Dr. Howard Smith Reports

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/WCVwKnueXMg   Women sleeping 5 hours a night or less were 94% more likely to have whole body osteoporosis compared with those sleeping at least 7 hours.   A study of more than 11,000 postmenopausal women participating in the Women’s Health Initiative was just published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research .   The investigation compared self-reported sleep durat...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/gYEb98stl-8   More pregnant women turn to their own mothers than their doctors or self-help books for advice during pregnancy and child-rearing pointers later.   This from a University of Cincinnati study of   64 pregnant women and 23 almost grandmothers.   Though self-help guidebooks provide solid, factual information, they also tend to create a generational disconne...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/wBNR4ratKno   Up to 90% of cosmetics contain the nastiest superbugs on the planet.   A British study just published in the Journal of Applied Microbiology cultured skin foundation blender sponges, mascara, and lip gloss finding grossly unhygienic conditions.   These contaminated products contain Staph aureus, E. Coli, and Citrobacter freundii that can trigger skin inf...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/ofG8jUtS6HU   Rising temperatures increase the deadly toxin arsenic in rice.   A University of Washington study due to be presented this week to the American Geophysical Union measured the presence of arsenic in rice grown at a variety of temperatures that simulate expected conditions over the remainder of this 21 st century.   As growing temps increase from the 77˚F...

  Vidcast: https://youtu.be/vKr2eAmy9C0   The next unsettling dream you experience is likely exercising your brain to counteract potential disasters during your waking life.   This the conclusion of collaborative Swiss-Wisconsin study of some 107 subjects whose dreams were analyzed via journaling and whose brain activities were quantitated by electroencephalograms and MRI imaging.   Those experien...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/mo3bu81XTS0   If you’re struggling with balance problems due to an accident, an injury, or advancing age, that VR headset laying around the house or on the store shelf may just be the key to your recovery.   Balance specialists and physiotherapists at Sweden’s Lund University now report their results using a virtual reality environment to help subjects train their bal...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/XIwudYNkhHs   Sporadic over-consumption of alcohol during adolescent years leads to epigenetic alterations in the cells of brain tissue, and that modification forever damages later emotional stability.   Experiments proving this phenomenon from the University of Illinois-Chicago were just published in the journal Biological Psychiatry.   Using an adolescent rat model,...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/Pj1dBHEHMa8   The poor ole egg is again under attack again.   Numerous studies over the past 30 years have declared the egg to be innocent of being an accessory before the fact when it comes to driving artery hardening, heart attacks, and strokes.   Many nutrition experts have stated that the majority of the cholesterol in our body is synthesized in the liver from the...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/6bhjhS4GLq4   Smartphones and tablets have not reduced the 90 minutes a day that children and teens traditionally spend with other family members.   Sociologists at the British Universities of Oxford and Warwick reviewed journals from nearly 2500 children 8 to 16 years of age and journals from their parents as well.       The data shows that personal electronics actua...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/yaycsWNG3hw   Sleep deprivation will drive you to consume a wider variety of products.   Marketing researchers from the University of British Columbia’s business school draw this conclusion from several studies of buying patterns as a function of sleepiness.     Their experiments included artificial situations such as choosing candy bars on more or less sleep and a lo...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/XQlxP5qLiz4   Hookah smoking is considered safe and fun.   It attracts teens and young adults by the droves.   This cavalier attitude is drawing alarm from the American Heart Association, and it is time to set the record straight.   Water pipe smoking is industrial strength tobacco smoking.   A one hour hookah session exposes the smoker to the nicotine and tar equival...

