Tips on eating out

If we are to believe our demographics upwards of 50% of all Americans eat out at least once a week.

This shouldn't surprise you that this number coincides with a massive increase in weight we now suffer as a nation.

But not all blame can fall on the restaurants and not all statistics are actually meaningful, as I have pointed out in the blogs on medical research.

Two things are clear about restaurant foods; they tend to be calorie-dense and often of marginal food value. And the portions sizes are often way out of proportion to what we should eat at a single sitting.

Nowhere is this more the case than at fast food restaurants.

So today we'll look at some issues surrounding that and other weight related topics.

So on to the questions:

Q: Doc, is there a simple way to pick stuff from a menu when I eat out. It seems like there is always something unhealthy in every dish.

A: You are correct. Most restaurants do have something unhealthy going into most dishes. For example: Green beans may be pan fried in some type of unhealthy vegetable oil, or worse done in an oil that can't take the heat without turning into something unhealthy like olive or canola.

Watch for these oil choices and see if they can be limited to salads, etc. and not used in anything hotter than a sauté. A lot of restaurants are just banking on the name "olive" or "canola" as invoking healthy food. Especially when other restaurants are doing that.

In terms of picking, 'tis actually fairly easy. Stay with stuff that is cooked "simple" In other words steak, chicken or fish can be done without tons of breading, sauce or mixing.

Stay away from refined baked goods including breads, desserts or things that are cooked in a lot of sauce or dressings.

In this way you minimize the damage.

Salads can be especially bad. If the dressing makes the salad, chances are it's pure fat and not very healthy for you. See if they can load your salad plate with veggies that have a lot of natural flavor.

And by all means, avoid the bacon bits!

Don't forget to chase your meal with a couple of caps of fish oil for that health essential fat you may not get in your entree.

Q: Dr Dave, I suffer from scale frustration. If the numbers don't move fast I get frustrated and lose motivation. What should I do?

A: Stop acting like a child. You didn't put the weight on overnight and it's not likely to come of overnight unless you are very sick. Also, stop looking at the scale. Most people wouldn't give a crap what they weighted if three things happened.

1. Their doctors and/or family stopped bugging them about it because they were not unhealthy.



2. They looked good at there body weight.



3. They felt good at their body weight.

I think a good primary goal is to look and feel better. If you do those 2 things, you are undoubtedly losing weight. Just don't obsess over your weight on the scale. I recommend most people trying to drop weight or fat check no more than once a week.

The internet may change overnight, but you won't.

If you need a jump-start then get on Regenerizer and fish oil and start doing the Wicked Witch of the West deal from The Wizard of Oz.

"I'm melting!"

Only in this case it will be fat and you'll feel and look better.

Q: Doc, I eat a lot of fast foods and drive-thru, do you have any recommendations about this?

A: Yes, avoid them like the plague.

Still, I am a realist so here are some do's and don'ts.

Avoid: Subway Foot long Chicken Parm sub. OK, Roland or whatever his name is may have gotten skinny on Subway sandwiches but they still make some major league tub o' lard fodder.

One example is the Chicken Parm sub on white bread.

Weighing in at over 1000 calories, 35 grams of fat and probably a nice slug of high fructose corn syrup in the bread, this is one to avoid.

Sub: Get the sub with plain chicken on whole wheat and you scrub off 300 calories and 30% of the fat.

Avoid: Burger King Double whopper with cheese.

Slathered in mayo and ketchup, this hefty burger delivers 1000 calories and is truly a whopper at 64 grams of fat.

Sub: The mayo-less Whopper Jr. saves 600 calories and 50 grams of fat!

The Original Whopper's calorie and fat count are absurd and absolutely astounding and probably one of the fattiest fast foods around.

And now my personal favorite: The Taco Bell Grilled stuffed Beef Burrito tipping your scales at 1050 calories and 52 grams of fat, bolstered by an unhealthy slug of refined flour, this is one to avoid at all costs.

Sub: The set of 3 spicy chicken Tacos, half the calories and less than half the fat, if you are at the Bell this is the one to ring.

I remind you that I understand how hard it can be to get the body you want in today's busy, cyber-paced world.

I can help. Regenerizer and fish oil make an awesome combo to support your fat-fighting program.

Get going now and have the body you want by summer!

Doc

Stud or Spud part 3

More studly and spudly questions today; but only studly advice I promise.

If you are new to the blog, this is actually what I used to call a "miniseminar", meaning it comes in several parts. You should go back to the first installment entitled "SOS from the Oceans of Fat" and start there to get the most out of this studly advice!

We pick up the questions in sequence:

Q #3: Doc, does calcium help with weight loss?

A: No, as a matter of fact I just did an email on this very topic. For the average person calcium is worthless as a weight loss supplement.

Q #4: Doc, does Acupuncture help with weight loss

A: It does not, although there are a lot of people with needles wishing it were true. (See International Journal of Obesity, 29, pp1379-85, 2005 or just take my word for it).

Q #5: Dr Dave, are sports drinks good to take during exercise?

Probably not, as putting sugar in your system while you are working out decreases fat burning. Now if your workout is over 2 hours then you might want to put some sugar in there. Otherwise stick with water if you are trying to lose weight

By the way, the same holds true for post work out. If you are trying to lose weight and burn the most fat, don't put extra sugar into our system for at least 2 hours after your workout.

Again, this is not body building advice; it is fat burning advice.

Q #6: Dr Dave does Yoga help you lose weight?

A: Not in most cases. There are some very vigorous types of Yoga that can indeed increase your heart rate and tax your muscles enough to get you some of the training effect we talked about yesterday.

Yoga has many great benefits; it's just that weight loss is not commonly one of them.

By the way I mentioned Capoeira in one of my emails a while back predicting that it would be the next exercise fad. All it needs is one starlet to be filmed doing it and you'll see watered down versions of it in every Cardio Kick boxing school across the country.

In its pure form it is way too hard for the average Pilates dilatant.

Q #7: Doc Dave, I read about the weight loss drug, Xenical, and heard it's coming out over the counter. Is this true and can you comment?

Yes, it's true Xenical is coming out over the counter. It will be called "Alli". I hope this is not another one of those drugs named after someone's daughter. The drug companies have no talent at naming there drugs and often resort to family member's names.

Instant Einstein. Now there is a name!

Alli, the half dose version of its prescription strength mother (Xenical), is sure to have the same side effects.

Namely abdominal pain, bloating, flatulence, and oily, uncontrolled bowel movements.

And my guess is you'll still have to pay a pretty penny for the privilege.

By the way, it really is funny what the FDA considers safe and side effects free, isn't it?

And finally, what if this drug is named after some guy's daughter? If you were the daughter how would you feel if your namesake drug caused the world at large to have the trots?

I guess it's better than naming it after what it really does. Somehow I think "shichurbrainsout" might be a hard sell!

Who knows, maybe they own stock in a toilet paper or diaper company!

We have had reports of great success using fish oil, Regenerizer and Hercules Factor to cut body fat improve weight loss and boost energy levels and workouts.

Get some now!

None of these will give you the trots.

Spud or stud rating for today

Questions 3 and 4 - Come on, you spuds. Stop looking for the magic bullet. I haven't released it yet so you'll have to weight (yuk yuk) a few more months.

Question 5 and 6 - I really want to push the Spud button here but I've got to be fair. At least you guys sound like you are doing something.
I can't give you a true stud rating, however, so let's say you are on probation. Write back to me in a few weeks and we'll see how you are doing.

Question 7 - Ah yes, another magic bullet question. Sorry, you'll have to wait for my secret diet potion to be released like the rest of them. In the meantime you better buy toilet paper in bulk if you are thinking about using Alli.

So get your spudly, potato paunches moving and take some Regenerizer, Fish oil and Hercules Factor if you want to make it easier to get where you want to go.

Ok, that's it for today. Hey, I had mercy on you. Much less science and fewer words. Have a great day and get out and do something physical.

Doc

Stud or Spud - Part 2

In this segment of the blog I cover some exercise and diet questions that have come in over the past few weeks and give them a stud or spud rating.

It is sometimes true you can tell the kind of person you are dealing with from the kind of questions they ask.

See how well you do with the rankings by picking Stud or Spud when you've read the question.

We pick up with a continuation of the earlier blog

Q# 2: Doc, which is better, aerobic or anaerobic exercise?

A: That really depends on your goal. If your goal is to run marathons, then you should spend the bulk or your time doing just that which would focus you on aerobic activity.

If your goal is to be a power lifter, then any energy you expend on aerobic activity may tax your body and detract from your goal. You'll be immensely strong but tire out walking around the block.

For most people their goal is to get in shape in a general fashion or for a specific sport that requires both aerobic and anaerobic activity.

In terms of efficiency and overall benefit it seems best to start with an activity that is strongly aerobic like hill sprints or wind sprints. What we used to call interval training a few years back.

You can burn as many or more calories in less time and it seems to actually benefit your heart more than the long, slow distance training that is so familiar to the 10K and up runners.

Recent studies indicate that a person's ability to have their heart rate soar and then come back down quickly to a normal or slow rate is a better predictor of heart health than resting heart rate alone.

A lot of confusion comes from something called training effect as well.

There are 2 meanings to training effect as I know it but they both converge at the same spot, a stronger heart.

To some, training effect means that when you start to train aerobically (sprints etc) you will at first not be able to sustain anaerobic activity for long.

Let me use the Hindu Pushup as an example.

Some folks may only be able to do 10 or 20 at a crack before their muscles fatigue. They may work out for less than a minute.

This is purely anaerobic.

However, if they stick with it they will eventually be able to crank out 500 or 1000 of them and it may take 30 to 60 minutes. It has now become aerobic.

Now it is true that at some point you can't go any faster and if you could go so fast that this exercise would remain anaerobic and you'd tire out in a minute or less even though you could do 500 or thousand at a slower pace.

But the point is you don't get to 500 or 1000 if there is not a strong cardio (aerobic) effect.

Sprinting may be an even more obvious example.

When I first started a sprint program to train for a marathon a few years back the most I could get to was between 12 and 13 M.P.H. on the treadmill. After 30 seconds I was getting to the end of my rope.

By the end of the program I was hitting 16 M.P.H. for 30 seconds. But I could do 12 M.P.H. for over 2 minutes, meaning I was out of the pure anaerobic range.

This means: I had gotten some aerobic training effect out of my anaerobic activity.

Some people even claim that training effect refers to a metabolic boost of the body that happens after these bursts of interval training consisting mainly of anaerobic activity.

In other words working out this hard may crank your metabolism for 24 hours or more and help you burn more fat.

That seems to hold water as well.

Here is the bottom line:

To boost your metabolism and burn fat as fast as possible mix cardio with interval training and do them in the same session if you can. You'll be forced to workout less because your body will need more time to recover and you'll be tired after less time but you will have the most efficient workout you can have.

In Brick and Mortar Fitness I'll show you how to do just this; keep your eyes peeled for it.

Also, for you fools in a hurry to see great results, don't forget the combination of fish oil, Regenerizer and Hercules Factor.


Ok that's it for today so tune in tomorrow for more Stud or Spud and we'll see how you did on the quiz!

Dr Dave's Spud or Stud ranking:

Stud - any one who asks this kind of question is truly interested in exercise and bettering themselves.

You are a true stud, my friend, and if you want to be even more studly don't forget the combination of fish oil, Regenerizer and Hercules Factor.

More in Thursday's blog, Spud or Stud Part 3

Awash in potato peels,

Dr Dave

Stud or spud

In this segment of the blog I cover some exercise and diet questions that have come in over the past few weeks and give them a stud or spud rating.

It is sometimes true you can tell the kind of person you are dealing with from the kind of questions they ask.

See how well you do with the rankings by picking Stud or Spud when you've read the question.

My rankings are at the end of each blog.

Q #1: Doc I know I have some bad habits in both eating and exercise that are keeping me from succeeding on the body habbitus front. Any suggestions on how to break them?

A: First, identify them. You are the kind of person that would benefit most from keeping a diet and exercise journal. A lot of people say "I know what I have to do I just don't do it" and leave it at that.

Keeping records for a week or two can be miraculous at identifying where you are and what you really need to work on.

Saying "I eat between meals" is not enough. What do you eat and why do you eat? If you are truly hungry then you are eating the wrong things at meal times. If you are just bored or stressed you need to substitute a better behavior.

Finally, start small with a written plan once you've identified your weak areas. Do a little at a time. Slowly replace your bad habits with a better habit and build on that.

By the way by "body habbitus front" do you mean how you look?

I am the doctor here. I will use the big words and undecipherable phrases and euphemisms!

Dr Dave's Spud or Stud ranking: Spud. This person is a devout coach potato, spineless, gutless and uncommitted. He/she needs a good boot in the bootocks and to read my recent blog post "My own Two Feet".

They are probably also carefree, creative and fun at cocktail parties so there are some redeeming factors.

The also desperately need fish oil, Hercules Factorand Regenerizer.

Tune in again for some more of Stud or Spud and bring your potato peeler.

Your man in the kitchen and down on the farm,
Dr Dave

Spring Leaning

OK, today we continue with what we started in "SOS from the oceans of fat".

I want to start off with a few dont's.

1) Don't take advice from celebrities. Some things really crack me up and one of them is when a celeb is featured in a magazine giving advice on diet and exercise.
I can promise you almost none of it is true or if it is, it does not apply to you.

Why?

Well here is the real scenario. I've chosen a female celeb for this as they seem to pop up on the magazine racks every month.

First, make $10 million in movie and many more on back end merchandise and endorsements.

Then pay personal trainer to design specific routine for you and show up at the times you have slotted off for working out whether its 2 a.m. or 2 p.m.

Next, pay personal chef to do all shopping and cooking for you.

Remain under watchful eye of the above 24-7 especially when next movie role calls for it.

Use as much discipline as you have as well by thinking about the need to look great as part of your profession.

Have photo shoot for magazine at the instant peak appearance is attained. Make sure lighting coordinator knows what he/she is doing and make sure makeup and fashion artists are there to maximize your assets as well.

If above fails, have new baby with different, new hunk in life. Hey, if you're pregnant everyone will cut you some slack on your figure, right?

2) Do not take exercise or diet advice from body building stars especially those who endorse diet supplements.

Why?

They do not take the supplements or if they do they take 1 pill to validate saying they take the supplements. In general their bodies are the result of the huge consumption of illegal drugs.

They do not write their articles or their exercise routines. Those are written by the skinny and fat guys behind the scenes known as ghost writers.

One exception is that the advice of personal trainers is sometimes very good. Keep in mind that if it appears in a magazine there is usually an agenda attached to it.

Ok, onto the questions

Q: Doc, what is the best equipment to use to lose weight?

If you really feel you need equipment here is what I would recommend.

Answer: A jump rope, a pair of well cushioned running shoes, a chin up bar.

That alone should cost you under $200 and you can do amazing things with just that equipment.

Later this year I will be releasing Brick and Mortar Fitness which will show you how to spend almost nothing and still get a killer workout.

I remind you that Combat Conditioning remains one of the best workout routines for anyone even if you are not a combat athlete.

If can be found at mattfurey.com

Q: What is the biggest mistake aging weekend warriors like me make when we try to get back in shape after winter.

Answer: The biggest mistake you make is getting out of shape in the first place!

The next biggest mistake is doing too much too soon because the memory of being fit is still fresh in your mind from the fall.

The third biggest mistake is neglecting your flexibility, especially as you age. It is usually at this point that some whiz kid emails me to remind me of the one study that showed that stretching before you work out increases injury.

Well, my friends, I don't buy it. That study was conducted by handing out a questionnaire and looking at self reported results. I can't think of a worse way to draw conclusions!


If you are over 40 I think stretching should be its own little segment in your exercise program and should be done everyday, even on days when you are not planning on working out.

I am pleased to tell you that one of the books I plan to release later this year will focus a lot on stretching.

Q: Dr Dave, what is the single most important part of exercise that burns fat?

Answer: An elevated heart rate.

At some point I will dive into the Cardio versus Non-cardio exercise debate again, as I have in the past.

But for this moment let's just say that an elevated heart rate is the most important part of fat burning and weight loss. Now please note that recent studies suggest that short bursts of intense exercise that raise the heart rate interspersed with periods of rest may be the most efficient way to do the things you want to your body in the shortest period of time.

While you're at it, if you are going to bother with a better exercise program, this Spring you owe it to yourself to get on fish oil, Regenerizer and Hercules Factor.

There is no finer supplement routine to burn fat and pack on muscle.

It seems like my readership enjoys the Q and A format so look for more of the same in tomorrow's blog entitled "Stud or Spud".

Until then, thanks for your time and your support.

Dr Dave

Week in review - Part 2

Here are some more juicy tidbits from the current news files that caught my eye.

By now you know that eye is rather jaundiced, at least in the figurative sense.

Sheriff Billy McGee stands accused of commandeering 2 FEMA ice trucks to help New Orleans residents keep their insulin cold.

He probably saved many lives but now he is labeled as a criminal because he "coerced and intimidated" FEMA officials into doing something that was actually worthwhile for a change.

Nice job, Billy. Thanks for being a man among sheep. I'll hold off on the Broke Back Mountain jokes for the moment.

Speaking of Broke Back Mountain, actor Randy Quid is suing over his paycheck for the film. Apparently he was told that it would be a "low budget art house film with no prospect of making money."

Ok, Randy, you also deserve at least Honorable Mention for the Instant Einstein Awards.

From the above, I understand that you either took a crappy part in a lousy film that was destined to fail and keep you in the poor house and you did this on purpose, or you believed them when they told you they were making a crappy film with a lousy part that was going to keep you in the poor house and now your miffed that they were wrong.

How about this: you were hard up for a decent part and took a part because you needed work and now that the money is passing you by, you want a piece of it even though you signed a contract.

Pal, if I was the judge I slam down the gavel and say "guilty as charged".

You'd have to decide if you wanted to be guilty of stupidity or greed.

Which leads me to the Einstein runner up award.

If FEMA doesn't get it, then surely one of the following deserves it:

Apparently Saddam Hussein was aware of our war plans when Gulf War II started. The Russians supposedly had a high-level source, within the Pentagon or close by, that tipped him off.

The problem is I don't know who to give the bottle of Einstein to.

Do I give it to the Russians for believing false info that we planted?

Do I give it to the CIA for letting a high-level operative into our government's inner sanctum, or do I give it to the Iraqi dictator for believing it?

Or not believing it.

Oh well I guess time will tell but some one needs a bottle of Einstein very, very badly.

A while back I wrote about my personal opinion of cell phones and cell phone abuse. Some of you wrote back and said, well it's just technology, get used to it.

I am here to tell you there is scientific evidence that cell phones are bad for you. No they don't rob you of your psychic powers but they do increase your chances of being hurt or dying in a car crash or doing the same to someone else who is sharing the road with you.

But there is more.

A University of Wisconsin study showed that regular use of cell phones allowed work concerns to spill over into family and social time creating more stress and less life satisfaction.

Man do they need some fish oil and Instant Endurance to buffer their brains and bodies against the rigors of daily life in the cyber age.

And today's final entry is a happy one.

I call it "Dude, where's my flying car" after the movie of a similar name.

When I was a young boy my parents took me to the 1963 World's Fare. My mom always tells the story of how I had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the long line to get into the Soviet (yes, they called it that in those days) Pavilion.

I don't remember that but I am reminded of it every chance she feels the need to embarrass me four decades later.

What I remember was the flying cars. I knew someday I'd have my very own flying car. I also loved the cool plastic models of the jets of the future. The 747, the SST and others.

Well the future didn't turn out that way.

No flying cars.

The 747 has come and gone and is already long outmoded.

The SST was still born and the French version the Concorde died a sad death along with over 100 passengers a few years ago.

But now we have the 'scram jet'. The technology is perfected that will allow us to go 7X the speed of sound. Imagine New York to Paris in 30 minutes.

Who needs a flying car anyway!?

Yes, my friend, there is much to live for. Take your fish oil, your Monster Multi and your Einstein so you'll understand and be the master of your destiny.

