Costume Dogs

What’s in a hotdog? Supposedly beef and sometimes turkey. But, we’ve all heard the rumors they’re made with discarded animal innards and unfortunate rats that got to close the grinder–creepy.

Now, love them or hate them, hotdogs are a processed meat and nowadays everyone is on high-alert over mass-produced food.

That’s why one health advocacy groups wants hotdogs to carry warning labels about cancer-risk.

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A new study of 5,450 postmenopausal women shows double the risk for breast cancer in women with elevated insulin.  As I recently reported, this risk goes up further if a postmenopausal woman is also taking estradiol, whether from horse urine or bioidentical.

High levels of insulin (insulin resistance) are driven by leptin problems resulting in the weight gain.  Women have little margin for error after menopause, as metabolism is essentially in a numbed-out condition for a while.  To reduce the risk for breast cancer following menopause women must do everything in their power not to gain weight.

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A new study of 5,450 postmenopausal women shows double the risk for breast cancer in women with elevated insulin.  As I recently reported, this risk goes up further if a postmenopausal woman is also taking estradiol, whether from horse urine or bioidentical.

High levels of insulin (insulin resistance) are driven by leptin problems resulting in the weight gain.  Women have little margin for error after menopause, as metabolism is essentially in a numbed-out condition for a while.  To reduce the risk for breast cancer following menopause women must do everything in their power not to gain weight.

Read the whole story on Wellness Resources.

It is always an exciting day when something entirely new about metabolism begins to emerge.  Of course it will be decades before innovation is agreed upon by the tortoise-moving FDA, medical profession, and other “health authorities” who have done nothing but watch as their “solutions” have either allowed or directly contributed to a societal epidemic of obesity.

One of my hobbies is taking emerging science and predicting what it means – and then comparing it to my many years of hands-on clinical experience to see if the idea possibly has merit as well as practical application to better the human condition.  I must say that a little animal study on butyric acid has me quite excited.

Nutritionists have known for decades that butyric acid is the most important fatty acid to the health of your colon.  Your colon produces butyric acid as a result of fiber fermentation, with the help of friendly flora.  Hostile bacteria and Candida albicans are likely to get in the way of this process.  Restoring health and balance to this system has always been a priority for alternative health practitioners.

It has also been known for some time that dietary fiber has other benefits to GI health and metabolic health.  Fiber is known to enhance absorption of food, clearance of cholesterol, clearance of toxins, reduction of appetite, and stabilization of blood sugar based on a more consistent rate of absorption of calories out of the digestive tract.

However, the idea that the butyric acid produced in your lower colon may be absorbed into your body and facilitate direct changing of genes involved with overall fat metabolism is new – and the possibilities of what this …
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