Dr. Howard Smith Reports

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/5NnTQvjlIjs   More than 2 glasses a day of any soda pop will increase your chances of dying from any cause by 17%.   This startling conclusion stems from a multi-national study of more than 450,000 participants just published in JAMA Network .   Those downing the sugar-sweetened fizzies suffered an 8% higher death risk but artificially-sweetened soda had more than 3 tim...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/CYnOr9jNWa0   Gentlemen...listen up!   The more mushrooms you eat the better, and enjoying them 3 times a week or more will drop your prostate cancer risk at least 17%.     Japanese epidemiologists studied about 36,500 men 40-79 years of age who are in the Miyagi (no relation to Mr. Miyagi of Cobra Kai fame) and Ohsaki Cohorts,   They followed the men for 13 years.   Th...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/MEdGDfCBryw   Heat can lower your blood pressure according to 2 studies just presented to this year’s American Heart Association’s Hypertension meeting.   One study from Vanderbilt University employed heating pads while the second, from Texas State University-San Marcos used hot yoga.   The heating pad study showed that torso heating pads at 100 degrees for 4 hours coul...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/XI6Hk8owIM8   Brown University engineers report that clothing made of the nanomaterial graphene can prevent mosquito bites.   The researchers tested brave volunteers willing to reach into a mosquito-infested box protected only by a single layer of fabric.   Graphene is a lattice of carbon atoms formed into sheets, and it may be complexed with other material to create cl...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/KfCUKNwDFWc   All of us over 6 months of age need the flu vaccine before the winter.   Most of us only require one dose.     Get the shot in the last half of October.   The CDC warms that, if you vaccinate too early, your immunity may not last through the season.   If you vaccinate too late in later November or December, your immunity won’t be there when you need it.  ...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/vFrH1uoQW_4   Firefighters and police officers who heroically respond to calamities such as 9/11 are at least 30-40 percent more likely to suffer serious cardiovascular disease.   Epidemiologists at New York’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine draw this conclusion from their 16 year study of nearly 9800 firefighters who served at Ground Zero.   Early arriving first re...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/ZXcrXdzH5lg   Health News You Should Use, the latest medical discoveries that you can use to keep yourself and your family healthy.  Here are this weeks stories : Too Much Sleep Or Too Little May Trigger Heart Attacks A Pregnant Woman’s Activities & Eating Impact Her Child’s Blood Pressure Later Lifestyle Outweighs Family History Of Premature Heart Disease Plant-Based M...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/UbFatjmobmk   Marijuana concentrate, a form that contains 3 times higher levels of the psychoactive agent THC, is flooding high schools.   This form of weed is associated with more addiction, cognitive problems, and psychiatric disease.   A study from Arizona State University looking at 50,000 high school students finds that one in every three used some form of marijuan...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/7sj8kkq1vQk   Nearly 40% of children whose seizures cannot be controlled with any medications will respond to the ketogenic diet.   This is the finding of a study from Northwestern’s Lurie Children’s Hospital.   Pediatric neurologists there studied 109 patients with seizure disorders persisting despite conventional medication management.   After going on the high fat, l...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/8MDyrS9WZAQ   Using a mouthwash following your exercise session may prevent the beneficial lowering of your blood pressure that physical activity typically triggers.   This observation was just published in the journal Free Radical Biology and Medicine .   A group of 23 healthy adults ran on the treadmill for 30 minutes during two separate sessions.   At 30 minute inter...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/O9AFSVfPvnM   Cannabis use mutates a gene in sperm that is associated with autism.   Duke University investigators compared the sperm of weed users with those of non-users.   The cannabis users’ sperm showed widespread DNA methylation changes including reduced methylation of the DLGAP2 gene.   Modifications of this gene are associated with a number of neurological and p...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/vuHcKOXJzhM   Eating plenty of fruits and vegetables is more critical for preventing cardiovascular disease than consuming a particular fad diet that emphasizes either unsaturated fats, proteins, or carbohydrates.   This nutritional commandment comes from researchers at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital.   Their study focused on 150 participants, 54 years of age...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/uNabJxQaMAo   When it comes to preventing the spread of the flu, a paper surgical mask works just as well as the N95 respirator mask costing 14 times more.   