What a week!

See ya soon, Doc

P.S. Here is the quote of the week taken from an article wondering about all of the negative press fish oil has gotten courtesy of the big medical journals that are supported by Big Pharma.

Apparently one study was published using the infamous meta analysis technique (See parts 3 and 4 of Why Medical Research Sucks on this blog page) that seems to disagree with the thousands of articles that show the benefits of fish oil.

And while none of those thousands of articles get much press, the one that flies in the face of all of them does.

Who cares. It has happened before and it will happen again.

This is a truth. And the truth lives here.

This from the British Daily Mail:

"I take 1000mg of Omega-3 a day as suggested by my doctor for cholesterol. After a year it lowered my total level by 40 points with no other change in diet. I'm very happy with the results and happy not to have to take an expensive medicine!"

I'll bet that pisses the drug companies off no end. D'Ya hear footsteps guys?!

Dr Dave's Week in Review

OK, it's that time again to take a look at findings, facts and funnies from the past week.

Of all the writing I do for you, this is some of the most fun because I can be whimsical and silly instead of serious and somber.

So kick back and enjoy this week's review.

First we are told that there will be a 673% rise in the need for artificial joints in the next 25 years.

If you are in the age range of 40 to 65 at this moment they are talkin' to you and me.

Who is 'they' and where does this info come from?

Well they are orthopedic surgeons and it sounds like they are running a recruitment drive for their profession.

Careful, guys, you know what happens. Supply and demand; if you go spoiling the governments plans to lower the cost of healthcare, they'll start docking your behinds on those lucrative surgeries.

More surgeons equals more surgeries which equals less ching per cut.

Or worse, maybe they'll have a mandatory number of office visits and a minimum time you have to spend with patients.

In case you didn't know surgeons generally are not paid for post op care. That is why those that can afford to do so have so many "physician extenders".

No, this is not some pornographic device designed to keep the spouse happy, it refers to nurses, nurse's aids, physician assistants, etc. in a non-pornographic way.

Fortunately these people generally have better people skills than many of the docs they work for!

Right now the bone guys are among the highest paid of all doctors, next perhaps in line or on par with heart docs.

Incidentally, the same risks apply for joint replacement as they do for heart disease.

Over weight, sedentary and aging.

Regenerizer and fish oil should be able to help you with all of those.

Studies have shown that fish oil is beneficial for heart disease and joint health as well.

How about we make a real effort to prove the bone guys wrong in the next 25 years. We'll actually be doing them a favor and preserving their incomes!

Don't expect a thank you though.

For more on this, read Big increase in need for artificial joints predicted

We also had to say a fond goodbye to American musician, Buck Owens of Hee Haw this week. I don't know what Buck died of but I know he had a life well lived. May it be so for all of us, R.I.P. Buck.

Personally, I have a lot to do yet so it's more fish oil for me and some Instant Einstein thrown in for the creativity aspects.

When someone really great passes it always reminds me I have a lot I want to do yet and I'll take any supplemental help I can get, literally and figuratively.

Onward.

MLB's Barry Bonds remains poised to break the home run records of past greats. But it may not happen too soon as his elbow is bothering him.

Oh yeah and he may be a bit distracted. Lots of people are coming out and saying he used just about every drug in the book to enhance his performance.

He denies it.

Ya shoulda tried Hercules Factor, Barry.

If bigger, stronger, leaner but not too much meaner is for you than grab some Hercules Factor, and kick your spring training into high gear.

This weeks Instant Einstein award goes to Debra La Fave, the teacher who was acquitted of charges stemming from allegedly having sex with a 14 year old.

Debbie, you win because you were smarter than Paris Hilton.
At least you didn't make a video!

Speaking of Paris Hilton, did you know the world is lining up against our favorite celeb again?

This time it's not a warehouse full of personal porno goodies, its worse.

A whole boat load of celebrities' phone numbers were made public on the internet when Paris' T mobile cell phone account was hacked by a 17 year old.

Included in the ruckus were: Christina Aguilera, Ashley Olsen, Ashlee Simpson, Vin Diesel - even OJ Simpson attorney, Robert Shapiro. Anna Kournikova, Eminem and Lindsay Lohan, Avril Lavigne in Ontario, Canada, and one very pizzed off Victoria Gotti in Long Island.

I said it once I'll say it again, people; at no time in our history has our nation needed Instant Einstein more.

Oh yeah don't buy T Mobile stock for a while.

And with that seasoned advice I will wrap up part 1 of this week in review.

I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them becasue part 2 is just around the corner.

In that edition we'll take on Saddam Hussein, FEMA, Broke Back Mountain and Randy Quaid, the Russians cell phones and flying cars to name a few.

Thanks for reading!

And don't forget to bring your Einstein to the next party on the blog!

Doc

SOS from the oceans of fat

Every Spring I see and hear about the same things.
In spite of my best efforts people have fallen off the wagon and slapped on some pounds.

For some it's the puffy, stuffy Michelin Man look.

For some it's the added bananas around the thighs.

For some it's the unwanted Tapioca curds of cellulite on their thighs.

For some it's the extra love in the love handles.

Yep, in spite of my best efforts it happens every spring. Speaking of my best efforts, go back to Dr Dave's Best Health Articles and check out al of the writing I have done since September.

I've covered it all from a review of the best cardio exercises to walking programs to dietary advice and some great recipes.

If you don't feel like browsing through the articles, then spend a little time on the home page with our Google search engine and type in fat loss or weight loss and you'll come across tons of useful stuff that knows no season.

Also, before we dive into this puddle of flubber and do some serious Spring Leaning (yes that is the title of an upcoming email unless someone steals it first!), let me remind you that Regenerizer and my super potent, super clean fish oil are both in good supply and waiting to take your hand as you negotiate the treacherous waters of fat loss.

So let's pop the clutch, put it in gear and burn some blubber.

Question:

Doc, I read that hormones change over the winter. One doctor recommends switching to cod oil in the winter and then back to fish oil. What do you think of these statements and how do they affect weight loss?

Answer:

It is true that at least in the far northern climes the thyroid can adapt into a hibernation mode and slow down your metabolism a little bit.
This would not show up on a blood test or at least it would not be recognized by most doctors as it is a small variation.

The way to fight this is to exercise a little bit more and that solves the problem. A lot of people are coming out of their shells as spring is sprung and feeling the effect of their hormone balance getting back to normal.

One hormone almost no one mentions is melatonin. Proper sleep is often dependent on this hormone and others in the brain. Winter and spring both can cause changes in this hormone that make it difficult for people to lose weight.

Also, some people actually experience season affective depression as the days get longer.

Sleep wizard is the answer for these kinds of problems. Remember high quality sleep regulates all of your body's hormones including growth hormone and sex hormones.

These 2 hormones are especially critical for slapping on muscle and frying off fat. I you want to kick start your spring program for a better body get on Hercules Factor now and watch your body transform in front of your very eyes.

As far as cod oil goes, I can't think of any good reason to use it. It tastes terrible, it's generally not purified and cod are bottom feeders and thus likely to have tons of pollution.

They also have too much vitamin D for my liking and unless you live at the North Pole or are house bound for months it's overkill and potentially harmful.

By the way, while we are discussing sea oils...

Fish oil has over 10,000 references in the Nation Library of Medicine; a large number of them are human or human related studies.

Cod and flax have maybe a few dozen human studies between them.

Krill has one clearly company-sponsored human study to its credit.

You decide.

For my money and the money of hundreds of thousands of Americans and people around the world fish oil is the way to go.

Question:

Dr Dave, I read about leptin and how it's supposed to cut fat. Can you buy leptin and where?

Answer:

Leptin is a hormone made by fat cells that tells your brain to stop eating. I have called it the "I'm full hormone" in my past articles that you can read about on the site archives if you like.

You can't go into your local GNC and buy Leptin though; it's probably only a matter of time before some whiz bang marketer latches onto the concept and hires some not so lean aging doc, calls him a hero and sticks his picture on a site saying "I endorse this product".

The problem with Leptin is the same problem with many diet aids. Your body gets used to them and it no longer works.

Case in point: fat people have higher leptin levels than normal weight people. If so why do they still eat?

The brain simply says "too much leptin for me to pay attention to any more" and like a buzzing light bulb, your brains tunes it out and becomes resistant to it.

Result: you gain weight, eat more and stay hungry.

What to do:

The answer lies on the consumption of Omega 3 fatty acids. You should already know that means fish oil, fish oil and more fish oil as part of your diet.

If you want extra potency you can go for Super Omega 3 and don't forget the Regenerizer!

By combating the inflammatory cycle in your body that is part of being overweight and having high leptin, you can restore your leptin sensitivity and lose weight without the pain of hunger that fuels most diet plans.

Mother Nature has all the answers we need to stay thin, strong and healthy.

Tune in tomorrow for "Spring Leaning" how to get going with fat loss and weight reduction.

See Ya then, Doc

P.S. Over the past few weeks many of you have sent in emails asking why I am not writing as much. This is very distressing because I am writing you more than ever. Just the other day I got several emails saying that they were only getting an email from me every 3 or 4 days.

This is the work of your internet providers, people. In the continuing effort to control the internet and make it the sole playground of big business, the ISP's are stopping emails from getting through.

We do not schpam and we don't send emails to people who have not opted in. Sadly this is not enough for some ISP's whose blocking tactics follow no rhyme or reason.

Just remember, if you don't get my emails I have the blog here that they cannot block.

Come and see me everyday and let your friends know about Dr Dave's Best too!

On your own 2 feet

I got an email from a middle aged lady the other day who said she needed help losing weight and getting in better shape.

She knew her health was at stake and she knew that if she didn't do something soon she would lose at least some of her health forever.

I thought about what I usually tell people but then for some reason I remembered I had written something for myself many years ago.

I never dreamed I would be sharing it with you.

But here it is directly translated from a somewhat crumpled piece of paper I found exactly where I put it almost 30 years ago.

I have not made any changes to the punctuation as this was written "stream of consciousness" style.

I have used it a bunch of times since then to remind myself of what I need to do when times get tough.

It is very personal and as with all the personal stuff I share with you I am a bit scared about letting it out.

All the more reason to do so.



On my own 2 feet (Dr Dave circa 1979)

It's time I stood on my own two feet. Others may help me but at some point I have to be responsible.

No whining, no complaining, no drama, get past all that and drive your body or mind to where it needs to be where it creates, where it solves, where it proves over and over again that there are greater powers than you ever thought at your fingertips.

Use them, do not deny them, do not sink back into the smallness of the everyday crap from whence you came. Rise up, rise above and make things happen.

Make things happen and drive yourself towards what you want.

Be the man you want to be.

Focus on only what you want, not what is, not what is happening but what you want to happen.

Leave the frustration behind, it makes you "right" but it does not make you better.

It justifies but does not correct, it immobilizes and keeps you where you are now.

Do you like where you are now so much that you don't want to take another step in the next direction you should go.

Do you like where you are right this minute that you don't want to open the floodgates of MORE?

I want more.

I want it fast and easy but it for some reason it isn't I still want it, expect it and will get it. I know what works; it is a lesson that I do not need to hear more than a million times again.

I need to hear it everyday I need to hear it now.

Create now. Create what you want and nothing can stop you.

Stand on your own 2 feet and have faith in yourself even if no one else does.

Have faith in yourself because no one else does!

Thank others for their help but do not depend on it.

Admit to setbacks and learn from them.

But never let them beat you and never let them make you quit

Your future is in your hands.

Ask and it is given.

I can help you get what you want. Fish oil, Regenerizer, and Instant Einstein.

Doc

P. S. For those of you who are struggling, I hope this helps you as much as it does me. Feel free to write your own version and use it to get and stay on track with weight loss, fitness or any other personal goal.

P.P.S. In case you are wondering, I used this for the first time when I was taking my Medical School Entrance Tests. I wound up doing very, very well indeed and the rest is history.

P.P.S.S. For those of you who are struggling a lot, be sure and check out the "Psycho-Cybernetics" link for "Zero Resistance Living" on Dr Dave's Best Anti-aging product page.

It is the very last link on the page but it can be the very first step you take towards a better life.

You Know There's A Problem When

I was reading the newspaper this morning and was just about ready to move on when something unusual caught my eye.

The headline: Lack of Coke Emphasizes Zimbabwe Crisis.

I must tell you upfront that I don't spend much time reading about foreign affairs. About the only thing I know about Zimbabwe is that when I was in school it was called
Rhodesia.

A friend of mine tells me today that Zimbabwe has been run for many years by a Marxist intellectual named Robert Mugabe, who has spent twenty five plus years returning the country to the 16th century, or worse.

There are critical shortages of electricity, gasoline, food, fertilizer, medical supplies, and other essentials. Three million people have been receiving emergency food aid, and more agricultural shortfalls are predicted. Less than half of the nation's farmland is under cultivation, and that is jeopardized by a lack of irrigation equipment.

But to top it all off, now there is no Coke. The number one selling soft drink in Zimbabwe is nowhere to be found. Things are so bad that Coca-Cola can't get the secret syrup into the country. Even during the seven year civil war in the 1970's there was no problem finding Coke anywhere in the country.

Coke has now become a leading economic crisis indicator.

Following this logic, another African country will soon plunge into famine, and starvation.

I'm going to try and get some Instant Einstein to Chairman Bob. After a few days on the Instant Einstein he will have that "clear focused moment" when he realizes that his twenty five year plan is in shambles, his country is a mess, and his people are on the brink of starvation.

For Heaven's sake, Chairman Bob, you know you have a problem when there isn't any Coke!

You have a much bigger problem. Your brain really needs some Instant Einstein and fish oil.

Your lack of Coke may be a great blessing to your people. It may be the only humanitarian aid you ever provide them.

We could stand a little of that kind of humanitarian aid in this country!

All the best,

Doc

Why Dieting Is Such Emotional Drama

If, as children, we learned to associate food with emotional states,
comfort, pleasure, guilt, frustration, forbidden fruit, and so on, how much more does that become true for us when we are adults trying to be in "control" of our own eating?

We often take the stories that Mom and Dad told us about food and
begin to add our own narratives to them. Often these stories contain text such as:

"I feel guilty when I eat that."

"I shouldn't eat that because it will make me fat."

"I'm fat, but if I starve myself I can lose weight."

When we don't eat properly our bodies are in a constant state of adjustment, trying to cope with foods that are not ideal for us. The more the body has to adjust to the wrong foods, the less it can focus on physique and performance. Sooner or later these coping mechanisms can break down completely as the cumulative years of poor nutrition catch up to us.

To protect itself from what it perceives as stress and nutritional trauma, the body will begin to hoard more and more fat.

At this moment, at any given time, 40% of all women and 25% of men are on a diet. Ediets.com currently sells more than 30 diet plans.

Gee, I wonder what the point they are trying to make is.

Misery loves variety? Obesity loves company?

I have a hard time trusting anyone who sells everything. I mean if you are passionate about what you do and what you create it seems to me we would be able to find one that works.

98% of those who follow one of those diet plans gain back the weight they lost and then some. In fact, yo-yo dieting promotes more health risks than just being fat.

Dieting can be miserable and traumatic. When we diet, we suffer. Restricting calories makes us tired, irritable, stressed out, and perpetually hungry.

Yet we have come to associate all of those negative feelings with something positive...weight loss. We even congratulate ourselves that we are enduring so much distress and discomfort for a good cause, the cause of being thin.

We get a strange kind of gratification from the drama that dieting creates in our lives.

I guess for some it is something they can fight against, giving their lives purpose and meaning. What a set up for failure that is. Lose weight and you have no purpose and no meaning.

Somewhere along the way we picked up the idea that hunger is a positive thing.

This is not a good thing.

To believe that we can only manage our weight by denying ourselves the very nutrients we need to create an efficient metabolism, a sense of well-being, and optimal health, is a big fat lie.

Weight loss is very possible, and in a large number of cases it can even be easy.

Eat real food. Stay away from anything that is processed.

Avoid high fructose corn syrup and trans fats (Partially hydrogenated oils).

Take fish oil and a monster multivitamin every day to start. They
will help rebalance your body. You can add Regenerizer or the Hercules Factor after a few weeks, or right away if you are determined to succeed fast.

Start an exercise program. Walking is the easiest thing you can do and you should do it every day. Add more things only when you are comfortable.

Get a good nights sleep. If you are having trouble here, order some Sleep Wizard. Sleep is a huge weight loss key.

Eat when you are hungry, and stop when you are full.

When you eat the proper foods you may find that you are eating more than you are used to, and you are still losing weight.

Roll with it.

Food is fuel, and the right food, or fuel, combined with exercise, high powered supplements, and proper sleep, will melt fat quickly.

Weight loss is really body science. Leave the e-motion out, and you'll get the motion you need.

All the best,

Doc

Medical research - The finale

In this, the final chapter on medical research and why it can be so deceptive to your health, we wrap up with a few final "sneakies" the drug companies use to bamboozle doctors and patients alike.

A few points to remember:

All of this is legal for big Pharma but the journals that bash supplements will use totally different criteria to look at supplements than drugs.

Why?

Because they don't get paid by the supplement industry and are actually being damaged by it as we speak.

More and more people are using things like fish oil not only to improve their conditions but to prevent them in the first place.

This is costing Big Pharma money and they don't like it.

In every case I know of, the FDA considers the use of the words supplement, cure, treat and prevent illegal if they are in the same sentence.

Yet I cured my high blood pressure with the ingredients that now make up Super Omega 3 and Regenerizer.

Remember that as you read on.

Why medical research sucks reason 7:

They don't study enough patients.

The recent debacle with arthritis drugs Vioxx and Bextra prove that beyond a shadow of a doubt. More people should have been tested before these drugs were let out on the general public.

Of course it would have helped if they would have actually paid attention to the data they had in the first place. Even with the smaller numbers of patients it was clear there was a serious problem with these drugs.

On more than one occasion an FDA employee came out and said he was pressured by his bosses not to release certain information to the public about Vioxx and Bextra.

Does that make you feel safe?

Fortunately, the loss of these drugs led to an increase in the use of fish oil nation wide as people looked to an all natural alternative to get essential and anti-inflammatory fatty acids into their bodies without dangerous side effects.

By the way, if you are in need of some extra potency you might want to try our Super Omega 3 compound and see why it sells out so fast.

Super omega 3, it's like fish oil on steroids.

Now here is another favorite little trick I see all the time.

I call it "innocence by association". Believe me, it took a big dose of Instant Einstein to catch onto this but I see it all the time now that I am wise to it.

A drug company releases a drug. It does well and appears safe (remember safe may mean that it only kills a few people!) and above all, it sells well.

Another drug company wants a piece of the pie so they buy up some little research based company that has a similar drug and they sell that drug. I have seen the second and third drugs in a class released with less than 1,000 patients tested.

That, my friend, is a recipe for disaster.

Hey, but it's all legal because the drug had a "drug sponsor" as mentioned in the last blog post.

I could go on an on about what goes on behind these closed doors but I want to wrap this up and get onto something more positive.

Finally, here (paraphrased) is what the former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr.Marcia Angell, says in her book "The Truth About Drug Companies”:

a) Drug companies say they are at high risk for loss of money by developing new drugs and because of lawsuits but each year they have the highest profits of any industry on record by a gargantuan amount.

b) They spend far less on research than marketing.

c) Drug companies are the largest lobby in Congress, and there are more lobbyists than Congressman. Drug companies contribute enormous amounts to political campaigns that further their interests.

d) Drug companies have a huge influence over doctors and what they prescribe.

e) Research has repeatedly shown that drug company funded trials (which are the majority of them) are biased towards positive results for the drugs they promote.

Medicine is a human art and a human science. As we transition into an information based society, the need for honest and clear information is even more important to your health and mine.

The chance of us getting it appears to be mighty slim.

I shudder every time I see a doctor pull out a palm pilot or some other hand held device to download information. You should too.

By the way the supplement industry can be guilty of all these things as well. Recently I got a bunch of emails about whale plankton also known as Krill.

Someone out there must be promoting it heavily these days.

