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Is an apple a day really good for your health? Yes if you also includes a variety of other fruits and vegetables and avoid processed foods among other factors. There is no one superfood that provides everything your body needs to function well.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for July 3, 2025 Source:Is an apple a day really good for your health?
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Can cheese turn your dreams into nightmares? Not likely. It seems it was an upset stomach that increased the chance of this happening.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for July 2, 2025 Source:Can cheese turn your dreams into nightmares? Reference:More dreams of the rarebit fiend: food sensitivity and dietary correlates of sleep and dreaming
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Spinal implant reconnects walking circuit pathway in rat. Still a ways before human device developed but it is encouraging and excellent bioengineering.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 30, 2025 Source:A tiny implant just helped paralyzed rats walk again—is human recovery next? Reference:Daily electric field treatment improves functional outcomes after thoracic contusion spinal cord injury in rats
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House Calls, #977, June 29, 2025: The Invisible Ones
I went on a ride-along with the Ottawa Police Services and my opinion on what we need to do to help those that are suffering from abuse, addiction, and severe mental illness requires a rethink of the Band-Aid approaches we have taken to date. Your Calls and Comments: Playlist 1st segment Intro: Blow At High Dough…
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Rapamycin may extend lifespan as effectively as dietary restrictions if you are a mouse, rat, turquoise killifish, or rheses macaque monkey. No studies on humans and to do so, based on side effect profile of drug, is fraught with serious adverse affects
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 27, 2025 Source:Rapamycin may extend lifespan as effectively as dietary restrictions Reference:Rapamycin, Not Metformin, Mirrors Dietary Restriction-Driven Lifespan Extension in Vertebrates: A Meta-Analysis
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Study on developing a Beverage Hydration Index (BHI) is being used by CNN to validate the use of milk as the best means of rehydrating at 640 calories a pop. The fact that the study used 72 men 18-35 who were not dehydrated nor exercising was not reported by CNN.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 26, 2025 Source:Which drink is best for hydration? Hint: It isn’t water Reference:A randomized trial to assess the potential of different beverages to affect hydration status: development of a beverage hydration index1
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What are the drug interactions between the birth control pill and semaglutide (Ozempic)? Perspective is important because the interaction is no different than many other medications used with the birth control pill.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 25, 2025 Source:‘Ozempic babies’ and birth control: U.K. warning raises concerns over weight-loss drugs
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How does the extreme heat affect your body?
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 24, 2025 Source:How to prevent heatstroke and other heat-related emergencies
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Can this nasal spray slow down Alzheimer’s? There is no answer when your study includes only one person.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 23, 2025 Source:Can this nasal spray slow down Alzheimer’s? One couple is helping scientists find out Reference:Dampening of Microglial Activation With Nasal Foralumab Administration in Moderate Alzheimer’s Disease Dementia
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