By James B. LaValle
If you ask your primary care doctor to check your C-reactive protein (CRP), there is a high likelihood you will be told it is not necessary. Even though we know that CRP is a risk factor for heart disease1 and more and more doctors are testing CRP levels in patients who they consider to be at high risk, testing CRP is not yet recommended for routine lab testing.
If you ask me, it’s time that changed. At LMI, we do screen routinely for CRP. Let me tell you why.
By James B. LaValle
I was recently made aware of huge news on statin drugs from the labs at Iowa State University, where a researcher has confirmed something I have long suspected regarding cholesterol-lowering drugs — that they could seriously harm brain health.
By James B. LaValle
Keeping your blood sugar under control is beneficial for far more than just waistlines and diabetes prevention, it is also important to help preserve your memory as you age. Yep, that’s right — spiked blood sugar levels actually cause your brain to age prematurely, resulting in more "senior moments” than you’d care to have.
There have been other studies indicating this in the past, but a new study led by Scott A. Small, M.D., associate professor of neurology from the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain was remarkable because it showed that the activity of an important part of the memory center of the brain (called the dentate gyrus) decreases with elevated blood glucose levels.
