Disease

Join our directors of bio-sciences and medicine Cameron English and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein as they break down these stories on episode 21 of the Science Dispatch podcast.

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice - in practice, there is." - Yogi Berra  

The study asks whether simple dietary intervention, the daily use of cocoa or Centrum Silver, will slow the downward spiral of dementia. Why those two? Cocoa has a very high percentage of flavonoids which increase cerebral blood flow.

The dataset comes from the states with MAID laws on the books – 5329 individuals over 23 years, with another 8451 receiving “prescriptions.”

Increasing concerns about long-haul COVID (LHC) have appeared in the popular press but less frequently in the medical literature. The PubMed database lists 32,922 review papers on COVID-19 but only 196 on LHC.

First, a very few words about ALS, Lou Gehrig’s Disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is diagnosed by a cluster of symptoms related to its effect on motor nerves. There is no lab test or imaging study that makes the diagnosis.

The era of cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins began in 1987 when lovastatin (Mevacor) was approved. Although widely used, these drugs are not without some controversy.

“Rise in heart disease may be explained by extreme weather conditions,” ABC News reported last week.

“Governors were responsible for establishing interventions appropriate for their states and the timing of implementation.”[2]