There are 185 documented studies on krill in the literature.

There is only one study on krill in humans.

It is a tiny study; it appears to be sponsored by the company that makes the product as a specific brand name is mentioned. There is no disclosure notice in the study (who is paying the salaries of the researchers doing the study).

There are no other human studies listed in the National Library of Medicine.

Fish oil has over 10,000 studies in the past few years alone. The majority of them relate directly to human health.

An old adage says you are what you eat. Krill is whale food. Personally I'd rather look like a fish than a whale!

I take everything I make on a daily basis. I do not endorse other people's products because I cannot control what happens in the manufacturing process.

Whether you chose fish oil, Instant Einstein, Instant Endurance, Regenerizer (which has just arrived off backorder) or Monster Multi or better yet all of them, you can rest assured that I am right their with you researching and taking the supplements that will improve both of our health.

Thanks for listening,

Doc

Additional reference:
childrens-mercy.org - What's Wrong with Medical Research?

What bunnies do at Easter

All along you thought fish oil just protected your heart, saved your brain and made you happier and smarter.

But now there is new research to suggest it is an essential part of your sexuality as well.

A recent study from the Archives of General Psychiatry showed that even low doses of fish oil can directly improve sexual desire.

It probably works by improving the way the human sex organs make the needed hormones as well as improving blood flow to those organs during sex.

Fish oil also seems to improve the brain's sex organ feedback loop as well.

There are many other ways that Fish oil can help sex as well.

Heart health is critical to good sex. If you heart is weak and blood flow is poor, you should be on fish oil and Regenerizer.

Also it is now known that high triglycerides (blood fats), which fish oil can really help (fish oil is now sold by a drug company via prescription for just this purpose), can lower your desire to have sex.

If you want to be mentally there during sex as well you might want to consider Instant Einstein to stimulate your creativity as well.

If we use the old joke and add "in bed" to every phrase, a little creativity goes a long way, in bed.

How about joint mobility? If you have arthritis pains it's hard to feel sexy and hard to move.

Again, another old joke comes to mind.

Doctor to patient: Are you sexually active?

Patient to doctor: No, I usually just lie there.

Sorry couldn't resist.

I am not sure if you needed more reasons to take fish oil or not but if you are going to take it, you may as well take the best around, Dr Dave's Best Pharmaceutical Grade fish oil.

If you do need more reasons here are some other things fish oil has been shown to help:

• Cancer



• Arthritis



• Alzheimer's



• Heart disease



• Stroke



• Irregular Herat beats



• Depression



• ADHD



• Schizophrenia

Did I mention it's good for sex too!?

So what do bunnies do at Easter?

The same thing they always do. And at times we could all use a little bunny in us.

Doc


Here is Lazlo's limerick on the topic

We talk about sex nearly everyday
We dance around the issue in every way
We read, and watch and want to know
The long and short of it and how to go

For hours on end without pooping out
And please our partner so she won't pout
For bad sex can only lead to a rift
Which sometimes can be fixed with a nice gift

But you could save yourself a lot of toil
If you'd both remember to take Dr Dave's Fish Oil!

P.S. here is a link for you skeptics


Fish for Easter and better sex

Why should we exercise - Part 3

Please note this is a multi part blog meant to be read in order. If you are just joining my blog please go back and read the first part as things will make a lot more sense. You may have to scroll down a bit, or look over on the right hand side of this page to find the link to the previous blog and read it.

We were looking at an email that questioned the evidence that exercise is good for you.

Here are a few more reasons:

Benefit number 4

You will have less chance of getting cancer.

When you get too heavy, two hormones go up. One is called leptin. This is the "stop eating, I am full" hormone. Ironically, people who are heavy have more of this than normal weight people.

They just don't respond to it any more.

Also fat people have more estrogen. Fat cells make more of this hormone in both men and women.

Excess of leptin and estrogen have been linked to abnormal cell growth, another way of saying cancer.

Studies have shown you may triple your cancer risks by being overweight.
No weight loss program is complete or can even work without exercise.

So get moving.

If you need a push, consider 3 supplements I make which have helped many people -- fish oil, Regenerizer and Instant Endurance.

Benefit 5

Your heart will be stronger and this can lengthen your life as well.

Weak hearts tend to grow big and baggy. This condition increases the risk of irregular heart beats which can lead to 4x the risk of stroke and twice the risk of death.

In Japan, Omega 3 fatty acid fish oils and Co Enzyme Q 10 are routinely used as medicines to improve heart health.

In America we don't allow any supplements to make "medicine-like" claims. Still, fish oil is the only supplement that is in any way recommended by the American Heart Association.

By the way increasing your fish oil intake may help you burn fat more effectively and lose more weight by suppressing your appetite.

It also signals your brain that you are full.

Studies using fish oil have shown that it is especially effective at reducing deadly abdominal fat.

Benefit 6

Your memory will be better. Studies using CT scanners have shown that people who were heavy over their lifetimes had smaller brains than those who were normal weight. The most noticeable problem was memory loss.

Couple these benefits with the brain enhancing effects of fish oil and Instant Einstein and you have a winning combination.

Benefit 7

Your medical bills will be cheaper and your knees will be healthier (if you don't do too much high impact stuff).

Exercise induced weight loss lightens the load on your joints and can save you almost a thousand bucks a year in medical bills.

Why?

Because normal weight people are healthier, plain and simple.

By the way, notice I said normal weight. I am not talking about the people who think they will live longer by being underweight.

There is no human data to support that.

So eat healthy, exercise regularly and take your fish oil.

Spring is almost here; get into it looking the way you want.

Al the Best, Doc

Why should we exercise - part 2

Please note that this is a multi part blog meant to be read in order. If you are just joining my blog please go back and read the first part as things will make a lot more sense. You may have to scroll down a bit, or look over on the right hand side of this page to find the link to the previous blog and read it.

We were looking at an email that questioned the evidence that exercise is good for you.

Actually, up until about 5 years ago, that attitude would have held some water.

While it seemed intuitively correct that exercise had to be good for you, the studies that had been done were not exactly clear cut in their findings.

They suffered from the ususal methodology problems: not enough participants, not enough control over the participants, not enough time for the results to mean something (6 weeks hardly qualifies) and the most common problem all researchers seem to have even if they just broke into fort Knox, not enough money to do a good study.

You should be able to recite the conclusion in your sleep by now "More research is needed"!

In fairness to the people doing this work money might have been an issue, after all who is going to fund a study on lifestyle and prevention? Certainly not Big Pharmacy whose answer to everything is take more prescriptions.

There was also a problem with the people in the study and people in general.

And this is big, I mean really big so drum roll please!

All people seem to grossly overestimate the amount of calories they burn and the amount of time they exercise in a day or week especially.

But fat people overestimate it even more grossly.

As a matter of fact, the more grossly obese you are, the more grossly your are likely to overestimate your calorie expenditure and underestimate your food and calorie intake.

How gross is this overestimation?

Normal weight people overestimate the calories they burn by about 600 a day (this is equivalent to about 2 tenths of a pound).

Heavy people overestimate the calories they burn by about 1000 a day or one third of a pound each and every day.

So when people come to me and whine, "Doc, I am exercising every day for the past 6 years and I haven't lost even one pound." I know exactly where to start.

Time to keep a food journal and an exercise diary with times and amounts.

Ok now, finally on to the evidence that exercise really does make a difference.

If you go back to the first blog post on this you'll read the story of my friend who made himself a new man by losing 30 pounds.

Benefit number one: You will look younger, healthier and more attractive.

Benefit number two: You will feel and be stronger and be able to do more. Recent studies show that the lower your waist to hip ratio is (lower numbers mean your belly is smaller in relation to your hips), the stronger people are and the more aerobic capacity they have.

Benefit number three: Your mood will improve. Studies show that exercise can be at least as effective as drugs for the blues.
In one study where people rode stationary bike or treadmill for a half hour 5 times a week they had almost 50% less depression.

The theory is that exercise helps release serotonin, the brain's happy chemical.

By the way, other ways to do this are fish oil and Sleep Wizard.

Ok, that's the end of this jog so join me again tomorrow and get your sweats on for the next batch of goodies about exercise.

Oh, while your at it...why not check out the combination of Hercules Factor, Regenerizer and fish oil.

This combo has helped many people achieve the kind of body and weight loss they have always wanted.

Regenerizer has been out of stock for a few weeks but we got a huge load in yesterday. It always goes fast and we can't keep up with the demand so order now! Don't be left out, get rid of that ugly winter weight and crank up your fat furnace!

Tune in tomorrow and don't forget to tell your friends about the blog.

The truth lives here!

Doc

Why medical research sucks - part 4

In case you haven't noticed, there are a lot of reasons why medical research sucks.

But let's not lose track of the biggest one.

Bad or biased research influences medical decision-making. If the only studies printed in big medical journals are all pro drug, why would anyone ever develop a critical attitude towards Big Pharmacy?

They would remain "good guys" to doctors and patients alike.

While they may not always be bad guys, the events of the last year clearly underscore the need for critical thinking.

Here are a few more reasons medical research often sucks.

Why medical research sucks reason 5

Biased results. Medical researchers often devise standardized tests to quantify their results. These tests can also be used to make the results look one way or another.

For instance if you are trying to demonstrate that your blood pressure drug is better than a sugar pill but you don't get the results you want, you can simply invent a new number that looks better.

Here might be an example.

Let's take the change in systolic (top number) blood pressure, divided by age, multiplied by the bottom number (diastolic) and call it the XYZ ratio.

If it looks good, you say your drug markedly improved XYZ ratios over the sugar pill.

In a more real world example, my favorite journal, JAMA (you know the one that keeps trying to bash fish oil), tried to K.O. St. John's Wort by publishing an article suggesting it was worthless for depression.

They used a test called the HAM-D to prove their point. They ignored the actual response of the patients who took the St. John's Wort and focused on their test scores.

It is not too hard to imagine that a person might feel much better but not have a different score after treatment depending on the questions you ask in the test.

What matters to patients is if they feel better, not what a contrived test score shows.

Another related way to fool with data is to ignore the placebo (sugar pill) 0 effect or at least minimize it.

In the same journal, JAMA recently published a trial using the next cure all drug, Rimonabant, which had a 50% placebo effect. Such a high placebo rate should call any conclusion into question.

Their comment was along the lines of, "Well it's a high placebo rate but we think this drug is going to be really useful."

They would never publish a statement like that about fish oil, Regenerizer or any other supplement.

Which brings me to:

Why medical research sucks reason number 6:

Different levels of scientific proof are applied to studies. Studies that further the cause of drug companies are published, ones that don't are either ignored or counter studies funded by big pharmacy. A classic example of this surrounds the laws governing the marketing of supplements.

Read this phrase very carefully:

"FDA approves new drugs on the basis of scientific data submitted by a drug sponsor to demonstrate that the drugs are safe and effective."

This means that no supplement can ever cure or treat or mitigate or do anything else for any disease legally until it has a "drug sponsor".

Who do you think is the "drug sponsor"!?

Effectively it means that only drug companies can make these claims no matter how biased their results may be.

Once again, I will call to the stand the recent article in JAMA about fish oil and cancer. Even though there is tons of evidence that people with cancer benefit from fish oil because and until a drug company says so it cannot be so.

Why don't supplement manufacturers fund the studies?

Simple, no one I know can afford them. So even though there is a loop hole in the law that suggest anyone can do a study, the money required to do one effectively means that only drug companies can afford them.

In case you are wondering, that very italicized phrase above was sent to a competitor's website in order to let them know they would be shut down. If you follow the guidelines, then all supplement web sites will wind up looking exactly the same, using the same words no matter how good or bad their products are.

Effectively that means that only giant companies with deep pockets can survive. Now add in the Codex laws and you have a perfect set up for Big Pharmacy to take over the supplement industry.

With that I want to say I really appreciate your support and that if one day in the near future you stop hearing from me, you'll know what happened.

In the meantime, go to the site and order. Regenerizer is back in stock and will be the first one of my supplements to go if the government and the drug companies have their way.

Don't forget to join me tomorrow when I wrap this thing up with some insights from the former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.

All the Best from the King of Pharmaceutical Grade fish Oil

Dr Dave

Why medical research sucks - part 3

Please remember this is a multi part blog. It will make much more sense if you have read the past blogs related to the subject, which are below. You may have to scroll down just a bit to get to them but it will be worth it if you are just joining me.

Yesterday, among other things I pointed out that medical research rarely proves anything. The phrase "More research is needed" in one form or another seems to be there almost always.

In the most recent big medical journal I read, it was at the end of every single article except the editorials.

And even one of the editorials ended with that phrase.

Those guys are sorely in need of some Instant Einstein and Instant Endurance.

It reminded me of Seinfeld, the show about nothing. Nothing gets done that doesn't further the interests of the big drug companies.

So here are a few more reasons why medical research often sucks.

Why medical research sucks reason 3:

The wrong patients are in the study.

When a drug company does a study, it does not start out to find anything but what it wants to find.

Thus there are often selection criteria for the people they want in the study. Most commonly left out of studies are women, blacks, Hispanics, people with multiple illnesses and people over 65.

You see, the goal of the study is not to provide the doctor or the patient with real world information. It is to provide good-looking data that makes it easy to go in and sell the drug to the doc and the patients.

So for instance, if you are looking for good results with your cholesterol lowering statin drug you will want to leave out women because they will not respond well.

If you want something that prevents death from heart disease, the data is very strong in favor of fish oil the only supplement that the American Heart Association recommends in any way.

For blood pressure drugs you might want to leave out blacks and Hispanics for the same reason.

And what about people with multiple medical illnesses?

Geez, how messy is that? I mean no one out there in the real world really takes more than one pill do they?

No one out there in the real world actually has what we in medicine call "co morbidities" (multiple problems).

The fact is the large majority of people over 50 are on more than one drug. But that might mess up the pretty study so let's just not deal with reality.

Finally, we have the fastest growing group of our population, the over 65 year olds. They are left out of a lot of studies because they have a nasty habit of dying.

That looks very bad in your pretty little study but it is a fact of life, or in this case, death. If you don't study the effects of a drug in this rapidly growing population, what real world information are you providing to the doctors and patients that use this drug, many of who are bound to be older?

If you are 65 or older my research suggests you really, really need to be on fish oil!

Why medical research sucks reason number 4:

Statistical game playing. I am no statistician. As a matter of fact, when I took my managerial equivalent of the Myers Briggs personality test, I was called a forest person not a tree person.

In other words details bore me.

Thanks to Instant Einstein and fish oil I can overcome my mental handicaps.

So I do know enough about how data can be manipulated to provide results.

First off, a company may not report the negative findings. An example of this might be the Vioxx debacle. The study they used to prove their drug was good asked only the question does it work for ulcers. Answer: Yes, but it increases heart attacks.

That data was there all along and the guy heading up the study was a heart doctor!

I guess they weren't supposed to look at that part of it.

Heaven knows what lines the shredders of major drug company's offices.

One thing you are sure to find, there is all the data on how good fish oil is for so many different things.

Another favorite tool is sub group analysis.

This is exactly the opposite of the "Vioxx problem". Here statisticians don't get the results they want so they go back in and look for secondary findings.

"Ok our drugs sucked at preventing strokes but maybe it works for diabetic leg ulcers. Or maybe it sucks for depression but it works for appetite suppression."

Just invent category for the drug if it doesn't fit the one you originally intended.

I suspect Viagra was one of these and also the popular weight loss drug, Meridia, which was originally designed to be another depression drug.

There are many more complex ways that people can manipulate numbers. The final one I want to talk about today is the most dangerous because it combines so many of the previous flaws.

That is called Meta analysis. Here data is fed into a computer and analyzed to "look at everything available".

Classic example of this was the notorious "Fish Oil no good for cancer" article published by JAMA.

They took studies as far back as 1966 which had to have design flaws.

They stopped in the late 90's when Pharmaceutical Grade Fish oil was just gaining momentum. And used studies that didn't even use fish oil at all.

Conclusion: garbage in garbage out.

They don't want anyone to know this, I am sure.

They also don't want you to know that you might take the reins of your own health care and steal the money right out of the hands that feeds them: Big Pharmacy.

Take your fish oil and Monster Multi and Instant Einstein every day and help me take back the power of the American consumer.

Don't forget to join me tomorrow because I am still slapping the "health robbers" around and while you're at it, pass the blog along to your friends by clicking the envelope icon below.

All the best,

Doc

Why should we exercise?

You probably know from reading my blogs and emails that I am a strong advocate of exercise.

Most of the Docs that I know do very little until the get into heart attack territory.

By that I mean until they hit their early 50's and start seeing their friends, mentors and colleagues dropping over or altering their life styles greatly because of heart disease.

Other than having a Cardiologist standing over you with a 3 foot long rod he's about to jam into a major blood vessel in your leg and worm up through your heart, few things are more frightening.

If that image alone is enough to scare you, go grab your fish oil bottle right now and you'll be doing something about it once you swallow those little golden capsules.

I saw a former partner of mine (we are still good friends) the other day and I must say he looked "Mahvelous".

Since the last time I saw him he dropped at least 30 pounds. He looked like a younger, trimmer version of his former self.

I asked him what happened.

"Had a scare," he said. "Wound up getting cathed (that big long hose up your blood vessel). They told me I had some blockages but they were not causing my chest pain.

They wanted to put me on a statin but I said, 'NO Way!'"

How's that for faith in the medical system? I didn't ask him how many statin prescriptions he's written in his life time.

Any who, all of this happened in the face of an email I got a few weeks ago that went like this:

"Doc, my husband and I are in our 50's, have heart disease and diabetes in our families and are both 30 pounds or so over weight.

I read you emails and blogs and I see all this great info about supplements diets, and exercise.

Our problem is we have a mutual friend who says that they have never proven any real health benefits to exercise. She thinks that most people are wasting their time. She is thin but smokes and drinks quite a bit.

Is their any proof that exercise really helps make you healthier or is she full of hot air?'

Carol J

The reason this one made the blog is that it brings up some very important issues one of which is that some people, perhaps a majority of people in this country, still do not exercise.

Here is my answer to Carol:

Carol, I think your friend is full of hot toxic air, namely tar and nicotine.

As a matter of fact I have a good nose for neurosis and I think your friend has a bit of an addictive personality and is trying to justify her smoking and drinking with a "it doesn't matter anyway" attitude.

I see this a lot among smokers and drinkers.

In other words, we call it denial. And stubbornness. Many people who are still smoking are still smoking to prove a point. They are tired of being told not to smoke and Dammit, no one is going to tell them what to do. They are defending their right to lung cancer and society's right to pay for it.

Another excuse I hear is the "My Dad smoked 'til he was 90 and didn't get lung cancer" excuse. No one is more shocked than these people when that ugly spot shows up on their chest film.

Alcoholism is even tougher so we won't touch that here, but be careful who you take your health advice from.

So now that we have scratched the surface of your question we have also used up the "eyeball time" your boss allows you at work, so we'll look at some specific evidence pro and con for exercise in the next post.

The answers will surprise you.

See you then,

The King of Pharmaceutical Grade Fish Oil

Dr Dave

Why medical research sucks - part 2

Please note: this blog should be read in order if you haven't read the first post scroll down a bit and read "Why Medical Research Sucks" first and then come on back for another piece of the pie.

Yesterday I introduced this blog with an all too familiar scenario.

People relying on technology for everything including answers it can not hope to provide.

The concept of consulting a computer, hand held or otherwise, is revolting to me and revolting to the human spirit, especially when the data in that computer is only as good as the absolute best research that we have.

The event of 2005 which had several major drug companies withdraw some of their biggest money makers ever and called into question the ability of the FDA to even tell the truth let alone protect anyone should be all the evidence you need.

But wait there is more.

Many of you know how I battle my own medical illness with both prescription drugs which made me feel awful and then with supplements which rid me of the affliction.

So there are a couple of things you should know about medical research and how it works.

I read an interesting blurb on the internet the other day about the anti-aging field. It was published by some researchers who basically called the doctors who do anti-aging medicine like me one step away from the lunatic fringe.

