Published March 17, 2010

How diabetics can avoid vascular disease

If you have weight-related diabetes, you probably know that you have a higher risk for vascular disease. Diabetic adults fall to vascular disease two to four times more often than non-diabetics. So it’s vital you protect your vascular system from damage. Fortunately, a recent study found that a familiar vitamin can protect you and help reduce your risk. What’s more, it can help even if you don’t lose the extra pounds.

In this study, the researchers gave diabetic mice folic acid. They used non-diabetic mice as controls. Then they studied the mice for vascular relaxation.

They found that the aortas in the diabetic mice had significant damage compared to the lean mice. Then they found that folic acid restored normal aorta function.

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Published March 12, 2010

Why E. coli and salmonella hate LDL cholesterol

You’ve probably heard all the information about how bad LDL (low density or “bad” cholesterol) is for you. If you show up at your doctor’s office with an LDL level of 100 or more, he immediately pulls out the statin drug prescription pad. LDL has this image of public enemy #1.

But it’s my belief that God made everything in balance. LDL is there for good reason. And possibly elevated levels are serving a protective role that no one has heretofore considered. In fact, we already know that people with high levels of LDL have better outcomes from severe Gram-negative bacterial infections. Gram-negative organisms produce some real nasty and hard to treat infections. These organisms include salmonella, E. coli, pseudomonas, and others. An animal study suggests how this happens.

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Published March 11, 2010

How to treat kidney, bladder, and urinary tract infections
without antibiotics

If you’ve ever suffered from a urinary tract infection, you know how painful they can be. You also may know how sick they can make you. It’s a miserable infection. Most doctors will immediately give you a hefty dose of antibiotics to fight the infection. But you may have one of the most powerful antibiotics you can use for both viral and bacterial infections in your kitchen right now. And it can work wonders on urinary tract infections.

However, you have to use the right kind. In its bulk form, this herb is not very effective. But the concentrated oil of this herb is something else. And a recent study published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry gives us some insight into why this herb is so effective for urinary tract infections.

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