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Grapefruit poses a potentially lethal health risk to more and more patients taking prescription drugs. The fruit contains chemicals called furanocoumarins that can interact with certain drugs, blocking their breakdown and so making them more potent. Adverse effects can include acute kidney failure, respiratory failure, internal bleeding and sudden death. From eating a lousy grapefruit? […] The post One Lousy Grapefruit Can Kill You! appeared first on Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby.

Researchers Find “Anti-Growth Hormone” Increases Longevity You must have read me teaching that growth hormone isn’t really the way to go to beat aging. Daniel Rudman’s groundbreaking research in the 1990s on the benefits of human growth hormone (hGH) showed pretty convincingly that it helped reduce wrinkles and increased muscle strength in a group of […] The post Human growth hormone hGH defeats anti-aging appeared first on Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby.

Back in the 1980s we had endless spats with the reactionary dinosaurs in the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. They couldn’t grasp that “food allergy” could cause all kinds of complex symptoms and reactions, not least in the intestines. It’s just so OBVIOUS it makes you cringe at this ignorance (to the patients’ disadvantage, of course). There were no antibodies, they said, therefore the whole concept was an illusion or fraud. People could not react to food in this way. The whole idea was called “Mumby-Jumbo” in my home city. Actually, I’m quite proud of that! Now, some 30 years later, they have FINALLY woken up to the fact that this happens. Actually, it happens a LOT and they haven’t got that far yet. But at least they have changed their tune. I just saw a study published that’s about what they call food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES). I think food allergy or food intolerance is far simpler! A case was presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology 2012 Annual Scientific Meeting. Progress! FPIES and its triggers (most commonly cow’s milk, rice, and soy) can be difficult to diagnose, lead researcher Tara Federly, MD, a fellow at the Children’s Mercy Hospital and the University of Missouri in Kansas City, told Medscape Medical News. FPIES is not mediated by immunoglobulin (Ig)E, “so it’s not the immediate hypersensitivity reaction that you see with peanut or milk or other allergy,” Dr. Federly explained. “The exact mechanism is not known, but it’s basically an inflammation of the GI tract that is triggered by certain foods. The interesting thing is that it happens hours after ingestion, instead of being a more immediate IgE-mediated reaction,” she said. Well, we told them that; but they wouldn’t listen! It was antibodies or nothing; no antibodies: patients was deluded and sent to a psychiatrist.

Back in the 1980s we had endless spats with the reactionary dinosaurs in the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. They couldn’t grasp that “food allergy” could cause all kinds of complex symptoms and reactions, not least in the intestines. It’s just so OBVIOUS it makes you cringe at this ignorance (to the patients’ disadvantage, of course). There were no antibodies, they said, therefore the whole concept was an illusion or fraud. People could not react to food in this way. The whole idea was called “Mumby-Jumbo” in my home city. Actually, I’m quite proud of that! Now, some 30 years later, they have FINALLY woken up to the fact that this happens. Actually, it happens a LOT and they haven’t got that far yet. But at least they have changed their tune. I just saw a study published that’s about what they call food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES). I think food allergy or food intolerance is far simpler! A case was presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology 2012 Annual Scientific Meeting. Progress! FPIES and its triggers (most commonly cow’s milk, rice, and soy) can be difficult to diagnose, lead researcher Tara Federly, MD, a fellow at the Children’s Mercy Hospital and the University of Missouri in Kansas City, told Medscape Medical News. FPIES is not mediated by immunoglobulin (Ig)E, “so it’s not the immediate hypersensitivity reaction that you see with peanut or milk or other allergy,” Dr. Federly explained. “The exact mechanism is not known, but it’s basically an inflammation of the GI tract that is triggered by certain foods. The interesting thing is that it happens hours after ingestion, instead of being a more immediate IgE-mediated reaction,” she said. Well, we told them that; but they wouldn’t listen! It was antibodies or nothing; no antibodies: patients was deluded and sent to a psychiatrist.

Here’s an interview I did about cancer alternatives for Cancer Answers TV, with Dr. Judy Seeger.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEnIaD7f1_w&feature=youtu.be The post Cancer Alternatives TV Interview appeared first on Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby.

From time to time a share I joke about some of the really STUPID science that’s going on out there. It’s amusing in a way; but I get very incensed at the waste of money, when some really good trials of holistic principles can’t get off the ground because there are no funds available. This […]

From time to time a share I joke about some of the really STUPID science that’s going on out there. It’s amusing in a way; but I get very incensed at the waste of money, when some really good trials of holistic principles can’t get off the ground because there are no funds available. This […] The post Another Pearl for the STUPID SCIENCE Column appeared first on Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby.

It’s rather amusing, to position this story right after the previous one. But gene engineers have come up with a tomato which benefits (lowers) LDL cholesterol levels. In fact 2 studies just published also concerned cholesterol (that’s in addition to the one I just commented on, using IV infusions of “good” cholesterol). Study 1 In the first study, people who took a probiotic supplement containing a beneficial bacteria saw their cholesterol levels improve, and in the second study a freeze-dried concoction made from a genetically engineered tomato had a similar effect on mice. In study number one, 127 people with high cholesterol took a twice-daily supplement of a special strain of the Lactobacillus reuteri bacterium for nine weeks. They experienced an average 11.6 percent drop in LDL “bad” cholesterol and a 9.1 percent drop in total cholesterol, compared to those taking a placebo. That’s better than statins!

It’s rather amusing, to position this story right after the previous one. But gene engineers have come up with a tomato which benefits (lowers) LDL cholesterol levels. In fact 2 studies just published also concerned cholesterol (that’s in addition to the one I just commented on, using IV infusions of “good” cholesterol). Study 1 In the first study, people who took a probiotic supplement containing a beneficial bacteria saw their cholesterol levels improve, and in the second study a freeze-dried concoction made from a genetically engineered tomato had a similar effect on mice. In study number one, 127 people with high cholesterol took a twice-daily supplement of a special strain of the Lactobacillus reuteri bacterium for nine weeks. They experienced an average 11.6 percent drop in LDL “bad” cholesterol and a 9.1 percent drop in total cholesterol, compared to those taking a placebo. That’s better than statins!

Cholesterol IV is a treatment? How crazy does it get? They have been telling us (quite wrongly) that cholesterol is a problem and causes heart attacks. Now, they are giving cholesterol IV, as a treatment! This is how crazy “science” is. It flip flops remarkably every decade or so; usually not more than a quarter […]