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Vitamin D can't be metabolized without sufficient magnesium levels, meaning Vitamin D remains stored and inactive for as many as 50 % of Americans, according to... a review published this month in the JAOA. Patients with optimum magnesium levels require less Vitamin D supplementation to achieve sufficient levels. Magnesium also reduces osteoporosis, helping to mitigate the risk of bone fracture that can be attributed to low levels of Vitamin D. http://jaoa.org/article.aspx?articleid=2673882 http://www.sci-news.com/medi/magnesium-vitamin-d-05776.html

The relationship of birth trauma and the Vagus Nerve

A study published last month in Science, led by researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, used whole-genome sequencing of individu...al neurons to find strong evidence that brain mutations accumulate as we age. They also found that mutations accumulate at a higher rate in people with genetic premature aging disorders that cause early brain degeneration. Scientists have long thought that aging and degenerative brain diseases are associated with genetic changes in brain cells, but until now, they haven’t had the technology to test this theory. http://science.sciencemag.org///12/06/science.aao4426.full https://www.the-scientist.com/

During deep sleep, older people have less coordination between two brain waves that are important to saving new memories, a team from UC Berkeley reported in th...e journal Neuron. Two kinds of brain wavesslow oscillations, large undulations that promote restorative sleep, and sleep spindles, transient bursts of short wavesare tell-tale marks of deep, non-REM sleep. But these waves are out of sync in older people, which can interrupt communication between the parts of our brains that store short- and long-term memories. Researchers found the part of the brain that makes slow oscillationsand long-term memorieswas smaller in older participants, suggesting that older adults are more forgetful because this region atrophies over time. Do you have thoughts about the role cranial osteopathic treatment might have in restoring function? http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(17)31073-5 https://www.npr.org//older-adults-forgetfulness-tied-to-fa

The US Preventative Task Force recently reviewed and issued updated recommendations on the use of HRT (hormone replacement therapy) for primary prevention of ch...ronic disease. They concluded that, on average, the possible harms of HRT are greater than the possible benefits in preventing chronic disease (e.g., coronary heart disease, dementia, stroke, fractures). This recommendation does not consider treatment of menopausal/post-menopausal vasomotor, vulvovaginal, or other symptoms, just the treatment as primary prevention of other chronic disease. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2665782 https://www.aafp.org//health-of-the/20171215uspstfhrt.html