Both masks are readily available from Amazon.com.   A multi-site study, organized by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the CDC, reviewed the spread of influenza when more than 2800 parti...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/FedQyWPCnNM   To induce tolerance to peanuts in those allergic to them, tiny amounts of peanut protein under the tongue, so called Sublingual Immunotherapy or SLIT, work better with fewer dangerous side effects than swallowing the peanuts or wearing a peanut patch.   Allergists at The University of North Carolina announce this conclusion from their ongoing study of 48 p...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/acnKKOtHZRc   It’s exercise doctrine that strength-boosting sessions should be followed by a protein shake to permit muscle recovery and reduce aches and pains.   Now a study from Britain’s University of Lincoln suggests that these shakes are no better than plain old carbohydrate drinks.   University exercise physiologists provided 30 male subjects with one of three drink...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/h7tCnOJJpvM   One-third of middle school and high school students are exposed to the lung-sickening toxins that spew from electronic cigarettes smoked by their peers.   This warning comes from Harvard’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the analysis of data from the National Youth Tobacco Survey for 2018.   The numbers of students who report inhaling the fumes generated...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/S9WDXawVQMQ   Systemic therapy with estrogens, progesterones, or a combination of both can more than double a post-menopausal woman’s risk of developing breast cancer.   This frightening warning comes from a collaborative study just published in The Lancet .   The research focused on nearly 107,000 postmenopausal breast cancer patients half of whom had received hormonal...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/JAh9odm_68c   Electric scooters are all the rage, but their use in the US and around the world has fostered an epidemic of injuries.   A study by surgeons at UC-San Diego shows that most scooter disasters occur when their users drink alcohol, use drugs, and fail to wear helmets.   The investigators tabulated eScooter-related admissions to their emergency department over...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/wbftavTqh_w   Eat nuts, virtually any type of nuts, twice a week, and you’ll cut your risk of dying from cardiovascular disease by 17%.   That’s the bottom line from an Iranian study just presented to the World Congress of Cardiology.   Nearly 5500 participants 35 years or older who were disease-free at study onset were followed for 12 years.   Their consumption of waln...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/-I3_f7U00RU   The Impossible Burger, Beyond Burger and Beyond Sausage, and Tyson’s Raised and Rooted Chicken Nuggets are all the rage.   Besides the debate about the taste and the genetically-engineered content of these plant-based products compared with the meats they replace, a UK nutritionist sounds the alarm in the British Medical Journal that exclusive use of meatl...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/BTotDqF8O1U   Even if your parents suffered a heart attack at a young age, you can avoid that fate.   Lack of exercise, smoking, blood pressure, cholesterol, and diabetes are more important than genetic factors when it comes to the early development of cardiovascular disease.     This conclusion stems from a Portuguese study just presented to the European Society of Car...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/RU0P15Rlw1M   Women who are walkers, live near green spaces in temperate to warm climates, eat only moderate amounts of fish, and avoid BPA-containing plastic water bottles are more likely to have kids with normal blood pressures during mid to late childhood.   Spanish researchers just published these finding in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology .   The...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/uhyKeeSPw4o   Here comes another loud cheer for sleep moderation from the Harvard-MIT Broad Biomedical Institute, the University of Colorado-Boulder, and the UK’s University of Manchester.   Those sleeping fewer than 6 hours a night had a 20% higher heart attack risk, but sleeping longer than 9 hours was even more dangerous elevating the risk of heart attack by 34%.   T...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/5H_y0xIrTgo Health News You Should Use, the latest medical discoveries that you can use to keep yourself and your family healthy.   Here are this weeks stories : Listening Equal To Reading For Comprehending Information Dogs Help Your Heart Smartphone Use Not Driving Our Teens Crazy After All Polluted Air Kills You Faster Any Physical Activity Cuts Risk of Early Death A...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/T3LMa31YJEk   It’s all over the news: currently more than 200 mostly young people have been hospitalized with life-threatening respiratory illness.   At least one of them has died.     A new study from the University of Pennsylvania shows that even vaping once without any nicotine leads to significant blood vessel lining damage.   The study analyzed 31 healthy non-smoki...