Published June 11, 2009

Antibiotic resistant infections are incurable, right? Wrong!

There’s a new type of infection lurking that modern medicine says is incurable. You may have heard of it as an antibiotics resistant infection. Doctors call them multidrug resistant infections. However, that is more likely the cause of the problem than a real name. These bugs are the result of the overuse of antibiotics. The more often you expose a given germ to antibiotics, the more likely it is that the germ will become resistant to those antibiotics.

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Published June 10, 2009

Are you taking the wrong type of CoQ10?

Coenzyme Q10 is one fantastic nutrient. Your body typically makes plenty of it in your liver. But when your body doesn’t make enough, it is hard to replace. That’s because CoQ10 isn’t absorbed very well. Fortunately, there’s one type of CoQ10 that’s easily absorbed. And it can work wonders on your heart.

Researchers recently gave a group of rabbits one of three infusions: CoQ10 laden liposomes, empty liposomes, or saline. Then they closed off a coronary artery for 30 minutes (occlusion). And then the researchers opened the artery to blood flow (reperfusion). The risk area to their main left ventricle was 20% of its mass. It’s well known and accepted that when a blood vessel occludes, its reopening can lead to yet more injury called “reperfusion injury.”

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Published June 5, 2009

Lower your cholesterol with a daily glass of juice
(but not fruit juice)

How would you like to drink a glass of juice every morning and watch your cholesterol numbers drop like a rock? Well, you can do just that, but it won’t happen with regular fruit juice.

A new study found that drinking kale juice may be cholesterol’s bane.

The researchers gave 32 men 150 mL of kale juice daily for 12 weeks. At the end of the study, the juice increased their hard-to-raise HDL cholesterol by 27%. The HDL:LDL ratio improved by 52%. And it decreased their LDL by 10%. The atherogenic index, a measure of vascular risk, dropped by 24%.

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