal Fluid, Imaging Tests Still Experimental but May Confirm Early Alzheimer’s

By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News

Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

April 19, 2011 — Alzheimer’s disease should be diagnosed early, before a person develops severe, late-stage dementia, new guidelines suggest.

It’s been 27 years since guidelines for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease were laid out. Since 1984, research has shown Alzheimer’s to be a disease that begins decades before dementia appears.

Now panels from the National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer’s Association have split Alzheimer’s disease into three stages:

• Dementia, including mental impairments not as severe as those previously required for an Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
• Mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s disease. This new category of Alzheimer’s disease includes patients with changes in memory and thinking ability that do not keep them from performing everyday functions, but which strongly suggest that a patient will develop Alzheimer’s dementia.
• Preclinical Alzheimer’s disease. The new guidelines recognize that the Alzheimer’s disease process begins before there are any symptoms. But for now, there aren’t good enough tests to tell whether a person has this stage of Alzheimer’s.

Perhaps the biggest change is the way doctors will diagnose Alzheimer’s dementia, says Gary Kennedy, MD. Kennedy, a geriatric psychiatrist who specializes in treating patients with Alzheimer’s disease at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, was not a member of the guideline-writing committees.

“The real new component here is you need not have memory impairment to have Alzheimer’s dementia. They are ratcheting down the dementia criteria,” Kennedy tells WebMD. “If you’re having trouble making plans, have problems adapting to changes in your environment, or have lapses that impair your social involvement with others, you may have Alzheimer’s disease even if your memory is not so bad.”

Slideshow: When a Loved One Has Alzheimer’s

Diagnosis of Early Alzheimer’s Disease

Also new is that the guidelines assume it is possible to identify people with mild cognitive impairment whose worsening symptoms likely reflect an early stage of Alzheimer’s disease.

The criteria for diagnosing mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s disease are:

• Concern expressed by a patient, family member, friend, or doctor, about a change in mental function: specifically, memory, reasoning/problem solving, language ability, visual/spatial skills, or ability to pay attention.
• Objective evidence, usually test results, showing that a patient has one or more of these changes in mental function.
• The person is still independent and able to carry out everyday functions.
• The person is not demented.

“‘Mild’ here means you are not socially impaired, but it does imply you know there is a problem, and your family and friends notice a problem,” Kennedy says.

The problem, of course, is that many people with mild cognitive impairment deny there is a problem.

“So the criteria need refinement,” Kennedy says. “This is more of a provisional diagnosis. That is why the guidelines put an emphasis on biomarkers — signposts that dementia may be down the road.”

Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease

Biomarkers are tests that detect a disease process. Examples are tests of cholesterol levels to predict heart disease risk or blood sugar tests to predict diabetes.

Biomarkers are being developed for Alzheimer’s disease, but the guidelines stress that they are not yet ready for clinical use except in certain well-defined situations.

There are several Alzheimer’s biomarkers being explored, but two basic types are in the most advanced stages of development:

• Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) test. A protein called beta-amyloid begins to accumulate in the brain even in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. When this happens, beta-amyloid levels drop in the CSF. Tests of CSF, collected by a spinal tap, measure beta-amyloid levels.
• Imaging tests such as PET scans, SPECT perfusion imaging, and even MRI scans can detect beta-amyloid accumulation or markers of brain injury typical of Alzheimer’s disease.

The new guidelines stress that none of these tests have been fully validated and that there are no cutoff levels that clearly distinguish normal people from those who have Alzheimer’s.

Nevertheless, the guidelines suggest that for some patients with mild cognitive impairment suggestive of Alzheimer’s disease, biomarker tests “would affect levels of certainty in the diagnosis.”

Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease

There’s no cure for Alzheimer’s disease, so why the emphasis on early detection? Kennedy says the earlier you detect possible Alzheimer’s, the more you can do about it.

“Ten years ago we said there was no treatment for Alzheimer’s. That isn’t true now,” he says. “We can’t cure it, but just like diabetes, we can delay the illness and disability associated with it. I counsel patients to be aggressive about diet and exercise, to take the medications they need for other conditions, and to stay intellectually engaged.”

The new Alzheimer’s guidelines appear in the April 19 online issue of Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association.