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Nevada City Chiropractors May Relieve Migraines
Nevada City Chiropractors May Relieve Migraines When a severe migraine headache takes hold, it’s almost as if the rest of the world ceases to exist. The intensity of the pain makes many people lie in a darkened room and do little else. Working or looking after children is out of the question. It’s not even…
Chips are…duh…bad for you…
Chips are…duh…bad for you…Nevada City Researchers recently found some suckers to eat potato chips. They fed 160 grams of chips to 14 healthy volunteers for 4 weeks. At the end of 4 weeks every marker of inflammation was significantly increased. These included oxidized LDL cholesterol (remember from my Cholesterol Article that the oxidized LDL is…
Paleolithic Man (and Woman) Ate Grain
Nevada City Paleolithic Man (and Woman) Ate Grain Italian researchers found evidence that mankind 32,000 years ago was using mortar and pestle to grind oats. Other grindstones from the era have been found leading researchers to believe that the activity was widespread. Here’s a link to the article published in Archaeology. Current fad-diet concepts of…
Paleolithic Man (and Woman) Ate Grain
Paleolithic Man (and Woman) Ate Grain Nevada City Italian researchers found evidence that mankind 32,000 years ago was using mortar and pestle to grind oats. Other grindstones from the era have been found leading researchers to believe that the activity was widespread. Here’s a link to the article published in Archaeology. Current fad-diet concepts of…
Antidepressants and Autistic Spectrum Disorders
Antidepressants and Autistic Spectrum Disorders Nevada City A new study just out in the Journal of the American Medical Association demonstrated the following, mothers-to-be taking SSRI antidepressants (Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, etc) during the second and/or third trimester of pregnancy increased the risk of their child having an autism spectrum related disorder (ASD) by 217%. Mothers…
Zinc For Childhood Epilepsy
Zinc For Childhood Epilepsy Nevada City A new study published in Functional Neurology found significant improvements in childhood epilepsy with zinc supplementation. Children between ages 3-12 were either given 1mg/kg/day of zinc or a placebo for 6 months. At 6 months researchers found that 31% of the children treated with zinc had significant reductions in…