Wildcard

When it comes to testing for diabetes risk, the main thing people look to is blood sugar testing, but let’s face it, how many people do that before a doctor tells them it’s already near-certain? Well, some do, and depending on how non-diabetic people go about this, it can be useful or not: And yet,…

Today, at time of writing, it’s World Menopause Day, and here are two things that are both true: So, what was that about menopause and heart health? Not nearly so well-known as the association between untreated menopause and osteoporosis, untreated menopause also has a big influence on heart disease risk. And, to be clear, not…

The news here is about an early-phase clinical trial of CX-011, an investigational treatment given as a single injection into the knee joint to assess its safety, tolerability and potential to prevent cartilage deterioration in people with knee osteoarthritis (OA). So, with that in mind it is “treat” and not “cure”, but honestly, “treat” is…

Sometimes, symptoms aren’t experientially there to experience—similar to how, for example, many people with certain kinds of amnesia can very easily forget that they have it. Alcohol causing blackouts is the “bridging” example here: How Does Alcohol Cause Blackouts? In this case, for most people, THC has somewhat more potent benefits, and relatively fewer/lesser risks,…

If you think Christmas products in the stores are early, they’re not the only thing coming early this year, so you’d better watch out: This is the month to do it At time of writing, anyway. We’re in October. Basically, the CDC recommends annual flu vaccination for everyone 6 months and older, ideally by the…

As we enter into less-sunny days in the N. Hemisphere, do we still need to worry about the sun, or can we pretty much forget about it for 6 months? Total UV of the sun Rsearchers (Dr. Rachel Neale et al.) investigated exactly this matter, and found that total UV dose matters, and more specifically,…

The liver is a remarkably regenerative organ, to the point that if you cut away anything up to nearly half of it, it’ll simply grow back (in the absence of some other disease preventing it from doing so of course). This makes its name very appropriate! And yet, there are many ways we can mess…

Regular 10almonds readers will know that very often, Good (Or Bad) Health Starts With Your Blood, and for that reason it’s wise to keep our blood sugar levels healthy. So, in order to keep on top of that, it can be a good idea to Track Your Blood Sugars For Better Personalized Health! But, it’s…

Heart disease kills more adults than any other illness (depending on how we classify things—it can skew the stats if some things are grouped together and others aren’t, but generally speaking, it’s considered #1). Unless people have received a warning from their doctor about their own heart disease risk, however, it’s usual to assume that…

A few years ago, we examined some news about sucralose, thus: The Sucralose News: Scaremongering Or Serious? …and the short version is that initial headlines are often not a completely honest representation of the truth (in the above case, the reality was “this doesn’t look good, but we need to do a lot more science…

Hypothyroidism affects 4–7% of the population, but most goes undiagnosed. If you’re a woman, you’re 11–15% more likely to have it than if you’re a man. The epidemiology of this is interesting, but not our main topic today, so if you’d like to read more about that, then you might want to bookmark this paper…

A lot has been proposed about “this causes autism, that causes autism”. Perhaps the most famous one is “vaccines cause autism”, in which case: Debunking the myth that vaccines cause autism That said, there is one way that being unvaccinated can reduce the risk of being diagnosed with autism, that is if you (or the…