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Grandma was right about prunes
Most of you know that I’m on the radio several times each month, taking calls from listeners with health concerns. I’ve noticed that one of the most frequent worries among female radio listeners seems to be osteoporosis – the loss of bone density often associated with age. Here at Longevity Medical Clinic, the approach we always prefer to beat osteoporosis is to rebuild a patient’s natural bone density by restoring the level of endocrine support typically found in younger women. This is a much different and more far-reaching solution than the one preferred by the pharmaceutical industry, which favors using prescription drugs such as Fosamax.
But here’s some interesting news. A study published a few months ago in the British Journal of Nutrition offers a simple, cheap, and tasty method of helping a woman to protect her bones. Researchers found that consuming
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Can Diabetes truly be cured or is it just "remission"?
When a diabetic no longer needs medication and has normal blood sugars – do we call it remission or do we call it a cure?
Assume for a moment that you're a diabetic. Your fasting blood sugar is 214. Your hemoglobin A1c – the component of hemoglobin to which glucose is bound – is an unhealthy 7.9. You are taking nine pills per day in an effort to control your blood sugar, but it does not seem to be working. This means you are a poorly controlled type 2 diabetic, and your risk of experiencing the deadly effects of unchecked diabetes – heart attacks, strokes, dementia, blindness, kidney failure, loss of sensation in your extremities and amputations – is significantly elevated.
Now, let's consider a different scenario.
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