Tina Kaczor

Broken Hearted: Cardiovascular Effects of Grief

Results from an observational study of grieving parents Reference Wei D, Janszky I, Fang F, et al. Death of an offspring and parental risk of ischemic heart diseases: a population-based cohort study. PLoS Med. 2021;18(9):e1003790. Design…

Rethinking Niacin Dosing

Reference Zhang Z, Liu M, Zhou C, et al. Evaluation of dietary niacin and new-onset hypertension among Chinese adults. JAMA Netw Open. 2021;4(1):e2031669. Purpose and Design In order to determine a prospective association between dietary niacin…

Elevation and Cholera Risk?

An outbreak of cholera that occurred in London in 1854 in the Soho district is credited with killing 616 people in a short time. This outbreak was part of the third cholera pandemic (1846 to 1860). Over 10,000 people died in London during this wave…

Oak trees, ticks, curcumin and tamoxifen…. It’s all rather confusing

Ticks, curcumin and oak trees -4 A June 2021 New York Times article surprised me when it quoted Matthew Ayres, a biology professor at Dartmouth, who predicted there would be a sharp increase in ticks and Lyme infections in 2021because there had been…

America’s First Vaccine Mandate

Jacob Schor ND November 2022 Coming up on February 5, 2022 will be an anniversary that few people are aware of. It was on February 5,1777, that George Washington made a strategic decision that many historians credit with allowing the American…

Diphtheria in Maine

Jacob Schor ND About two miles down our dirt road, that leads toward the south end of the lake, there is a section of woods that people refer to as “the Dark Forest”, an appropriate name as the trees seem larger, closer together, and more overgrown…

Antibiotics Show Benefit in Pancreatic Cancer

This article is part of our October 2021 special issue. Download the full issue here. Reference Weniger M, Hank T, Qadan M, et al. Influence of Klebsiella pneumoniae and quinolone treatment on prognosis in patients with pancreatic cancer. Br J Surg.…

Oak Trees, Ticks, Curcumin and Tamoxifen…

A June 2021 New York Times article surprised me when it quoted Matthew Ayres, a biology professor at Dartmouth, who explained that because there was an abundance of acorns in the fall of 2020, there would be a sharp increase in ticks and Lyme…

Resurgent Measles

Several years ago we posted about the immune amnesia that follows a measles infection. Here is a link to that newsletter or whatever these posts are now called: Since the time that article was written there has been a substantial spike in the number…

Coffee Lowers Risk of Breast Cancer Recurrence

Reference Farvid MS, Spence ND, Rosner BA, Willett WC, Eliassen AH, Holmes MD. Post-diagnostic coffee and tea consumption and breast cancer survival. Br J Cancer. 2021;124(11):1873-1881. Design Investigators examined the role of postdiagnostic coffee…

One thought on “No Citation Allowed”

Jacob Schor, ND, FABNO I tend to be near fastidious in citing references to support any statement of fact made in my writing. Thus, I’m not sure what to do now where a document declares itself off limits and asks the reader not to cite it. Let me…

Wrong Guess

The Townsend Letter for Doctors published an article I wrote in April 2020. They publish my writing on a regular basis but most of the time one needs to subscribe in order to view them. On occasion the publisher, Jonathan Collin, will post full…

Acorn Planting

Of late, my best days are those spent collecting and planting acorns. Some days, other projects, things one might call chores, take precedence, cutting and splitting firewood, as one example. Acorn planting fits into a special category, one that is…

Exercise Training Reduces Mortality

Reference Ekelund U, Tarp J, Fagerland MW, Johannessen JS, et al. Joint associations of accelerometer measured physical activity and sedentary time with all-cause mortality: a harmonised meta-analysis in more than 44,000 middle-aged and older…

Paradigm Shifts

How we evaluate the health effect of the foods we consume is undergoing a conceptual change. Until recently food was judged by content; we valued a food’s nutritional impact by its mineral, vitamin, fat, fiber, and other constituents. Such…

Tick Tubes

Tick Tubes Jacob Schor, ND, FABNO NDNR-1 Naples, Maine We saved all the cardboard tubes at the core of toilet paper and paper towel rolls we used this past winter. Today, I’m going to use them to make Tick Tubes. Our nearest neighbor, a now retired…

Laughter’s Links with Cardiovascular Disease and All-Cause Mortality

Reference Sakurada K, Konta T, Watanabe M, et al. Associations of frequency of laughter with risk of all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease incidence in a general population: findings from the Yamagata Study. J Epidemiol.…

Does exercise intensity matter?

Jacob Schor ND, FABNO My dog Ruby and I went for an excellent walk this morning. Starting at the road junction, we came back toward the cabin through what we call the black forest, across the creek, almost up to the clearing but we then veered east…

Election Cake

Election Cake The first cookbook written by an American was published in the United States in 1796. Titled American Cookery and written by Amelia Simmons, it was distinctly American putting forth a new kind of cuisine, an American style of cooking…

Nutmeg Season

This is newsletter written about a dozen years ago. I have been reading about an old Connecticut tradition of baking an “Election Cake” while votes are being counted and thought I would bake one myself tomorrow. Curiously most of the recipes for this…