dr. jack kruse on using light to control one’s weight and health

Light is Critical to Your Health

“The fabrication of energy and free radicals sets the internal clocks that command our everyday rhythms-waking, eating, sleeping. Mitochondria run the show.” From the January 2019 issue of Advances in Anatomy, Embryology, and Cell Biology (Mitochondria Inspire a Lifestyle) “Maple syrup comes from a tree that makes it from CO2, water, and sunlight using photosynthesis. […]

how to prevent or reverse muscle aging

MUSCLE AGINGWHAT IS IT AND WHAT KINDS OF STRATEGIES CAN BE USED TO REVERSE IT?   Although my kids think I’ve already hit geezerhood, as I get older, I become increasingly interested in what I can do to slow down — or even reverse — the aging process.  And it’s not like I haven’t dealt […]

red light or blue light: it makes a difference to your health

RED LIGHT / BLUE LIGHTTHE FREQUENCY OF LIGHT YOU ARE EXPOSING YOURSELF TO CAN BE A DEAL-BREAKER FOR THOSE STRUGGLING WITH CHRONIC PAIN OR CHRONIC DISEASE   Three short weeks ago a group of 10 researchers from the Institute of Vision at Paris’s Sorbonne University published a study in Free Radical Biology & Medicine titled […]

diet soda, microbiome, and the relationship between infections and mental disorders / brain disease and allergies

FOLLOW THE BOUNCING BALLDIET SODA DESTROYS MICROBIOME, WHICH CAN LEADTO INFECTIONS, ALLERGIES, AND BRAIN DISORDERS “Can infections in childhood trigger the development of neuropsychiatric disease? A study by Köhler-Forsberg et al in this issue of JAMA Psychiatry provides strong epidemiologic evidence that severe infections, as well as exposure to antiinfective agents, place children and teenagers […]

the health benefits of alcohol

“There is strong support here for the guideline published by the Chief Medical Officer of the UK who found that there is ‘no safe level of alcohol consumption’.  The conclusions of the study are clear and unambiguous: alcohol is a colossal global health issue and small reductions in health-related harms at low levels of alcohol […]

chronic pain and fascial adhesions in an airborne solder: solved!

When Paden came to see me last week for his second visit (his first was sometime in September of last year), he refreshed my memory of why he had come to see me and what he had been going through as far as CHRONIC PAIN and dysfunction prior to that visit.  Simply stated, he was […]

why you should care about the definition of “wellness care”

well

WHAT IS WELLNESS CARE? IT JUST DEPENDS WHO YOU ASK “Today, approximately 177,000 Americans will visit a doctor, even though they have absolutely no symptoms.  The annual health exam is a venerable tradition, stretching back to the late 19th century—those heady days of medicine when doctors overestimated their own ability to cure disease, and badly […]

there’s something fishy about last week’s much-discussed fish oil study

fish oil

IS SUPPLEMENTING WITH FISH OIL A WASTE FOR PEOPLE WITH TYPE II DIABETES? Increased intake of Omega−3 fatty acids has been associated with a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease in observational studies, but this finding has not been confirmed in randomized trials. It remains unclear whether omega-3 fatty acid supplementation has cardiovascular benefit in patients […]

another cool study on fecal microbiota transplants (fmt); this one about aging

fecal microbiota transplants

AGING, INFLAMMATION, THE MICROBIOME, AND FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTS Earlier this month, a dozen researchers from several universities in the Netherlands published a study in Frontiers in Immunology titled Aged Gut Microbiota Contributes to Systemical Inflammaging After Transfer to Germ-Free Mice.  What’s especially interesting is that it deals with a subject I touched on in YESTERDAY’S […]

the importance of sunshine beyond vitamin d

vitamin d

VITAMIN D IS NOT THE ONLY REASON YOU NEED TO SPEND TIME IN THE SUN “No life can exist on the Earth without the Sun.  Everything on the Earth, from favorable temperature conditions to creation of bioorganic mass and free oxygen in the atmosphere is created only due to the rays of the Sun. In  […]

the adverse health outcomes associated with nano-plastics

nanoplastics

NANO-PLASTICS: THE NEW FRONTIER IN MAMMALIAN TOXICITY AND ADVERSE HEALTH OUTCOMES Which individuals and populations are exposed to high levels of microplastics? How is the exposure happening? How can we measure or estimate exposure? What aspect of the plastic is most relevant – is it size, shape or chemical makeup of these plastics? Or is […]

obesity and the flu

obesity and flu shots

OBESITY AND THE FLU: IS THERE A CONNECTION? “The global prevalence of obesity has increased dramatically over the last few decades. In 2014, the prevalence of adult obesity in the United States was 35.5%…  In every region, adult obesity is increasing, and the pace of increase is accelerating.”CHERRY PICKED from the study being discussed today […]

vaccine damage denial: a case history

vaccine damage

MUZZLED! HOW VACCINE DAMAGE DENIERS TIP THE SCALES IN BIG PHARMA’S FAVOR “Atopic dermatitis was significantly associated with 11 of 22 examined autoimmune diseases and with having multiple autoimmune diseases… according to study results published in Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.  The autoimmune diseases that were significantly associated with atopic dermatitis included: alopecia […]

sugar & cancer: i told you so

MORE ON THE SUGAR-FEEDS-CANCER CONNECTION A year ago next month, Dr. LC Cantley, whose CV reads like a veritable Who’s Who in the field of cellular biology and cancer research, was part of a team that published a study in Cell (The PI3K Pathway in Human Disease) in which he said of the PI3K enzyme […]

gerd and your baby

gerd

WHAT ABOUT YOUR BABY’S REFLUX (GERD) PROBLEM? Although PROTON PUMP INHIBITORS (PPI’s, otherwise known as stomach acid blockers) are one of the more commonly-prescribed class of drugs in a nation that consumes mass quantities of drugs in the first place (HERE), they’ve been in the news (as well as numerous attorney ads) for the past […]