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Filing A Yasmin Birth Control Lawsuit

It sort of feels like the issue of contraception has always been fraught with furore. When the first contraception tablets were introduced in the 1960s, objectors objected because they felt that men were making an attempt to play God in controlling the natural processes in life. Since that time, there have been many moral and health issues that have been raised with regard to the different pills, but nothing has stopped the field from continuing to grow by leaps and bounds. It has now developed into a sector that pulls in billions of bucks a year, and yet it’s still full of Problems and controversies. In the most recent round of product litigation, the target is the oral contraceptive known as Yasmin or Yaz. Due to the purported side effects of the drug, Yasmin contraception lawsuits are cropping up all over America. [...]

Pregnenolone: The Mother of all Hormones

Pregnenolone is called the “mother hormone” or “the brain hormone” because it is converted from cholesterol by the body in the mitochondria of the cell and is the primary hormone of the Adrenal gland. That means that all other adrenal hormones – from dhea to testosterone to estrogen, mineralocorticoids and glucocorticoids – are produced from Pregnenolone.

Now we have all heard how terrible cholesterol is for health, right? Anything with cholesterol is bad and must be avoided? But if the most important adrenal hormone in your entire body – and the most potent memory enhancer known to science – is produced from cholesterol, how could cholesterol be so bad for you?

The answer is that cholesterol in itself is not bad, but the sources you get it from in your food or supplements are very important. There are good and bad sources of cholesterol. For example, natural butter is much healthier than synthetic margarine. And don’t eat foods cooked with unhealthy trans-fats, like companies such as McDonalds and KFC, etc. did for years even after the scientific evidence was overwhelming that they should stop because it was causing heart and other diseases.

Pregnenolone has been shown to have very few [...]

Vitamin E Helps Fight Lung Cancer

Great news for you vitamin lovers.

A new study published in the International Journal of Cancer by researchers from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center found that higher levels of the alpha-tocopherol form of Vitamin E resulted in a 53% reduction in lung cancer. Cancer of the lung is the most common and deadliest form, from which more people die than any other type.  Only 25% of people diagnosed with lung cancer live for more than a year.

There are two main groups of vitamin E – tocopherols and tocotreinols – both of which contain the 4 varieties alpha-, beta-, gamma- and delta. This study examined the tocopherol group. Unlike alpha-tocoferol, the beta-, gamma- and delta-tocopherol forms of vitamin E failed to show significant benefits when considered by themselves.

This is thought to be the first study of its kind to distinguish between the different forms of Vitamin E with respect to lung cancer.  This is important as most people don’t realize there are so many different forms of vitamins, including natural vs. synthetic. Many studies of vitamin E, for example, may only use one of the sub-optimal or synthetic forms and then generalize the results to all [...]