Snoring And Sleep Apnea May Lead to Young Athletes’ Sudden Death Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/Y_MjSC0RSQk   Stocky, young athletes often experience disordered sleep snd breathing patterns that could predispose them to heart attack and sudden death.   Exercise scientists from Japan’s Showa University explored this situation by studying 42 male rugby players 18-19 years of age.   After formal sleep s...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/kb0cdrP9csU   A one-hour midday nap can help you control your blood pressure as well as taking medications or changing your diet.   Greek cardiologists will be presenting their data demonstrating this effect next week at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Sessions.   The researchers studied more than 200 middle aged subjects comparing the blood pre...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/X86AIAevYRc   Abusive bosses who rule with a heavy hand are managing their own failure.   This is the conclusion of a 427 study meta-analysis completed by researchers at Portland State University and published in the Journal of Management.   Managers perceived as unfair, unhelpful, and impersonal trigger counterproductive and passive-aggressive work behaviors includin...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/5R8o82HKzOo   Music can keep groups of people engaged by synchronizing and pacing their brainwaves, but not all types of music have this effect.   Engineers at the City College of New York studied the neural responses of audiences in response to various forms of music.   Their research shows that unfamiliar scores synchronize communal brains most effectively, and the...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/NGDyl9OUX7k   E-cigarettes, touted as being safer than tobacco cigarettes, seem to trigger heart attacks and strokes.   This is the conclusion of research from the University of Kansas that studied nearly 100,000 Americans.   It was presented recently at this year’s meeting of the American College of Cardiology.   Those who vape are 56% more likely to suffer a heart a...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/6YkO3qoOn-M   Obstetricians at Israel’s Ben Gurion University now proclaim that “50 is the new 40 when it comes to childbirth!”   They studied more than 8,000 pregnant women 40 years and above.   The data revealed that complications such as premature birth, gestational diabetes, high blood pressure, and a need for c-section were no higher for those in their 50s compar...

    Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/rLcHzGnCbCw   Want to boost your long distance running performance in only 4 days?   Get yourself on the Mediterranean Diet says investigators from St. Louis University.   They studied 11 male and female 5K runners giving each 4 days of the Mediterranean Diet or 4 days of the typical Western Diet before they ran the 5K on a treadmill.   Consuming the Mediterranean D...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/6YdaC5YgAuQ   Raw dog food is becoming quite the rage.   A study just published in the British Medical Journal’s Veterinary Record reveals that raw dog food from 10 different sources contains dangerous levels of E.coli and other fecal bacteria, Salmonella, Campylobacter, and Clostridia.   Raw pet food is prepared from miscellaneous body parts and organs that are a byp...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/SL6hU7sJnWQ   Listen up men.   Two chemicals that can damage your sperm and your ability to father a normal child are lurking in and around your home.   A study just published by England’s University of Nottingham shows that the plasticizer DEHP and the industrial chemical PCB153 both reduce the motility and increase the level of DNA damage of sperm exposed to them in...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/Krls1Vigp3E   Using popular mouthwashes may cause your blood pressure to jump up significantly.   Dentists and cardiologists at the University of Texas report that the antibacterial agent in mouthwash, chlorhexidine, prevents the normal oral bacteria from metabolizing ingested nitrates into the nitric oxide that plays a key role in normalizing blood pressure.   The in...

  Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/_DFUFfgGHsc   If a parent constantly corrects an infant, that child’s brain becomes more sensitive to angry vocalizations.   Investigators at Britain’s University of Manchester studied 40 six month old infants and their mothers utilizing the novel neuroimaging technique of Near Infrared Spectroscopy.   This permits the study of a baby’s brain activation by maternal vo...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/6Gp35HxNfKI   If you burn your candle at both ends during the week and think that you can catch up on sleep over the weekend, think again!   A study from the University of Colorado shows that you won’t catch up on sleep and that your irregular sleep pattern will torpedo your glucose metabolism and internal time clock.   The study assigned health young adults to one of t...

  Vidcast:   ttps://youtu.be/mJ67PSiq78Y   Mothers who smoke, vape, or use oral and patch nicotine products may be exposing their unborn children to the risk of attention deficit and hyperactivity issues,ADHD, later in life.   A study from Finland just published in the journal Pediatrics studied over 1,000 children and matched controls born 10 years ago.     The researchers studied serum samples f...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/BnAb8oU9ZdY   Keeping your head, hands, and body busy in middle age pays off big later in life.   The latest pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is that your risk of dementia drops by nearly 35 to more than 50 percent.     This finding comes from Sweden’s University of Gothenburg’s study of 800 women who were followed from their mid-forties well into their nineties.  ...