Well my latest lunatic fringe, Hercules factor, is helping people trim fat off their wastes, improve their strength and feel younger while you guys are twiddling your thumbs in the lab.

Every hormone was referred to as "unproven" and every study led to one conclusion: more research was needed.

They then went on to say that their organization was dedicated to researching the effects of things like male and female hormone replacement, DHEA and melatonin.

Ok that is 4 or 5 hormones and you've been doing this for 10 years and you've found that "more research is needed"!

Which brings me to the first conclusion.

1) Medical research sucks because it never seems to prove anything

Researchers research for a living. If they prove anything conclusively their paycheck magically dries up. In many cases the need for research is determined by a company's need to sell a certain drug.

I always have to laugh when I think of the lab where Viagra was discovered. You may already know that Viagra was a drug that was supposed to fight heart pain also known as angina.

Can you imagine the first guys who came back in after taking it?

"I still have heart pain but I have a stiffy that just won't quit!"

Those lab guys must have gotten the Christmas bonus to end all bonuses that year. They had single handedly invented a new class of drugs (which by the way exist in Mother Nature as ususal) and made "recreational drug" an accepted word.
Things did get a little out of hand in this class as some folks had heart attacks and some folks went blind, they didn't work for women and the FTC/FDA had to slap their wrists for their advertising tactics.

Oh well, all in a days work for Big Pharmacy.

And that is a wrap for this blog today.

But rest assured there is more to come.

As a matter of fact I have barely scratched the surface.

I do want to say one thing.

To all of you who are doing research that is not on some drug company's leash but really is designed to find the truth, and believe me there is A TRUTH not many truths, thank you for all you do.

Don't forget to pass the blog along to your friends by clicking the envelope icon below and check the website frequently as the truth lives there.

Doc

Why medical research sucks

Please note this is a multi part post, meant to be read in order and for space considerations, done in multiple parts.

"Excuse me one second,” replied the young resident to his much older and significantly wizened mentor.

Dr Jack I will call him was in his early 70's and even though he was slowing down he was still a great teacher.

His nose had grown long and his ears large and he had the white hair and gnarled look that comes when you cross Santa Claus with Albert Einstein.

I could see him barely but perceptibly shake his head when the young doctor who was supposed to answer the question pulled out his palm pilot and looked up the latest research.

"It says here on the latest meta analysis of studies that"...Dr. Jack cut him off.

"What are you going to do in the Emergency room at 3 a.m. when the batteries die on that thing?"

The student replied after a long pause, "I guess I could get my extra battery pack from up in the on-call room."

That was not the answer Dr Jack had wanted.

"No, no, no!" he said.

"You've don't know who sponsored all those studies. You don't know how they can pick only certain types of patients to give them the best looking data. You don't know how they can bury data that doesn't suit them or is even dangerous.

Son, you've got to learn to think for yourself and don't just rely on the drug companies.

As a matter of fact if you kill someone with one of their drugs, do you think they'll be there in the courtroom to bail you out!?"

With that Jack had reached the end of his leash. He patiently told the kid what to do, made sure it got done and then left to get some much needed rest.

"I really need to retire" he said.

I shook my head in understanding and offered him some Instant Endurance, knowing that his night was anything but finished.

"Thanks," he said smiling, "I don't know what's in them but I know that unlike the drugs we use, it can't do any damage and I heard from another guy they really work well."

"They do, Jack, thousands of people swear by them, and you know what they always say is our first job" I replied.

We both simultaneously said laughing, "First, do no harm".

Sadly as Jack went off into the twilight of his career we both knew that was not the first priority of the drug companies.

The good news is that he still takes his Instant Endurance and Fish Oil and is enjoying his hard won retirement.

We've run out of space for now but:

Join me again in a little bit when we dig deeper in to "Why Medical Research Sucks part 2"

And this is war!

Doc

Ritalin was never the answer

"I have lime's disease"

I used to cringe when I heard that at cocktail parties way back. It was usually some over lubed socialite wife or mistress of some high powered business man who was tripping over her gown to get at the bar. And yes this is exactly the way they said it and would have spelled it if they could have .

"No," I thought, "you don't. You have lemon's disease and are in serious need of some ‘sweetner!’"

And you have ADD from the absolute worst cause. Boredom.

You see in those days (20 years or so ago) when Lyme disease was the disease to have if you wanted attention, we barely knew anything about what is now called ADHD. We didn't know about the hyperactivity component of it.

I found out first hand what it was all about when a very intelligent, young lady came into my office telling me she had adult attention deficit disorder.

Over the next 2 years, until she joined an HMO and had no choice but to go elsewhere, I cared for her problem and learned volumes about it.

You see unlike the spoiled, bored cocktail-goer who was not getting enough attention from her significant other, this lady had a real problem and struggled with it daily. In those days adults did not use Ritalin and very few children did either, as behavioral therapy was preferred to zapping your kid's brain with legal speed and Prozac.

Once the drug companies got a hold of it, however, this class of modified speed blossomed and now contains several new drugs.

All complete and replete with multiple dangerous side effects.

It never ceased to amaze me how the "time crunch problem" affects all doctors even those who take care of kids.

Here is the problem.

It costs a lot to run a practice. Doctors are making less across the board and have to hire more people to deal with insurance companies that don't pay half the time any way. The ever-growing mound of paper work also has to be done by someone as well.

The network is the same in medicine as in many fields. People are working more and making less.

It translates into the slaughterhouse scenario.

Which patients feel like cattle herded into the slaughterhouse and given just about as much time with their doctor as the cattle get waiting in line to die.

Sadly there is a natural tendency on the health professionals part to say, "Here take this and you'll feel much better", and hand out yet another pill.

This happens to the child suffering from ADHD as well.

Who makes out from this?

The doctors?

Nope, it does nothing to lighten their load or improve their shrinking bottom line. Nor will it help them to feel good about themselves when the true dangers of this practice are revealed.

What about the kids with ADHD?

Well do you think having your mind become the toilet to flush previously unusable drugs down and probably doing permanent damage to both brain and body is a good thing?

No, the only people who make out are the drug companies who now have a lucrative new market.

They can finally do what big biz has been doing for decades; get at parent's money (or their insurance company's) by making kids their target market.

The ADHD drug market has become the virtual equivalent of "myspace.com" in terms of capitalizing on making money from kids.

At least myspace.com is probably harmless and fun for kids.

Now here is the thing about drugs like Ritalin: they do work for some kids.

But in my opinion, there are better first options that concerned parents should try, especially for their school age children.

And there are better options for adults as well.

There have been over 200 deaths linked to the use of Ritalin and related drugs, and probably many more never revealed.

And what about the side effects?

Here is what one of the head's of the FDA's Pediatric advisory Committee said:

"Whether by ignorance or design," Dr Jackson states, "the regulators remain oblivious to the evidence-based limitations of the prescription pad: at least 40% of all children fail to tolerate or respond to stimulant therapy; about twice as many respond at least as well to non-pharmacological interventions; and, as documented in the National Institute of Mental Health’s most prestigious study to date (the MTA study), the long term outcomes for medicated children demonstrate diminishing returns over time, persistent suppression of growth (about 1 cm per year), and artificial behavioral improvements which dissipate when treatment is withdrawn."

So let's see, the drugs don't work much of the time, they can cause death, heart attacks and worsen mental disorders and now we find out they can interfere with growth by up to half an inch a year.

I know what some of you are thinking.

Could we use Hercules Factor in our kids to stimulate growth hormone and get around this problem?

Some have asked if Sleep Wizard would work to calm kids down as well.

The truthful answer is in both cases, I don't know as we've never tested them in children.

So I cannot recommend them for pediatric use.

I do know that fish oil has worked wonders for some kids both with ADHD and without and that is certainly worth a try.

As far as dosage here is what I recommend.

Ages 5 to 10 - 1 capsule a day with food

Ages 10 to 14 - 2 capsules a day with food

Ages 14 to 16 - 3 capsules a day with food

Ages 16 and up - 4 to 6 capsules a day.

As far as adults go, if your focus is not what it should be and/or you think you may suffer from Adult Attention Deficit Disorder,
Get on fish oil, Hercules Factor, and Instant Einstein as soon as you can.
And watch your life transform before your very eyes.

Al the Best of Human Potential,

Dr Dave

Please note: I make no claims to treat, mitigate or diagnose any diseases. I am simply relating to you the doses that have been reported as successful to me by our users.


For more on the problem of over drugging and ADHD go to:

ADHD Experts Head To Washington - Is the FDA Up To The Task?

Evelyn Pringle

Inside the medical mind part 3

 
If you haven't read parts 1 and 2, please go back and do so as this, the final installment will make a lot more sense if you do.
 
 
Now what about those trips we were all supposed to be taking on the drug companies' tab.
 
Well, I actually did take a few.
 
The most blatant of them all occurred courtesy of a big drug company that made a blood pressure pill. The fact that I can't remember what that pill was should at least clue you into the fact that my prescribing habits were not heavily influenced by the trip.
 
Or that I didn't take my fish oil and Instant Einstein back then so I no longer remember.
 
My dad, who was practicing at the time, my mom and I who had just graduated from my residency were flown along with about 6 other doctors and their families from the area to join a "national congress" of physicians in Palm Desert, California.
 
The trip was all expenses paid and included a cross country flight for all of us to California and then a puddle jumper from San Diego to Palm Dessert.
 
The hotel was at least 500 bucks a night, still the most expensive place I have ever stayed and of course the drug company picked up the tab.
 
It was tremendously exciting for me and I actually believed the purpose of the trip was to educate me.
 
So did my dad.
 
We sat among some of the greatest medical minds of the time for 3 days and learned, learned, learned.
 
Looking back on it this trip, if Dan Rather would have gotten a hold of this we would have definitely been painted out as bad guys.
 
Also looking back on the trip I am not sure what long term useful info I got from it and it did not affect my prescribing habits one iota.
 
So please don't think that the crummy pens they leave for the doctors these days sway their decisions.
 
The other trip I remember was a bit less lavish and occurred a few years later.
 
Now we drove to the not quite so exotic location instead of flying, but the hotel was very nice.
 
Again, 3 days with the great medical minds of the time learning about high blood pressure. I can remember one of the guys who spoke was n the Joint National Committee for Hypertension, an expert panel that convened every few years to decide whose drugs got used by the majority of docs across the country.
 
It honestly did not occur to me that he was on the payroll of the people sponsoring the conference.
 
I really was young and naive.
 
Over time I became far more jaded. I started listening to the pitches of the drug reps with a jaundiced eye and questioned their data and the construction of their studies.
 
I eventually became a human guinea pig. I started to take a few doses of any pill I was going to give out to my patients to see if it killed me first.
 
While it did not in most cases kill me (Ok in no case or I would be writing with a ghostly hand at this moment) I did begin to experience some of those "impossible" side effects that were not in the package insert.
 
You know things like poor memory, extreme fatigue, depression, upset stomach and a personal favorite, just feeling like crap.
 
Funny when I combed through the little hard to read package inserts that came with these drugs, I often couldn't find these side effects.
 
But my patients found them and experienced them.
 
I usually just felt lucky that I didn't have to stay on this crap for any length of time.
 
Then I had my own health problems, (high blood pressure) discovered the ingredients in Super Omega 3 cured my problem, and the rest as they say is history.
 
So when I get the hairy eyeball or nasty letter from some authoritarian traditional doctor out there who is convinced I am nuts or worse I ask 2 simple questions.
 
Have you ever taken any of this stuff you prescribe and would you like to be on it for the rest of your life?
 
Invariably if they are honest the answer is no to both of them.
 
A few years back I was at a very big medical conference with over 2000 doctors.
 
The speaker asked, "Who in the audience takes fish oil?". Fully, 90% of the room raised their hands.
 
The next question was, "Who tells their patients to take it?" Only about 10% raised their hands.
 
Go figure.
 
Or better yet go get the best fish oil around and stay on it for the rest of your life!
 
See you at your 120th birthday party. We'll have a shot together.
 
Doc
 

P. S. be sure to join me tomorrow when I pull back the curtain again on how medicine really works in "Why medical research sucks".

P. P. S For those of you who are doctors I highly recommend Placebo Journal as a source of daily inspiration.

Dr Dave's Week in review part 2

If you missed part 1 you'll want to go back and read it before launching into part 2.

Myspace.com is testament to kids and their buying power.

Or maybe it's a testament to the bugging power of kids. If they bug their parents enough they'll coerce some money out of them to spend on this site.

Did you know that this is the tenth most popular site on the web, beaten out only by drdavesbest.com.

Hey. just kidding, we aren't even on the map compared to this place which is apparently kids' heaven.

Here is the funny thing. Someone paid $580 million for this myspace.com and that was before it was even popular.

I can't imagine what it's worth today.

I guarantee you the people pocketing the change from this site are anything but kids.

If you ever worried that the future of America, our kids, are in dire need of fish oil and Instant Einstein this site will confirm your worst fears.

We really are doomed if this represents what is important to our youth these days.

Bill Maher might have been right when he said, "Our most precious resource is oil, not our children!"

I hope he's wrong!

The next most searched internet term is "breasts". Ah, there is hope for us all yet.

Speaking of the internet I was shocked by how few people knew how blogs worked. We confused a lot of folks at first who didn't understand that this was not some strange new way of communicating, but rather just a way of trying to deal with the ever increasing regulations of the internet.

Speaking of the internet again, gargantuan google.com was recently nailed for a $90 million dollar law suit for fraudulent pay per click charges.

I had to laugh because I never have used pay per click but some of my competitors use it exclusively as their "internet strategy".

Seems ol' Google was using robots to click on people's sites to run up their advertising tab and generate gargantuan revenues.

It just goes to show you, you never ever get something of value for free.

At least Daryl Hanah who starred in Kill Bill would be proud of me. I got to use gargantuan twice in one paragraph thanks to Google.

Those phony clicks of course cost the people who used them to advertise bocoup bucks and yielded zilch for them in terms of business.

Even though they got nabbed, Google can easily afford the 90 mill.

Remember what I said last week. The new big brother is not the government but rather big business. Google is definitely big business.

In sports news, March Madness and the NCAA brackets coincided with spring break and it's a toss up which will get more airplay. With names like Jenna Jameson getting more search time than March Madness I think it's safe to say the "Girls gone wild" crew will be seen at major spring break towns across the nation and across the border.

People, at no time in the past 12 months has our nation needed Instant Einstein more than now.

Speaking of Jenna, I recently met a guy who sat next to her on a plane ride.

He said he had to Blink 182 times at her breasts to tell if they were store bought or not. But that was not the real news. The real news was she was headed to a convention of fellow porn stars.

Seems this lively bunch get together once or twice a year to discuss how to invest their considerable monetary resources.

The keynote speaker was and I kid you not, my nominee for Mr. Instant Einstein of the past quarter century, Bill Gates.

Like they say, money talks. In this case it probably listens, gargles, spits and does a few other things you and I don't even want to think about.

On the topic of money, did you know that the next few years are predicted to give rise to 10 million new millionaires?

Apparently at least some of them will come from fortunes made on the internet from places like eBay.

Real estate remains a biggie too, and if you are into real estate you'll want to check out www.zillow.com.

This site lets you put in addresses and zip codes and get property outlines, tax info and in some cases the market value of the home or homes in that area.

It's pretty cool but eerie that any one on yahoo, aol.com or any number of internet providers can get an aerial view of your house, property and find out what it's worth.

Such is life in the information age. All the while I continue to have trouble getting my emails past these very same internet service providers because of nonsensical schpam issues.

Yep, our privacy is protected all right.

But there is one ray of hope.

While much of the nation is obsessing with Green Day, South Park, Carmen Electra, 50 cent and his cuzin Dollah Bill Y'all, Pokeman and Pokewoman; the nerds are still getting their revenge.

Japanese number based puzzles like sudoku have become to the new generation what bridge was to our parents. A way of exercising the mind and keeping the brain young and agile.

While you're at sudoku or any other thing that requires an agile mind, try Instant Einstein and fish oil and watch those numbers practically find the right spot all by themselves.

Well, that's it for this week's mini review. I've got to go catch an episode of American Idol. I was hoping they would replace wacky Paula Abdul with Angelina Jolie.

A man can hope can't he?

By the way does anyone know who won Project Runway and did Heidi Klum have her baby yet?

Oh yeah, on a final note: a big hitter in the alternative medicine world made fish oil the fall out boy while trying to push whale plankton on his half a million readers.

In the words of our former President, "Not gonna do it!"

Let's hope for more sane news next week with my next review.

There's sure to be fun for all.

All the Best from the King of Pharmaceutical Grade Fish oil

Dr Dave

Dr Dave's Week in review

Last weeks review was pretty popular so I am at it again.

This week is a bit duller on some scenes I have to admit but it still had some interesting variables and things to talk about.

On the political scene, our Prez continues to have a string of bad luck with celebs.

Last week the super star country couple Faith Hill and Tim McGraw came out against the war. This week, famous hottie and this year's girl, Jessica Simpson, snubbed the Dub by saying 'I don't think so' to a Dubya backed fundraiser.

See, George, I told ya you should have taken your Instant Einstein.

Paris Hilton stays in the top most searched terms for the millionth week in a row with Pamela Anderson close behind (no pun intended).

I have decided that when I go back to Paris this spring for a lecture series; I am going to check out the Paris Hilton, just to say I've been there. I promise to write you an informative and funny email from the Paris Hilton.

I have to think that the celeb that I would least want to be is Nikki Hilton. Imagine having your whole life defined by your more famous sister's antics.

Bummer, Nikki.

Oh well a bad mood is nothing a few caps of fish oil can't help you with.

If you are having trouble enduring this mess, Nikki, head on over to drdavesbest.com and order some Instant Endurance while you're at it.

On the movie front we have a new James Bond to look forward to.

I love James Bond but I suspect that it may be the modern equivalent of the Three Stooges. Men love 'em and women hate 'em.

It's a Y chromosome thing.

Speaking of Bonds, we might eventually get to the truth about Barry Bonds and steroids. I wrote an article about this 2 years ago and it was clear to me then that double B was hiding something.

When he said, "This game is no fun any more", I thought of the old Motley Crue song, "Don't go away mad, just go away."

Barry let me introduce you to Hercules Factor, a legal way to muscle up, cut fat and be your best.

Geez, the thought of Canseco coming after your butt with a needle ought to cure you of any thoughts of juicing. This gives new meaning to the words juice fasting.

And I can see the movie title now "Broke Batt Mountain" starring Barry and Jose, Sheffield and McGuire with a guest appearance by Sammy Sosa.

OK, enough about James Bond, Barry Bonds and hotties; myspace.com is testament to the power of kids.

Yikes! This is where the cookie crumbles so we'll have to pick those crumbs up next time.

I just heard the maximum allowable words alarm go off so be sure and join me tomorrow for some more controversial and opinionated commentary on our world as I know it.

Don't forget your Instant Einstein.

Have a great day, Doc

An insider's look at the medical mind - Part 2

Quite a while back there was a 60 Minutes special done on how drug companies were "paying off" doctors to use their products.

As you might imagine, the incidents they showed were outrageous and very anger provoking.

They portrayed doctors as greedy, money-grubbing bastxxds who were sucking at the teat of Big Pharmacy every step of the way.

I can remember rolling my eyes and thinking, "Where did they find these guys" And yes, they were all guys because in those days women doctors didn't get interviewed!

The results were blatant and obvious. The conclusion, inescapable: all doctors were crooked and on the take.

The honest to heaven's truth about it is I never saw that kind of abuse anywhere in the medical community I practiced in.

Let me also tell you that the business world gets away with things every single day that are perfectly legal for them and would immediately send a doc to prison.

My point is unless you chose your subspecialty very carefully; there are far easier ways to get rich.

So how do most doctors make a decision on what drugs to use?

The same way they and you and I make any other buying decision.

They make it based on emotion.

Right now there are a few doctors reading this out there with steam coming out of their ears.

"Not me!”, they're shouting, "I use science and logic" to make these decisions.

