Dr. Howard Smith Reports

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A deep dive nutritional analysis of a popular plant-based meat substitute compared with real meat shows that 90% of critical metabolite levels differ between these two product categories.  Duke University molecular physiologists report these critical discrepancies following their metabolic profiling of a popular meat substitute and grass-fed ground beef.

Ingredients necessary for a healthy human body found only in real beef include creatine, spermine, anserine, cysteamine, glucosamine square, and an omega-3 fatty acid DHA.  In all, beef contained 22 metabolites missing in plant-based substitutes, and the plant-based product contains 31 metabolites that meat doesn’t contain.

Real meat and meat substitutes are not nutritionally interchangeable.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-93100-3

#beef #plantbasedmeat #nutrition

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/d6FZF7Pm9GI

A deep dive nutritional analysis of a popular plant-based meat substitute compared with real meat shows that 90% of critical metabolite levels differ between these two product categories.  Duke University molecular physiologists report these critical discrepancies following their metabolic profiling of a popular meat substitute and grass-fed ground beef.

Ingredients necessary for a healthy human body found only in real beef include creatine, spermine, anserine, cysteamine, glucosamine square, and an omega-3 fatty acid DHA.  In all, beef contained 22 metabolites missing in plant-based substitutes, and the plant-based product contains 31 metabolites that meat doesn’t contain.

Real meat and meat substitutes are not nutritionally interchangeable.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-93100-3

#beef #plantbasedmeat #nutrition

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What you do during the first 2 minutes after your child gets a shot makes a world of difference in how well they cope.  Pediatricians at Toronto’s York University OUCH Lab report the winning strategy following their analysis of 760 caregiver-child pairs.

Their recommendations?  During the first minute after the jab, just cuddle and hug. Don’t try to verbally calm using words like  “you can do this” or even worse “just suck it up.”  Save your verbal encouragement and distractions for the second minute after the needle.  The worst things you can do at anytime after the vaccination is the criticize your child for a negative reaction or dismiss their pain.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0254635

#parenting #vaccination #support #calming

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/Swo4BElrO3g

What you do during the first 2 minutes after your child gets a shot makes a world of difference in how well they cope.  Pediatricians at Toronto’s York University OUCH Lab report the winning strategy following their analysis of 760 caregiver-child pairs.

Their recommendations?  During the first minute after the jab, just cuddle and hug. Don’t try to verbally calm using words like  “you can do this” or even worse “just suck it up.”  Save your verbal encouragement and distractions for the second minute after the needle.  The worst things you can do at anytime after the vaccination is the criticize your child for a negative reaction or dismiss their pain.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0254635

#parenting #vaccination #support #calming

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Ninety-nine percent of those infected with CoVid last winter still have circulating antiviral antibodies more than 9 months later.  Italian and British researchers tested more than 2500 residents of the Italian town Vo’.

The antibody levels measured months after infection did not depend upon whether an individual was symptomatic or not.   Though the absolute levels of protective antibodies faded in most cases, the levels rose in 18.6% indicating that those persons had been reinfected during the 9 month followup interval.

Family data revealed a 25% chance that an infected member pass CoVid to one or more other family members. Only 20% of those infected individuals are CoVid spreaders.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24622-7

#CoVid #antibodies #spreaders

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/ka9ifk6EQpE

Ninety-nine percent of those infected with CoVid last winter still have circulating antiviral antibodies more than 9 months later.  Italian and British researchers tested more than 2500 residents of the Italian town Vo’.

The antibody levels measured months after infection did not depend upon whether an individual was symptomatic or not.   Though the absolute levels of protective antibodies faded in most cases, the levels rose in 18.6% indicating that those persons had been reinfected during the 9 month followup interval.

Family data revealed a 25% chance that an infected member pass CoVid to one or more other family members. Only 20% of those infected individuals are CoVid spreaders.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24622-7

#CoVid #antibodies #spreaders

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Pediatric cardiologists at New York’s Columbia University now report some good CoVid news: those children with CoVid-driven inflammatory heart disease are free of it within months of their infections.  This result from a study of 45 children admitted with CoVid multi system inflammatory disease or MIS-C.

At admission, 80% of the kids showed significant echocardiographic abnormalities.  By 1 to 4 weeks though, only 18% had even mild cardiac inflammation and all had normal appearing coronary arteries.  By 4 to 9 months, only one child of the 45 had persistent mild cardiac dysfunction.

