Pine Cone Extract – An Option For Allergies
According to Dr. Julian Whitaker, pine cone extract has been used for 30 years in Japan to stop allergic responses and significantly reduce symptoms for allergy sufferers.

It reduces by 50% the level of a body chemical called IgE that triggers all the suffering you experience.  To learn more you can go here:  PineCone and watch a video.

To Scan Or Not To Scan – Your Body That Is!
Medical scanning using MRI, CT and PET imaging machines has grown into a $100 billion dollar a year business with 95 million scans done each year. Still, some big questions remain: Are they helpful and are they safe?
 

The answer revealed by recent research studies is that 20% to 50% of the procedures reviewed should never have been done because their results did not help diagnose ailments or treat patients.

Part of the problem is that older machines may create bad scans, which may lead to false or poor diagnostic data. According to Dr. Gary Glazer, the chairman of radiology at Stanford University, a scan done on a 10-year-old machine versus a new one will have significant differences in the quality of the image. Even a scan done on the latest equipment may not have been done correctly or correctly read by a qualified doctor.

In addition, the field is mostly unregulated. While imaging centers can choose to become accredited by the American College of Radiology, not many do. This will change in 2012 when a Medicare law goes into effect requiring accreditation.
 

Another concern is that a growing number of doctors are referring patients to imaging centers owned by the doctors themselves. Studies have found up to 3.2 times as many scans are ordered by those docs. So, is a scan being requested by the doc because it’s necessary or because it’s profitable?

The final issue is the amount of radiation that you are exposed to when a scan is done. A study of hospital patients showed that they had been exposed to 45 millisieverts (mSv) of radiation. Since the typical X-ray delivers .02 mSv, 12% of patients had been exposed to more that twice that amount.

With all these concerns, you need to ask your doc some questions before you agree to have a scan done, including how old the machine is and the qualifications of the scanner and the interpreter.

(Reported The Virginian Pilot, May 17, 2009, Article by Gina Kolata, New York Times News Service

Folic Acid Reduces Risk Of Premature Births
There’s now an easy way to reduce the risk of premature births. Taking folic acid supplements for a year before conception has been shown to reduce the risk of premature births by 50% to 70%.

Researchers reported their nearly 35,000 women cohort study’s findings in the journal PLoS Medicine. Since premature births account for 12% of all deliveries in the US and are associated with vision impairment, mental retardation, and cerebral palsy in children, as well as diabetes and cardiovascular disease in adults, anything that can be done to reduce these numbers is a great service to parents and their children, as well as society in general.

The key to the success of this approach is for the prospective mother to begin taking folic acid supplements a year before conception.

Epsom Salts Can Also Lower Brain Risk To Preemies
Besides folic acid, researchers have found a use for Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) to lessen the likelihood for Cerebral Palsy to develop in premature infants.

A study of 2,241 pregnant women found that if the mother took Epsom salts just hours before the birth of a premature child, the likelihood of the infant developing cerebral palsy dropped by almost 50%.

We Are All Connected In Ways You Won’t Think Possible
Researchers at Harvard University and the University of California at San Diego found that if a person in one part of a social network quit smoking, other people in that social network would also quit smoking.

The percentage within a social network who also quit was 20%, and the figure held even if the two people did know each other at all. So…if you’re having difficulty quitting smoking, ask someone in your social network to start the quitting ball rolling.

Discovering Why Exercise Helps Prevent Memory Loss
A study reported last year at the American Radiological Society’s annual meeting may explain why exercise helps prevent cognitive decline and maintains a person’s brain as they age. It seems that people who do regular long-term exercise have substantially more small blood vessels in their brains and more blood flow than people who exercised very little. The exercisers performed at least three hours of aerobic exercise a week over the previous 10 years.

The exercisers had 43% more blood vessels in the .4 to .6 millimeter size than the other group. Since there are also thousands of blood vessels that are smaller than .4 millimeters, it’s likely that the effect of exercising is even greater. So…it’s never too late to get those sneakers out of the closet and start exercising, today.

(Reported by John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in The Virginian Pilot, Dec 12, 2008)

A Computer Game That Reduces Trauma
Who would have thought that playing a computer game shortly after a traumatic event could short-circuit traumatic memories and flashbacks?

Well, that’s what researchers at Oxford University discovered. By playing the computer game Tetris, they were able to interfere with the brain’s ability to form what they called visuo-spatial memories of the trauma. I assume they will be experimenting with using the game to stop post-traumatic stress disorder.

Combat stress: to heal psychological trauma, troops relive war in Computer Virtual Reality.(Modeling and Simulation)  (Virtual Iraq)     (Cover story): An article from: National Defense

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