No you don't. All buying decisions are emotional and most people who are of sane mind and body make those decisions based on some simple, readily identifiable traits.

The Drug Companies are very slick at knowing how to identify and manipulate these traits.

You may think that drug trials exist to provide hard facts and data to the discerning physician.

I don't think so. I think they exist because drug companies know they have to appeal to a large group of people (doctors) who are taught to respect numbers and place a ton of value in them.

Here are a few examples. To get into college you need good SAT scores. To get into Med School you need good MCAT scores. To get into the Residency of your choice you need good evaluation scores.

Once out of Med School and Residency, numbers like tidal volume and potassium become the staples of your every day existence.

How is the patient doing is not answered in qualitative terms by most, but rather by a series of numbers.

So the drug reps who are often young, pretty females (do you think this is done by accident!) come in with studies that "Prove" their point and are statistically cleverly manipulated to prove just that point.

In some cases the drugs existed before the disease.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to find out that fish oil is probably far more effective than statins at preventing heart disease (there are huge Italian studies that show this).

But when you have 50 million men with high cholesterol and you have something that lowers it, well you've got yourself a winner.

What about arthritis pain? Huge market. Why invest in a drug that might cure the disease when you can invent one (based on the original anti-pain concoction, white willow bark tea) patent it and sell it to millions.

What's that you say? It kills people? Shhhhhhhhh! Just don't show that in the study and the docs will go for it hook, line and sinker. Send those pretty, young reps in to tell that middle aged, paunch bellied guy whose bustin' his hump in the office about all the good things it does.

They should be sending them in with fish oil and Instant Endurance so they can get through their days and serve mankind better.

What was the cardinal rule of medicine?

First and above all do no harm.

Which brings me to the 700 word limit I've been asked to observe on my blogs (and seldom do), so join me again in a little bit for part 3.

We'll pick up with some more insider secrets next time.

Don't miss it!

All the Best from the King of Pharmaceutical Grade Fish Oil,

Dr Dave

An insider's look at the medical mind

Please note: This blog is written in several sections because it spans many years of my life from the time I was a young doctor kicking in my mothers womb to the still young and kicking guy you now know as the King of pharmaceutical Grade Fish oil.

Please try to read these in order. As is often the case they will make more sense that way.

I am not a bad person.

Still, I have not always done the right thing in life.

And believe me, any lapses in moral judgment I have has not been due to a lack of good parenting. I will say 100% that I had the best parents anyone could hope for; the kind most kids would kill for.

The fact that I was able to make something of myself in life is a testament to the fact that my parents could "work with the clay they were given", which in my case was more like Silly Putty, and help mold me into a positive force in the world.

I have also had the help of Instant Einstein and my other supplements.

After all it's not easy being the King of Pharmaceutical Grade fish oil.

How bad was I as a Kid? I had my moments. I can remember stealing beer from someone's porch when I was 14 and a paperboy.

Now before I get into that story lets take a look at the situation. Do you realize how long ago this was? I mean honestly, how innocent would a society have to be to deliver a case of beer for Christmas to someone's doorstep and leave it out there for all the world including the 14 year old paper boy to see?

It fit nicely into my official paperboy bag although I imagine anyone looking must have wondered about the absolutely perfectly square shape of the papers that day.

Do you think anyone and I mean anyone would do that today?

Not on your life.

Funny thing is I had to hide it under a tree in the woods for a few days until I found some older kids who knew what to do with it.

Now, what about as a doctor? Well, no one is perfect but at least I had the years of sincere and dedicated mentoring and teaching by some very fine minds to guide me.

If I have gone astray it is not because they didn't try.

A few years back one of them called me into his office to see if I had lost my mind for believing in fish oil.

I am pretty sure he is taking it now!

Still, by today's standards I did do some things that would not be considered ethical.

And that brings me to the point where I would like to pull back the curtain on how many doctors make one of the most important decisions in YOUR life; what drugs they are going to use.

So to jump into the highly complex world of medical decision making, pop 6 Instant Einstein and join me in the next installment of the blog.

Doc

Why Human Growth Whores Moan

The Gubmint and drug kingpin, Pfizer, are wrangling over HGH, the human growth hormone. Seems that one of the smaller subsidiaries Pfizer swallowed up, called Pharmacia, might have improperly promoted its drug called Genotropin.

HGH is one of the most tightly controlled substances on the market, and subject to all kinds of regulations. You are allowed to use it to treat a number of diseases, but anti-aging is not on the list.

The legal wrangling involves a whistleblower named Dr. Peter Rost, a former Pharmacia executive, and Fred Hassan, the former CEO of Pharmacia, who now runs another drug giant, Schering Plough.

The stakes for Pfizer are fairly high in this tangle. In 1999 Genentech paid a $50 million dollar fine for improperly marketing HGH. Pfizer claims that they have done nothing illegal, and former Pharmacia executives say that Hassan did not violate any FDA guidelines.

Also involved in the lawsuit are questions about doctor discount programs, kickbacks, and prescription reward programs held at chic resorts. You'll here more of this kind of thing shortly in future blogs.

It all sounds like pretty much business as usual at the drug kingpins.

They are deaf, dumb, and blind whenever legal issues come up, it would take the hand of heaven to stop the discounts, kickbacks, and rewards.

Pretty soon medical students will be graduating from Pfizer Medical School, or Viagra University.

I am sure they won't be biased!

The drug giants are behind the eight ball when it comes to practicing good medicine today. Many of their solutions are worse than the disease that they purport to cure.

There is absolutely no focus whatsoever on prevention, which is where I have staked my claim. Many of the health problems we face today are reversible without the use of drugs, and their side effects.

The daily use of fish oil is the foundation of my program. It
facilitates everything that comes after.

Many of Dave's Devotees combine fish oil and a number of my other products. Their testimonials have a common theme, and what was considered lost is now found.

Let the human growth whores moan. $50 million dollars to Pfizer is chump change.

The smart guys and gals don't need their stuff anyway, because we are rarely, if ever, sick. The question everyone should be asking themselves is:

"What can I do to make myself healthier?"

My suggestion: Hercules Factor

I kinda doubt Pfizer wants to hear that.

All the best,

Doc

Did I Friggin' Stutter

Just finished reading "The Truth - About Barry Bonds and Steroids" in Sports Illustrated. The article, an excerpt from a forthcoming book by San Francisco Chronicle sportswriters, Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, is a damning report about Barry Bonds and his use of multiple steroids since 1998.

Many people who follow baseball closely have thought for years that Barry Bonds was a jerk. I follow baseball once in a while, and have never really paid that much attention to Bonds. I would of course see him hit homerun after homerun on ESPN's Inside Baseball highlights, and it's always fun to see the long homerun.

But that was pretty much it. Although I take in some Phil's games every year, I had never seen Bonds in person. All those reports about the changes in his body, and how much bigger he was in San Francisco than he was in Pittsburgh just didn't resonate.

The steroid controversy didn't engage me either. I had known about steroid use in college and professional sports for a long time and have previously commented on the way it could be fixed. I didn't just start in the 90's as most people were led to believe. MLB players started using steroids in the early 70's, and the same was true in the NFL. A friend of mine who played Division 1 football in the early 80's quit the game because of rampant steroid use on his team. He joked to me, "I'm crazy
enough without taking that stuff."

His head coach was renowned for running a clean program, but my friend said he'd have to have been deaf, dumb, and blind not to see the signs of steroids everywhere. Like they say, if you're winning, nobody asks any questions.

After reading the Sports Illustrated article about Bonds, it isn't easy to be sympathetic. The guy really is a jerk. He is a jerk first and foremost, and then a jerk who used every kind of steroid imaginable.

He cheated, and he lied about cheating.

He isn't alone. He had plenty of company in MLB. The press hasn't been exactly straight on this issue. Bonds treated them badly, and they got their revenge on him. But they didn't question scores of others.

While I panned Jose Canseco as well in previous articles I did give him credit for admitting what was going on and naming names, the ultimate insult to the powers that be in baseball. The story Curt Schilling told Congress, that the issue involved only a handful of players and was way overblown, is a crock.

Everything you need to get an edge is found in nature. We are, by and large, a product of what we eat and drink. All these professional athletes would have been far better off with a good diet, plenty of water, the Hercules Factor, and doing Combat Conditioning, than taking steroids and banging iron all day.

There are no side effects in the Hercules Factor. Your back won't be covered with acne, your hair won't fall out, you will not experience wild mood swings, you won't suffer from depression, and your cajones won't shrink.

The Hercules Factor can improve your skin, support healthy hair growth, improve weight loss and decrease abdominal fat, improve your mental state, and it just may give your sex life a boost.

Order the Hercules Factor Now.

As Barry would say, "Did I friggin' stutter?"

To which I would reply, "Yes. I believe you did stutter there, Barry, could you repeat that, the part about you not using steroids?"

All the best,

Doc

The Caf Fiend part 3

Quite some time ago I used to see a shiny red can with a yellow lightening bolt on it.

It was "jolt" cola. Soon after there was double strength "jolt" cola.

I have not seen it in a long time but then again I don't hang out in convenience stores to tell you so who knows. I do think that may have been the original "energy" drink as it had the same two major ingredients the energy drinks of today have, sugar and caffeine.

Yes, I suspect they made a diet version too.

Anywho, traditional medicine has finally looked at the real issues surrounding caffeine as mentioned in my last blogs on the topic.

What happens to heart patients?

It seems that some people do not detoxify their bodies very well when it comes to caffeine. As a matter of fact some folks may be genetically programmed to get rid of it more slowly making for a potentially serious problem especially if there is heart disease in the mix.

These so called "slow metabolizers" have a 35% risk or more of heart attacks than people whose bodies chew up caffeine faster.

Where are you in this group? Who knows as they don't make a commercially available test to find out.

The safest bet is to avoid the fiend or if you must get some, get it through green tea. As mentioned in the previous blogs on this topic there are a tons of reasons why green tea is healthier for you and safer than coffee.

A whole boat load of green tea extract (sans the caffeine) can be found in my Monster Multi with minerals.

Imagine that, all the good stuff without the bad.

The American Heart Association is hedging on this one but then again they hedge on a lot of things except how important it is for everyone to be on statins.

Remember great health starts with great information and great nutrition.

Tell your fiends, I mean friends about my emails and blog, (copy and paste this link, and forward it to your friends, http://www.drdavesbest.com/blog/) and grab the Monster by the horns.

Monster Multi with minerals like no other multi out there!

Doc




References: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

I challenge JAMA

A few weeks ago the Journal of the American Medical Association published an article stating that fish oil is not good for cancer.

The godfathers of American medicine have spoken.

I wrote my rebuke at the time and of course there has been no retraction.

I would challenge them to act responsibly and rethink there position and publish the data.

At least use studies where fish oil was used!

Well here is yet another case where fish oil turns out to be good for cancer.

In this case it is to fight the toxic effects of the poison commonly known as chemotherapy.

Let me explain that statement.

Any one who has ever had or seen a loved one go through chemo know that the side effects can often be worse than the immediate threat of the cancer.

They also know that chemo can kill.

Well, the good news (it's not really news I've been saying it for a while) is that fish oil can help with chemo side effects and improve the weight loss problems associated with cancer.

Here is a direct quote from Sheryl Taylor's column:

To look at him, you'd never know Michael Isles is into his fifteenth cycle of chemotherapy for colon and liver cancer. "I've still got my hair I haven't had any mouth ulcers and there are many other side effects that I haven't been affected by at all," he says.
"I'm very lucky."

But it's more than luck: researchers at Sydney's Concord Hospital have discovered the fish oil capsules Mr. Isles takes daily have coincidentally also been preventing toxic side effects from his chemo.

Just a few years ago people were calling me everything from quack to crazy for using fish oil in my practice.

One of my former residents who I mentored called me the other day to tell me the local cardiologists were all using fish oil.

Imagine that.

I never wanted to be a "medical maverick", but I am sure glad some people are listening.

Also, I have not yet seen the American Caner Society revoke its endorsement of fish oil yet either.

Hmmm.

Down the road you'll see the traditional medical establishment using high dose fish oil for a lot more things.

But you don't have to wait. As a matter of fact, if I am right, you'll have far fewer worries about cancer and other diseases of aging on fish oil.

Order now.

All the Best from the King of Pharmaceutical Grade Fish Oil,

Dr Dave

How To Survive March Madness

I am going to conjugate a verb, Dizzy Dean style. There are a few of us still around who remember the late Dizzy Dean, a Hall of Fame pitcher, who played for the St. Louis Cardinals many, many years ago.

The Dizz became a baseball commentator after his career ended, and he spoke Dizz’s English. An example of how Dizzy conjugated a verb is: slide-slid-slud. Not exactly what a school teacher would advocate, but it worked on the air.

So for me it would be: spring-sprang-sprung. Spring has sprung for me when the NCAA basketball brackets for March Madness have been announced. They were sprang on us late Sunday afternoon, after all, the end of season tournaments were over.

I was particularly interested in the Big East and ACC Tournaments. To win the Big East you have to win 4 games in as many days. The upset winner, unranked Syracuse, beat Notre Dame and then #1 Connecticut, #23 Georgetown, and then #16 Pittsburgh. Congratulations to the kids from Syracuse. They played with an indomitable spirit.

But I gotta tell ya, their dogs have to be barking today. I’d be willing to bet that there are a lot of aches and pains on that ball club. I’d be willing to bet that the energy level is about Zero today. Those kids could use some Instant Endurance today and the Hercules Factor tonight before they go to sleep.

Monday, wake up and repeat.

Tuesday, wake up and repeat.

You get the idea.

When you are burning energy like James Brown at a concert in the 60’s, you need something to help you restore some of what you lost, and quickly.

Instant Endurance and the Hercules Factor would have these young men ready to rock in a day or two. They’re my sentimental favorite in the tournament. It’s too early to say I’d be laying some greenbacks on them to win, but it’s the right time to be playing your best ball.

When spring is sprang, a whole lot of people start doing spring cleaning and working in their yards and gardens. Too many over do it right out of the gate, and try to do too much, too soon. A little Instant Endurance beforehand can certainly help; and before you go to sleep, a little Hercules Factor will work its magic while you are sleeping. It’s a little like putting premium gasoline in your car before driving, and then having a tune up while you rest. When the key hits the ignition the next morning, you’re off on a very smooth and fast ride.

I’ll give you my picks for the Final Four in a day or two, and maybe some surprise winners.

You can’t go wrong with two proven winners, Instant Endurance, and the Hercules Factor. They are always coming out on top, no matter what the competition.

All the best,


Doc

The Caf Fiend - part 2

The next area where I think the unopposed effects of caffeine in coffee are potentially dangerous are people with heart failure and irregular or rapid heart beats.

The Caf Fiend can make both of those conditions worse by stressing their already over-stressed hearts and opposing the effects of drugs they may be taking to control them.

Wanna be shocked? If one of your relatives has a problem like this, ask them if their doctor said anything about stopping coffee. In too many cases the answer will be "NO".

See? I told you this info was worth paying for.

A few weeks ago you heard me go off on high fructose corn sugar as a major health issue for this country. (see "Beating the Sugar Rap" and The sugar shocker of the week)

Well caffeine is not too far behind, especially in our young population. When I was young we were not allowed to have soda because of its caffeine content. My parents were smart enough not to make any underlying ADHD that their kids had worse by sugar and caffeine.

A lot of parents let their kids have diet sodas because it avoids the sugar issue. It does not avoid the caffeine issue.

Some parents let their kids have regular sugared sodas because they have been told that aspartame/NutraSweet makes their kids hyper and affects their brains.
I promise you it's the sugar and caffeine.

So before you fill them up with Ritalin, which was a class one drug (you couldn't prescribe it without FDA approval) when I started medicine, get them off the sugar AND the Caf Fiend.

Our youth is more caffeinated than ever.

Then we have the so called "energy drinks". These are so popular among college age kids and young adults that it's rumored Anheuser Busch is trying to come out with a malted beverage that doubles as an energy drink.

Let's see, guys. Combined alcohol, a central nervous system depressant with caffeine, a central nervous system stimulant and you get a plus and a minus with some fattening carbs.

Sounds like a big fat zero to me.

Finally, we have the over the counter, weight loss pills.

With out much exception they are the combination of three things.

1) An ephedrine or synephrine like stimulant.
2) Caffeine in some form or other
3) A Salicylate (aspirin like chemical)

I don't think there has been anything new for over a decade.

The problem I have is when they try to hide the caffeine content or claim there is no Caf Fiend in them.

Some ways to hide caffeine and its cousins are to use Theobromine (found in chocolate) matte, matteine, Char de burge (more like synephrine) and my personal favorites, Paullina Cupana and Guarana..

All are caffeine or very similar by any other name.

I am not advocating you do the following, but if you are on one of these supplements you could theoretically go down to your local drug store and buy some vivarin or no doz, some psuedephedrine and some baby aspirin and save yourself a ton of money.

One other thing, many of the diet aids contain an aspirin like substance called White willow or willow bark. I have yet to see one warn about aspirin sensitivity.

Be careful out there!

And if you are looking for an all natural Caf Fiend free way of getting the extra energy you need and quite possibly a ton of other health and anti-aging benefits as well, grab some Instant Endurance and Regenerizer.

Both can help you get rid of the Caf Fiend once and for all.

Best,

Dr Dave

The Caf Fiend - part 1

It has come to my attention lately that caffeine is far from gone. I suppose it is not reasonable for me to expect it ever will be but I think from what I have seen, we are consuming more than ever.

Recently while visiting a friend in a distant city, I saw the hallmarks of a cult of coffee growing and growing.

First it was Starbucks, whose cameo appearance in the Austin Powers movies and the Suze Ormond show (the latte factor), assures its place as a cultural icon.

My friend angrily shouted out at every Starbucks he passed, "I am a Peetnick" Apparently the Peet's coffee is a warring faction that is gaining some momentum as well.

While his behavior was pretty comical it does underline just how much more deeply coffee and caffeine have become in our culture since the time we learned all coffee is mountain grown.

Now coffee's supporters point to its sometime health benefits which in all cases are eclipsed by green tea.

What about its detriments? Well a while back there were strong attempts to link coffee to pancreatic and bladder cancers. None of them panned out.

But I proposed a while back a much more subtle problem.

I think caffeine, and coffee especially, contribute to a condition called adrenal burnout. This is where your adrenal glands can't mount any more of a stress response because they are already turned up to "11" in the words of Nigel Tufnel from Spinal Tap.

In other words, heaven forbid you need an extra squirt of stress hormones to deal with a major event. You'll simply crash and burn or at the very least, under perform.

If coffee is so safe, then how comes some people get such severe caffeine withdrawal headaches that they have to miss work for a few days when they quit it?

No one mentions the effect caffeine has on sleep either. A good friend of mine used to routinely drink a big cup of Starbucks at 7 p.m. or later.

When he asked if his waking up in the middle of the night jittery and with a racing heart was dangerous, I immediately told him, "lay of the coffee".

To his immense credit he listened and lo and behold his problem disappeared. Right away.

He now drinks green tea.

Some of you want to know why green tea is ok since it does have some caffeine.

Well it does have some but quite a bit less. Green tea also has an amazing ingredient called L Theanine which is present in Sleep Wizard.

Theanine has a calming effect on the brain and body and negates the over stimulation that caffeine may cause.

Another place where the effects of coffee may be overlooked is in anxiety and agitation.

I can always tell when one of my close friends has started the day with a cup of coffee. Her speech is rushed and hard to follow and she leaps from idea to idea in what psychiatrists call run on ideation, pressured speech and flight of ideas.

She doesn't need a shrink; she just needs to lose the coffee.

So I told her so. And to her immense credit she now drinks green tea. She gets just as much done work wise, just as much done at the gym and sleeps better at night.

Some of you have asked me how much green tea you can safely drink. Well I know of one study that showed benefits out to 1600mg of extract. That amounts to about 5 eight ounces glasses of moderately strong green tea a day.

I have good news though. Monster Multi with minerals has a nice dose of green tea extract for you and Super Wrinkle Guard is loaded as well, so add one or both to your daily routines.

