PERQUE Integrative Health is excited to announce the second edition release of Advancing Medicine with Food and Nutrients, the bestselling textbook that puts nutrition back at the heart of medicine. Featured in this anticipated second edition are our very own Dr. Russell Jaffe and Jayashree Mani. Their contributions to this important text include chapters on treating gluten-related disorders and diabetes …
Long-term Calcium Supplementation Does not Affect the Iron Status of 12-14 year-old Girls
Nutrient requirements for iron and calcium are higher in adolescent girls around the time of menarche. Calcium supplementation can compromise long-term iron status, but few data are available for adolescent girls. The aim of this randomized, double- blind, placebo controlled study was to evaluate whether calcium supplementation affected iron status in 113 Dutch girls aged 12-14 years. Subjects took 500 …
Agriculture, Public Health, and Viable Society: Another Eternal Golden Braid by Russell Jaffe Fellow, Health Studies Collegium
Today, many seem to operate in a compartmentalized, disintermediated world. The narrowness of their view is largely the product of a reductionist, mechanistic educational system. In the age of systems biology, quantum physics and interdependence, narrow vision can lead to profound unforeseen consequences. From lead in the water to formaldehyde in the water and air to asbestos to PCBs/PBBs to …
Progress on cancer risk: Benefit of adequate vitamin D3
Amount of Vitamin D3 in PERQUE Life Guard and PERQUE Bone Guard translates into dramatic cancer risk reduction proven in double blind, controlled study. This month’s issue of AJCN1 reports the astounding result that cancer rates can be reduced by 60% in the first year and a whopping 77% in the second year by taking high doses of vitamin D. …
Ascorbates (Vitamins C) and the C Cleanse
The story of vitamin C goes back to the 18th century to a time when people aboard ships were at sea for periods of time longer than vegetables and fruits could last without proper storage. A mystery illness spread across the ships with symptoms like bleeding gums, muscle degeneration, spotty skin and bone pain. This was later linked to Vitamin …
Acting From An Excess of Caution
There is uncertainty about average and peak levels of radioactivity to which some people are being exposed. Radioactive materials cause harm only when not enough antioxidants are present to soak up the extra electrons (energetic free radicals; oxidative stressors) induced by radioactive particles. Radiation is like a sub-molecular fire. There is a temperature above which even the best fire resisting …
The Many Health Benefits of Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Omega-3 fatty acids such as those found in fish oil supplements may reduce the risk of breast cancer by almost 32%, as determined by researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle. They followed 35,016 post-menopausal women who had no history of breast cancer. Each woman was asked to fill out a pre-study questionnaire about their use of non-vitamin, …
Sunscreen Ingredient May be Linked to Endometriosis
A recent report published in ACS’ journal Environmental Science & Technology described a possible link between the use of sunscreens containing Benzophenone (BP)-type UV filters and heightened endometriosis risk. Many sunscreens and other personal care products contain BPs. These types of ingredients are very effective in blocking potentially harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun but when absorbed into the blood, …
Steroids: More Harm Than Good?
In the late 1940s, the steroid cortisone, an anti-inflammatory drug, was first synthesized and hailed as a landmark. Cortisone shots became one of the preferred treatments for overuse injuries of tendons, like tennis elbow or an aching Achilles, which had been notoriously resistant to treatment. The shots were quite effective, providing rapid relief of pain. Even though an article in …
Links Between Nutrients, Genes and Cancer Spread Documented
There is new reason to take PERQUE! In a recent article posted in ScienceDaily, more than 40 plant-based compounds have been identified as being able to turn on genes that slow the spread of cancer, according to a first-of-its-kind study by a Washington State University researcher. All 40 of these beneficial plant-based compounds are regularly used throughout the entire PERQUE …