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Retired MD Richard Ruhling Exposes Coffee’s Hidden Dangers, Medical Conditions That Are Detrimental To Health
Dr. Richard Ruhling is a board-certified physician and taught Health Science at Loma Linda University.
WILMINGTON, NC, July 30, 2023 /24-7PressRelease/ — “Drinking coffee is good for your health” has become somewhat of a mantra for many people today. A recent article on Yahoo titled “The #1 Most Important Thing To Do Before Drinking Coffee in the Morning, According to an Integrative Medicine Doc,” stated, “Drinking coffee is good for your health (as long as it isn’t loaded with sugar or artificial sweeteners). The beloved drink benefits brain health and is even linked to living longer if you drink it regularly.” Dr. Ruhling disagrees.
1. “I wish I had a $20 bill for every patient I saw who wanted something for anxiety or their nerves,” Ruhling said, who was board-certified in Internal Medicine before teaching Health Science at Loma Linda University, 1974-78. Caffeine is a neuro-stimulant that we shouldn’t need if we get good sleep.
2. Good sleep is more difficult if we use caffeine. Drug companies love caffeine as it creates a need for many of their symptomatic drugs that also risk adverse drug reaction and don’t solve the underlying cause.
3. Famed Russian scientist, Pavlov, called coffee “Bad Habit Glue” because it glues bad habits together. The best example is how well coffee or caffeine go with a smoke. If one tries to quit smoking, which is a neuro-depressant, but they drink coffee, their nerves beg them for a smoke to calm their nerves caused by caffeine.
4. Quitting coffee’s addiction is difficult because people get headaches and think the coffee cures it when it’s a withdrawal symptom that will pass in a few days, but drug companies understand this and put caffeine in Anacin or Excedrin and drugs for migraines. They relieve the headache but continue the addiction—we are a nation of addicts that include pharma drugs. Pharmakeia is the Greek word that “deceives all nations” in Revelation 18, supported by a book title, The Truth About the Drug Companies, How They Deceive Us.
5. Ruhling has a cardiology fellowship and said coffee is not allowed in Coronary Care Units because in the context of a heart attack, caffeine lowers the threshold for ventricular fibrillation, a fatal arrhythmia. It also cause extra heart beats (Premature Ventricular Contractions).
6. Ruhling’s daughter got breast lumps working the night shift when she couldn’t stay awake without drinking cokes, but her doctor told her to quit the caffeine and the lumps went away. Fibrocystic breast lumps are the most common reason for breast surgery to find out if it’s malignant, and it’s also a risk for cancer.
7. There is such a strong link between coffee drinking and cancer of the pancreas that it was the lead article in the New England Journal of Medicine, https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM198103123041102. Cancer of the pancreas is the #3 cancer cause of death in men–4th in women who also get breast cancer.
8. A Harvard newsletter found a link to cancer of the bladder in women who drank two cups of coffee or more.
9. Osteoporosis is a common affliction of women for which they often take Rx drugs, but every drug in the Physician’s Desk Reference has a long list of Adverse Drug Reactions and Contraindications.
10. We have all seen pictures of children with a deformed upper lip and some get a cleft palate from chromosomal damage when their mother drank coffee during the first trimester of pregnancy. Ads ask us to donate to pay for these kids to have surgery, but say nothing of the cause, typical of media’s love of drug ads from pharma.
11. One of the biggest drug bonanzas is stomach problems caused by caffeine as a powerful stimulant for gastric acid. We shouldn’t need acid blockers and antacids and so many of the new drugs by pharma for a rainbow of problems that include GERD (Gastro-esophageal Reflux Disease), Gastritis, Peptic Ulcers, etc.
At 82, and in excellent health, Ruhling credits his health in part to getting adequate sleep and never needs the stimulation of caffeine to wake up in the morning. He has never had a regular cup of coffee and only once has filled a prescription in his adult life (on a trip with intestinal flu and didn’t want restroom stops).
In a tribute to Ruhling’s mentor, Mervyn Hardinge, MD, PhD, and Dr. of Public Health from Harvard before becoming Dean of Loma Linda’s School of Public Health, Ruhling says “Hardinge was incredulous in the mid-70’s when ‘they are starting to call medical care healthcare.’ It was a Big Pharma marketing ploy.”
Medical care with Rx drugs has almost nothing to do with healthy habits (that Dr. Breslow of UCLA discovered) that give an average of 11 extra years with 35 years difference in those who broke 7 rules compare to those who observed them—smoking, drinking and obesity being the big three, but exercise, sleep, water drinking and attitudes all had measurable benefit so, as one book title says, ‘Be Your Own Doctor.’