Best,

Doc

Cops and steroids

I am about to embark on a touchy and difficult subject.

As usual, it involves some very controversial issues, opinions and facts as well.

Let me preface this whole thing by saying that even though I have been told I could have done anything I wanted in life, I could not have been a cop.

Ever.

Being stabbed by a drug dealer would lead to an immediate execution by me. So would the confessed raping to death of a 2 year old daughter by her father who insisted "I made her so I can do what I want with her."

If you think these are made up stories I assure you none of what you are going to read today is made up.

But it is stuff a lot of people would not want me to tell you.

Let me put it to you this way, if you think the NFL or Major League Baseball has a steroid problem, you might also want to look at our boys in blue.

If you looked at the use of anabolic (muscle building) steroids and tried to develop an accurate profile of the users, you would find that the cops who use them fall into the same profile as the general public.

That is: young males who already have more hormones than the rest of society but feel the need to be better than the competition at any cost.


So these young men, cops among them, go off to the gym to try to get as big and strong and intimidating as they possibly can.

Most of them are trying to heal a societal wound called inadequacy.

As our society strives for the perfect body and inundates us with images of such, the young, impressionable and insecure among us march off to head the beat of that drum only to find that drugs are involved -- drugs called anabolic steroids.

In some cases a coach or fellow athlete or user makes the informed discovery, "Every one you are competing against is doing it so you better too; otherwise you won't be big enough and strong enough to compete, win, get chicks, intimidate other guys, get gold medals, sports endorsements or whatever the golden fleece may be.

The toll it takes on your health is not an issue.

All of the above can apply to a cop as well but there is one gargantuan (friggin' big) difference.

His life is on the line.

Let's face it, being big and strong is a deterrent in the eyes of many people.

Cops will tell you, however, that the hardened street criminal doesn't give a crap. He's usually got a weapon and maybe some back up nearby. Your first realization that a weapon is involved may be your last unless you are always aware of that fact.

The perp may also be on other drugs like PCP or speed that deaden or remove pain impluses.

The cop has to BE big and strong. He or she has to have lightening like reflexes. He or she has to make instantaneous decisions that affect the life and death of others.

While this may sound a lot like what doctors do, the cops own life and the welfare of his family is immediately and totally at stake as well.

So many of the young cops turn to anabolic steroids, speed and other street drugs.

This is especially true of young male street cops, SWAT team members and undercover agents.

In my own anti-aging practice I have been approached by lots of young men and a few women who want steroids and Growth Hormone. Some of them have been cops.


It is the hardest thing in the world to turn them down (unless they are deficient) because I know what is at stake.

A lot of the BAD guys are on steroids and other drugs as well that make them formidable opponents.

So I offer the good guys and gals in uniform something that can help them attain badass status without 'roid rage and mental problems so they can stay good people instead.

I offer them something that won't give them liver cancer and breast cancer and shrink their gonads.

I offer them the closest thing I have to the "Juice".

I offer them Hercules Factor, Instant Endurance and Instant Einstein.

And they begin to see results in a very short time.

You will too.

Hercules Factor, Instant Instant Endurance and Instant Einstein are an unbeatable, safe combo designed to give you maximum results in minimum time without causing you to fail any drug tests.

Nothing would cure the steroid problem faster than a legal, safe alternative.

Spread the word.

Bless all those who truly protect and serve.

Doc

Dr Dave's Week in Review - part 2

Lazlo was lamenting the loss of muscle tone in Hollywood in the last blog entry.

Come to think of it, he's right; today's Hollywood heroines are not the buff babes that walked the red carpet a decade or so ago.

Yoga and Pilates have taken over the Hollywood psyche for the moment. As it turns out exercise fads in Hollywood do last longer than most of the marriages but not much.

Lazlo's pick for the next Hollywood exercise fad: Capoeira, an African martial art/dance form that is sure to hurl your heart rate into the stratosphere.

While we are predicting the future we may as well pick the next supplement du jour for diet pills: Char De Burge. This "South Amercian rain forest herb" is sure to be a big hit if the Hoodia hoo doo ever dies down.

Hoodia at least seems to work a bit by itself and works even better when compounded with other weight loss agents which you'll be hearing about soon..

Char de burge is caffeine by any other name. I guess I should point out that it might contain something a bit different, matteine. Does that sound like caffeine to you?

Well it is by any other name but because of a tiny chemical difference, some folks are trying to pass it off as caffeine free. They won't get away with it, however, as the FDA had their Instant Einstein that day and made the boys from Brazil label it as caffeine.

Moving right along we have an Instant Einstein award for the Dubai Ports Corporation.

The whole concept of letting a foreign country take over our ports got ugly when the President and the Congress/Senate went to battle over veto issues.

Seems that giving control of some of our ports to a foreign country is not a good idea, especially when they look and speak like some of our avowed enemies.

The fact that they are our allies didn't make an impression on many and bringing up that fact is political suicide.

So only a few politicians bit into that cyanide pill.

The real smarts of this move is that it takes some pressure off a beleaguered president who is at his lowest support level ever, and still allows everyone to be happy.

Dubai Ports Corp may very well transfer control of the ports to an American company that they already own.

So, contrary to what one politician said about the situation: It does mater who signs the check.

In my blog entry, "Somebody get a message to Dubya", a few days back and a few paragraphs below this one, I stressed the need for the Prez to start popping fish oil and Einstein everyday.

A day or so later was an article on how Bill Clinton is a reformed junk food addict. The now self professed helath food junky is undoubltedly popping some fish oil on a daily basis.

Which brings us to the music scene.

David Gilmore, of Pink Floyd (I could never figure out if he was Pink and Roger Waters, his "arch nemesis" and former band mate, was Floyd) celebrated his 60th birthday with the release of a new solo album.

Now that is what I call successful anti-aging.

The Instant Einstein timing award goes to country super couple Tim McGraw and gorgeous wife Faith Hill.

For those of you who don't know, country music represents the absolute epitome of fundamentalist values in this country including support for a conservative president.

For a country musician to come out against anything the president does or says is almost unheard of. The Dixie chicks did this at the start of the second Iraq war and were immediately blacklisted and their career damaged.

Times apparently have changed, however.

Now that old Dubya really does have a bona fide "deer in the headlights look" on his face because his popularity is so low it becomes safe and OK to jump on the band wagon and speak out against the war.

What was bordering on treason 3 years ago has become patriotic.

Congrats to Tim and Faith for their statements against the war. Not because I agree or disagree, but because you could not have timed it better.

The beautifully staged publicity shot of the fabulous couple speaks volumes about their agent/publicists ability to gauge the safety of the move and the end result. You get to look like the first on the block to have the courage to speak your minds.

Rumor has it the Dixie Chicks are making a bit of a comeback these days.

Sorry, girls, you should have learned a lesson from the Nash Metropolitan.

The Nash was one of the first attempts to produce a small, affordable, gas-miserly auto that was cheap to insure. It just happened to be about 30 years ahead of its time.

And you know what they say, Timing is everything. Next time pop some fish oil and Instant Einstein.

The bird flu doesn't seem to want to die. It keeps on slowly but surely advancing westward toward the U.S. now showing up in some of the Scandinavian countries.

As of this writing 175 people have died from it which is about three times the number that I first told you back in November when I first wrote about it.

Certainly no pandemic yet but not to be ignored. The prospect of a year round flu threat becomes more and more a reality as we learn that we are not prepared to contain viral illnesses coming in form other countries very well.

Major airports around the country have admitted that they will have to rely on "state and local authorities for help" if a bunch of sick people land.

Sounds frighteningly like Hurricane Katrina doesn't it.

Better load up on Immune and Cardio Boost while you can.

Finally that brings us to the internet.

Two weeks ago I wrote to you about some disturbing trends in the way the internet is running. I used to think that Big Brother meant the government. Now I am convinced the real threat is Big Business.

If you want proof that every move you make on the internet is being tracked and analyzed and plotted go to Google and search for Ad aware SE. Download this and run it. If you've never done this, you will be horrified to find out that you have hundreds of "tracking cookies" all legally following your every move on the net.

And while you are at it remember some internet providers don't let my stuff through or hold it up for hours because it might be spam, even if you are signed up for my emails.

But I wonder where all those tracking cookies came from. Couldn't be related to your internet provider could it?

What sites you go to, where you buy and so on and so forth. Someone is watching you, I promise.

Never did I dream that I would be doing something that is cutting edge from the standpoint of the internet but it appears as if blogging is new to some. A few people were upset with me because the email titles and descriptions did not match the blog they were directed too when they clicked.

As they say, where there is smoke there is fire, so I think I'd better explain in case there are some other folks who are confused as well.

A blog is a continuous stream of consciousness type of writing. Whenever a new blog is added, it displaces the old one from being first in line. Unlike email, the way our blog and most blogs are set up the article does not have a specific site or address other than the blog.

What often happens is your Internet Service Provider didn't take their Instant Einstein that day and held up the delivery of the initial email that tells you there is a new blog to read. So you get it 6 or 8 hours later and in the meantime I've written another one with a different title and posted it.

You go to the blog expecting to see the article the meail refers to and you se something completely different

Not being of the under 35 generation I don't know how to fix this but my webmaster is working on it. At age 29 and a devoted User of Instant Einstein I am sure he will find a way.

Some of you have already balked at the suggestion that we will eventually go to a paid blog or emails even if there are costs to us associated with bringing them too you.

I can understand this as there are always free sources of information out there. However, the time of webmasters and the time I take to write is not free.

It's kind of like shipping and handling. When someone balks at the charges we simply remind them the bottles do not neatly assemble themselves on the shelves, jump off in to the boxes and wrap themselves into pre addressed boxes.

But back to free for a second. I saw a commercial for something called Focus something or other the other day. It was on TV and this woman who looked like a whole bottle of Instant Einstein and Super Wrinkle Guard wouldn't be enough, screeched into the microphone, "They let you try it for freeeeeee, it must be good."

Right.

I am sure there are no ulterior motives to giving away free stuff, like maybe it wasn't selling and you have to give it away to get people to try your other stuff.

You get what you pay for in most cases but for the moment you're getting me free too!

So I must be good too right? Like I always say, "Others will copy but none compare".

Finally a word about supplements.

Lazlo asked me if I could come up with something called "Instant Personality in a bottle".

Seems he wants a date with Jessica Alba.

That is not likely to be doable with our current technology Lazlo but I do have some things like fish oil Hercules Factor, Instant Einstein and Regenerizer to help keep you studly, smart and sexy when the big day comes.

Some of you have also asked when Super Wrinkle Gurad will be available.

Recall we released it as one day only pre production sale a few weeks back.

Here's the thing. It's done, it's awesome and is in our warehouse.
Problem is we are waiting on the labels which have to be compliant with FDA recommendations.

Therein lies the hold up. The labels may take a few weeks to be finished. For those of you who are in a hurry to get started, we can ship yours out with a paper sheet listing all the ingredients dosages etc if you send an email to nancyb405@verizon.net saying you understand there will be no label on the bottle and that you are fine with that.

I've enjoyed writing to you about his very interesting and dynamic week with all its highs and lows.

Thanks for your time and thanks for joining me.

All the Best, Always,

The one and only

Dr Dave

Dr Dave week in review - volume 1

Yep, your Dr Dave is on the road again. This time I have shuttled between the southernmost tip of California and San Francisco skirting pretty daggone close to Hollywood in the process.

So I've been inundated by Oscar moments and radio shows about Crash vs. Broke Back Mountain.

Traveling does funny things to my brain. You see I am out here learning, speaking, teaching and researching. Most of it bears directly on Dr Dave's Best and its customers, present and future.

But there are a lot of "hurry up and wait " moments.

Waiting on planes, trains and automobiles.

In the words of David Byrne from the Talking Heads, "I'm tired of traveling, I want to be somewhere."

Still, all this down time gives you pause to observe what has happened while you've been gone.

We had a cancer scare and a cancer tragedy.

Rock and roll mistress Sheryl Crow was diagnosed with breast cancer and actress Dana Reeve succumbed to the number one cancer killer in women, lung cancer.

Like Andy Kaufman before her, she never smoked. Some have postulated second hand smoke. Well that may have played a big role but there has to have been something else going on. I think her stress and pressure built up oxidatives, damaging her body and throwing her possibly already susceptible genes into disarray.

As a supplement expert and anti-aging doc I like to think things like fish oil and Boost Immune would have helped.

To prove it, I'd have to wave my magic wand and clone both Andy Kaufman and Dana Reeve and clone them about a year before their lung cancers killed them.

Then I could put both of their clones on fish oil and Boost Immune and measure and tracked their illnesses to the point just before their death.

Then I could wave my magic want and cure them all.

I know this all sounds funny but I will say this much, imagination is the key to the stuff of the future.


Sadly I am stuck in the present and I'd settle for waving my magic wand for an on time departure.

Then of course we had Oscar moments. The gowns the fashion and so on.

I was particularly interested in the buzz around Hollywood and San Francisco.
Let me tell you they are two different worlds.

Ironically, names like Paris Hilton, Pamela Anderson and Carmen Electra still topped Lindsay Lohan and the Jessicas, Alba and Simpson, on the hit parade independent of whether they were in the Oscar line up or not.

Reese Witherspoon, who walked away with an Oscar for her portrayal of June Carter Cash in Walk the Line, the Johnny Cash story, set the fashion tone at least for the next 6 months with her retro elegant gown.

Lazlo, my resident idiot savant poet thinks she went to the Quentin Tarrentino school of jaw lines but he made one interesting observation: "What happened to abs and buns of steel hunnies."

Lets pick this thread up with the next blog of the day, which I'll send you in a few hours.

Y'all come back now,

Doc

Of myths and men and Algae Man

One of the things that fascinate me about humans and human behavior is how some people glom onto a myth that they would otherwise not be fooled by.

Now before we go any further, let's make sure we define myth versus lie.

A lie is a deliberate untruth that generally is destructive to one or more people.

A myth is something not grounded in reality but not a deliberate lie.

Myths can be very good, very fun and very helpful.

They can also be among the most destructive things to humanity as the mythology of Nazi Germany clearly showed.

I recently heard a myth I would like to explore a little bit with you.

The myth is that there is man walking around the North American continent today who has not eaten or had anything to drink for 4 years.

He has supposedly developed the ability to synthesize everything he needs from sunlight and rain and the soil. I guess he must walk around barefoot for at least a few hours a day, though I am not sure.



Now this is simply a new twist on an older myth that I heard a while back. That myth is that somewhere in the Pacific there is a whole tribe of people who live off the earth and the wonderful ocean air.

They are barefoot all the time.

Like the land that held King Kong, no one is sure where their island is.

After the discovery of the hidden rainforests in Indonesia, I guess we have to be a little open minded about that one. And it is at least a tad more appealing and more believable.

At least their air is clean and they live near the ocean. And I can see where they got the idea. This mythical island tribe is surrounded by simple, one-celled organisms called algae that do live completely from their environment.

They are designed for this; humans are not.

Unless of course you are the dude who hasn't eaten or had liquids for 4 years.

I will call him Algae Man.

Sadly, for Algae Man, he has to live on the crappy air and polluted mineral depleted soil of our land. That would make any one a little green around the gills.

Humans have a mouth to put food in and chew, taste buds to enjoy the food, a food pipe to take it to the digestive organs of the body. Lungs, liver and kidneys to detoxify their systems and keep them in the narrow balance of PH that is optimal for human life.

Humans also have organs for the elimination of waste. I have to wonder if the "4 years without food dude" saves thousands a year on toilet paper.

Those of you who subscribe to the "millionaire next door" theory of getting rich might want to add this to your to do list.


I also think Algae Man needs to sit down with our buddy the
Waterless Guru who hasn't had a drink of water in 20 years, smokes and drinks and eats what ever he wants.

Now that would be an interesting conversation.

It brings up the issue of fasting and what I think of it.

I fast once month for 24 to 36 hours because I like the way it makes me feel and I know it is harmless to my body.

Something like this could be deadly to a diabetic, however.

After about 72 hours strange things begin to happen that I equate with aging.

Your cortisol goes up, your metabolism, growth hormone and sex hormones all go down.

Sounds a lot like getting old doesn't it? So I would draw the line at 72 hours.

Now I am aware that there are people who fast for religious reasons and they may go longer than this (but not 4 years). That is up to you and your beliefs but it is interesting to note that many unexplainable things happen to people who fast for long periods at a time, including stigmata.

Under no circumstances would I go without water in any of these fasts no matter how long or short.

Also "Juice fasting" or "supplement fasting (see fish oil fasting) doesn't really equal fasting since you are taking in calories even though it's at a much lower level.

Personally, unless Gandhi (who was a great man without a doubt) is your idea of a great body image, I would still hold it to 72 hours or less.

If you do fast on any regular basis, I would recommend you do what any one should do fasting or not. Provide adequate amounts of essential elements to your diet with fish oil and Monster Multi and add in some Instant Endurance for stress buffering. Drink plenty of water with them as well.

I think it's great to give the organ systems that we have a temporary break from their daily jobs.

Four years, however, is not a break; it's a national work stoppage.

If any one out there knows where this fellow is, I would love to meet him and study him. After all he is truly super human.

I would settle for seeing him go 4 weeks without food and water as long as he would sign a disclaimer agreeing to be filmed 24/7 and that he wouldn't sue me for the consequences of his actions.

After that I would call up the waterless guru and see if I could arrange a dinner at a fancy restaurant with everyone together. I'd pick up the tab.

I know at least I'd only have to pay for food and drinks for two!

To me each of these people represents two extremes of the "how to achieve good health" coin. On one side there is the fear-based, avoid everything mentality and rise to a super human level. On the other is the eat anything you want and live a long time anyway myth.

I guess in the end you pays your money and you takes your choice.

The problem is that even health myths can be dangerous and deadly.

I recently got an email from a man who was clearly hurting emotionally.
His brother had heart disease and had decided to stop all his medicines.

He went to an Alternative health care provider and was told that Hoodia Gordonii (yes, the popular South American herb for weight loss) would heal his heart.

Two weeks after he stopped his prescription and started the Hoodia he was dead.

Too late then to do anything but mourn.

If you want to know the truth about vitamins, read about Monster Multi with Minerals and remember, this is a no B.S. zone so keep on visiting this blog and tell your friends to come as well.

Together we can bust some myths, live long, prosper and have fun doing it.

All the Best, from the King of Pharmaceutical Grade Fish Oil

Dr Dave

P.S. As we speak there are a number of individuals who are saying to anyone who listens that "man is so ignorant".

But I know something about them too. They are followers not leaders. And they are trying to be like their leader and do what they are told. But somehow they never quite get there. And they never will, especially if going without food or water for 4 years is the goal!

Here is Lazlo's take on the whole thing, which comes after his attempt at a 4 year fast. As you can see I think his brain is rotting.

The ballad of Algae Man

I want to be like Algae Man
And live off the air and soak up the land
1000 years, that's for me
I'd never have to poop or pee

No illness or disease, no tears
At least for another 3 or 4 years
But after a day or two without food
A Burger King Whopper looks might good

And the rain don't seem to keep me hydrated
Mine whole inner core seems to be vibrated
My mouth is parched and so's my skin
My patience for this is wearing thin

I don't think I can be like Algae Man
And live off the air and soak up the land
Three or four days is too much a test
I'd better stick with Dr Dave's Best

LBZ

Thanks, Lazlo, you're a good egg, even if you're a little undercooked, Doc

Supplements that heal - under the knife part 4

Ok this is the last one in this little miniseminar and the topic is now stuff that can help you heal up after surgery and a quick rundown of stuff you can take of mine without much worry around your surgery.

1) Arnica Montana

While my supplements containing this are still under development, this herbal seems to be a great addition to the post-op healing phase and you can start it the day of or 1-day post-op.

It will cut down swelling and may reduce bruising. Don't start it until after your surgery, however.

2) Bromelain

This powerful pineapple derived enzyme is helpful in reducing swelling and soft tissue trauma. Again, wait until after surgery to start and combine with Arnica for a potent one two punch.

