Dr. Howard Smith Reports

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Health News You Should Use, the latest medical discoveries that you can use to keep yourself and your family healthy.  Here are this weeks stories :

Too Much Sleep Or Too Little May Trigger Heart Attacks

A Pregnant Woman’s Activities & Eating Impact Her Child’s Blood Pressure Later

Lifestyle Outweighs Family History Of Premature Heart Disease

Plant-Based Meat Substitutes Endanger Your Thinking

Eat Nuts And Have A Heart

How To Stay Safe Riding An E-Scooter

All Menopausal Hormonal Therapy Risks Breast Cancer

Second-Hand Vaping A Risk For Teens

Protein Shakes Not The Best Post-Exercise Drink

Under Tongue Peanut Allergy Therapy Is Safe and Effective

Healthy Foods Out-Perform Fad Diets For Maintaining Healthy Hearts

Marijuana Users More Likely To Father Autistic Kids

Mouthwash After Exercise Blunts Beneficial Blood Pressure Lowering

Congenital Seizures Respond To Ketogenic Diet

High Potency Weed Infiltrating High Schools

For show notes and references to for the stories, check out my website at:

https://www.drhowardsmith.com/sep-2019-1st-week-health-news

#Sleep #heartattack #Pregnancy #walking #fish #BPA #hypertension #Lifestyle #genetics #prematureCAD #prematureheartdisease #Plantbasedprotein #choline #pregnancy #brain #impossibleburger #beyondmeat #Nuts #cardiovasculardisease #stroke #Escooters #helmets #fractures #headtrauma #Menopause #hormonaltherapy #MHT #cancer #breast #Vaping #secondhandsmoke #pneumonitis #Proteinshakes #exercise #muscles #pain #SLIT #sublingualimmunotherapy #peanuts #Influenza #mask #respirator #N95 #Diets #fruits #vegetables #cardiovasculardisease #Sperm #cannabis #autism #Blood pressure #mouthwash #exercise #nitrates #Seizures #ketogenicdiet #pediatrics #Marijuanaconcentrate #addiction #vaping #marijuana

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/ZXcrXdzH5lg

Health News You Should Use, the latest medical discoveries that you can use to keep yourself and your family healthy.  Here are this weeks stories :

Too Much Sleep Or Too Little May Trigger Heart Attacks

A Pregnant Woman’s Activities & Eating Impact Her Child’s Blood Pressure Later

Lifestyle Outweighs Family History Of Premature Heart Disease

Plant-Based Meat Substitutes Endanger Your Thinking

Eat Nuts And Have A Heart

How To Stay Safe Riding An E-Scooter

All Menopausal Hormonal Therapy Risks Breast Cancer

Second-Hand Vaping A Risk For Teens

Protein Shakes Not The Best Post-Exercise Drink

Under Tongue Peanut Allergy Therapy Is Safe and Effective

Healthy Foods Out-Perform Fad Diets For Maintaining Healthy Hearts

Marijuana Users More Likely To Father Autistic Kids

Mouthwash After Exercise Blunts Beneficial Blood Pressure Lowering

Congenital Seizures Respond To Ketogenic Diet

High Potency Weed Infiltrating High Schools

For show notes and references to for the stories, check out my website at:

https://www.drhowardsmith.com/sep-2019-1st-week-health-news

#Sleep #heartattack #Pregnancy #walking #fish #BPA #hypertension #Lifestyle #genetics #prematureCAD #prematureheartdisease #Plantbasedprotein #choline #pregnancy #brain #impossibleburger #beyondmeat #Nuts #cardiovasculardisease #stroke #Escooters #helmets #fractures #headtrauma #Menopause #hormonaltherapy #MHT #cancer #breast #Vaping #secondhandsmoke #pneumonitis #Proteinshakes #exercise #muscles #pain #SLIT #sublingualimmunotherapy #peanuts #Influenza #mask #respirator #N95 #Diets #fruits #vegetables #cardiovasculardisease #Sperm #cannabis #autism #Blood pressure #mouthwash #exercise #nitrates #Seizures #ketogenicdiet #pediatrics #Marijuanaconcentrate #addiction #vaping #marijuana

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/UbFatjmobmk

Marijuana concentrate, a form that contains 3 times higher levels of the psychoactive agent THC, is flooding high schools.  This form of weed is associated with more addiction, cognitive problems, and psychiatric disease.

