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1. Study: Omega-3 linked to lower Alzheimer's risk
2. Beyond Beef Plant-Based Ground vs Beef: Nutritional Comparison
3. What is Histamine and how the Body creates Allergies
4. Medications with Side Effects of Neuropathy

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Study: Omega-3 linked to lower Alzheimer's risk
by Joel Fuhrman, M.D.

There’s a new important study that further emphasizes and supports my advice for utilization of a clean and fresh omega-3 DHA-EPA supplement.

A groundbreaking 6-year study in older adults found that those who reported taking omega-3 supplements had a staggering 64% lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease than those who did not take supplements.

To be clear: supplementation with omega-3 fatty acids is not “magically” protective on its own. There are multiple contributing factors to Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia. Many of them are diet-related, such as obesity, high blood pressure, and type 2 diabetes. The standard American diet – with excess animal products and processed foods, low omega-3 intake, and low micronutrient and phytochemical intake – increases the risk of dementia. The ALA in flax, chia, and hemp seed and walnuts is not efficiently converted to DHA and EPA in most people. For a small percentage of the population who follow a healthful, vegan or near-vegan diet, low blood omega-3 fatty acids would be the most common cause of dementia, as they are doing many other things right.

That’s why for vegans, and people who follow healthful diets, the benefits of DHA and EPA supplementation is so profound; because healthful eaters, whose only risk factor is a low omega-3 index, are those who will most strongly benefit from supplementation. The point is that this study, demonstrating a 64% lower risk of dementia with supplementation, underestimates the benefits, because they were not evaluating a vegan population where the benefits would be much stronger.

There’s a new important study that further emphasizes and supports my advice for utilization of a clean and fresh omega-3 DHA-EPA supplement.

Omega 3 Recommendation

Beyond Beef Plant-Based Ground vs Beef: Nutritional Comparison By Michael Joseph

Beyond Beef Plant-Based Ground is a product designed as a vegan-friendly alternative to ground beef. However, there are a lot of claims about this product—both positive and negative—and about how it compares to regular beef.

This article offers an objective, data-driven nutritional comparison of Beyond Beef Plant-Based Ground and regular ground beef.

Beyond Beef Comparison

The one thing that I would like to point out which is not in this article is the "fortified" vitamins are always synthetic and the body doesn't recognize them and these doesn't utilize them well. It can also gum up the works when the body tries to use these synthetic vitamins. Wonder why you blood tests might say high levels of certain vitamins? Perhaps because the body is getting rid of it as it can't really use it.

And basically the plant-based substitute is processed food.

What is Histamine and how the Body creates "Allergies".

Its allergy season again…

First… Let's talk about histamine. Histamine gets a bad rap. But histamine is a messenger molecule. This means some cells use histamine to talk to each other. That's why you need some histamine.

Histamine is also released by mast cells during periods of stress and allergy. Mast cells are a type of white blood cell making them a critical part of your immune system. Again, you need some histamine.

Now, most of the tissues in your body have mast cells, but they're primarily found in areas closest to the external environment such as skin, lungs, and GI tract.

That's why itching, redness, swelling, and increased mucus production are common allergic reactions. But, as I mentioned your body also releases histamine during periods of stress.

When you're stressed your adrenal glands secrete cortisol and adrenaline. These two hormones stimulate your nervous system which activates your mast cells and releases histamine.

So, to recap - Both stress and allergens cause your mast cells to release histamine and histamine dilates your blood vessels causing flushing, rashes, or hives and also stimulates more mucus production — messing up your sinuses, lungs, or throat. It constricts the bronchi in your lungs causing wheezing, coughing, or asthma.
Too much histamine can even affect your gut by causing cramping and diarrhea.

When your histamine system is working properly and your mast cells secrete histamine, your body makes an enzyme called Diamine Oxidase (DO) and this enzyme helps quickly detoxify histamine so your body doesn't overreact and get symptoms.

But, when you're full of inflammation, have a terrible gut, have mitochondrial dysfunction, have uncontrolled cortisol, or are surrounded by too many allergens, then you can't make enough of the enzyme to get rid of the histamine fast enough.

If you can't get rid of it histamine accumulates and you end up with chronic symptoms like asthma, hives, rashes, coughing, sinus congestion, and gut issues.

P.S. Chronic low-grade inflammation is a significant cause of allergies even seasonal allergies. Inflammation causes mast cells to release histamine and inflammation is also viewed as stress by your body meaning, you also secrete more cortisol which then triggers mast cells to secrete more histamine.