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Also see – The Truth about Low Cholesterol Anything that increases lactic acid production, thus lowering energy production, is fundamentally unhealthy. -Byron Richards Br J Clin Pharmacol. 1996 Sep;42(3):333-7. Lipid-lowering drugs and mitochondrial function: effects of HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors on serum ubiquinone and blood lactate/pyruvate ratio. De Pinieux G, Chariot P, Ammi-Saïd M, Louarn F, [...]
By Martha Rosenberg Want to increase your chances of getting node-positive breast cancer and dying from it? Take hormone therapy. Pharma’s lucrative estrogen plus progestin combo is already known to increase the chance of getting breast cancer by 26 percent. But an article in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows hormone therapy [...]
J Anim Sci. 2004 May;82(5):1401-9. Preslaughter stress and muscle energy largely determine pork quality at two commercial processing plants. Hambrecht E, Eissen JJ, Nooijent RI, Ducro BJ, Smits CH, den Hartog LA, Verstegen MW. The objective of the present experiment was to study physiological changes elicited in response to stress in the immediate preslaughter period [...]
Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon). 2012 Mar 29. [Epub ahead of print] Progressive hip rehabilitation: The effects of resistance band placement on gluteal activation during two common exercises. Cambridge ED, Sidorkewicz N, Ikeda DM, McGill SM. A critical issue for constructing a progressive rehabilitation program is the knowledge of muscle activation levels across exercises and within [...]
Lancet. 2001 Aug 4;358(9279):351-5. Cholesterol and all-cause mortality in elderly people from the Honolulu Heart Program: a cohort study. Schatz IJ, Masaki K, Yano K, Chen R, Rodriguez BL, Curb JD. BACKGROUND: A generally held belief is that cholesterol concentrations should be kept low to lessen the risk of cardiovascular disease. However, studies of the [...]
Vitamin E and vitamin A also protect against lipid peroxidation, and vitamin A is specifically involved in progesterone synthesis. Vitamin A also has a variety of anti-estrogen functions, that are often considered to be relevant to protection against cancer. -Ray Peat, PhD American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 5, 666-673 Relation of Vitamin A Deficiency [...]
J Exp Med. 1962 June 1; 115(6): 1149–1160. THE FECAL FLORA OF VARIOUS STRAINS OF MICE. ITS BEARING ON THEIR SUSCEPTIBILITY TO ENDOTOXIN Russell W. Schaedler and René J. Dubos Adult mice from seven different colonies were studied with regard to (a) the numbers and types of bacteria that could be cultivated from their stools; [...]
Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 1984 Jun;20(6):657-69. The thyroid function in young men during prolonged exercise and the effect of energy and sleep deprivation. Opstad PK, Falch D, Oktedalen O, Fonnum F, Wergeland R. Thyroid function has been investigated in 24 young military cadets participating in a 5 d ranger training course with heavy physical exercise, calorie [...]
Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am. 1994 Jun;23(2):379-86. Hypertension in thyroid disorders. Saito I, Saruta T. Hypertension is more common in hypothyroidic patients than in euthyroid controls in older age groups. Treatment of the thyroid deficiency alone lowers blood pressure in most patients. Hemodynamically, cardiac output is reduced and total peripheral resistance is elevated. The latter [...]
Adv Exp Med Biol. 1989;266:3-15. Lipofuscin and ceroid formation: the cellular recycling system. Harman D. Lipofuscin, age pigment, is a dark pigment with a strong autofluorescence seen with increasing frequency with advancing age in the cytoplasm of postmitotic cells. By bright-field light microscopy lipofuscin appears as irregular yellow to brown granules ranging in size from [...]
