In this episode of The Health Edge Mark and John review a recent research study from the American Heart Association that links low vitamin K2 levels with significant cardiovascular risk. Mark and John suggest some strategies for improving K2 levels and for improving vascular “elasticity”.
In this recording of The Health Edge Mark reviews several Hallmarks of aging: genomic instability, epigenetic regulation, mitochondrial function, cell senescence, stem cell production, and cell signaling-communication. Mark connects several powerful lifestyle interventions with hormetic upregulation of these pathways as seen through an ancestral lens.
In this episode of The Health Edge Mark and John review some recent research linking P. gingivalis, a mouth microbe with Alzheimer’s disease. This research shifts the paradigm. Mark and John discuss options for lifestyle management.
In this episode of The Health Edge Mark offers commentary on a study from JAMA published last week titled, Associations of Dietary Cholesterol or Egg Consumption with Incident Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality (JAMA 2019;321(11).
Physician and podcaster Dr. Mark Pettus is our special interview guest on Episode 1481 of The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show. Dr. Mark Pettus is a triple-board certified Internist, Nephrologist, and Integrative Medicine physician practicing for over 25 years. He has appeared on numerous TV and Radio venues nationally including the 700 Club, Good Morning America, NPR and PBS. His podcast, The Health Edge is heard by people all over the world. Listen in today as Jimmy and Dr. Pettus talk about: What population health is The powerful connection between lifestyle and all health outcomes, especially obesity and insulin resistance The contributions of “the social determinants” of health that drive behaviors His integrative health model What he calls New Atkins on steroids Stress, sleep hygiene, and social connection Health themes that challenges conventional wisdom His podcast with podcast with John bagnulo PhD, MPH called The Health Edge and much more.
In this episode of The Health Edge Mark reviews two recently published papers with great importance for health maintenance. The first is Effects of a low carbohydrate diet on energy expenditure during weight loss maintenance: randomized trial (BMJ Nov 2018). The second is Prevalence and Severity of Food Allergies Among US Adults (JAMA Jan 2019).
In this episode of the Health Edge Mark and John discuss Akkermansia, a gut organism that shows up a lot in healthy people and not so much, if at all in people with chronic illness.