Michael Eades provides excellent information about four popular diets – Atkins, Ornish, Zone and LEARN – and provides intelligent commentary on them.

If you are confused by the contradictory advice offered in the press, by books, and by medical advisers; and if you are prepared to spend half an hour taking on board some new information I strongly recommend this post to you.

The truth is, all these diets have some good points. The trick comes in knowing what the good parts are, and at what times they might suit you.

Michael Eades’ post will help you get to the truth underlying these diets. You will then be in a position to judge yourself what you should be eating, and what you should not.

It’s a great piece.

Let me know in the comments what you think.

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One programme, lead by Richard Oreffo at Southampton University, uses a patient’s own stem cells to repair damaged bone. The stem cells, derived from their bone marrow, is used to make a mixture which, when reintroduced, will fill gaps created by accidents or tumour removal.

Four patients have received this therapy so far, with positive results from early assessments.

Guiding Stem Cells with Magnetic Nanoparticles

Professor Alicia El Haj of Keele University is leading more futuristic research to develop a method to attach magnetized nanoparticles to stem cells. The magnetization then enables the stem cells to be moved around the body to precise locations – without an operation.

This makes some types of therapy much more effective than just injecting the stem cells. This therapy will have a huge range of applications – wherever tissue repair is needed in specific parts of the body.

This method has been proven on rodents and human trials will be started in due course.

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Researchers at the University of Sheffield have discovered how to turn stem cells into the key cells governing hearing – the sensory hair cells and the auditory neurons.

Until now, once these cells were damaged, diminishing hearing, there was no cure.

This fantastic research has been showcased at the UK National Stem Cell Network conference, which took polace in Oxford, UK, on Monday April 6th.

Lead researched Dr Marcelo Rivolta said:

"The potential of stem cells is very exciting… This should facilitate the development of a stem cell treatment for deafness."

Although being able to cure deafness is some years away; but this is another are in which we can see that stem cells will – for some sufferers within a few years -  reverse a condition which, up to now, has seemed hopeless.

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The research will be paid for by a coalition of the NHS, the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service and the Wellcome Trust - the world’s largest medical research charity.

Manufacture from Stem Cells

Unneeded embryos from IVF treatment will be allow to develop for just 8 days or so. At this time into cells called blastocycsts, which contain embryonic stem cells. These cells are extracted and grown on a nutrient rich medium designed to feed them and influence them to turn into red blood cells.

These cells will be produced in their trillions to meet all our requirements for blood transfusions.

Universal Blood for Transfusions

Unlimited O-rhesus negative blood will allow the NHS to avoid a logistical nightmare – maintaining stores of the eight different types of human blood. O-rhesus negative is good for everyone.

It also means that the chance of giving the wrong type of blood to patient – which could be fatal – will be zero.

A Miracle of Science

The world of medicine will be massively improved by having an unlimited, safe source of transfusable blood.

Thanks to embryonic stem cell research this miracle is expected to start to become a reality in 3-4 years.

BBC Coverage

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Most people who die of cancer die from metastasis – the spreading of cancer from its original site. This metastasis is enabled by the original tumour producing LOX, which find distant sites and prepares them for invasion by the spreading cancer. Different types of tumour produce differing amounts of LOX – coinciding with how aggressive they are. For example, prostate cancer is generally quite un-aggressive and does not spread easily; so it, presumably, produces little LOX.

In health, LOX strengthens our connective tissue – the important tissue which ‘fills in the gaps’ between important organs and body structures. However, it is produced in quantity by many cancer tumours when they exceed a certain size.

How This Will Stop Cancer Spreading

As the mechanism is better understood, methods will be found of inhibiting the LOX production of a tumour and making the tumour’s spread much less likely.

This will not necessarily help catch cancers which have already spread when they are discovered; but, now its mechanism is better understood,  influencing LOX will be a potent weapon in the fight against cancer.

More details of the story.

(The enzyme LOX (lysyl oxidase) is not to be confused with the damaging lipoxygenase inflammatory pathway, also called LOX. )

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At last, embryonic stem cell research will now get federal funding thanks to President Obama’s reversal of Bush’s ridiculous ban. This has put embryonic stem cell research back 5 years – and we are talking here about cures for various cancers and heart disease. Bush has definitely cost lives, many lives.

The correct course was, if he was concerned about stem cell ethics, to permit federal funding, but set parameters. That is what is going to happen now – five years later. Basically, Bush gave in to the Christian lobby. Even now, the Pope opposes Obama’s decision.

Anyway, the research can now proceed, accelerated by the US’s involvement.

UK Stem Cell Lead

The UK are currently at the forefront of stem cell research but this won’t last long with America in the game.

We will see fantastic healthy treatment gains – for cancer, heart disease, and perhaps Alzheimer’s – in 10-20 years thanks to the advances made possible by embryonic stem cell research. Already a US firm has started searching for human candidates for the first trial of stem cell therapy for those paralysed by severe spinal injury – made possible by embryonic stem cell research.

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A coalition of researchers in seven European countries are starting a new clinical trial of techniques to make Warfarin safer.

Genetic Methods Used

Using a mathematical formula based on genetic techniques the researchers carrying out the study will tailor the Warfarin dose to the patient – rather than using a ‘one size fits all’ approach. This should mean fewer side effects – such as internal bleeding caused by the blood becoming ‘too thin’.

The study is reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.

More detail on this story
Warfarin – Wikipedia
Herbs to help the heart and circulation
Better Circulation – AHZ article

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