3) Copper, Zinc and selenium

Both of these are trace minerals that are required for skin healing and anti-oxidant protection. While it would be hard to find them just by themselves, they are in the Monster Multi mix and even if you stop the multi 3 weeks before surgery there should still be plenty around from taking Monster Multi to get you through until you can restart it 1 to 2 weeks after surgery.

4) Vitamin C

Another key player in skin healing and anti-oxidant health, Vitamin C helps your tissues repair themselves and reduces bruising. Looking down the list of do's and dont's you've no doubt noticed that a lot of Dr Dave's Best supplements should be stopped before your surgery. For more info on this, check out Under the Knife Part 1 and our earlier blog "Under the Knife part 2".

Here are a couple you can take up to within 3 days of an operation and restart after 3 days as well*.

Regenerizer

Instant Einstein

Instant Endurance

As you can see they may help you rejuvenate and bounce back faster.

All the Best, and may you never come under the knife,

Dr Dave

Under the knife - Part 3

Here we go with volume 3 of this series on the dangers of combining supplements and surgery.

I have already gotten several emails asking me where volume 1 was.

Well, that one went out as an email to our email list, so if you are not on that list you won't get it. If we ever get caught up posting our emails, that article will be posted either on the home page or more likely into the archives but I honestly can't say when.

We've made many changes including linking our blog to the site and actually blogging daily now instead of when ever it strikes me as we had over the last year or so.

Bottom line, if you are not on our email list, you are missing something.

You can sign up here.

If you were on the list and all of a sudden stopped getting your emails, as seems to be fairly common these days, it's because your ISP is in desperate need of Instant Einstein and can't tell the difference between valuable info and schpam.

This weeks brain dead, Einstein-needin' ISP's include excite.com at the top of the list followed by netzero, sbcglobal and bellsouth who let some through and others not for no apparent reason.

My advice? Add the blog to your favorites. Don't wait for my emails telling you to go there, just go there, please, as I am sendin' 'em and many aren't getting through.

Next, get a nice free G-mail account from Google as at least for the moment they are not playing games (maybe they had their Instant Einstein.)

Otherwise the handwriting is on the wall: the emails will have to go to a paid membership site where you go to read my nympho I mean info (daggone spell checker!).

We'll keep the blog free until they put an entertainment tax on it!

Ok, back to the business at hand supplements and surgery.

1) Cayenne pepper. Cayenne has been touted to lower cholesterol, blood pressure and decreased appetite.

The studies are too small to validate this but it might be true. The biggest problem I've seen is few Americans can eat enough of it to get benefits without unpleasant, heat related or indigestion related side effects.

If you are one of the lucky few who can tolerate it, be aware that it can affect the blood's ability to thin and it can also drop your body temperature, something which general anesthesia often does already.

2) Feverfew Often used for migraines this herb can also thin the blood and should be avoided before surgery.

3) Hawthorne berries Hawthorne is one of the main ingredients in Super Omega 3 and is known to have a role in improving the strength of the heart.

As such, it may increase the effects of the common heart medication, digitalis or Digoxin, so be careful about mixing the two. Let your doctor know you are taking Hawthorne if you are on any heart related meds. Don't be surprised if he or she doesn't have a clue what Hawthorne is!

4) Licorice root or it's active chemical, glycyrrhizin.

Glycyrrhizin is a potent antiviral and in some cases anti-fungal agent. It has found uses against Hepatitis and skin fungi as well.

The side effects of this herbal are all problematic for surgery: increased swelling, decreased potassium and increased blood pressure.

There have been cases of kidney failure due to eating too much real licorice (usually from Europe) as well so be very careful with this one.

In the next few days I will turn the beat around and talk about supplements that can help you heal after surgery.

All the Best from the King of Pharmaceutical Grade Fish Oil,

Dr Dave

Norwegian wood

As the original users of Hercules Factor are reporting back, we are finding out some very interesting uses for the compound.

The actual Growth Hormone-like effects may take a few weeks to surface but there are some tell tale signs of significance that happen sooner. This is not the first report of this type, nor will it be the last.

"Doc, what did you put in the Hercules Factor?

Two things have already started to happen for me even though I've only been on it for about a month.

The first is my hair stylist has noticed additional hair on my head. She says it's thicker and there is more of it. I used to have a small area on the top, back part of my head that was thinning. You could see the scalp through it and I always thought it made me look old.

It's gone. Hooray! I spent thousands on Rogaine and shampoo in the past and I did not get this kind of effect.

Next, I have been getting morning wood again on a most regular basis. This is new too, or should I say old? In the past two years I have noticed a drop in these events along with lower libido. I thought it was gone for good. Man was I surprised and so was my wife.

Whatever is in that stuff (Hercules Factor) keep it coming. It's brilliant."

K. Olsen

Thanks, K, and I am pretty proud of the Hercules Factor myself.

As a quick note, Growth Hormone tends to activate a lot of things in your body. When your levels start to go up, so does the body's need for additional good nutrition and vitamins.

In my anti-aging practice I always recommend fish oil and Monster Multi with minerals to provide the body with the raw materials it need to meet these increased demands.


All the best, Doc

Baseball To Sell Approved Supplements

The news from Sports Illustrated is that MLB teams will start selling supplements to players in an effort to prevent positive drug tests.

Hello!

Anybody in the Commissioner's office ever heard of Dr. Dave?

Management and the players association hired NSF International to certify that supplements are clean. When certified clean, MLB teams will buy the products and make them available for resale to the players.

Hello!

I have clean, 100% clean products on the shelf. 100% natural supplements.

Can I get an amen from NSF?

Last time I checked, old Bud Selig was in real need of
some of my Instant Einstein. He could even pass some
to his pal Jerry Reinsdork, er Reinsdorf.

They could donate a case to the Washington, D.C., city council, who are doing their level best to run baseball out of the nations capitol.

They could all use some fish oil and Cholesterol Bomb too. There are a lot of very long lunches in Washington.

The MLB players could use Instant Endurance, Super Multi Vitamin, Hercules Factor, Super Omega 3, and Sleep Wizard.

They could pass any steroids test with flying colors. They wouldn't have to worry about a 50 game suspension without pay. They wouldn't have to buy
anything out of the country and bring it in. I don't have anything called "The Clear."

Now you will get "clear" if you use Instant Einstein, but it doesn't work as a muscle rub, or enhancer.

Come on now, don't make me start shouting.

MLB needs Dr. Dave, but apparently they don't know it yet.

Lawyers are advising the players, a book has been written and distributed to them, and a video has been
shot, distributed, and watched by all MLB players on what is, and what isn't allowed by the rules.

If MLB had just contacted me, they could have saved a ton of money on legal fees, publishing fees, video production fees, and distribution fees. I would gladly have explained the do's and don'ts of supplementation and good health for next to nothing.

A couple of good seats to watch the Phil's a couple of times a year, and free parking. That's all I would have asked for.

And World Series tickets.

That's it.

Well, maybe a Roger Clemens autographed jersey and ball.

That's it. Now I'm finished. Gotta answer the phone.

"Dr. Dave here."

"Dr. Dave, Big Stein here."

"Geeoorrrge!"

There are no lawyers, books, or videos at the Dave Cave. Just place your order now, and we'll ship it out prontissimo.

All the best,


Doc

P.S. No word yet whether this will be the same deal as the NFL: Last I checked, to get certified you had to "donate" $50,000 and be doing at least 50 million in sales to get the stamp of approval. Now that we've identified this as a "pay to play" moneymaker, can NASCAR be far behind?

Hmm, maybe I could start with Olympic curling. They couldn't want more than a few thou to support the team right?

How She Dropped Her Cholesterol 33 Points

Carrie, like many others, didn't want to take the statin drug prescribed
by her doctor to lower her cholesterol. She believed, like I do, that there
is a better way, without all the side effects. Here's her letter.

"Dear Dr. Dave,

Just a quick note to say thanks.

Six weeks ago my doctor wrote me a prescription for Vytorin. My bad
cholesterol was 240. I am a 42 years young woman and was not ready
to start taking heavy duty meds, at least not before trying a natural remedy
first.

I started exercising four to six times a week including cardio. My diet was
already pretty healthy but I did up the roughage with more fruits, vegetables,
and salads. With a heavy heart I also cut back on the cheese.

I also started taking your Super Omega 3 every day.

Yesterday, it had been six weeks since I started the new program, and I
went back to the doctor seven pounds lighter and feeling great. I wasn't
even really thinking about my cholesterol number.

The new count was 207. I'm dancing.

It is my new goal to get the count down under 200 by the time of my next
visit in four months.

I now believe this is very possible.

I can't thank you enough for your product line. I really believe the
Super Omega 3 played a big part in my success.

Sincerely,

Carrie"

Thanks for your letter; I really appreciate the feedback I get from
everyone who is trying to heal themselves without the help of Uncle Pharma.

Good diet, frequent exercise, and Super Omega 3 is a great combination. I'm
positive that four months from now you will easily reach a number under 200,
and there will be a corresponding increase in your good cholesterol along
with a host of other good benefits.

It won't be long before doctors aren't prescribing statins anymore. They
don't work, or reduce risk factors, in spite of Uncle Pharma's barrage of
blather, and they have a long list of side effects, the primary one being
that they can kill you. Read the specification sheet.

Super Omega 3 is the smart choice, 100% natural


All the best,


Doc

Bulky buff Bertha

With the advent of the Hercules Factor, our singular and revolutionary supplement designed to increase both HGH secretion and increase available testosterone at the same time, I have gotten a lot of questions about women and muscle bulk.

Here is an example of one of them:

"Dr Dave, I want to take the Hercules Factor but the last thing I want is hair and bulky muscles.

I know it's great for men since it increases both Growth hormone and testosterone, but can woman take it?

Will I get zits, a moustache and big bulky muscles?"

Cathy W.

Well Cathy I can understand your concerns and I think it's time to set the record straight,

First the simple answers and then the not always simple explanations.

Yes, women can safely take the Hercules Factor and no you won't get hairy or bulky because of it.

You may notice less body fat, weight loss, increased muscle tone and strength and of course increased sex drive.

Next, the somewhat more complicated answer as to why.

First off, we always need to separate appropriate replacement levels of hormones from those used in the body building world.

There are at least 20,000 people out there, men and women alike, who are on testosterone replacement and/or Growth Hormone replacement (HGH).

If you met them on the street they would not stand out in many ways from other people except perhaps they might appear and act a bit healthier and stronger.

They would not be any hairier, any zittier and only marginally bulkier than a typical, well trained person.

If you talked to them, however, you would find a big difference in their attitudes and energy levels compared to many people their age.

In short, you would hear more about quality of life, quality of mood, quality of thought and quantity of sex drive than anything else.

Professional and in some case amateur bodybuilders take health risks that the average person would not want to take.

They do it all for the best looking body they can have even if it affects their longevity or health.

The levels of hormones they are talking about are so far above normal that they can only be achieved with massive and expensive doses of multiple, cocktail-like injections and pills.

It is virtually impossible for a healthy woman who is not supported by drugs to achieve the kind of musculature that you are talking about, Cathy.

Women simply do not have enough native testosterone in their bodies to get to this point.

It should become apparent that the bulky, extremely muscled women you may see in some magazines and on some TV shows are pharmaceutically supported.

Still, testosterone and HGH have some positive effects in women much the same way they do in men; lowered body fat, increased strength and musculature, improved mood, bone mass, and sex drive.

Just not to the same degree as men.

So the Hercules Factor may indeed by very useful to you in achieving a better, leaner, stronger look.

But you won't need to worry about hair or bulk, so have no fear.

Finally, one of my colleagues asked me about the mistake we made with the Hercules Factor.

He said, "Why did you combine both a testosterone booster and a GH booster in one product when you could have had two products and sold them both?"

My simple answer was, because GH and testosterone work better together and this one product is unique because it was designed to handle both at once.

Yeah I could have made more but the Hercules Factor is a "one and only" kind of product.

And that's the kind I like to make.

All the best, Doc

Riding the O train

I debated whether to print this nice email I got as it might not go over too well with some of you.

Let me simply say that it is rather graphic and explicit and if those words frighten you read no further.

However, if you are the exploratory type this is right up your alley.

Many of you have mentioned to me that you feel it is unreasonable to expect major changes in your body after only one month of the Hercules Factor.

That is probably true as even injectable growth hormone often takes up to 6 weeks to start showing changes. This is one reason we had such a run on it when we first introduced it. Most people bought 3 bottles or more.

Then there was the discounted price.

Sorry, that was once and done but many of you were fast enough on the draw to take advantage.

As we reintro the Hercules Factor it will most likely sell out again very quickly.

Some of you will still only buy one bottle.

This may not be all bad, read on.


"Hello Dr. Dave,

Just wanted to say THANK YOU for making Hercules Factor available - it has really changed my life in the past 2 weeks since I began taking it, in addition to your fish oil and Immune Boost.

I am in a business development role and was just given very aggressive goals, which at first concerned me but once I got on HF, I felt both mentally and physically equipped to take on the challenge and then some!

I am planning a meeting with my CEO where I will be proposing the start of a whole new division in my company. Those that have known me for a while are quite impressed with my passion, to say the least!

Speaking of PASSION, my sex life has improved tremendously as well. Luckily my beau has also been taking HF - not only has my/our libido increased, let's just say that the length of my/our ride on the "O train" has been extended at LEAST 3 TIMES!!

At the end of a particularly satisfying session, I called out "THANK YOU, DR. DAVE!" and both my boyfriend and I got a good laugh.

Thanks so much for the wonderful things you do and keep it up!"

K.

Wow, now I am speechless. Is that what I heard the other night? I thought I was dreaming.

K, you sure are loud! My kind of girl.

Actually let me explain that. From your email I can tell you are a highly motivated, high achieving person who won't settle for mediocrity in anything. Hence, my kind of girl (woman!).

I would say the same about the guys out there but this is not a Project Runway rerun so I'll hold my tongue.

Either way, if you are a high achiever and want the biggest and best life you can have you've come to the right place - Hercules Factor

Once again if you are reading this blog a little late I am sorry we may have already pulled down the page or put the Herc Factor on backorder.

Now there is one other thing I want to say to you today.

There is one in every bunch. Some lightbulb out there will write to me and say " Hey, Dr Dave, how do we know this is a real person!?"

For those of you who need an answer to that question and can't figure out why I might not use a full name or might change the name I have decided to accommodate your wishes at: Instant Einstein.

There you will find exactly what you need.

All the Best from the conductor of the "O" train,

Dr Dave

Oh yeah one other thing. LBZ demanded a crack at this so here is his limerick sung to the tune of Johnny Cash's "Folsum Prison"

I hear that train a commin'

Comin' round the bend
And I ain't had one of these
Since I don't know when.

I'm ridin on the O train
Exactly where I want to be
And dear while you're at it
More Herc Factor for me

(train whislte sound) PLuuueeeeaaase

LBZ

Laughing all the way to the bank with the help of Alternative medicine

Ok, let's jump right in here to the aspartame scenario again.

Yesterday I told you that the sugar lobby is laughing all the way to the bank every time there is a big fuss about aspartame or any other artificial sweetener for that matter.

I also told you and remind you that I am not defending aspartame, I am just pointing out the facts.

Speaking of facts, here are a few more for your consideration:

1) Stevia, the darling of the Alternative medicine community and a sweetener I do use more frequently, is the least scientifically tested of all of the sugar substitutes.

Its use and safety are presumed by a long history of use in South America and Japan but very few studies of any kind have been done.

2) The use of artificial sweeteners continues to rise at a very high rate and will continue to do so. This includes aspartame.

It's fine to say; avoid all sweeteners but the American public is just not going to do that.

3) #2 has led to a "sugar shortage" here in the U.S. which has led to, you guessed it; a price increase in sugar.

Can you hear the laughter in the background? I wonder which companies sell both artificial and sugar products.

The last time I checked, using less of something usually leads to a glut and a price drop. But if there is one thing American industry learned from the gas crisis of the 70's and beyond, it's how to manufacture a shortage to ensure profitability no matter what the demand.

Now, finally, here is the part you've been waiting for.

In a new study conducted by the National Toxicology Program no link was found between NutraSweet and cancer.

The reason?

The same ones I pointed out months ago. Poor testing procedures used to draw an erroneous conclusion.

For example: The test animals used have been inbred leading to a very high underlying cancer rate to begin with and were inappropriate test subjects.

In addition, this new study was done more carefully and longer with much higher doses of aspartame than people would be likely to consume unless they were mentally ill.

Result: no link to cancer.

This nation consumes over 8,000 tons (16 million pounds) of aspartame a year. Assuming a 38mg dose per packet and a 5 packet a day use average (this is probably way too high) that means that each pound supplies 13 packets.

13 x 16 million is a whole lot of packets (208 million per year) or about 41 million people a year at a 5 pack a day assumed consumption rate.

Since 1988 there have been 4,000 complaints of neurological or related disturbances. Let's assume that this is underreported by a factor of ten and that there have actually been 40,000 problems but some people just didn't report them.

That is an average of 2,222 people per year having a neurological problem of some undefined nature (numbness, dizziness, nausea, blurred vision, MS, etc, etc. as all were considered).

If you use reported data, it is 222 people a year.

That gives any one person about a 0.000054 chance of having a problem assuming that this is actually related to aspartame.

Again, if you use the actual reported number that number is even tinier: 0.00000054

I promise you that either number is infinitesimally smaller than your chance of having a side effect from most over the counter drugs.

It's probably lower than your chance of getting sick at a local restaurant and certainly much lower than your chance of getting diabetes, heart disease or tooth decay from eating too much sugar.

Let's look at a few more claims found on the internet.

1) Aspartame causes cancer.

Well who really knows, right? I mean, no one has done a population-based study on it that I know of and frankly, no matter what it showed, people who believe it's bad already don't care what that study would show.

After all, it's all a conspiracy to kill you by the food industry so you can stop consuming their products and make them rich right.

I hope you see the disconnect.

Now would I believe that there is suppressed information due to money changing hands, authority or personal favors? It’s happened before, hasn't it?

Several times in the past year, apparently.

Bottom line, we don't have any evidence that aspartame causes cancer but in a kind of ‘sea monsteresque’ way (see previous blog posted below "Of Supplements and Sea Monsters"), we don't have any evidence that it doesn't.

Other than the fact that the overall cancer rate is not rising even though 42 million people a year are gobbling NutraSweet like it was nirvana.

We also don't have any evidence that breathing doesn't cause cancer, especially in today's polluted environment.

2) Aspartame makes you fat.

No it doesn't.

Eating too much and lying around makes you fat and eating sugar makes you fatter.

If you stop eating sugar, you'll lose weight I promise you. But we don't have any evidence to say that aspartame helps you get thin either as you can still eat to your hearts content no matter how much aspartame you consume.

3) Aspartame upsets your brain.

There is one article published by a "maverick" doctor that did not get picked up by any medical journal that I know of, that suggests this. That one article is the whole basis for every other article written on the internet.

That maverick MD is now selling fish oil!

What? No antidote for aspartame?

4) There is formaldehyde in aspartame and that is what caused Gulf War syndrome.

The amount of formic acid (the forerunner of formaldehyde) in one pack of NutraSweet is about 1/40 the amount in a steak.

You do the math.

By now there are many people scribbling me an "I know my body" email.

I will get several "I was cured when I stopped NutraSweet" emails.

By all means, if you feel poorly on NutraSweet, avoid it.

But don't stop looking for the cause of your problems if you are chronically ill.

Many illnesses attributed to aspartame like MS and chronic fatigue have no known cause and are waxing and waning by nature. Many may only ever cause one episode and then disappear, hopefully for good.

When I started this rant I told you I didn't give a crap about NutraSweet. If they took it off the market because it was unsafe tomorrow I would not put flowers on its grave.

I would, however, write to you and tell you I was very wrong if there were any real evidence.

As a matter of fact I will film myself drinking my own urine and post it on the internet if there is ever any real solid evidence of the disease claims and aspartame in average human consumption doses.

