QualityCounts.com Newsletter of 9/5/01

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DHEA Deemed 'Effective Hormonal Replacement Treatment' for Women - Medscape, 9/4/01, user=benhess, pwd=asdfgh - "treated 31 women with oral DHEA 50 mg daily for 6 months ... Plasma levels of steroids that derived from DHEA metabolism increased, as did osteocalcin, growth hormone (GH), and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1). Levels of luteinizing hormone and follicle stimulating hormone decreased ... DHEA treatment was similar in its effect on the GHRH-GH-IGF-1 axis as treatment with estrogen-progestin"

Unlocking the power of curcumin - Life Extension Magazine, 9/01 - "research is discovering that curcumin is a powerful carcinogenic inhibitor, slowing cancerous cell proliferation by inducing apoptosis, a pre-programmed set of processes within a cell that results in its death"

One Cup of Coffee May Temporarily Harden Arteries - ABC News, 9/4/01 - "After drinking a cup of coffee, blood pressure can rise up to 5 or even 10 millimeters of mercury ... Caffeine consumption caused an increase in wave reflection--a measure of arterial stiffness--for at least 2 hours"

Study: Lean diet may mean long life - CNN, 9/3/01 - "It's never too late to cut back on the calories to prolong life, even in your later years ... mice they put on a low-calorie regimen -- even creatures put on the diet for a short period -- exhibited characteristics of slowed aging ... Restricting calories reversed the changes in several genes that were altered in aging animals"

Study Provides New Evidence That Chemical In Tomato Sauce May Help Fight Prostate Cancer, Particularly In Black Men - Intelihealth, 8/30/01 - "Researchers at the University of Illinois in Chicago fed 32 volunteers with newly diagnosed prostate cancer three-fourths cup of tomato sauce daily for three weeks ... the treatment resulted in reduced blood levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA), a protein whose increased levels are strongly linked to a higher prostate cancer risk ...Researchers believe that lycopene, a red pigment with high antioxidant potential, is the most likely agent involved in this effect"

Antioxidants May Be Better Than Antacids for Treating Reflux - Medscape, 8/30/01, user=benhess, pwd=asdfgh - "the new findings prove the hypothesis that free radical damage, rather than gastric acid, is the major cause of the tissue damage that leads to this condition" - See heartburn

Flaxseed Could Fight Breast Cancer in Older Women - ABC News, 8/29/01 - "Blood levels of specific estrogens linked to increased risk for breast cancer "decreased significantly with flax" supplementation ... Prior studies have suggested flaxseed may protect younger women from breast cancer, as well"

Benefits dwarf risks for cholesterol-lowering statins - US News & World Report, 9/3/01 - "many of the patients who died were on a high dose–and were taking gemfibrozil, a cholesterol-lowering drug that should be shunned when taking any statin but especially Baycol, as both the Merck Manual and Baycol's labeling warn ... That works out to less than 1 chance in 750,000 of getting rhabdomyolysis and 1 in 5,747,000, or 0.000017 percent, of dying from it. "The odds of a serious bleed from aspirin can be 1 in 50,000,""

Humans Emits Sex Scent Signals - ABC News, 8/28/01 - "These findings corroborate that human pheromones do exist, and that women can communicate chemically with men and vice versa ... may have more broad-ranging therapeutic value ... Pherin Pharmaceuticals is currently developing numerous synthetic pheromones that it hopes will be effective in decreasing symptoms of anxiety disorders, premenstrual syndrome in women, and prostate enlargement in men"

NSAID Use Can Have Psychiatric Consequences - Clinical Psychiatry News, 8/01, user=benhess, pwd=asdfgh - "strange and often quite dramatic responses to these drugs have been reported ... psychotropic effects of NSAIDs are not implausible. NSAIDs inhibit the synthesis of prostaglandins, notably cycloogenase-1 and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-1 and COX-2), which are found in more than one area of the brain, including the cortex, hippocampus, and hypothalamus. These substances influence neuronal connectivity and CNS development, as well as learning and memory. They also regulate cerebral artery diameter, and therefore circulation"

The 'Language of Love' Good for Marriage -- and Health - WebMD, 8/28/01 - "positive interactions between couples can boost immunity and reduce the risk of heart disease by keeping stress hormones low ... language can affect cortisol levels ... women with cortisol increases were two to three times more likely to be divorced within 10 years"

The Multiple Benefits of Metformin - Life Extension Magazine, 9/01 - "An ideal anti-diabetic drug would enhance cellular insulin sensitivity, inhibit excess intestinal absorption of sugar, reduce excess liver production of glucose, promote weight loss and reduce cardiovascular risk factors. Metformin (Glucophage) is the one drug that does all of this and more"