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Childhood stress causes muscle dysfunction in adulthood by damaging oxidative metabolism
Yet another study demonstrating that many mysterious, and sometimes severe/fatal (e.g. ALS) muscle-related conditions may be not…
SSRI drugs, serotonin (5-HT) can cause chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)
Mainstream medicine does not officially recognize the condition commonly known as CFS. Depending on which doctor one…
Stress/cortisol/aldosterone cause kidney disease; pregnenolone/progesterone treat it
The condition known as chronic kidney disease (CKD) is one of the most common long-term co-morbidity of…
Intermittent fasting has no benefits, ups risk of dying from heart disease
The bad news for the intermittent fasting crowd (and by extension, for the low-carb crowd as well)…
Estrogen and cortisol inhibit mitochondrial oxidation, vitamin E reverses the inhibition
More specifically, those steroids inhibit NADH (also known as DPNH) oxidation in the mitochondria, which shifts the…
PUFA intake during pregnancy is neuro-, cardio, and hepato-toxic to offspring
So much for the recommendation to increase PUFA intake during pregnancy, which is a mantra virtually all…
The pro-metabolic drug DNP, banned by FDA, may treat most diseases
The duplicity of public health agencies (and mainstream media) knows no bounds. The chemical 2,4-dinitrophenol (DNP) is…
An estrogen metabolite may drive pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)
Just a few minutes ago I did a post on the causative role of estrogen and its…
Estrogen is a cause of both rheumatoid (RA) and osteo arthritis (OA)
Once again, estrogen rears its ugly head. The evidence on a link between estrogen and RA, as…
Niacinamide as effective as minoxidil at treating “androgenic” hair loss
The actual molecule used was nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN). However, not only is NMN very expensive, but the…