This article was updated with audio on August 29, 2025. 🎧 ▶️ Press play below to listen. Your browser does not support the audio element. The 80/20 Rule The 80-20 rule, also known as the Pareto Principle, teaches us that a small effort often yields the majority of results. In health, this means just a few…
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Nattokinase and Stroke Research: Understanding the Evidence
Updated on December 3, 2025, with new Latin American Spanish and Mandarin audio versions to help readers worldwide access this content. 🎧 ▶️ Press the play button below to listen in English. 🇪🇸 Spanish (Latinoamérica) En este audio descubrirás qué dice la evidencia más reciente sobre la nattokinasa y su posible papel en la prevención…
Insulin Resistance and Atherosclerosis and Nattokinase
This article was updated with Mandarin audio on November 20, 2025. Press play for the English audio below Your browser does not support the audio element. 🎧 Introducción en audio — Español (Latinoamérica) En este audio hablaremos de cómo la resistencia a la insulina contribuye al desarrollo de la aterosclerosis y por qué este proceso…
How to Dose Nattokinase, Bromelain and NAC
This article discusses the step-by-step approach I will take if I want to take nattokinase, bromelain, or N-acetylcysteine to get rid of the spike proteins in the body.
Soy Foods Do Not Increase Breast Cancer Risk
This article presents a series of studies showing that soy intake does not increase breast cancer risk. In contrast, the opposite is true. Soy intake lowers the risk of breast cancer. Breast cancer is currently the most common cancer globally, accounting for 12.5% of all new annual cancer cases worldwide. It is the second most…
High-Dose Nattokinase and Its Potential Benefits for Blood Vessel and Lipid Health
Update:This article has been revised and updated on November 21, 2025, to meet current E-E-A-T standards. The information has been reviewed for accuracy, clarity, and medical safety to ensure readers receive high-quality, evidence-based guidance. English audio below. Press play to listen 🎧 Audio Introduction — Mandarin (中文普通话) 在这段音频中,我们将介绍高剂量纳豆激酶,以及研究中观察到的它对血管健康和血脂水平的潜在益处。我们会说明主要发现、如何理解这些结果,以及需要注意的安全事项。本内容仅供教育参考,不能替代专业医疗建议。 Introduction Recent research suggests that higher doses…
Nattokinase is Nontoxic with a High Safety Margin
This article was updated with audio on November 20, 2025. 🎧 ▶️ Press play below to listen. Your browser does not support the audio element. 🎧 Introducción en audio — Español (Latinoamérica) En este audio veremos lo que dicen los estudios sobre la seguridad de la nattokinasa y por qué se considera un suplemento con…
Blood Glucose Spike and its Prevention
This article is based on an NHK Japan YouTube video about glucose spikes. A glucose spike or post-prandial hyperglycemia (PPG) is the rise of blood sugar to more than 140 mg/dL after a meal. It can happen after every meal. Many may unknowingly have glucose spikes, including those with normal fasting blood sugar and slender. In…
What’s an Ozempic Face and How to Avoid it
This article discusses how an ozempic face can happen and what to do to prevent it.
Prebiotics can bring out Reflux
Yesterday I wrote about my experience with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in The Post Holiday Heartburn. Further readings into the causes of GERD lead me to another reason many may not be aware of. One of my articles about COVID-19, Gut Microbiome Changes even in mild COVID-19 and what to do about it discussed that…
The Post Holiday Heartburn
I want to share with you my experience with the recent holiday celebrations. Years ago, I used to have frequent heartburns. Doctors call it gastroesophageal reflux disease or GERD. I used to take a lot of TUMS or Rolaids. Working in the emergency department, drinking coffee, and having a poor diet did not help either….
Gallbladder Diseases and Metabolic Syndrome
Audio was added to this article on August 31, 2025. 🎧 ▶️ Press play below to listen. Your browser does not support the audio element. First published on April 9, 2019. This page is updated with new information. Metabolic Syndrome is a common condition that increases the risk of coronary heart disease, obesity, and Type…
Inflammatory molecules found in Long COVID patients
A new study showed several inflammatory markers in the blood of patients with Long COVID. The inflammation leads to micro clots that are difficult to dissolve naturally. This leads to the extensive formation of clots. I think this will be the exact mechanism in people who develop blood clots after mRNA COVID vaccination since the…
Diseases of the Female Reproductive System Associated with Metabolic Syndrome
This article discusses the diseases related to obesity and metabolic syndrome namely: endometrial cancer, ovarian cancer, metabolic syndrome, PCOS and heart diseases.
How to wash raw chicken to prevent bacterial contamination
This article shows how to properly wash chicken meat to avoid bacterial contamination on surrounding surfaces. The technique comes from the engineers, chemists, and mathematicians from Montana State University and a microbiologist from the University of Chemistry and Technology in the Czech Republic. They published their work in the Physics of Fluids in March 2022….
Insulin resistance, muscle weakness and silent strokes
A silent stroke has mild symptoms that it is often ignored. They are usually seen on a head CT scan as incidental findings. Silent strokes are warning signs of fatal and non-fatal strokes. With time, the brain tissue damage accumulates with silent strokes and manifests as vascular dementia. Silent stroke prevention is possible if the…
Caloric restriction mimics the positive effects of beta-blockers on the heart
This article features a study that showed that caloric restriction has the same benefits that beta-blockers provide to failing hearts. Beta-blockers like metoprolol and atenolol are recommended for people with congestive heart failure (CHF). Failing hearts cannot supply enough blood. That is why people with CHF constantly feel weak and short of breath. In heart…
Antiplatelets and beta-blockers increase heart attacks in 25-59-year-olds in warm weather
Nature Cardiovascular Research recently published a study that showed that some people who take antiplatelets and beta blockers have a higher risk of a non-fatal heart attack during warm weather. The authors were from Yale University and several prestigious institutions in Germany. The study evaluated 2,494 heart attack cases in Augsburg, Germany, during warm seasons…
Researchers stunned after partially reviving organs from one-hour dead pigs
In 2019, scientists from Yale used BrainEx technology to revive a pig’s brain after four hours of isolation from the body.[1] This time, the same group modified BrainEx into called OrganEx to partially revive the organs of a whole pig. Nature published the research in its August 3, 2022, edition.[2] How they did the experiment…
Exercise promotes new heart muscles
A new study showed that new heart muscles form in the hearts of older mice. It was published this month in Circulation. In the study, eight weeks of running exercise increased the formation of new heart muscle cells or cardiomyocytes in adult mice. (∼4.6 fold). The authors tested for the presence of new cardiomyocytes by…