What we have is lots of people who feel that getting it out of their lives was a very good thing and made them healthier. To quote a friend of mine, "No matter what the studies say, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the stuff must be bad for you!"

Well I am no rocket scientist but I agree, if you feel better off it, stay off it.

So why did I bother to write this?

It's my job to tell you the facts no matter how unpopular. And I do so love to kick sand in the face of some of the big wigs in the Alternative medicine field, especially when they gave up taking a stand on things a long time ago and just parrot back what you already expect them to say.

And I honestly believe that sugar is the real danger to us and that sugar can hide behind the controversy of aspartame and slide under the radar.

I think the gurus who fall for this and command such wide audiences are doing a big disservice to the American Public by not focusing on sugar's dangers.

I also think they are playing right into the hands of a very big business named sugar.

My final words; Get as much sugar out of your life as you can and I am 1,000% sure you feel better and be healthier.

For more on the damages sugar can cause go to:

Beating the Sugar Rap

Wimpy, Blimpy, Blind and Weak

Dr Dave saves coke fiends life

Oh yeah, while I am at it, sunscreens don't cause cancer, you can't alkalinize your body, chronic yeast is a myth for most people (if you really have it, get on Immune Boost and Instant Endurance to activate your T cells) and eating enough fish to get the amount of fish oil you need for superior health will dump pollutants into your body.


All the best from the King of controversy Dr Dave

Reference Link

No link found between Aspartame and cancer or any neurological symptoms.

* Please note: The terms aspartame and NutraSweet are used interchangeably in this article.

If you've read past the title you have a little more of an open mind than most people.

Some of them have already unsubscribed from my emails and hit the delete Dr Dave button.

So be it.

As I have said before about my job, "This is not a popularity contest".

It would be so easy not to fight a no win battle or just keep my mouth shut but that just ain't my way.

Before I give you the evidence behind the title let me say that I am not defending Aspartame.

As I mentioned before, you either hate it, blame it for bad things and/or fear that it may do bad things to you.

Or you don't give a crap.

Since I use it about 10 times a year and have had absolutely no problems with it, I don't give a crap.

But I am not "defending" its honor.

I am doing something no one else I know does and that is called a follow-up.

You see nothing irritates me more than when someone writes an article like, "Fish Oil bad for the heart?" and then doesn't follow up when the statement has been disproved.

In that particular case, my favorite anti anti-aging journal and bastion of the good 'ol boy network in traditional medicine JAMA (Journal of the Good ol' Boys I mean of the American Medical Association) published an article that was poorly done and got picked up and circulated for months by the lay press.

When the rebuttal came out it got almost no press.

They did it again when they published a "Fish Oil not Helpful in Cancer" article a few weeks back. Even though the articles they cited to substantiate their claims did not even use fish oil as a therapy!

Fish Oil and Prostate Cancer Part 1

Fish Oil and Prostate Cancer Part 2

Stop a Killer In Its Tracks

Well it's much the same with artificial sweeteners.

It's so easy for gurus or the people that write for them to print any study about how bad they are for you and get an instant pat on the back by their readership.

The most recent article was published a few months back and read something like "Aspartame causes cancer".

It was the party line as usual: "In addition to all the terrible other things that aspartame does to you like give you MS, migraines and Gulf War Syndrome now it causes cancer too. The big food industry is lyin', cheatin' and killin' ya and the government is lettin' 'em get away with it.
So come to me for the real scoop".

I love America but the government can always use some Instant Einstein.

I don't love the food industry and I hate the sugar lobby.

The reasons bear repeating:

1) Sugar in its various forms has done far more damage that is far more proven than any artificial sweetener ever did or will do.

2) Sugar has contributed volumes to obesity, diabetes and indirectly to heart disease and high blood pressure and yes even cancer. Sugar was the original reason for slavery.

3) Sugar helps keep America's teeth rotting.

4) If sugar was good for you there'd be no need for aspartame or any other substitutes.

As you can tell I am on my soapbox but this post is getting a bit long so I'll pick it up again tomorrow. If you haven't clicked delete or unsubscribe yet you might want to tune in again then.

All the Best from a very hot and sweaty Dr Dave

P.S. - At least wait until I 'm done with tomorrow's post to send me the emails telling me why I am so very wrong.

Somebody Please Get A Message To Dubya

There are obviously some problems these days at 1600 PennsylvaniaAvenue. That's the address of the White House, the home of Bush 43. Ole Dubya appears to have the Second Term Blues, and the strains of being President appear to be taking their toll.

It's not an easy job being President of the United States. If you look at before and after photos of the President's who have served two terms, you will immediately notice astonishing changes. It ain't easy carrying the weight of the country on your shoulders, be you a Democrat, or a Republican.

Clinton rolled into Washington a chubby good old boy with roly-poly charm and sandy brown hair with nary a wrinkle on his face. He left town with grey hair, lines on his face, and heart disease.

Dubya was greeted with 9/11, and was on a roll for a while there, slumped, was revived by the re-election campaign, and now just can't seem to get anything right.

We are now treated to a tape of the Prez being warned about the disaster about to occur in New Orleans. I guess he thought this was a drill, not the real thing.

Nobody around him seems to be very quick on their feet either. When the President falters there is supposed to be someone around who has an answer, or at the very least a good spin. That's not happening either.

It's going to be a couple of years until the next election, so it doesn't look like any sweeping change is going to be made anytime soon. But if somebody could get a message to Dubya, let him know I can help.

If there are no Einstein's he can hire to help him beat the Second Term Blue's, there is an Einstein that can help, and Instant Einstein is ready,
willing, and able to help clear some of the fog at 1600 Pennsylvania.

It could be put to extremely good use on Capitol Hill too. There isn't any shortage of people there with clogged neurotransmitters either.

Instant Einstein will snap even a hard sleeper like Dubya out of the doldrums. If he took a little Instant Einstein a while back he might have realized that a undeniable disaster named Katrina was on its way and the one named bird flu was not.


On Capitol Hill $27 billion dollars has been thrown at New Orleans, virtually unsupervised, in what is certainly the most corrupt state in the union. That's about $586,000 for every man, woman, and child in the city. There aren't a lot of thinkers there either.

Our President should set an example. At the next cabinet meeting there should be bottles of Instant Einstein at every chair. He should come in, open his
bottle, take 6 capsules, and everybody in the room should follow.'

Except for Mr. Cheney, the Veep should probably take at least 12!

I'll bet they would be surprised at what followed. I can almost guarantee two good ideas would come out of that meeting.

Hey, other places, there would be more, but you can't set the bar that high in Washington.

Just think of what could happen if there were 2 good ideas in Washington every day. Just two!

Please! Somebody has to get a message to Dubya. Instant Einstein is ready to serve it's country now. The Dave Cave is on a 24 hour alert.

There won't be any confusion. The Mayor won't have to talk to the Governor. The Governor won't have to talk to FEMA. FEMA won't have to talk to the Mayor. The Office of Homeland Security will not beinvolved.

Order Instant Einstein Now. Order Received. Packed and shipped. Order Delivered. Product Used. Brain Boost Received.

"Hey Karl?"

"Yes, Mr. President."

"That stuff I took yesterday. Norman Ornstein, er Calbert Einsberg,
where'd it go?"

"It's right in front of you, sir."

"Would you look at that, right in front of me. Well, okay! Hey, Karl?"

"Yes,sir."

"Make sure the press doesn't get any of this. Next thing you know they'll
be asking smart questions. I don't need that."

"Taken care of, sir."

"Good. good."

Instant Einstein can be yours as well for the fraction of the cost of a brain transplant!

All the best,


Doc

Under the knife - Part 2

Diving right into our list of supplements and how they may increase or decrease your surgical risks, let's start with:

1) Bilberry: Although inferior to the Elderberry or chokeberry/black currant combos used in my Boost products, bilberry is a popular and oft used addition to eye health supplements.

As a berry derived substance it can make blood clotting cells called platelets not work as well as they should and lead to excess bleeding. This is one you'll want to check for and stop three weeks before surgery and not restart until at least one week after.

2) Garlic: Garlic is one of the many ingredients in Super Omega 3 that boosts the anti-inflammatory and anti-cholesterol activity of that supplement.

Garlic has blood thinning effects and may increase the activity or other blood thinners including Coumadin and traditional arthritis medicines (NSAIDS), many of which are now available over the counter. Example: Ibuprofen

3) St. John's Wort: St. John's Wort surprises me because it is still over the counter. There are some very serious side effects possible including severe skin rashes and sun sensitivity.

It has similarities with a class of drugs we call MAO inhibitors. These drugs interfere with almost everything else to the point where people who take them have to be on a restricted diet.

Like them, St John's Wort has so many potential drug interactions it should be stopped well in advance of anything but the most minor surgery.

4) Ginger: Ginger is another herb used in Super Omega 3 to augment the power of fish oil. While ginger can also help with post op nausea and vomiting in our experience, it can prolong bleeding at least in theory and should be on your list of "Don't takes" before surgery.

Ephedra (and Bitter Orange): Ephedra is back on the market at least for the moment, until someone else O.D.'s on it and has a problem.

Bitter Orange is its replacement and behaves much the same.

The average person probably shouldn't be taking either of these even if they are not having surgery but I would stay far away if you are.

Both herbals (and synthetics) can cause increased heart rate, increased blood pressure and irregular heart beats.

All of this will lead to a very unhappy anesthesiologist and a very unhappy surgeon not to mention the risk to the patient.

I will end today's little lesson with a limerick from our resident idiot savant, poet, LBZ (Lazlo B. Zilly) who has decided he also has a musical side.


The Ephedra Unskinny Bop (sung to the tune of Unskinny Bop by Poison -- how ironic!)

What makes you so jumpy
Why can't you sit still
Seems to me you been poppin'
That ephedra diet pill

(Second verse and chorus)

Ephedras's back oh woe is me
My hands get cold and it makes me pee
And yet again they say its safe
Just be sure only to take

The exact amount and not a morsel more
Or you might wind up
In a cold steel drawer

For fast heart beats and hypertension
Strokes and heart attacks not to mention
People can't resist the temptation
A quick answer for an obese nation

Craving the kick and pounds to lose
May have you walkin' in dead man's shoes
Unless your use is real responsible
Quick buck artists who are reprehensible
Tell you you'll be thin as a ‘pencible’

So if you are going under the knife
Stop ephedra and save your life

(repeat chorus and verses as needed)

LBZ

Have a great day,

Doc

Are you fat in your genes?

Quite a while back I wrote an article outlining how today's morbidly obese may have descended from the survivors of yesteryear.

In other words people who were good at conserving calories my have had a genetic advantage to pass on their genetic material to their kids.

If you think about it we are really only 2 or 3 generations removed from a time when hunger and food shortages were a major problem for a large number of people in this country, not to mention others where it still is.

Take away that pressure and provide an abundance of food in a quick easy affordable manner and what do you get?

A nation of fat people.

This is an oversimplification of course but it brings up the topic of gene mapping which is fast becoming a reality.

Pretty soon for a hefty fee of course you will be able to walk into you doctor's office or some doctors office at least and order a map of some of the most important factors that lead to diseases like obesity, heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure and others.

You may also be able to see which medications and food will help you best.
Hint: fish oil will be a big one for almost everyone.

While I applaud this new direction I wonder if it may not go the way of the PSA for prostate cancer or the AMAS - Anti-malignin antibody screen test.

While each of these can be useful if used properly neither of them have lived up to the hopes of clinicians.

There is also the issue of whether or not gene mapping will be able to take into account something called penetrance.

This simply means that just because you have a gene for something doesn't mean that you will have complete or any expression of that gene, In the long run the field of nutragenomics looks much more promising and much more affordable for most of us.

This is the study of how supplements and foods affect your genes.

If you have a bad gene you might well be able to turn it off and keep it off while boosting better ones.

I know this much things like fish oil and Boost will be leading the way.

Why wait for the future? Go to where the action is.

Pharmaceutical Grade fish oil

Cardio and Immune Boost

All the best,

Dr Dave

You Talkin' to Me?

In the past couple of years, the communication explosion has left me both bemused and befuddled.

You see, I never know who's actually talking to me or at me any more.

A while back I wrote you an email entitled "Live from Paris". In it I described how I heard my name "David" screeched almost directly into my right ear.

Startled, both by the proximity and the volume, I immediately spun around to look straight into the eyes of a frumpy, fifty-ish, fair-haired fat lady who was not talking to me at all.

Embarrassed, I let her pass, but I felt entitled to eavesdrop on her conversation at least for a few more strides.

Turns out she was maligning her misfit, mid-teens son back in middle America for not buying the right brand of mustard.

This is not the first time I have met with a vacuous stare of someone who was not talking to me.

It's usually the same scenarios though. I'm minding my own business when someone says "Hello" close behind me. I usually make a complete idiot out of myself by spinning around, a broad stupid grin reflexively splattered on my face, say "Hello" and wave a big Hi only to find someone engrossed in conversation on their cell phone. At that point, I sheepishly look around to see if anyone else saw me make a complete jackass out of myself in
public.

Worse yet is when this happens and I'm actually facing the person. There are two occasions where this is common. The first occurs at the grocery store where I'm walking, head down, intently staring at the items on the shelves. I've now trained myself to shove my hand in my pocket and look up before I respond to the hello from the person who is facing me.

Good thing too, because I'd be batting 0 and 10 against the cell phone.

The next bone I have to pick is with bluetooth technology. First off, why would anybody name a company after the Wicked Witch of the West's dental plan. Next, it took me a long time to realize that there was not a huge spike in schizophrenics walking the streets.

At least, with the cell phone you saw people talking into something. With bluetooth, if they're turned the wrong way, all you see is a guy babbling to himself. I have to admit, it did seem the dress code for schizophrenics had gotten a lot better, as it was usually people in business suits or button-down shirts.

There are other examples of this rampant non-communication as well. The other day I ordered a green tea at a local cafe. As the young girl was performing the rocket science involved in filling the cup with boiling water, she said in my general direction, "Are you on Ebay?" I replied "No, that's not my market." She then laughed at me and carried on with the conversation that she had started a moment before I arrived with the girl next to her. Apparently, the under 30 crew can speak to each other while looking at other people.

And one final question, since when did "no problem" replace "you're welcome' as the correct answer to "thank you"?

Technology is truly a dream come true. When I was a kid, all the characters on the TV show "Star Trek" had communicators. It has not escaped my notice that today's cell phones are a dead ringer for the Star Trek communicator.

I am sometimes tempted to flip open my phone and say, ”Beam me up, Scotty." But I'm pretty sure his response would be "You talkin' to me?"

P.S. I plan to live long enough to see the return of personal communication where people look at each other when conversing and the proper response to "thank you" is "you're welcome". When that day comes, there will also be cell phone free areas which will include restaurants, theatres, places of worship and air traffic control towers. Since that may be a while, I'm glad I have fish oil and Regenerizer to keep my cells young and healthy.

All the best,

Dr Dave

Paris Hilton and Mardi Gras

Ah, the lifestyles of the rich and famous.

Why do we love them so or hate them so for that matter?

I have always taken a live and let live attitude towards these people.

Or perhaps it's mind over matter: I don't mind because, in my life, they don't matter.

Still should we not have some pity for a celeb that has no privacy and no real private life at all?

After all look what they did to Lady Di.

But Paris Hilton may be another matter.

Right now the latest faux pas is the alleged possession of 18 diaries describing in detail all kinds of nitty gritty, dirt bag stuff done dirt cheap with who knows who by an Arizona based smut broker.

Wanna find out what's in 'em?

All you have to do is find the sleaze that has this and many other items including the Mardi Gras beads she allegedly wore in one of several videos whilst starring in her own homemade version of Dallas does Paris.

Speaking of Mardi Gras, we're a bit surprised Paris wasn't the star of the show. Although there is always the chance she'd show up at a FEMA tent instead of this year's changed parade routes.

Anyway if you are a Parisite, Sleaze broker David Hans Schmidt will part with the contents of a self storage locker that became a veritable Pandora Hilton's box of self recorded dirt on the starlet who parties for a living.

The starting price: 20 million.

Come on, Paris, if you are as hurt and upset as you say, you can afford to pony up; after all it's all going to be on the internet soon anyway. May as well own the distribution rights.

Well, we here at Dr Dave's Best think the dear little girl needs a healthy slug of Instant Einstein and surely a dose of Instant Endurance to keep up with the wild life style she seems to adore.

I offer you my version Paris' "notes to self" to be found in the next diary she starts.

1) Take Instant Einstein daily

2) Remember combination to storage locker

3) Don't forget to pay storage locker bill on time

4) Stop filming self with boyfriends and then acting hurt when films are discovered...Unless running low on cash.

5) Make sure own people "discover" the contents of next locker and control distribution of contents

6) Save up 20 mill and keep in reserve for next U store it clerk in case own people forget fish oil and Einstein

7) Make sure next replacement for lost dog knows who you are before announcing you found your dog

8) Study Kabala more in depth

Paris' understanding of the Kabala is apparently limited. When asked what it means to her she replied something to the effect of, 'The Kabala teaches you not to get upset. Like if some girls steals my clothes and wears them to a party I shouldn't freak out about it.'

Now that is unique.

On second thought I might have to raise the daily limit of Instant Einstein from 6 capsules twice a day to a whole bottle just for you dear.

In the end, some of us ask why celebs do the things they do.

I have a very simple answer that goes as deep as Paris' understanding of religion.

Because they can.

Don't wanna wind up forgetting something important?

Don't wanna become a Parisite?

Take your fish oil and Einstein every day.

Remember, weight gain over the holidays is an all too common problem. Statistics show a predicted 1.5 billion pound weight gain for Americans from Dec through April.

Don't be a statistic. Stay on your Fish Oil and Regenerizer and stay healthy and trim.

And don't forget to load up on Cardio Boost to keep your lactate thresholds down.

"Others will copy but none compare!"

Best,

Dr Dave

Lost in Cyberspace

I am an admitted technophobe. Ironic as it may sound, I never liked
computers and quite frankly, they never liked me.

I have a unique and highly developed ability to confound even the most idiot proof software and hardware. On a few occasions when I've actually been able to speak with tech support people, I've gotten them to admit that there indeed is a problem with their product "if you look at it the way you (meaning me) do."

The implication is that I somehow think differently than everyone else out there.

That's certainly not the first time I've been told that. In my own simple way, I divide users of technology into 3 groups.

(1) Those under 30

These people ar either genetically preprogrammed to work with computers or somehow got the knowledge while still in their mother's womb. Geek speak is their native language and some ethereal force guides them to click, double click and slide to just the right commands without ever using the higher part of their brain that makes them human.

(2) Those between 30-45

This is the gray area that contains plenty of "Johnny Kilowatts" as well as many cyber dunces. For the most part, these people are educable if not gifted in "computerese". With a little work and a little coaching they can make the same intuitive leaps the under 30 crew does with ease. While never the equal of their younger counterparts and never to become blue-blooded members of the geek squad, they eventually manage just fine.

(3) The over 45 crowd

Also know as "Lost in Cyberspace." With rare exceptions, these people need massive repetition and spoon feeding to even master the simplest of tasks like sending an email. They are befuddled by the endless choices of clicks and drop down menus that the younger generation relishes. They expect consistency between software programs even when made by different manufacturers and have little patience when things don't go well. They cannot understand how a $100 software program can disable a $3000 laptop and make it useless for weeks.

If they're lucky they can coerce or pay for their very own geek squad flunky to bail them out of trouble when they come up against an unclosable dialogues box or a software product that won't accept its own registration.

For them, the computer is truly a tool and one which is always a nanosecond or a gigabyte away from being smashed into megabits, doused in lighter fluid and tossed flaming out of their second story windows with the USB cable still attached.

Now, lest you think I have just described my self, I assure you, I am a member of the second group, however, it is only due to the grace of Instant Einstein and fish oil that keeps my brain from
becoming lost in cyber space.

All the best,

The King of Pharmaceutical grade fish oil - Dr Dave