Diet May Help Preserve Cognitive Function

Article courtesy of Dr. Joel Kahn, MD, who is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine, one of the world's top cardiologists, best-selling author, lecturer, and a leading expert in plant-based nutrition and holistic care.

Understanding heart diseases, particularly the risk of heart attack, strokes, valvular diseases requiring stents or cardiac surgery, is a dynamic field. Heart diseases, particularly coronary heart disease (CHD), remain the #1 risk of disability and death in western countries in both men and women. The traditional risk factors for early CHD are smoking, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, elevated cholesterol, and a family history of early CHD. The standard lipid profile has served as a mainstay of CHD risk assessment for decades.

Scientists engineered cartilage cells to produce an anti-inflammatory drug when placed under stress; the drug blocked the destructive effects of inflammation, highlighting the potential of the approach to protect engineered replacement tissues in the body.

According to a Phase 3 clinical trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine adults who were overweight or obese experienced an average decrease in body weight of 14.9% after receiving an injectable diabetes medication in addition to lifestyle interventions. 

Loneliness is a risk factor associated with adolescents being drawn into compulsive internet use. The risk of compulsive use has grown in the coronavirus pandemic: loneliness has become increasingly prevalent among adolescents, who spend longer and longer periods of time online.