Everyone Responses To Food Differently

Israeli scientists discovered that people’s bodies respond differently when they eat the same foods. The scientists think it may be due to variations in our microbiome, which is the bacteria that live in our gut. The researchers believe this may lead to a personalized diet that could aid in weight loss. From my standpoint, it may also lead to an understanding of personalized optimal nutrition for each of us individually.

(Reported Time, December 2015-January 2016) 

Choosing Your Words

 Is there a difference between using the words “I can’t” and “I don’t? It turns out that there is according to a study published in the Journal of Consumer Research. The researchers found that when people used the words, for example, that “I don’t drink soda” they were less likely to drink soda verses when they said “I can’t drink soda”. The researchers believe that saying “I don’t” is psychologically empowering as the phrase implies that the decision is yours to make and you made it while “I can’t” implies that someone else made the decision for you.

(Reported Prevention.com, January 2016)

 Choosing Your Thoughts Can Affect Your Surgery Results
 
Your attitude can affect the outcome of your medical procedure. If you have a bad attitude, the procedure may not go as smoothly. A report in Time was about a study published in 2015 that looked at 230 people who underwent procedures in which a catheter was inserted into a blood vessel. Before the procedure, people filled out a questionnaire that asked them to rate various adjectives describing how they felt emotionally, The researchers found that people with more negative feelings had a greater incidence of adverse events from the procedure, like slow heart rate or abnormal blood pressure verse those who had more positive feelings. So…going in for a medical procedure, think happy thoughts!

(Time, December 28, 2015-January 4, 2016)

 
  The Dark Side Of Immunotherapy For Stopping Cancer

You may have been reading reports on the amazing impact of immunotherapy to stop many types of cancers. It revs up your immune system to attack the cancer cells and it’s being viewed as a major breakthrough in treating cancer. It turns out that there’s a hidden problem with this therapy. Besides attacking and killing the cancer cells, immunotherapy can also damage and destroy healthy tissues and organs. Patients have developed other diseases and even died from the treatment. As an example, an immunotherapy drug for advanced melanoma caused severe side effects in 20 to 30% of the patients

Some of the 242 different side effects reported included effects on the skin, gastrointestinal system, liver, endocrine and renal systems, diabetes mellitus and pancreatitis which are totally unrelated to the cancer. You can also have sensational results with complete remission of the cancer followed by a number of the patients having a relapse just a couple of months later.

The main problem with our quickly moving into immunotherapy is that very few studies are being done that focuses on the toxic side effects patients are experiencing from using these drugs. Plus you couple this with the FDA’s Breakthrough Therapy program that allows drugs to be approved before toxicity is even determined and you’re looking for trouble down the road for a number of patients. So…be wary when your doc says he wants to put you on immunotherapy drugs, you may be getting more than you bargained for.

(Reported Mercola.com, December 20, 2016)

Older Hospitalized Patients Need To Exercise

A research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine reported on the importance of older hospitalized patients needing to exercise. The researchers looked at the level of functional and mobility decline in 177 hospital patients based on the number of walking steps they took each day. For patients who walked fewer than 900 steps per day, they had a decline of 55% in their functional and mobility abilities while patients who walked more than 900 steps per day, had a decline of only 18%. So…for an older patient in the hospital, my advice is simple - get out of bed and start walking!

(Reported Hellawella.com, December 14, 2016)

The Lighting In Hospital Rooms May Make It Harder To Heal

A study in the Journal of Advanced Nursing looked at the impact of lighting in hospital rooms and  they found that poor lighting actually worsened patients’ sleep, mood and pain levels. To measure lighting, researchers use the concept of lux. In this case they found that the amount of light a hospital patient is exposed to is around 105 lux, which is a very low level of light. As a comparison an office would provide around 500 lux and being outdoors on a sunny day would provide 100,000 lux. As you can tell 105 is a very low number.

These lux numbers are important because your body requires a minimum of 1,500 lux for 15 minutes a day just to maintain a normal sleep-wake cycle and 4,000 lux per day for healthful sleep. The low lux in the patient’s room resulted in a reduction of sleep time to just four hours of sleep a night. Patients with these low light levels also reported having more depressed moods and fatigue, which is the opposite of what you want them to experience During the healing process.

Besides being exposed to sunlight every day another option for the patient is for the lighting to be full-spectrum, which means the lighting is simulating the wave length of sunlight at noon in Florida on a sunny day. This full spectrum light goes to your brain’s hypothalamus where it affects your entire body since the hypothalamus is responsible for controlling body temperature, hunger and thirst, water balance and blood pressure. It also controls the pituitary gland, which is the master gland of the body.

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Thanks,

Jerry