Dr. Ruhling is available for speaking engagements and media interviews and can be reached by using the contact information below or by email at ruhling7@juno.com.For more information, visit https://News4Living.wordpress.com.
About Dr. Richard Ruhling:
After Internal Medicine training and board certification, Ruhling had a Cardiology Fellowship before teaching at Loma Linda’s School of Public Health. Attending a cardiology convention, he heard Pritikin reporting how a low fat, low cholesterol diet reversed heart disease and got 85% of patients off their drugs for diabetes and blood pressure. Ruhling developed a Total Health Seminar to help people with positive lifestyle changes to avoid high-risk pharma alternatives and at 80 is in excellent health. He can be contacted for speaking for corporate medical cost containment or by churches wanting to consider an alternate to the rapture theory.
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6 Ways to Build Lasting Healthy Habits
Starting on a path toward healthy habits is often easier than maintaining them long term. This year, you can avoid a major pitfall of healthy resolutions and build healthy habits that stick by working small, positive steps into your daily life.
(Family Features) Starting on a path toward healthy habits is often easier than maintaining them long term. This year, you can avoid a major pitfall of healthy resolutions and build healthy habits that stick by working small, positive steps into your daily life.
In fact, healthy habits are the first suggested treatment strategy for people whose blood pressure and cholesterol levels are creeping higher than normal, according to an American Heart Association scientific statement.
“The current guidelines for managing high blood pressure and cholesterol recognize that otherwise healthy individuals with mildly or moderately elevated levels of these cardiovascular risk factors should actively attempt to reduce these risks, and increasing physical activity is a great place to start,” said Bethany Barone Gibbs, Ph.D., chair of the statement writing group and chair of the department of epidemiology and biostatistics at West Virginia University School of Public Health.
These six ideas from the American Heart Association’s Healthy for Good Habit Coach can help.
Bust Common Habit-Building Myths
You may be surprised to learn the truth about creating and sticking to healthy habits. One myth is getting healthy means doing things you don’t like. Research shows positive emotions make habits stick, so set your intentions on something you enjoy. Another misconception is big results require big changes, which may lead to overly ambitious habits. However, the simpler the routine is, the more likely it is to become habit.
Work with Your “Brain Loops”
Your brain creates “loops” for habits made up of three things: a cue, a routine and a reward. Each time the loop is repeated, it becomes more routine and may become automatic. Knowing this, you can design cues for developing new, healthy habits, such as setting walking shoes by the bed to start a walking habit. The routine is putting on the shoes and walking around the block, and the reward is the pleasant sensations and brighter mood from a morning stroll.
Create Cues That Work for You
Most successful health habits begin with a cue. The cue can be external in your environment or internal in terms of your mindset. The more consistent the cue, the more likely it is to trigger the habit. Hacking your brain’s reminder system can help you remember your cue. Some examples of visual cues are placing a sticky note where you’ll see it often, keeping a water bottle on your desk or refrigerating fresh veggies at eye level.
Build a Routine That Supports Your Goals
Positive and consistent habits are important to achieve your personal goals. Small habits done consistently can add up to big results. To create a new healthy habit, think through the steps that could lead to your desired outcome. Ask yourself whether you want to do it, if it’s easy and if it’s high impact. It’s important to choose habits that make a difference and move you closer to your goals.
For example, if one of your goals is improving your heart health, a meaningful habit might be to move more. Increasing physical activity can help lower blood pressure and cholesterol along with many other health benefits, Gibbs said.
“Every little bit of activity is better than none,” she said. “Even small initial increases of 5-10 minutes a day can yield health benefits.”
Use Rewards to Make Habits Stick
Start by choosing a habit you enjoy that’s rewarding by itself. If you’re more of a dancer than runner, increase your physical activity with an upbeat dance class. You might also look for a more enjoyable version of a new habit, such as getting more fruits and veggies by sipping on a delicious smoothie.
Understand Resets are Part of the Process
New habits are experiments. If they don’t stick, you haven’t failed. Instead, you’ve learned what doesn’t work, which is useful. Get curious and ask yourself which part of the habit didn’t work for you. Maybe the cue was ineffective. Maybe the steps of the routine were too ambitious and you need to split them into smaller, easier steps. If you realize you don’t enjoy the habit, stop doing it and try something else.
Find more inspiration and ideas to jumpstart healthy habits this year at heart.org/habits.