This is welcome news for all parents, but all children will still require vaccination.

https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2021/07/14/peds.2021-051155

#children #misc #myocarditis #CoVid #multisysteminflammation

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/KFYx7BhzbR0

Pediatric cardiologists at New York’s Columbia University now report some good CoVid news: those children with CoVid-driven inflammatory heart disease are free of it within months of their infections.  This result from a study of 45 children admitted with CoVid multi system inflammatory disease or MIS-C.

At admission, 80% of the kids showed significant echocardiographic abnormalities.  By 1 to 4 weeks though, only 18% had even mild cardiac inflammation and all had normal appearing coronary arteries.  By 4 to 9 months, only one child of the 45 had persistent mild cardiac dysfunction.

This is welcome news for all parents, but all children will still require vaccination.

https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2021/07/14/peds.2021-051155

#children #misc #myocarditis #CoVid #multisysteminflammation

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/MxaSMp1wmZU

Look…there is much confusion about what CoVid protective measures we all should take.  The messaging from the medical community, government scientists, and the politicians who pay them has been more than confusing and conflicting.

As an MD who follows the science on CoVid very closely, I’m going to pass on to you the precautions I take for myself and my family.

Get vaccinated against CoVid.  I prefer the Moderna and Pfizer mRNA vaccines as they are statistically the most effective with the fewest potential downside risks.  Get both doses.

What about masks?  With the very contagious delta variant spreading, use an N95 or a KN95 mask when indoors or even outdoors walking through crowds or on mass transit.  Even vaccinated persons can symptomatically contract CoVid, especially the variants, and pass it on to you via an aerosol gust in a closed space.

It’s safe to be maskless outdoors if you are vaccinated, at a distance from others, and there is good air circulation and wind.  That’s why I continue to only eat a restaurants with outdoor seating.

You can obtain N95 certified masks that are sold for industrial use such as paint sanding without taking them off the faces of our heroic first responders.  I use a 3M 8511, and I seal the exhalation valve with duct tape.  Since I’m in NYC, I add a KN95 outside the N95 when I’m on the subways or buses.

What about kids in school? I continue to recommend that all children, vaccinated or not and attending indoor classes, wear multilayered and, if available, KN95 masks or N95 grade masks.  Even kids and young adults can become deathly ill.

I adjust my CoVid protective measures depending upon where I am, the level of circulating virus as measured by %age of positive tests, the hospitalization numbers, and the death rates.  You should too. 

As more of us are vaccinated and the variants are under control, we can relax our measures but not yet.

#CoVid #vaccine #masking #distancing #aerosols #school

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/MxaSMp1wmZU

Look…there is much confusion about what CoVid protective measures we all should take.  The messaging from the medical community, government scientists, and the politicians who pay them has been more than confusing and conflicting.

As an MD who follows the science on CoVid very closely, I’m going to pass on to you the precautions I take for myself and my family.

Get vaccinated against CoVid.  I prefer the Moderna and Pfizer mRNA vaccines as they are statistically the most effective with the fewest potential downside risks.  Get both doses.

What about masks?  With the very contagious delta variant spreading, use an N95 or a KN95 mask when indoors or even outdoors walking through crowds or on mass transit.  Even vaccinated persons can symptomatically contract CoVid, especially the variants, and pass it on to you via an aerosol gust in a closed space.

It’s safe to be maskless outdoors if you are vaccinated, at a distance from others, and there is good air circulation and wind.  That’s why I continue to only eat a restaurants with outdoor seating.

You can obtain N95 certified masks that are sold for industrial use such as paint sanding without taking them off the faces of our heroic first responders.  I use a 3M 8511, and I seal the exhalation valve with duct tape.  Since I’m in NYC, I add a KN95 outside the N95 when I’m on the subways or buses.

What about kids in school? I continue to recommend that all children, vaccinated or not and attending indoor classes, wear multilayered and, if available, KN95 masks or N95 grade masks.  Even kids and young adults can become deathly ill.

I adjust my CoVid protective measures depending upon where I am, the level of circulating virus as measured by %age of positive tests, the hospitalization numbers, and the death rates.  You should too. 

As more of us are vaccinated and the variants are under control, we can relax our measures but not yet.

#CoVid #vaccine #masking #distancing #aerosols #school