SUBJ: Roc’s new website has a search opportunity

SUBtitle: 63% in US have chronic health conditions

Welcome to the many new subscribers. Do pass the world to spread the word on simple steps to maintain your health. See the crisis told below coming from the major loss of health care professionals.

SHORT NOTES: Lots of work upgrading my website, here is the link to the search command; The supplement Nicotinamide riboside could actually increase the risk of serious disease; Small extracellular vesicles from young adipose-derived stem cells prevent age conditions in mice; The recruitment demand for physicians is skyrocketing; timing of our meals affects hunger and weight gain; consumers mostly like virtual primary care; stress can cause a condition that causes your hair to shed about 3 times faster than normal; 63% of Americans are living with or managing chronic health conditions with nearly 2/3 indicating that the believe primary care could help them with their care needs; Reader question: Ayurvedic Moonseed has been invoked as the cause of liver injury; things that change your brain-PTSD can shrink your hippocampus, Depression causes about 30% more brain inflammation, Meditation and exercise grow your brain for thinking and memory; herbal supplements have risks such as blood thinning, liver damage, and blood pressure change;  Moonseed has been invoked as the cause of liver injury; how to fall back asleep

LONG NOTES:

Lots of work upgrading my website. If you go to the home page, there is a search box where you can do key word searches of years of these nutrition notes to find key results about any topic, like sleep or thiamine. Here’s items you may have seen previously:

 notes on cholesterol and statins

testing children with ADHD, ASD

gout

ayurvedic medicines

 

Nicotinamide riboside could actually increase the risk of serious disease, such as development of breast cancer and brain metastasis.

 

“Small extracellular vesicles from young adipose-derived
stem cells prevent frailty, improve health span, and decrease epigenetic
age in old mice
“.

KF newsltr – The Immediate Looming Crisis – The recruitment demand for physicians is skyrocketing.  The reasons among the health care systems with 300 to 1000 providers included:

(Physician Assistants (PAs) and Nurse Practitioners (NPs) are APPs.)

Leaving for a similar position: MDs, 74.6% APPs, 91.7%

Retirement: MDs, 67.3% APPs, 12.5%

Geography: MDs, 50.9% APPs, 43.8%

Burnout: MDs, 34.6% APPs, 33.3%

Compensation: MDs, 30.9% APPs, 68.8%

There’s a new report by a group of investigators that the timing of our meals affects hunger as well as appetite-regulating hormones, thereby causing weight gain. However, the study only included 16 obese individuals who maintained a strict schedule of a meal in the early morning and late in the evening – once a week in the lab with the remainder of their meals held to the same schedule at home.

A new poll/survey by Elevance Health (formerly known as Anthem, Inc.) on the attitude of consumers toward virtual primary care points in the direction of “very positive” on the convenience and accessibility side of the equation

WebMD: Does Stress Make You Go Gray? Not directly. But it can cause a condition that causes your hair to shed about 3 times faster than normal. 63% of Americans are living with or managing chronic health conditions with nearly 2/3 indicating that the believe primary care could help them with their care needs.

73% of the respondents indicated that virtual primary care was appealing primarily due to convenience (35%), accessibility (31%), and overall ease of use (30%).

31% of those who have not used telehealth services indicated that they prefer in-person visits and 21% were not sure if their health care policies covered telehealth services.

Of those individuals who have used telehealth services, 94% indicated they were satisfied with their virtual care experience and 79% indicated that virtual care “has allowed them to take charge of their health.”

Reader question: Are there any good info sources re ayurvedic remedies? Per online rec I've been taking moonseed and noticed fewer gout symptoms. Other claims, anti diabetic,etc) are harder to confirm. Thanks. What Roc found: Moonseed - Heart-leaved Moonseed- Innocuous or Baneful (2022) The recent APASL consensus guidelines have mentioned various ayurvedic herbs causing DILI.7In the study by Nagral et al1. Giloy (Tinospora cordifolia) also known as heart leaved moonseed in English language is a common ingredient used in many herbal preparations, has been invoked as the cause of liver injury.

WebMD-change your brain-PTSD causes your amygdala -- the part of the brain that controls emotions -- to be overactive. And it lowers activity in your prefrontal cortex, a decision-making area. It can also shrink your hippocampus, Depression doesn’t affect just your mood. The disorder can change your brain. Experts say it lessens activity in some brain areas, including your prefrontal lobes, which are involved with things like reasoning, personality, and judgment. One study found that people who were depressed for more than a decade had about 30% more brain inflammation. This may lead to brain cell loss, which would make memory problems and dementia more likely, stroke,  drinking too much can damage your brain, schizophrenics lose gray and white matter, Alzheimers,  chronic migraines, Brain Aneurysm, concussion, MS causes lesions,  there’s less gray and white matter in people with ADHD, meditating for 2 months increased gray matter in parts of the brain that control emotions and learning. Meditation also strengthens the connection between brain cells. It may also ease inflammation in the brain and protect against Alzheimer’s disease, exercise may grow the areas of your brain that control thinking and memory.

WebMD- herbal supplements have risks such as blood thinning, liver damage, and blood pressure change-St Johns Wort, Kava, gingko, Arnica, ginger, goldenseal, aloe, ephedra, ginseng, black cohosh, garlic, licorice root, stinging nettle, feverfew.

Reader question: Are there any good info sources re ayurvedic remedies? Per online rec I’ve been taking moonseed and noticed fewer gout symptoms. Other claims, anti diabetic,etc) are harder to confirm. Thanks. What Roc found: Moonseed – Heart-leaved Moonseed– Innocuous or Baneful (2022) The recent APASL consensus guidelines have mentioned various ayurvedic herbs causing DILI.7In the study by Nagral et al1. Giloy (Tinospora cordifolia) also known as heart leaved moonseed in English language is a common ingredient used in many herbal preparations, has been invoked as the cause of liver injury.

WebMD-to fall back asleep,don’t check the time, avoid screen time, after 20 min, go to another room and read until you are tired again, If you do something productive and get something out of it, you reward your brain for waking up when it shouldn’t, count backwards from 100, Start at your feet and flex all the muscles in your toes for 5 seconds, then relax. Take a slow, deep breath, Cool temperatures help your body sleep between 60 and 67 degrees, meditate, stick to a schedule for bedtime, finally, talk to your doctor.