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Get chronic UTIs? Future treatments may add more bacteria to your bladder to beat back harmful microbes
Researchers developed a biomaterial releasing beneficial E. coli to combat urinary tract infections by outcompeting harmful bacteria, aiming to reduce antibiotic resistance and manage chronic UTIs effectively.
Sarguru Subash, Texas A&M University
Millions of people in the U.S. and around the world suffer from urinary tract infections every year. Some groups are especially prone to chronic UTIs, including women, older adults and some veterans.
These infections are typically treated with antibiotics, but overusing these drugs can make the microbes they target become resistant and reduce the medicines’ effectiveness.
To solve this problem of chronic UTIs and antibiotic resistance, we combined our expertise in microbiology and engineering to create a living material that houses a specific strain of beneficial E. coli. Our research shows that the “good” bacteria released from this biomaterial can compete with “bad” bacteria for nutrients and win, dramatically reducing the number of disease-causing microbes.
With further development, we believe this technique could help manage recurring UTIs that do not respond to antibiotics.
Bringing bacteria to the bladder
For the microbes living in people, nutrients are limited their presence varies between different parts of the body. Bacteria have to compete with other microbes and the host to acquire essential nutrients. By taking up available nutrients, beneficial bacteria can stop or slow the growth of harmful bacteria. When harmful bacteria are starved of important nutrients, they aren’t able to reach high enough numbers to cause disease.
Delivering beneficial bacteria to the bladder to prevent UTIs in challenging, though. For one, these helpful bacteria can naturally colonize only in people who are unable to fully empty their bladder, a condition called urinary retention. Even among these patients, how long these bacteria can colonize their bladders varies widely.
Current methods to deliver bacteria to the bladder are invasive and require repeated catheter insertion. Even when bacteria are successfully released into the bladder, urine will flush out these microbes because they cannot stick to the bladder wall.
Biomaterials to treat UTIs
Since beneficial bacteria cannot attach to and survive in the bladder for long, we developed a biomaterial that could slowly release bacteria in the bladder over time.
Our biomaterial is composed of living E. coli embedded in a matrix structure made of gel. It resembles a piece of jelly about 500 times smaller than a drop of water and can release bacteria for up to two weeks in the bladder. By delivering the bacteria via biomaterial, we overcome the need for the bacteria to attach to the bladder to persist in the organ.
We tested our biomaterial by placing it in human urine in petri dishes and exposing it to bacterial pathogens that cause UTIs. Our results showed that when mixed in a 50:50 ratio, the E. coli outcompeted the UTI-causing bacteria by increasing to around 85% of the total population. When we added more E. coli than UTI-causing bacteria, which is what we envision for future development and testing, the proportion of E. coli increased to over 99% of the population, essentially wiping out the UTI-causing bacteria. Moreoever, the biomaterial continued releasing E. coli for up to two weeks in human urine.
Our findings suggest that E.coli could stick around and survive in the bladder for extended periods of time and successfully decrease the growth of many types of bacteria that cause UTIs.
Improving biomaterials
Our findings show that E. coli can not only control harmful bacteria it’s closely related to but also a broad range of disease-causing bacteria in humans and animals. This means scientists might not need to identify different types of beneficial bacteria to control each pathogen – and there are many – that can cause a UTI.
Our team is currently evaluating how effectively our biomaterial can cure UTIs in mice. We are also working to identify the specific nutrients that beneficial and harmful bacteria compete over and what factors may help beneficial bacteria win. We could add these nutrients to our biomaterial to be released or withheld.
This research is still at an early stage, and clinical uses are not in development yet, so if it does reach patients it will be well in the future. We hope that our technology could be refined and applied to control other bacterial infections and some cancers caused by bacteria.
Sarguru Subash, Assistant Professor of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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Does Your Favorite Brand of Dark Chocolate Contain Dangerous Metals?
According to a recent article from Consumer Reports, there are some brands of Dark Chocolate that contain dangerous levels of lead, and cadmium.
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According to a recent article from Consumer Reports, there are some brands of Dark Chocolate that contain dangerous levels of lead, and cadmium.
Dark Chocolate has become popular due to studies suggesting that they are rich in antioxidants, which is beneficial to the heart, and it having low sugar properties that positively impact health.
The article, which was posted in mid December, states that 28 popular brands were tested, and that 23 of them contained high levels of the dangerous metals.
For more details, check out the article from Consumer Reports: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-cadmium-in-dark-chocolate-a8480295550/
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