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Attention Gen X: There will be no magic cure for Alzheimer’s and Dementia. A phase 3 clinical trial for the best hope in a generation for an effective Alzheimer’s drug ended suddenly last week. The drug, aducanumab, part of a family of biotech drugs known as monoclonal antibodies, failed to show promise. This drug was hailed as the best chance out of a wide array of drugs being formulated to mitigate the devastating effects of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. It failed not ...Continue reading

If you have auto-immune disease and a doctor wants to put you on a 'Mab", a drug based on monoclonal antibody technology, you should read this. In this post I discuss what exactly a "mouse derived antibody" is and why Mouse Antibodies are not viable solutions for long term management of auto-immune diseases. Geek alert!-This post gets heavy into immunology. Does a new class of drugs derived from humanized mouse DNA offer promise for long term management of auto-immune dis...Continue reading

If you are at the grocery store and want to buy chicken, which one is healthierthe ‘organic’ chicken with white striping as pictured here or the ‘free range’ chicken? For this mom, I chose the Rocky since the appearance of the chicken is much healthier. The presence of white striations in the ‘organic’ chicken breast tells me that this chicken was not raised humanely, the meat itself will have an unhealthy balance of fats compared to true pastured chicken and finally, its go...nna taste like crap. A typical chicken with white stripes on the breast, like pictured here, likely grew 1.5 times compared to an average sized bird resulting in a meat with more than twice the fat of average chicken. This bird likely suffered throughout its existence due to fast growth and weighty mis-proportioned breasts, the fast growth and diet result in these visible white stripes. Most people eat chicken for lean protein, this white striped chicken has less protein and not just more fat, but more of the ‘bad’ fats associated with heart disease. Chicken has never been a powerhouse of omega 3 fatty acids or other ‘healthy’ fats but the presence of those white stripes is correlated to increased omega 6 fatty acids and a decrease in omega 3’s. Optimal health maximizes omega 3 intake and minimizes omega 6 intake, this chicken will skew those ratios toward omega 6. The terms organic and free-range are loaded terms that usually just equate with more expensive. One need not buy Safeway organic chicken to see that it is not a healthy food; technically it may check all the boxes to earn organic certification but is it really better than a ‘conventional’ chicken? In short, organic minus sustainability and minus concern for animal welfare is a farce; the well-educated consumer will reject white striped chicken breast regardless of the words printed on the label.

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