However a much bigger battle looms... with the American Diabetes Association, the American Medical Association, and standard of medical care, that still believes in that archaic and deadly notion that fat is the Darth Vader of health and
the primary cause of disease.
Those in the ketogenic community often label diabetes as a problem of «carbohydrate toxicity,» suggesting that dietary carbohydrate is
the primary cause of the disease process.
He believed that the body has a natural ability to heal and that
the primary cause of disease is not germs, but imbalances in the body caused by lifestyle, including poor diet.
None of these mice developed disease symptoms, further implicating Akt1 as
the primary cause of disease.
It's important to remember that we're not going after
the primary cause of the disease, dystrophin deficiency.»
Danish pharma company Novo Nordisk (nvo), best known for its insulin - based treatments for diabetes, said Tuesday it's going to shift its focus slightly to fighting obesity, one of
the primary causes of that disease.
Given that old age is
a primary cause of diseases, the fact that there is no maximum entry age is a major bonus.
Not exact matches
In the same way they have for the most part opposed the closing
of the gay bathhouses that are breeding grounds for the
disease and have often made their fundraising parties for AIDS research opportunities for the promiscuous sex that is the
disease's
primary cause.
My doctor told me welcome to the club put me on Avandia and met formin and told me that I would most probably need to take insulin down the road.Also put me on 2 meds for blood pressure.Now don't get me wrong when I say I ate carbs I ate a lot
of nonfiber carbs mostly all junk food.I put myself in that position.I weighed 330 lbs and smoked 3 packs
of cigs a day.Today I am a 54 year old male weigh 182 am 6foot 1 inch.I lost most
of the weight before I learned
of a keto diet.I was diagnosed with a fatal autoimmune liver
disease called
primary sclerosing cholangitis.The body attacks the bile ducts
of the liver eventually plugging up the bile ducts and
causes total liver failure.Most people live 10 years after being diagnosed.I was diagnosed in nov
of 2010.
Experts studying ticks and
diseases said mice are the
primary cause of the spread
of tick - borne illnesses, though the public commonly believes deer are the root
of the problem.
Femi Makinde in this piece examines the efforts
of the National
Primary Health Care Development Agency, Lions Club and international agencies at stopping measles in Osun State Measles which is an infectious
disease caused by the rubeola virus can be fatal but the good news is that it can be prevented by vaccine.
The researchers tested OCA in three groups
of patients: 10 with
primary BAD, where the intestine is otherwise healthy; 10 with secondary BAD, where malabsorption can occur as a result
of another
disease such as Crohn's; and eight with other
causes of chronic diarrhea, who served as a control group.
The main
causes in developed countries are
primary cardiomyopathies, or
diseases of the heart muscle (which account for 60 %
of children requiring a cardiac transplant), and congenital heart
diseases.
Since the sexual reproduction stage
of malaria only occurs in insects, Poinar said in the new study that they must be considered the
primary hosts
of the
disease, not the vertebrate animals that they infect with
disease -
causing protozoa.
There are four types
of blast trauma injury: 1)
primary injury
caused directly by the pressure wave, which can travel through tissue at velocities close to that
of sound in water, 2) secondary injury
caused by objects put in motion by the blast, 3) tertiary injury
caused by an individual thrown into motion by the blast and hitting surrounding objects, and 4) quaternary injury
caused by burns, explosion - related injuries, illnesses and
diseases not attributed to the other three blast trauma types.
What the Health argues that meat and dairy products are the
primary cause of cancer, diabetes, obesity, and heart
disease.
Myelin is the protective sheath that insulates nerve fibers in the brain, and it is the
primary site
of injury in MS.. What's more, the scientists were able to pinpoint a specific protein in the blood, the blood - clotting factor fibrinogen, as the trigger for the
disease -
causing process.
«These public health issues are especially alarming in
primary prevention, particularly among women, for whom cardiovascular
disease also is the leading
cause of death, and for whom there is even more underutilization
of statins than for men,» said Hennekens.
When we think
of Parkinson's
disease, we often focus on its motor symptoms, such as stiffness and trembling, which are
caused by a gradual decrease in the dopamine supply to a brain area called the striatum, the
primary input nucleus
of the basal ganglia.
Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, meanwhile, is preparing to enter the clinic with an RNAi drug that treats
primary hyperoxaluria — a rare genetic
disease that
causes the overproduction and buildup
of substances called oxalates in the urine.
However, the authors stress that «further clinical investigations will be essential to establish the optimal dose, duration and safety, and whether vitamin D2 or D3 have different effects on mortality risk, since the available trials are based on elderly populations in general (an age group with high competing risk
of death often due to multiple co-existing
disease conditions) and they do not typically include
cause - specific deaths as the
primary outcomes.»
The recent ability to peer into the brain
of living individuals with a rare type
of language dementia,
primary progressive aphasia (PPA), provides important new insights into the beginning stages
of this
disease — which results in language loss — when it is
caused by a buildup
of a toxic protein found in Alzheimer's
disease.