A study from Arizona State University looking at 50,000 high school students finds that one in every three used some form of marijuana and some 24% tried the concentrate.  Those teens using the concentrate showed significantly more addiction risk factors including peer substance abuse, drug-using parents, and academic failure.

Marijuana concentrate users are also likely e-cigarette users, and this route delivers ever higher concentrations of the drug to young lungs and brains increasing the chances for psychosis and addiction.  If your children are using cannabis, be certain that they are aware of the currently circulating and freakishly powerful forms of the drug that must be avoided in order to prevent disaster.

Madeline H. Meier et al. Cannabis Concentrate Use in Adolescents. Pediatrics, Aug. 26, 2019 DOI: 10.1542/peds.2019-0338

#Marijuanaconcentrate #addiction vaping

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/UbFatjmobmk

Marijuana concentrate, a form that contains 3 times higher levels of the psychoactive agent THC, is flooding high schools.  This form of weed is associated with more addiction, cognitive problems, and psychiatric disease.

A study from Arizona State University looking at 50,000 high school students finds that one in every three used some form of marijuana and some 24% tried the concentrate.  Those teens using the concentrate showed significantly more addiction risk factors including peer substance abuse, drug-using parents, and academic failure.

Marijuana concentrate users are also likely e-cigarette users, and this route delivers ever higher concentrations of the drug to young lungs and brains increasing the chances for psychosis and addiction.  If your children are using cannabis, be certain that they are aware of the currently circulating and freakishly powerful forms of the drug that must be avoided in order to prevent disaster.

Madeline H. Meier et al. Cannabis Concentrate Use in Adolescents. Pediatrics, Aug. 26, 2019 DOI: 10.1542/peds.2019-0338

#Marijuanaconcentrate #addiction vaping

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/7sj8kkq1vQk

Nearly 40% of children whose seizures cannot be controlled with any medications will respond to the ketogenic diet.  This is the finding of a study from Northwestern’s Lurie Children’s Hospital.

Pediatric neurologists there studied 109 patients with seizure disorders persisting despite conventional medication management.   After going on the high fat, low carb, and protein-restricted diet that is the ketogenic diet, 42 patients enjoyed more than 50% seizure reduction and nearly half of those 42 achieved complete seizure control.  The seizure disorders most responsive to the ketogenic diet had a genetic etiology.

This excellent pediatric hospital’s successful 10 year experience with the ketogenic diet proves its medical effectiveness.  Implementing this diet isn’t easy for many parents, and success requires much support from a multi-disciplinary team including nutritionists and counselors.

Se Hee Kim, Alexandra Shaw, Robyn Blackford, Wesley Lowman, Linda C. Laux, John J. Millichap, Douglas R. Nordli. The ketogenic diet in children 3 years of age or younger: a 10-year single-center experience. Scientific Reports, 2019; 9 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-45147-6

#Seizures #ketogenic diet

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/7sj8kkq1vQk

Nearly 40% of children whose seizures cannot be controlled with any medications will respond to the ketogenic diet.  This is the finding of a study from Northwestern’s Lurie Children’s Hospital.

Pediatric neurologists there studied 109 patients with seizure disorders persisting despite conventional medication management.   After going on the high fat, low carb, and protein-restricted diet that is the ketogenic diet, 42 patients enjoyed more than 50% seizure reduction and nearly half of those 42 achieved complete seizure control.  The seizure disorders most responsive to the ketogenic diet had a genetic etiology.

This excellent pediatric hospital’s successful 10 year experience with the ketogenic diet proves its medical effectiveness.  Implementing this diet isn’t easy for many parents, and success requires much support from a multi-disciplinary team including nutritionists and counselors.

Se Hee Kim, Alexandra Shaw, Robyn Blackford, Wesley Lowman, Linda C. Laux, John J. Millichap, Douglas R. Nordli. The ketogenic diet in children 3 years of age or younger: a 10-year single-center experience. Scientific Reports, 2019; 9 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-45147-6

#Seizures #ketogenic diet

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/8MDyrS9WZAQ

Using a mouthwash following your exercise session may prevent the beneficial lowering of your blood pressure that physical activity typically triggers.  This observation was just published in the journal Free Radical Biology and Medicine.

