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NORADRENALINE METABOLITE A POWERFUL ANTIOXIDANT We read years ago that vitamin C is the most important antioxidant in the brain and that after vitamin C is depleted, noradrenaline becomes the most important antioxidant. A new paper1 suggests a possible mechanism to explain the importance of noradrenaline in antioxidative systems. The oxidatively deaminated noradrenaline metabolite 3,4-dihydroxymandelic acid … Read more

“I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.” – Poul Anderson New Scientist, September 25, 1969 “A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.” – Sir Bennett Cocks New Scientist, 1973 “In a democracy, … Read more

Wine from long habit has become indispensable for my health.  — Thomas Jefferson, 1815 So, we toast our readers: Best wishes for a prosperous and healthy 2002! (Remember, you can significantly increase your HDL with moderate alcohol consumption.) INTERACTIONS BETWEEN LOW-DOSE ASPIRIN AND NSAIDS CAN BLOCK ANTIPLATELET EFFECTS OF ASPIRIN A new paper in the New … Read more

FOODS THAT ARE HIGH IN POTASSIUM On October 30, 2000, the FDA allowed orange juice manufacturers to add a new health claim informing consumers that diets containing foods that are good sources of potassium and are low in sodium may reduce the risk of high blood pressure and stroke.1 Foods that contain (per serving) at least … Read more

Special Supplement • Nov. 2001 Grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. – Justice Thurgood Marshall RED ALERT! Centers for Disease Control Infected with Fascism: Proposes Medical Dictatorship The November 12, 2001 National Law Journal reports1 that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the idiots who told the post office … Read more

NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON? I hope your committee will not permit doubts as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation. – F. D. Roosevelt: Letter to the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives (on the Guffey-Snyder Coal Bill, July 1935) The United States Constitution has proved itself the most … Read more

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that … Read more

From Special Politically Incorrect Issue Allowing government officials to access a private person’s medical records without a warrant is a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which protects American citizens from warrantless searches by government officials. – Rep. Ron Paul, R-TX Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the … Read more

LIPOSUCTION SUCKS AWAY INSULIN RESISTANCE TOO We have long been interested in whether liposuction, a popular form of cosmetic surgery (218,064 liposuction procedures were reported in 1998 by board-certified plastic surgeons, dermatologists, and otolaryngologists), provides health benefits by reducing the body-fat load or altering fat distribution. An article in the January 17, 2001 Journal of the … Read more

To all our readers: we wish you a very happy and healthy new year! “The real goal is to keep people alive forever.” — William Haseltine, head of Human Genome Sciences in Rockville, MD, at a conference in Washington, DC on 4 Dec. 2000, marking the creation of the Society of Regenerative Medicine to promote … Read more