Joseph R. Anticaglia MD Medical Advisory Board Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin found in certain fatty and oily foods. Fats makes up about 90% of vitamin E and its main job is to work as an antioxidant to neutralize free radicals. Free radicals are unstable entities (atoms) that injure cells eventually causing illness and aging. The damaged cells lead to chronic inflammation which is thought to contribute to cardiovascular disease, cancer
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board At the end of the summer last year, a friend of mine rang my doorbell at 4:45 p. m. Smiling, he presented me with the last vegetable harvest of the summer from his garden. “I’ve got peppers, eggplant, tasty cherry tomatoes and zucchini. They’ll all delicious and I picked them just a few hours ago. I like to sautee the eggplant and zucchini” — still
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MD Medical Advisory Board Sharon, a 38 year old lab technician, is filling out her medical history in the doctor’s waiting room. One of the first questions on the medical form: What’s your main complaint? She wrote — Sinus pressure and pain. Another question: “Are you allergic to any medication?” She wrote — Penicillin. Sharon remembers when she was 8 years, after
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board Janet told this story: “When I was 4 or 5 years old, I remember my mother saying, ‘Eat the carrots. They’re good for your eyesight.’” Janet continued, “While in the first grade, I had difficulty reading. During a school conference, the teacher advised my parents to have my eyes
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MD Medical Advisory Board Sharon, a 53 y/o writer asked her husband to, “Look at my thumb. The right thumb is bigger than the left.” “Does it hurt?” … “Not now, but after typing for a few hours at the computer, it becomes stiff and achy.” Many months later, Sharon noticed small bumps on her finger joints. She ignored having difficulty turning the key
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MD Medical Advisory Board We’ve all had a bloody nose, scraped a knee or cut a finger at one time or another. A remarkable feat happens when liquid blood turns into a solid mass forming a blood clot and the bleeding stops. If a wound, internal or external does not clot, the bleeding continues leading to shock and a catastrophic ending! Surgeons are particularly attentive to the
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board Someone said, it seems like “deja vu, all over again” for measles. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, has confirmed 387 individual cases of measles in 15 states from January 1 to March 28, 2019. What is the reason or reasons for the current measles’ outbreak?” In
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board When I was about five years old, my mother would open the kitchen cabinet door, take out a dark bottle and come towards me with a spoon in her hand. She didn’t have to say anything. — Oh, no. cod liver oil! Yuk!— It’s good for you— I don’t care. Little did I realize or care about the benefits of vitamin D salvaged from
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board Today, we don’t blink an eye when we buy vitamin D fortified milk, vitamin B1 (thiamine) enriched cereals, iodized salt or other enriched foods. Yet, it took centuries before researchers started to figure out the biochemical composition of food and minerals and how they impacted our health. The prevailing
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board JoAnn, a 67 year old retired secretary, experienced abdominal pain that at times radiated to the back which she dismissed as indigestion. Usually energetic, she uncharacteristically complained of fatigue and, from time to time, itchiness “all over my body.” On several occasions JoAnn’s daughter, Ashley, urged her mother to
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