A group of 23 healthy adults ran on the treadmill for 30 minutes during two separate sessions.  At 30 minute intervals following the exercise, they rinsed out their mouths with either an antibacterial mouthwash or mint-flavored water.  Blood pressure measurements revealed that the antibacterial mouthwash reduced the typical blood pressure reductions by one-half.

The researchers found that the antibacterial mouthwash prevented a bacteria-triggered synthesis of the nitrites and nitrates that open blood vessels and reduce blood pressures.  This piece of the puzzle suggests that those suffering from elevated blood pressures should avoid anti-bacterial mouthwashes.

C. Cutler, M. Kiernan, J.R. Willis, L. Gallardo-Alfaro, P. Casas-Agustench, D. White, M. Hickson, T. Gabaldon, R. Bescos. Post-exercise hypotension and skeletal muscle oxygenation is regulated by nitrate-reducing activity of oral bacteria. Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2019; 143: 252 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2019.07.035

#Blood pressure #mouthwash #exercise #nitrates

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/8MDyrS9WZAQ

Using a mouthwash following your exercise session may prevent the beneficial lowering of your blood pressure that physical activity typically triggers.  This observation was just published in the journal Free Radical Biology and Medicine.

A group of 23 healthy adults ran on the treadmill for 30 minutes during two separate sessions.  At 30 minute intervals following the exercise, they rinsed out their mouths with either an antibacterial mouthwash or mint-flavored water.  Blood pressure measurements revealed that the antibacterial mouthwash reduced the typical blood pressure reductions by one-half.

The researchers found that the antibacterial mouthwash prevented a bacteria-triggered synthesis of the nitrites and nitrates that open blood vessels and reduce blood pressures.  This piece of the puzzle suggests that those suffering from elevated blood pressures should avoid anti-bacterial mouthwashes.

C. Cutler, M. Kiernan, J.R. Willis, L. Gallardo-Alfaro, P. Casas-Agustench, D. White, M. Hickson, T. Gabaldon, R. Bescos. Post-exercise hypotension and skeletal muscle oxygenation is regulated by nitrate-reducing activity of oral bacteria. Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2019; 143: 252 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2019.07.035

#Blood pressure #mouthwash #exercise #nitrates

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/O9AFSVfPvnM

Cannabis use mutates a gene in sperm that is associated with autism.  Duke University investigators compared the sperm of weed users with those of non-users.

The cannabis users’ sperm showed widespread DNA methylation changes including reduced methylation of the DLGAP2 gene.  Modifications of this gene are associated with a number of neurological and psychiatric problems including autism spectrum disorder.

Men and women considering becoming parents should abstain from cannabis use as early as possible, since studies do show that marijuana affects stem cells in the testis.  That being the case, it is likely that all sperm produced from these affected testicular cells will be flawed.

Rose Schrott, Kelly Acharya, Nilda Itchon-Ramos, Andrew B. Hawkey, Erica Pippen, John T. Mitchell, Scott H. Kollins, Edward D. Levin, Susan K. Murphy. Cannabis use is associated with potentially heritable widespread changes in autism candidate gene DLGAP2 DNA methylation in sperm. Epigenetics, 2019; 1 DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2019.1656158

#Sperm #cannabis #autism

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/O9AFSVfPvnM

Cannabis use mutates a gene in sperm that is associated with autism.  Duke University investigators compared the sperm of weed users with those of non-users.

The cannabis users’ sperm showed widespread DNA methylation changes including reduced methylation of the DLGAP2 gene.  Modifications of this gene are associated with a number of neurological and psychiatric problems including autism spectrum disorder.

Men and women considering becoming parents should abstain from cannabis use as early as possible, since studies do show that marijuana affects stem cells in the testis.  That being the case, it is likely that all sperm produced from these affected testicular cells will be flawed.

Rose Schrott, Kelly Acharya, Nilda Itchon-Ramos, Andrew B. Hawkey, Erica Pippen, John T. Mitchell, Scott H. Kollins, Edward D. Levin, Susan K. Murphy. Cannabis use is associated with potentially heritable widespread changes in autism candidate gene DLGAP2 DNA methylation in sperm. Epigenetics, 2019; 1 DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2019.1656158

#Sperm #cannabis #autism