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By: Doc Gurley – Top 10 Health Lessons of 2009 «Doc Gurley

Doc Gurley – Top 10 Health Lessons of 2009 «Doc Gurley — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:45:28 +0000

[...] (Yahoo News major headline yesterday, quickly buried). And another among the many examples – FoxNews gave major coverage to a bogus paper that claimed a father’s MOOD at the time of conception determines the future [...]

By: admin

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:59:34 +0000

No, Menlo Bob. Investors Business Daily has been shown to be lying and making up data and quotes in its coverage. This is the same set of people who claimed that Stephen Hawking would have died if he had been treated by the NHS and included made up quotes from him. Of course Hawking pointed out that the NHS had been caring for him all his life and he would have been dead long ago – long before his Nobel prize winning research – if it hadn’t been for the NHS. I advise you to quit reading them – if their investment advice is even a bit like their ‘reporting’ then you will regret it.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/08/how_stehpen_hawking_proves_tha.html

By: Menlo Bob

Menlo Bob — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:10:36 +0000

47% of doctors say they’ll quit. http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/SpecialReport.aspx?id=506106

By: Alberto Halabe Bucay

Alberto Halabe Bucay — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:28:41 +0000

Last questions:

Why, when we are babies and children, we have reproductive cells in our bodies????

Why babies and children have espermatogonia cells in their testis or in the case of girls, ovogonia cells in their ovaries????

What are these cells doing in our bodies that period????

If the functions of these cells are only reproductive, why they don´t appear until puberty????

(Sorry about my english)

By: Alberto Halabe Bucay

Alberto Halabe Bucay — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:18:27 +0000

Thanks again Jan,

I copy this phrase from the article of Reference 5 from Agirreotia, et al, J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2006;91(12):4969-75:

“These findings are indicative of a role for the opioid system in the regulation of sperm physiology”.

I hope that people that read your link understand what means to regulate physiology, from a genetically point of view…

I know that sometimes is hard to convince, but that´s the secret of success.

By: Doc Gurley

Doc Gurley — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:06:40 +0000

P.S. Your one study that claims a “genome” (sic) effect is a cringe-worthy study wherein a very small number of rats were fed morphine prior to mating – and then researchers weighed the offspring. That’s it. That’s all the “evidence” it offers.

By: Alberto halabe Bucay

Alberto halabe Bucay — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:21:48 +0000

Dear Dr. Jan Gurley,

Thank you very much, I really like people like you, people that respond….

The references, that I mentioned in my work regarding the effect of opioids on sperm cells are these:

[5] Agirregoitia E, Valdivia A, Carracedo A, Casis L, Gil J, Subiran N,
et al. Expression and localization of delta-, kappa-, and muopioid
receptors in human spermatozoa and implications for
sperm motility. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2006;91(12):4969-75.

[6] Ragni G, De Lauretis L, Gambaro V, Di Pietro R, Bestetti O,
Recalcati F, et al. Semen evaluation in heroin and methadone
addicts. Acta Eur Fertil 1985;16(4):245-9.

[7] Eriksson PS, Ro¨nnba¨ck L, Hansson E. Do persistent morphine
effects involve interactions with genome? Drug Alcohol Depend
1989;24(1):39-43.

[8] Singer R, Ben-Bassat M, Malik Z, Sagiv M, Ravid A, Shohat B,
et al. Oligozoospermia, asthenozoospermia, and sperm abnormalities
in ex-addict to heroin, morphine, and hashish. Arch
Androl 1986;16(2):167-74.

[9] Halabe Bucay A. Endorphins and lipotropins: relevant combined
action [article in Spanish]. Rev Invest Clin 1989;41(4):389-90.

And I am also agree with you about hairspray and desodorants, they can actually been absorbed by the skin.

Thanks again, in Mexico, we say this when we appreciate someone:

“Que Dios te bendiga”.

Sincerely, Alberto Halabe Bucay

By: Doc Gurley

Doc Gurley — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:56:06 +0000

Dear Alberto,
Actually, it is NOT a fact that heroin and/or morphine affect sperm genetics. In fact, if you have any citation to show that either of these substances (even in vitro) permanently change DNA, I’d be happy to see it. Even more importantly, where are the clinical correlates? Even in the grossest of terms (for example, gender distribution – there is no greater difference in sperm genetics than the size/weight of the Y versus the X sperm), I know of no statistical affect of heroin/morphine permanently altering or even minutely shifting the distribution of sperm DNA. Please share. In contrast, I am sure I could find/create a bogus study to show that women who use hairspray (which is purely a proxy measure of a subtype of bar patron) MIGHT have higher fertility rates. Even THAT, however, does not translate to the DNA level of subsequent progeny – it is merely a statistical misrepresentation of behavior. Conflating separate biologic process without any basis in reality does not a hypothesis make. A hypothesis is generated to explain (and then test) observed phenomenon. In the absence of any observed phenomenon, you are left with, as I mentioned in the article, the Journal of Make S#%t Up. Best regards, Doc Gurley

By: Alberto Halabe Bucay

Alberto Halabe Bucay — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:25:13 +0000

Sorry, it is morphine…. you can realize that English is not my native language….

By: Alberto Halabe Bucay

Alberto Halabe Bucay — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:23:39 +0000

Heroin and morphin affects sperm cells, genetically, that´s a fact.
Endorphins acts in our bodies like heroin and morphin, and they are structurally similar, that´s why we call endorphins as endogen opiods, that´s a fact.
We release endorphins when we are happy, that´s also a fact.
So, with this facts, you can think that my hypothesis could be factible.
Wich are the facts about hairspray and sperm motility????
Thanks for your comments…. you can read other hypotheses that I published, in http://www.sciencedirect.com

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halabe bucay

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