The authors say «We have provided the first evidence that two brief psychological therapies targeting the two leading mental health related
causes of the global burden
of disease, delivered by the same lay counsellor in routine
primary care, to patients who had never received such therapies before, can lead to sustained improvements in health over one year, and that the investments made in providing this intervention is excellent value for money.
Hepatitis C infection is a common
cause of liver transplantation, with virus - related
diseases comprising 40 %
of primary indications for liver transplantation in Europe among patients with cirrhosis.
Researchers do not yet know whether the virus is the sole trigger
of the
disease or whether it has an accomplice, but they agree it is a
primary cause of the outbreak.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — April 9, 2018 — Using human brain cells, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes discovered the
cause of — and a potential solution for — the
primary genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's
disease, a gene called apoE4.
On the flip side, improper recognition
of self - antigens by T cells is the
primary cause of most autoimmune
diseases.
The Bioinformatics Resource Centers (BRC) for Infectious
Diseases were created to serve as database resources for the integration
of research and surveillance data being generated by these DMID - sponsored resources and by other
primary investigators working on infectious
diseases caused by different groups
of human pathogens and their insect vectors.
For discovery purposes, Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) variant prioritization coupled with clinical and bioinformatics expertise is currently the
primary method used to identify novel
disease -
causing variants, however, causation is often difficult to establish due to the number
of plausible variants.
«The ability to correct
disease -
causing mutations is one
of the
primary goals
of genome editing,» said Zhang, a core institute member at the Broad Institute, investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, and the James and Patricia Poitras Professor in Neuroscience at MIT.
If this holds up over the next few years
of larger trials it should become very clear as to the degree to which amyloid - β is or is not in fact the
primary cause of pathology in Alzheimer's
disease.
The reinforcing effect
of nicotine is the
primary reason people can not quit smoking, despite widespread awareness that smoking
causes cancer, heart
disease, stroke, emphysema, bronchitis, vascular
disease, cataracts, impotence, and many other health problems.
E-Scape Bio is now developing small - molecule drugs that target the
primary genetic
cause of Alzheimer's
disease by correcting adverse effects
of the apolipoprotein E4 (apoE4) gene.
Results from the largest genetic study
of glaucoma, a leading
cause of blindness and vision loss worldwide, showed that two genetic variations are associated with
primary open angle glaucoma (POAG), a common form
of the
disease.
21 Sept 2012: Jimmy Liu disscusses his recent research discovering and refining genetic regions linked to susceptibility for
primary biliary cirrhosis, or PBC, an immune - mediated
disease that
causes the progressive destruction
of liver bile ducts.
Although the exact
cause of primary hypertension is not known, several risk factors for the
disease have been identified.
Naturopathic Medicine is
primary health care that supports the body's innate healing processes and addresses the root
cause of illness and
disease.
The
primary causes of blood pressure increasing over a lifetime can be modified and could be focused on to help prevent heart
disease: even though high blood pressure often has no obvious symptoms, this condition could lead to life threatening stroke and heart attacks, so a reduction in blood pressure is crucial for health.
More specifically, controversy continues to surround the theories that 1) dietary fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol
cause heart
disease, obesity, diabetes and cancer and should be replaced in the diet with polyunsaturated vegetable oils; 2) a diet high in carbohydrates will reduce the risk
of chronic
disease; and 3) excessive sodium intake is the
primary variable in the etiology
of hypertension, a risk factor for heart
disease.
Naturopathic medicine is a distinct system
of primary care that addresses the root
cause of illness or
disease and promotes health and healing using natural therapies.
The
primary goal is to treat the underlying
cause of the
disease.
What is naturopathic medicine Naturopathic medicine is a distinct system
of primary care that addresses the root
cause of illness or
disease and promotes health and healing using natural therapies.
(14) Contrary to the secondary prevention findings, no statin
primary prevention study has ever shown a benefit in terms
of all
cause mortality in healthy men and women with only an elevated serum cholesterol, and no known coronary artery
disease (link).
Smoking is the
primary cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD), which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
Free radical damage is the
primary cause of heart
disease, cancer, and many other serious health conditions, as well as aging.
Nowhere in the text did Dr. Maffetone claim that excess consumption
of carbohydrates was the
primary cause of any
of the
diseases in the bullet points.
It is my belief that living mindlessly when it comes to the
primary lifestyle factors is the most common
cause of preventable chronic
diseases in the United States.
Functional Medicine is a modern, scientific style
of Western Medicine that is transforming
primary patient care by going beyond the symptoms to treat the underlying
cause of disease.
«The
primary cause of heart
disease is inflammation,» writes Bowden.
A plaque that builds up in the brain
of Alzheimer's patients called beta - amyloid plaques is believed to be one
of the
primary causes of Alzheimer's
disease.