Cooling Inflammation

Inflammation is the foundation for cancer and degenerative/autoimmune diseases. Small changes in diet and exercise, e.g. omega-3 oils, vitamin D, low starch, and maintaining muscle mass, can dramatically alter predisposition to disease and aging, and minimize the negative impact of genetic risks. Based on my experience in biological research, I am trying to explain how the anti-inflammatory diet and lifestyle combat disease. 190 more articles at http://coolinginflammation.blogspot.com

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Synuclein and Amyloid Diseases

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NSAIDs, such as ibuprofen and aspirin are possible treatments to inhibit the aggregation of proteins (synuclein, beta amyloid) on charged po...
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Monday, December 22, 2008

Is a Belly Bad?

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A protruding midsection can mean many different things. It can be obesity, starvation/kwashiorkor or sarcopenia. It can mean there is a la...
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Friday, December 19, 2008

HIV TAT and Methamphetamine -- TNF

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HIV infection and methamphetamine both cause inflammation of the brain and together they are paralyzing. What’s worse than a TNF typhoon res...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

What If Medicine Was Scientific?

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A view of the future of medicine, if the health of each patient was the highest priority. 2020 Somebody read the biomedical literature and ...
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Medicine Can Treat. Why Can’t It Cure or Prevent?

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Prescription for all diseases: Anti-inflammatory Shock Treatment Cancer death rates may be finally slowing. Why has it taken so long? Medi...
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Monday, December 15, 2008

Lectins - Heat’em and Eat’em

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Lectins are proteins common in seeds. They bind to sugars attached in chains to proteins, i.e. glycoproteins, and are displayed on the surf...
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Thursday, December 11, 2008

A Paleolithic Perspective on Biomedical Literature

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Homo sapiens seems to be inflammation prone, based on its assortment of biochemical deficiencies. All of the following lead to inflammatio...
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Saturday, December 6, 2008

Niacin Flush

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Niacin is a B vitamin that is cheap and highly effective at raising HDL and lowering LDL. HDL and LDL were previously called good and bad c...
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Friday, December 5, 2008

Antioxidants or Fermenting Gut Flora?

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Long life is the result of a good diet and exercise. Plant antioxidants are eaten to sop up the reactive oxygen species (ROS) and omega-3 f...
Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Menstrual Pain is Inflammatory

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Inflammation is essential to the menstrual cycle. At key points inflammatory prostaglandins are made from omega-6 arachidonic acid to trigg...
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Leptin and Diabetes

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Fat cells produce the hormone leptin. Early experiments showed that leptin could ameliorate some of the effects of mouse models of type I d...
Monday, December 1, 2008

Anti-inflammatory Octopus

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I always envied the neurophysiologists who studied the giant axons of lobster, because they could always eat their failed experiments. I w...
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Friday, November 28, 2008

Melamine Contaminated Formula

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Baby formula is called, in the medical profession, an artificial milk substitute. It is made of highly processed food additives, and all of...
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Thursday, November 27, 2008

Turkey, Tryptophan & Transmitters

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Does eating turkey make you stuffed and drowsy? It must the be tryptophan... or not. Sure there is tryptophan in turkey and tryptophan is ...
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

CIDP, Inflammation and Autoantigens

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Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) is chronic, relapsing autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the ins...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Hazards of Air Travel: DVT

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Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) -- clots in your veins Air travel during the holidays means sitting quietly for hours while the blood pools in th...
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Monday, November 24, 2008

Crohn’s Disease and Cryptidins

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The intestines produce enzymes to digest food, antimicrobial peptides to kill pathogens and have lots of surface area to absorb nutrient mol...
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Friday, November 21, 2008

Fecal Transplants

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Grey’s Anatomy , “In the Midnight Hour,” episode 8 of season 5 includes a fecal transplant from a recalcitrant husband to his anxious, antib...
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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Brain Arachidonic Acid: Alzheimer’s, Bipolar, Parkinson’s

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A recent review article on brain lipid metabolism discussed the results obtained by looking at how the major omega-6 fatty acid, arachidonic...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Inflammation Causes Disease

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Human diets have changed dramatically over the last few hundred years, and as a consequence so have our diseases. The most recent shift in ...
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Dr. Art Ayers
I grew up in San Diego and did my PhD in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (U. Colo. Boulder). I subsequently held postdoctoral research positions at the Swedish Forest Products Research Laboratories, Stockholm, U. Missouri -Colombia and Kansas State U. I was an assistant professor in the Cell and Developmental Biology Department at Harvard University, and an associate professor and Director of the Genetic Engineering Program at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA. I joined the faculty at the College of Idaho in 1991 and in 1997-98 I spent a six-month sabbatical at the National University of Singapore. Most recently I have focused on the role of heparin in inflammation and disease.
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