Glyconutrition and Anti-Aging The Real Fountain of Youth Fountain of Youth and Glyconutrition Students of American history are introduced each year to the intriguing stories of the "conquistadors". You remember them don't you? They were the "rough...

Questionnaire to Take to Your Doctor: Questions to Ask Your Doctor about Chronic & Autoimmune Diseases by Dr. Robert Gamble Cardio-Vascular and Thoracic Surgeon (retired) Medical Researcher 1. Is my disease condition a "chronic" disease? Answer: If...

Sjogren's (pronounced "Show-grins") Syndrome: Had you ever heard of it before? Sjogren's Syndrome is a chronic, autoimmune disease that is quite debilitating. Sjogren's Syndrome begins with a number of symptoms that appear to be merely irritating. The...

Stress: You may survive emotional stress… But, you cannot survive physiological stress...often called "oxidative stress". First of all, what is stress? Stress develops in all of us as a "wear and tear" upon us mentally and physically from factors ...

Glyconutrition and Our Immune System: "Status Quo"- Latin for the Mess We're In Dr. Robert Gamble Cardio-Vascular and Thoracic Surgeon (retired) Glyconutrition and the immune system "back then". In the era when our grandparents were toddlers,...

Pollsters and advertisers tell us that people will spend a fortune getting well, trying to cure or mitigate some disease or condition but will almost never spend a dime preventing disease. This is important when considering your immune system. Your im...

Weight Loss: "Never Eat More Than You Can Lift" Dr. Robert Gamble Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeon (retired) Arlington Heights, Illinois Weight loss and weight-lifting: When I determined that I would write this weight loss article, I figured I wo...

Glyconutrition and the silence in Parliament: Sir Isaac Newton is not generally associated with medicine and biology, much less glyconutrition. Newton lived 1642-- 1727, a period now referred to as the Age of Newton. However, you don't get an entire ag...

Flu and the Immune System Influenza ("flu") strikes every year and afflicts millions. Under normal circumstances, flu is not considered a general public health risk. Of course, any disease must be taken seriously for two reasons. First of all, an...

Menopause: Phytosterols (Go ahead; try saying it, "Fi-to-ster-ols") Menopause (definition): The almost inevitable fretting by husbands whereby they first anticipate (sometimes in sheer terror), the looming specter of being "outside the affection...

As you know, I am a physician. It's part of my profession to keep abreast of what's happening in medical /health research. Being retired helps, because doctors simply do not generally have the "extra time" to devote to the scientific literature. But I...

You know, it's not everyday a fellow like me gets to announce a major paradigm shift, much less concerning diabetes …or any other medical condition. You don't know what a paradigm shift is? Well, if I mentioned events and names like: Gutenberg, Cope...

Avian Flu: The bad news first Well, it's flu season again. Only this time, we hear everyone talking about avian flu…the Super flu which is expected to wreck havoc across our land in the not so distant months. So what is avian flu? Avian flu is bird...

There was this guy who jumped off the 37th floor of a tall building. As he fell, people at each floor inside the building heard him say as he passed them, "So far, so good…so far, so good..." Diabetes is a disease which cannot be "trusted...

This is what they call "Hope"? We've all gotten used to the idea that certain maladies will be around for a while…like until the Second Coming. Maladies such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis…and many more are expected to be ar...