The Gary Null Show - 03.04.22

Male patients with advanced cancer experienced reduced fatigue after vitamin D treatment   Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), March 3, 2022   Fatigue, or severe tiredness and exhaustion, is a distressing condition for many patients with advanced cancer. Unfortunately, good pharmacological treatment options are limited, and the ones available come with a risk of side effects and/or habituation. In a recently conducted study in palliative home care in Stockholm, Palliative-D, we were able to show that correction of vitaminD deficiency reduced both pain and fatigue in patients with advanced and metastatic cancer. The effects were moderate, but the treatment was surprisingly well tolerated without any severe side effects. The study showed that correction of vitamin D deficiency caused significantly reduced fatigue in men, but not in women.   (NEXT)   Study finds drinking wine with meals was associated with lower risk of type 2 diabetes   Tulane University Obesity Research Center, March 3, 2022    An analysis of health data for nearly 312,400 current drinkers suggests consuming alcohol, most notably wine, with meals is associated with a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The analysis found: During an average of nearly 11 years of follow-up, about 8,600 of the adults in the study developed type 2 diabetes. Consuming alcohol with meals was associated with a 14% lower risk of type 2 diabetes compared to consuming alcohol without eating food. The potential benefit of moderate drinking on type 2 diabetes risk was evident only among the people who drank alcohol during meals, although the specific time of meals was not collected in this study. Consuming wine, beer and liquor had different associations with type 2 diabetes risk. While a higher amount of wine intake was associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, a higher amount of beer or liquor was associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes.   (NEXT)   Rhythm Of Breathing Key To Controlling Fear And Emotional Behavior   Northwestern University, March 2, 2022   We live in a fearful world with exposure to a deluge of stressors every day. As much as fear is a result of reacting to the actual or perceived events in our lives, it is also a biological function of the human body, and when equipped with an understanding of how the body manages the emotional system, we can easily outsmart it, tricking ourselves into emotional balance. This perspective is scientifically validated by new research from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, which discovered how the various rhythmic patterns of breath profoundly impact memory recall and the emotional body, specifically the fear response. The brain creates electrical impulses which link physical functions to emotional reactions, and the electrical activity of the brain is deeply affected by our breathing patterns. The outcome of this balance is determined by whether or not we are inhaling or exhaling, as well as if we are  breathing through the nose or the mouth, as each variable creates a different electrical response within the brain. In the Northwestern study, participants were shown images of human expressions, some frightful, while engaging in various patterns of breathing. Researchers observed that people more easily process fear, and more readily recall images, while inhaling through the nose.   (NEXT)   New findings on daily walking steps needed for longevity benefit   University of Massachusetts, March 3, 2022   A meta-analysis of 15 studies involving nearly 50,000 people from four continents offers new insights into identifying the amount of daily walking steps that will optimally improve adults' health and longevity—and whether the number of steps is different for people of different ages. The oft-repeated 10,000-steps-a-day mantra grew out of a decades-old marketing campaign for a Japanese pedometer, with no science to back up the impact on health. For adults 60 and older, the risk of premature death leveled off at about 6,000-8,000 steps per day, meaning that more steps than that provided no additional benefit for longevity. Adults younger than 60 saw the risk of premature death stabilize at about 8,000-10,000 steps per day. Interestingly, the research found no definitive association with walking speed, beyond the total number of steps per day, Paluch notes. Getting in your steps—regardless of the pace at which you walked them—was the link to a lower risk of death. The new research supports and expands findings from another study led by Paluch, published last September in JAMA Network Open, which found that walking at least 7,000 steps a day reduced middle-aged people's risk of premature death.   (VIDEOS)   INVENTION OF WHITENESS John Powell, Distinguished professor of law, University of California at Berkeley   GUEST - Public Service - Campaign against Smart Meters Les Jamieson