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Heart Disease, Stroke, Cancer, and Diabetes…Due to Poor Mouth Care?

Have you ever had your doctor examine your teeth and gums? I haven’t. Our mouths are the gateway to our bodies and studies show a link between periodontal disease and diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and cancer. I’m guessing they aren’t examining them because they expect our dentists to do that. Do you realize how many people only go to their doctor when they’re ill and even less to their dentist?

Some of our lifestyle choices begin catching up with us in our 50’s and this generally causes a rude awakening. Such practices as fast food diets, being couch potatoes, and continued partying through the years are reflected in our lab results when we get our physical exams. [Read more…] about Heart Disease, Stroke, Cancer, and Diabetes…Due to Poor Mouth Care?

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D: The Wonder Vitamin?

What’s all this fuss about Vitamin D these days? Dr. Oz, Dr. Andrew Weil and many physicians are recommending it. Is it truly the new miracle vitamin? If so what diseases is it supposed to be preventing?

Dr. Michael F. Holick, a Vitamin D expert at the Boston University School of Medicine, has been quoted as saying that Vitamin D is the most common nutritional deficiency and probably the most common medical problem in the world. [Read more…] about D: The Wonder Vitamin?

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Stress and Alzheimer’s Disease

Cases of Alzheimer patients are starting to show up in the U.S. with people in their forties and fifties! How can that be? Isn’t that for people in their 70’s or older? Recent studies done by Dr. Nima Kivipelto and his colleagues from the University of Kuopio in Finland suggest that the long-term effects of stress may be the biggest cause of Alzheimer’s. It is believed that the stress hormone, cortisol, kills off brain cells when it enters the brain. Kivipelto’s research found that patients with both high blood pressure and high cortisol levels were more than three times as likely to develop Alzheimer’s as patients without these symptoms. If you have either high cortisol levels or high blood pressure, your risk is twice as high. Researchers at the University of California- Irvine say that stress hormones can rapidly accelerate the formation of the brain lesions that cause Alzheimer’s. [Read more…] about Stress and Alzheimer’s Disease