Medical Research You Need to Know
The Vitality Health Challenge isn’t a miracle diet or a long list of supplements and pills. Dr. Saltzman spent many years working with everyone from diabetics to cancer patients to elite athletes to find breakthrough therapies that really help. His program is the result of decades of reviewing research and combining innovative treatments for his patients’ health goals.
You may have heard of some of the therapies in the Challenge: hyperbaric oxygen therapy, ozone therapy, ice baths, interval training and fasting. These articles offer just a little of the science behind these therapies and their study-supported uses.
The Ability to Adapt is Critical to Our Health as We Age
“Adaptive homeostasis enables biological systems to make continuous short‐term adjustments for optimal functioning despite ever‐changing internal and external environments… One hallmark of the ageing process is a significant decline in adaptive homeostasis capacity…Aged organisms must therefore cope with higher levels of chronic low‐grade stress…We suggest that a potentially new avenue for assessing the ageing process would be to monitor the loss of adaptive homeostasis.”
Dental Infections Respond to Treatment with Ozone
“Germs enter the tooth and progress deeper into the pulp or ‘nerve’. There are multiple lateral canals and a periapical space that can all be inhabited by pathogenic (disease causing) bacteria. Conventional endodontic therapy does not reach into all the microtubules and interstices which may harbor bacteria and their toxins. Ozone offers some of the best results seen to date in the treatment of internal tooth infections.”
Ozone is Effective Therapy for Cardiac Disorders
“Ozone therapy is a safe, economical, and effective treatment for patients with cardiovascular disorders:
- it improves blood circulation and oxygen delivery to ischemic (tissue with reduced blood supply) tissue…
- by improving oxygen delivery, it enhances the general metabolism
- it upregulates the cellular antioxidant enzymes
- it induces a mild activation of the immune system and enhances the release of growth factors from platelets.”
Hyperbaric treatment benefits children with autism
“This trial represents the first controlled study of hyperbaric treatment in children with autism… Children with autism who received hyperbaric treatment at 1.3 atm and 24% oxygen for 40 hourly sessions had significant improvements in overall functioning, receptive language, social interaction, eye contact, and sensory/cognitive awareness compared to (a control group).”
Hyperbaric Oxygen Helps Stroke Patients
SJS comment: This article shows us that long after a stroke occurs HBOT can help restore brain function by oxygenating the nonfunctional area around the stroke. This area of brain tissue is in a state of suspended animation from low oxygen.
“Recovery after stroke correlates with non-active (stunned) brain regions, which may persist for years… The results indicate that HBOT can lead to significant neurological improvements in post stroke patients even at chronic late stages. The observed clinical improvements imply that neuroplasticity (brain repair and remodeling) can still be activated long after damage.”
Cyclic Exercise Benefits Parkinson’s Patients
“These results demonstrate enhanced motor skills and mood elevation with cyclic exercise and suggest that this protocol induces the formation of anti-inflammatory signal molecules, which appear to be associated with alleviation of some of the clinical characteristics of Parkinson’s Disease.”
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d8cd/e9101900629e1877835360f0d6dab9139b4e.pdf
Sitting Around Makes You Want to Sit Around; Challenging Yourself Leads to Fitness and Longevity
“(Lack of exercise) results in a vicious cycle that increases oxidative stress and reduces metabolic flexibility and perpetuates the disease state. In contrast, hormetic stimuli can induce an anti-inflammatory phenotype… leading to greater biological fitness and improved functional longevity. The links between obesity, the metabolic syndrome, diabetes, vascular disease and even cancer, are now all too clear.”
Vigorous Physical Activity Improves Coronary Heart Disease in Men
“Conclusions—Total physical activity and vigorous activities showed the strongest reductions in CHD (coronary heart disease) risk. Moderate and light activities showed nonsignificant inverse associations.”
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/01.CIR.102.9.975
Acute Aerobic Exercise Stimulates Growth Hormone Release
“GH secretion declines with aging by approximately 14% per decade after the age of 40…
Acute aerobic exercise is a powerful stimulus to GH release…
Recent data from our laboratory indicate that, in young men and women, the magnitude of GH release rises with increasing exercise intensity in a linear dose-response relationship.”
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