GIGO and AI (Garbage In, Garbage Out)

You’ve probably seen, by now, that the answers you receive from your AI search engine queries can be heavily colored by how you ask your questions.

This is particularly evident when we’re seeking help from non-conventional medicine  (i.e. “natural medicine,” “complementary medicine,” “alternative medicine”).

What you may not know is that there are teams working to develop AI databases that are not limited to mainstream, conventional, pharmaceutically based solutions.

These services aim to present evidence-based but often under-represented knowledge from the fields of orthomolecular, functional, and nutritional medicine. Follow this link for a fuller explanation of the need, and news about a group working on a solution.

Earwax

It turns out that earwax has been found successful in diagnosing various medical conditions.

Brazilian research found that various cancers can be detected earlier and with more accuracy and less expense than traditional diagnostics, and tracked through remission, thus terminating cancer therapies that have done their job and are no longer needed.

Its use in cancer is already in place in several Brazilian hospitals.

Other studies have shown that biomarkers such as glucose and cortisol can be tracked more effectively in ear wax than through blood and saliva. The ear wax test result is called a Cerumenogram.

Labs are working on self-sampling kits. Expect to hear more about this in the near future. More information here.

Marijuana and Cancer: What’s the Evidence?

In 2017, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) published a comprehensive research review on cannabis smoking and cancer risk.

It found modest evidence of an association with just one cancer: a subtype of testicular cancer.

In the cases of lung and head and neck cancers, studies indicated no significant association between habitual cannabis use and risk for these cancers.

When it came to other cannabis-cancer relationships, the evidence was mostly deemed insufficient or simply absent.

If you use marijuana, don’t start cheering. Other studies are being conducted, and preliminary results are just being compiled. More info here.

Common Sweetener May Harm Brain and Heart

We’ve been looking for many years for a healthy sugar substitute.

• Aspartame: carcinogenic
• Sucralose: impacts gut health and metabolism
• Saccharine: linked to bladder cancer
• Agave nectar: metabolized as sugar.

We thought that we’d found a viable substitute in erythritol, but recent research has found that it may increase the risk of heart attack and stroke. Researchers found that when human brain cells were exposed to erythritol, the cells exhibited increased oxidative stress—an imbalance in the body between free radicals and antioxidants that can lead to a range of detrimental health effects, including cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative disorders, cancer, and inflammatory diseases.

For the present, stevia and monk fruit appear to be the only viable alternatives to sugar. More information here.

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