by Fred and Alice Ottoboni | May 18, 2017 | research
The Opioid Epidemic In December, 2016, Thomas Frieden, MD, Chief of the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), reported that in year 2015 the drug overdose death toll in America was the highest on record (1). More than 52,000 people died from a drug...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Mar 19, 2017 | alzheimer's
Alzheimer’s disease is a very large, extremely costly, growing epidemic that affects older individuals. The average per-person Medicaid spending for seniors with Alzheimer disease and other dementias is 19 times higher than the average per-person Medicaid spending...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Aug 18, 2016 | research
Diseases do not just happen. Every disease has a cause, and once this cause is known, prevention is often the next most reasonable and cost-effective step. –Anon. The United States is in the midst of enormous epidemics of chronic debilitating diseases, the...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Mar 14, 2016 | research
In the Beginning Almost two hundred years ago, the methodology for investigating the occurrence and movement of infectious diseases in populations was born. It happened in London during the cholera epidemic of 1836 with the work of the English physician John Snow (1,...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Dec 28, 2015 | Low Carb Books
Found; a superbly informative book that explains in practical language how to care for and nurture your mitochondria. If nutritional biochemistry is not your bag, you may ask what are mitochondria, and why would I want to care for and nurture them? The first part of...
