Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board Former Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop MD, in a report dealing with “Diet” said: “If you do not smoke or drink excessively, your choice of diet can influence your long-term health more than any other action you may take.” Dr. Koop’s comment brought me back to the days in
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board Nobel Prize laureate Paul Ehrlich coined the term “magic bullet” in 1900, meaning a way to kill (bullet) a specific target (magic). He thought it might be possible to target and kill bacteria with a single agent without hurting the body itself. His hypothesis became a reality nine years
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease that causes the body to mistakenly attack itself. It destroys healthy tissues in the joints and in other part of the body. About 1.5 million Americans have RA. Why the body decides to attack itself is fundamentally unknown. However, researchers suggest a
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disease in the U.S. affecting more than twenty million Americans and costing billions of dollars each year. It’s due to the wearing down of the joints — a degenerative disease of aging, more common in women and localized to the joints. It
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board You might have heard this refrain: “I’m shrinking. I’m 2 inches shorter than I used to be. The older I get, the shorter I become!” The culprit most likely is osteoporosis, a bone disorder that reduces bone strength and bone density. It can lead to a forward curvature of
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board Three articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine on September 16, 2018 call into question the usefulness of aspirin for healthy seniors. Researchers in Australian and the United States enrolled healthy individuals who were 70 years of age or older without any evidence of cardiovascular disease, dementia
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board Iron deficiency anemia is due to a low level of iron in the blood. There is a decrease in the number of red blood cells (RBCs) in the body which appear under the microscope to be smaller in size and paler in color. Source Graham Beards Human blood I.D.A.
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MDMedical Advisory Board Iron is present in every living plant and animal cell. Without iron, virtually all life would cease to exist. Although this trace mineral is found in every cell of the human body, most of it is concentrated in two proteins: hemoglobin in red blood cells (RBCs) and myoglobin in muscle cells. The Important functions of Iron are often overlooked: Iron is needed by red
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In August 2018, President Jimmy Carter was interviewed on TV and asked about his views concerning the current political situation in the United States. I was captured by the vitality of this 93 year old man’s lucid and laconic answers to a variety of other questions asked of him. He stood tall wearing a blue working shirt with a red bandana around his neck and showcased his full-toothed smile.
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MD Medical Advisory Board Throughout history salt has been prized for its use to preserve food and to add flavor to food. Today we take salt for granted because it’s readily available; it’s cheap and frequently iodized. However, there was a time, the opposite was true. Sea water and rock salt are the two main sources of salt.
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