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Recent Longevity News (6/14/01):
Meta-Analysis Supports Protective Effect of Statins Against Certain Fractures - Medscape, 6/14/01, user=benhess, pwd=asdfgh - "The findings show "a 57% reduction in hip fractures and a 34% reduction in non-spine fractures among statin users,""
Popular Drugs Called Statins Not Just for Cholesterol Anymore - WebMD, 6/14/01 - "may prevent yet another life threatening condition: deep vein thrombosis, or DVT"
Cholesterol-Lowering Drug Reduces Dementia Risk by 70% - WebMD, 11/9/00 - "people who use medications in the statin family may be 70% less likely to get Alzheimer's disease and other dementias" - Note: Red Yeast Rice is a non-prescription statin. Also, I feel that Policosanol may offer the same benefits with less side effects.
Additional Statins Show Anti-Inflammatory Effect - Medscape, 4/18/01, user=benhess, pwd=asdfgh - ""Patients are at high risk for heart disease when C-reactive protein levels are over 2 mg/L and at low risk when the levels are less than 1.1 mg/L, he noted. "With most of the patients in our study, whose baseline median C-reactive protein was 2.6 mg/L, we could reduce their levels of C-reactive protein to 1.7 mg/L with pravastatin or simvastatin and to 1.9 mg/L with atorvastatin," ... "With time, C-reactive protein may be considered a [heart disease] risk factor itself," he suggested. "So it is very heartening for patients that statins not only reduce low-density lipoprotein levels, but also reduce C-reactive protein levels.""
Doctors are talking more and more about evidence that inflammation has a direct link to heart disease - CNN, 11/13/00 - "Doctors are talking more and more about evidence that inflammation has a direct link to heart disease"
Alzheimer's Disease Directly Linked To Inflammation -- Animal Study - Doctor's Guide, 7/22/97
L-Arginine Treatment Improves Insulin Sensitivity - Medscape, 6/12/01, user=benhess, pwd=asdfgh - "Long-term treatment with L-arginine improves insulin sensitivity in patients with type 2 diabetes ... showed reductions in systolic blood ... showed significantly increased forearm blood flow ... those who received L-arginine had a significant 34% increase in glucose disposal and significant improvement in hepatic insulin sensitivity"
Estrogen's Benefit on Bone Questioned - WebMD, 6/12/01 - "If you're over age 60, it would seem that the evidence isn't as strong that it works. ... You might be better to consider an alternative medication where there is better evidence of effectiveness ... Those alternatives include drugs that have been proven effective for preventing and treating osteoporosis such as Evista, Fosamax, Actonel, and the hormone calcitonin"
Hormone therapy: Doubts grow - USA Today, 6/13/01 - "If it's for hot flashes, it's clear it works. If it's for the prevention of anything (else), it's not clear yet."
Estrogen After Menopause Improves Eye Health - WebMD, 6/13/01 - "Forget hot flashes -- the real reason to take hormone replacement therapy after menopause is because of the multitude of benefits on health. The latest research demonstrates that it may even save your vision"
The Okinawa Program : How the World's Longest-Lived People Achieve Everlasting Health, and How You Can Too - ABC News, 6/12/01 - "They include getting lifelong, regular physical activity, eating a mostly plant-based diet that includes fish and soy foods with a great variety of vegetables and moderate amounts of the right kinds of fat, and enjoying strong social and community support as well as a sense of independence and self-responsibility for health" - @ Amazon.com
Study: Supplement Can Help Take the 'Dys' Out of Female Sexual Dysfunction, Researchers Promote Idea of 'Sexual Wellness' - WebMD, 6/5/01 - "ArginMax -- a dietary cocktail consisting of ginseng, ginkgo, B vitamins, calcium, folic acid, and other vitamins and minerals -- is being heralded as one component of a lifestyle that improves sexual performance and helps prevent problems associated with intimacy"
News - Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Reduce Women's Risk Of Type 2 Diabetes - Doctor's Guide, 5/31/01 - "Trans fatty acids increase the risk of type 2 diabetes in women, while polyunsaturated fatty acids reduce that risk"
News - Strong Evidence Emerging On Folate For Heart Health - Doctor's Guide, 6/5/01 - "a significant inverse association between moderate-to-high folate intakes and incidence of acute coronary events in men has been observed in a prospective cohort study"
St. John's Wort Vs. Drugs - Nutrition Science News, 6/01 - "Yet recent clinical trials have shown that St. John's wort works as well as Prozac, Zoloft and other leading antidepressant drugs for treating mild to moderate depression" - I still say that the dose used for the severe depression study was way too low. - Ben
