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The Advanced Topics are not part of the Infinite Health Program or Protocols. They are advanced discussions on late-breaking health discoveries and theories regarding health practices that may or may not be of benefit to Members. Members are cautioned that Advanced Topics are for informational purposes only and, by definition, are not yet fully tested and accepted. Products and methods discussed in Advanced Topics should not be incorporated into any personal program or lifestyle without first consulting your physician.

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A Guide to Gallstones

Despite being exceptionally common, affecting between 10-15% of the U.S. population, pinpointing the causes of gallstones has been elusive. Age, gender, and obesity increase the likelihood of developing gallstones.

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A Primer on Stomach Acid and H. pylori

The acidic environment of the human stomach is so powerful that, if you were to insert your finger into stomach contents, you wouldn’t have much left besides bone within a few minutes.

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Avoiding Aortic Valve Stenosis

These comments are based on Dr. Davis's 25 years of cardiology practice but remain formally unpublished, so don’t expect John Q. Cardiologist to confirm these observations.

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Bacillus coagulans: The Missing Probiotic

Most of the claims made about the benefits of spore-forming probiotics are due to the effects of B. coagulans. No toxic effects have been observed with ingestion of this microbe, even with doses as high as 95 billion CFUs.

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Bowel Flora Testing - A Practical Guide

Let’s examine a few of the available stool testing services. There are others but they, like the ones listed below, also suffer from major difficulties.

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Can We Curate An Effective Probiotic to Manage SIBO?

Can we curate probiotic species/strains carefully chosen for characteristics such as ability to colonize the upper gastrointestinal tract where SIBO occurs and ability to produce bacteriocins, i.e., natural peptide antibiotics effective against the species of SIBO?

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Collagen, Anti-Aging, Age-Reversing Protein

A lifestyle with an increase in collagen intake holds promise for reversing, or at least slowing, many aspects of the aging process.

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Dr. Davis's Private Notes on Preventing/Reversing Cognitive Decline/Dementia

I have extensively reviewed the body of existing evidence to get a better handle on what has been shown to work, what has not, reproduced here.

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Fungal Overgrowth

The exceptionally common and epidemic condition, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, SIBO, has a closely-related cousin: small intestinal fungal overgrowth, SIFO, i.e., unrestrained small intestinal proliferation of

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H. pylori, Hypochlorhydria, Auto-Immune Gastritis

H. pylori and its consequences is a health issue you can tackle on your own without a doctor. Then consider hypochlorhydria, the lack of stomach acid that can result from H. pylori infection or from autoimmune gastritis.

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Heart Rate Variability (HRV)

Control over heart rate is a basic requirement of navigating life successfully. While sleeping, the heart beats at its minimum rate. Wakefulness, activity, and emotion dictate an increase in heart rate, most extreme.

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Heavy Metals - Cadmium

Cadmium is excreted via urine and bowels. But its clearance is exceptionally slow, persisting in the body for decades after exposure. Its long-term persistence means that continued exposure allows accumulation and levels of cadmium in the body therefore generally increase as we age.

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Homocysteine - a Marker for Dysbiosis

High homocysteine levels in children were associated with impaired growth, seizures, anemia and heart disease. Less severe elevations could underlie numerous other health conditions.

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Hydrogen Sulfide SIBO

Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) present at low quantities is a critical mediator of multiple physiologic processes. But at higher concentrations, H2S exerts considerable negative effects.

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L. gasseri Advantages

L. gasseri is proving to be a multi-functional species with a number of important health benefits, including reduction of waist circumference and abdominal visceral fat with the BNR17 strain.

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Metabolic Endotoxemia

Metabolic endotoxemia refers to a situation in which bowel flora species die and release lipopolysaccharide, or LPS. LPS is known to be toxic.

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Oxytocin

The hormone, oxytocin, is proving to be a hormone with far-reaching effects for health, involved in several important aspects of aging, health, and weight control. Most exciting are recent data.

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Physiologic Ketosis, MCTs, and Exogenous Ketones

Could higher levels of blood ketones be at least part of the solution to preserving high levels of functioning and health, sufficient to make you feel 25 years old at, say, 50, 60, 70, or 80 years old?

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Preventing Cognitive Decline & Dementia: Lifestyle Factors

Just by engaging in the basic components of the Infinite Health program, you have already gotten off to a terrific start in preventing, or even reversing, cognitive decline.

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Preventing Cognitive Decline & Dementia: Nutrition Factors

There are still many landmines and misinterpretations in dietary thinking applied to brain health. The numerous varied facets to diet also mean that many concepts are still evolving. Let’s try to distill some real answers out of this hodgepodge.

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Preventing Cognitive Decline - The Role of Exercise

Unlike the skimpy data that support the use of most nutritional supplements for prevention/reversal of cognitive decline and dementia, with exercise we have far better data.

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Preventing Migraine Headaches

Migraine headaches can be debilitating, painful, and inconvenient, affecting 17% of females, 6% of males. Over a dozen genetic markers have been identified that predispose to migraine.

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Probiotic Yogurt Recipes

Pick and choose among these yogurts to obtain the benefits you desire. If you would like smoother skin with reduced wrinkles, choose the L. reuteri yogurt. If you want to shrink visceral fat, choose L. gasseri BNR17 yogurt, etc.

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Radiant Skin Experience

A regimen that, in addition to skin health and appearance benefits, also yields substantial benefits in joint health, arterial health, reduces blood pressure modestly, even yields effects on preserving cognitive health.

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Regularly Consuming Prebiotic Fibers

Failure to consume prebiotic fibers invites inflammation, penetration of the intestinal lining by bacteria,, and can lead to bowel inflammation, triggering of autoimmune diseases, and colon cancer.

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SIBO/SIFO and Anti-Aging

A number of compelling observations are pointing towards SIBO and SIFO as being common, perhaps inevitable, consequences of life that contribute to the outward and internal physiologic processes that define aging.

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The Dangers of Salt Restriction

We have been advised to cut back on salt and sodium intake because of its effects on blood pressure and other consequences such as kidney and heart disease. More recent investigations suggest that sodium was not the main culprit .

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