What I’m Reading This Month: Fecal Transplants and Autism, Vitamin B Deficiency and Mental Health, and the Latest on Monsanto

The sheer volume of health, wellness, and medical news and commentary available on the internet can be overwhelming. Every month, get a taste of what integrative medicine leader Dr. John Gannage finds interesting (and digestible) on the web.

Sleep Problems In Teenagers Reduced In Just One Week By Limiting Screen Use

Sleep is so basic to healthy cognitive activity. The brain restores itself and detoxifies with each good night’s sleep. A child’s focus is negatively affected by poor sleep. Sleep disturbance is a risk factor for ADHD. Screen time in the evening messes with our biological clock and melatonin’s natural rhythm. Melatonin is our sleep hormone. Bottom line: limit screen use in the evening.

Fecal Transplants Result In Massive Long-Term Reduction in Autism Symptoms

Wow 😊 “Now, two years after the treatment, the researchers have found that not only did the benefits persist, they seem to have continued to improve. Doctors observations at the eight-week mark found that psychological autism symptoms of the patients had decreased by 24 percent. Now, they’ve almost been cut in half, with a professional evaluator finding a decrease of 45 percent in autism symptoms compared to baseline.”

Monsanto Lost Again on Roundup. What’s Next For Glyphosate?

13,000 additional cases awaiting trial.

Monsanto Spent $17 Million in One Year to Discredit International Cancer Agency over Glyphosate Classification

Think tobacco and Phillip Morris; lead and GM/DuPont; sugar and Coca Cola/Pepsi; (name the product with potentially overwhelming negative public health effects and name the Corporation behind it); now glyphosate and Monsanto …

“The company’s plan involved ‘engagement with third parties to provide information, share talking points, and other resources’ along with ‘outreach to the media, to ensure balance and accuracy, and the right context and perspective on the science in — in their coverage of — of our product.’ “

High Rates of B Vitamin Deficiency in Teens with Mental Illness

“Vitamin deficiency needs to be taken into account, and it needs to be supplemented. We’ve seen the correlation with psychiatric disorders and with neurodevelopmental impairment. It needs to be taken care of.”

To Curb Kids’ Sugary Drink Habits, Pediatricians Now Call For Soda Taxes

Would you support a soda and sugar tax in Canada?

Other countries and some States have a soda tax. I’ve been calling for it for a while now – and now the American Academy of Pediatrics and American Heart Association are on board! Lots of pushback from the beverage industry of course, a strong lobby group.

My concern: driving up sales of aspartame-laden beverages, so would need legislation to curb that also.

#TaxSoda #TaxSugar #AspartameToo

Prescribing Healthy Foods Could Bring Cost-Effective Benefits

I’ll file this under the category “duh” ….

The Brain Needs Animal Fat

Qualitarian, flexitarian and Mediterranean … that’s how I would sum up a healthy diet lifestyle.

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