Spacedoc Newsletter
March 10, 2010  
Diet and Mortality
 
Joel KauffmanJoel M. Kauffman, Ph.D

For at least two centuries one of the most persistent health quests was finding the foods that gave the longest life with quality.

Nearly all the famous and infamous studies failed to focus on all-cause mortality, including many on the "Mediterranean Diet".

Instead, most concentrate on heart deaths of the type normally called "heart disease", which means atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries that leads to heart attacks.

There is a common belief that heart disease alone is a majority cause of death, but it is not.
Diet and Mortality
 
Joel M. Kauffman, Ph.D 
Former Professor of Chemistry of the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, now Emeritus.
Author of Malignant Medical Myths: Why Medical Treatment Causes 200,000 Deaths per Year
 
 
Tocotrienols: The New Vitamin E
 
Barrie TanDr. Barrie Tan, Ph.D
 
Vitamin E, commonly known as tocopherol, is supplemented in many consumer processed goods as a food protectant and antioxidant.

Almost nothing is known of the vitamin E tocotrienol even though these natural compounds were identified over 60 years ago.

Tocotrienol and tocopherol are both vitamin E molecules and have similar chemical entities but tocotrienol works very differently from tocopherol.

Alpha-tocopherol, a very common vitamin E isomer, interferes with the functions of tocotrienols.

Since annatto is tocopherol-free, there is no such interference with tocotrienol benefits, making it, in my opinion, the best source of tocotrienol.

Tocotrienols: The New Vitamin E
 
Dr. Barrie Tan
founded American River Nutrition, Inc. in 1998 and developed the first ever tocopherol-free tocotrienol product derived from annatto beans.
 
Natural Products Trade Shows and Events for 2010
 
A new section on spacedoc.net - a convenient listing of Natural and Organic products Trade and Consumer shows and events. Regularly updated with show information, locations, dates and links to the show organizers and accommodation. Shows throughout North America and in Europe and Asia.
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Books by Dr Duane Graveline MD MPH
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BooksDr Graveline's third book on statins called "The Statin Damage Crisis" is now available.
 
Originally planned as a new edition to "Statin Drugs Side Effects," it has been released as a stand alone title so that the highly relevant material in "SDSE" will still be available.

Dr Graveline wrote the following introduction to this latest title:
 
Early on my NASA doctors told me my amnesia response to statins was nothing but a coincidence but I persevered to write my first book, "Lipitor, Thief of Memory" and now find that over 1,000 cases of amnesia and memory loss have been reported to the FDA, just from Lipitor alone.
 
Then I learned of statin damage to nerves and muscles and profound behavioral and personality changes, demanding I write a second book, "Statin Drugs Side Effects." Even this broadly encompassing book was insufficient to describe what I have learned more recently of the truly dark side of statins - their ability to alter the very fabric of our makeup.
 
I had long wondered why muscle and nerve damage seemed permanent and even progressive like my own ALS-like condition. Now I have found that the ultimate effect of statins on CoQ10 and dolichols is to damage the DNA of the mitochondrial life - force within our cells - mitochondrial mutation masquerading as premature old age. 
 
Duane Graveline MD MPH
Former USAF Flight Surgeon, Former NASA Astronaut, Retired Family Doctor 
 
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