Dr. Howard Smith Reports

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/ia2-rZBk8yo   Sleep quality impaired by breathing disruptions accelerates the aging process.   So said sleep scientists from Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital earlier this summer at the Associated Professional Sleep Societies annual meeting.     A group of 622 adults underwent sleep analysis via polysomnography and quantitative aging determination by epigenetic DNA...

Vidcast:   ttps://youtu.be/4O6kaDUCs-4   Children born even as little as 3 weeks prematurely during the summer months may be inappropriately placed a grade ahead.   Then they go through their elementary education at a profound disadvantage and are twice as likely to underperform.     The researchers at Britain’s University of Leeds do not recommend arbitrarily holding back a premie. Instead they s...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/LXahZTaYegs   Your child is more likely to suffer a head injury biking or skate boarding than playing team sports like soccer, rugby, or basketball.   So says a Australian-New Zealand study of   20,000 plus kids presenting to emergency departments with head injuries.   Bike riding, skateboarding, and golf are 20 times more likely than rugby to produce a head injury.   O...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/pTL7gMnka1s   Feeding your infant to excess triggers undesirable genetic changes that could condemn the child to diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.   Pediatricians and molecular geneticists at Texas’ Baylor College of Medicine now report that overfed mouse neonates develop lifelong DNA methylation abnormalities.   These genetic changes led to premature aging patterns...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/nt8CnzUfzIE   Protect your brains guys if you value your virility and sex lives.   The Harvard Football Players Study reports that repeated head trauma is associated with testosterone reductions and a risk of erectile problems or ED.   Included in the study were 3400 former football players.   Those with the highest concussion scores were 2.4 times more likely to have l...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/LVHpX2FdrEA   Ladies with post-traumatic stress should so inform their ob-gyns and seek close surveillance for ovarian cancer. The Harvard School of Public Health just reported that young women with past traumatic experiences and PTSD symptoms have up to a 3 fold higher risk of this deadly disease.   The study of nearly 55,000 nurses showed that women with the most PTSD...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/4waXXk7vFG4   Growing up with an older brother slows a young child’s language emergence.   French developmental linguists observed this phenomenon after observing more than 1100 children from birth to 5 and a half years.   Children of either gender with older brothers had a 2 month language delay compared with those having a sister.   The investigators suggest that this...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/kR-yJ1SX370   Positive thinking fuels a longer, happier life.   A collaborative study from Boston University, the Boston VA Medical Center, and Harvard’s School of Public Health now shows that optimistic men and women live 11 to 15% longer and have a 50-70% greater chance of living to 85 years.   The study looked at more than 70,000 participants.   Surveys quantitated t...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/UvP-dhmAPs0 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 : First Responders At Greater Risk For Heart Attack And Stroke Roasting High Blood Pressure Mushrooms Lower Prostate Cancer Risk Soft Drinks May Kill You PTSD Risks Ovarian Cancer Older Brother Delays Sibs’ Languag...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/71TKGvmUViM   Expectant mothers should increase the fat content of their diet to shield their baby from Alzheimer’s dementia later.   Molecular biologists from Temple University draw this conclusion from studying mice prone to developing this tragic and ever more common disease.   Researchers fed group A pregnant mice a high fat diet and the control group B mice normal...

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...