Researchers are developing a test that can detect advanced nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) with an 88-94% accuracy rate. To detect NAFLD earlier and more easily, these researchers have found that they can predict advanced NAFLD by looking at the unique microbial makeup of a patient’s stool sample.

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New study finds that increasing NO production in the body can significantly impact PAD. The researchers wrote: “There is considerable evidence that disruption of the NO pathway plays a major role in the pathogenesis of PAD.” They went on to say that NO “may prove to be a novel treatment for PAD.”

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Ketogenic diets move the body into ketosis, which is essentially starvation mode. When the body goes into starvation mode, it begins to burn fat for fuel. When the dieter stops eating the drastically low-carb diet, the body wants to move back to equilibrium. And when the body does so, it often forces the body to gain weight.

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According to a recent survey published in the journal Stroke, 35% of the American adults who responded said they had experienced at least one sign of a warning stroke.

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Two Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators, they have found silent, seizure-like activity in the hippocampus of two patients with Alzheimer’s. The hippocampus is a brain structure that Alzheimer’s affects in a significant way. Neither of these patients had a known history of seizures.

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