Sana Vita Health, PC

11/07/2022

After two and half years, we are closing Sana Vita Health, PC. Our caterpillar phase, while enlightening and interesting, has come to an end. Look for Dr. Abendroth and Coach Melissa to re-emerge next year as something a little different.

We're not sure about the name -- maybe Abendroth Medical? It won't be primary care anymore (too much admin work for a doc with no staff), and it won't be subscription based. We will focus on nutrition, lifestyle, and a fusion of the best aspects of conventional, integrative, and functional medicine. The goal isn't just to prevent and reverse disease, but also to help you perform at your highest level until the very end. Stay tuned!

03/04/2022

Add healthy years to your life! A new study in PLOS shows that eating a "Mediterranean" diet (whole, unprocessed foods, mostly plant-based with some fish) adds many years to life expectancy depending on how early in life you start eating healhty. Even if you don't start until age 60 their data shows 8+ years of increased life expectancy.

Lars Fadnes and co-workers estimate the possible benefits to life expectancy from adoption of more healthy diets.

08/14/2021

Quality tips for reducing your dietary carbon footprint. The one they say the least about is probably the most significant.

Carpooling, biking and public transit are all obvious ways to decrease your impact on the environment. Additionally, there are plenty of easy shopping-related actions to lighten your carbon foodprint while eating healthier.

08/10/2021

Some of my patients are asking me about the vaccine, if they should get it, etc.

To be clear, YES, unequivocally, you should get it. The evidence is very strong that Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are incredibly safe and highly effective. Yes, Delta is breaking through some, but the vaccine is still working very well. If everyone who can get it does so, we would be entirely out of this mess. It is mind-blowing how much fake news and deliberate misinformation there is out there. Tune it out; get the vaccine.

Medicap offers Moderna and it's easy to schedule through their website. Same with HyVee; links below. Otherwise pretty much every pharmacy is offering it.

https://www.hy-vee.com/my-pharmacy/covid-vaccine

https://www.mymedicappharmacy.com/beaverdale

https://www.medicapurbandale.com/schedule-a-covid-19-vaccine-appointment

06/29/2021

05/27/2021

Apparently putting a just-born baby on the bare chest of its mother and allowing her to breastfeed is such a novel idea today that it's literally not even referred to in human terms anymore. Instead, it's called "kangaroo care" in the literature.

That's the most surprising thing I learned from this study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which demonstrated that, compared to putting newborns in a clear plastic box, so-called "kangaroo care" reduces mortality in infants with low birth weight (

04/30/2021

Another gut microbiome study confirms what we already knew: whole-food plant-based diets promote healthy bacteria that promote health, while diets high in processed foods and meats promote harmful bacteria in the gut, which increase inflammation through a variety of metabolic mechanisms. FYI!

Objective The microbiome directly affects the balance of pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory responses in the gut. As microbes thrive on dietary substrates, the question arises whether we can nourish an anti-inflammatory gut ecosystem. We aim to unravel interactions between diet, gut microbiota a...

04/07/2021

Want your vaccine ASAP???

www.vaccinespotter.org

A tool to help you track down COVID-19 vaccine appointment openings at your state's pharmacies. Updated every minute.

03/12/2021

A new additional reason to be cautious with antibiotics: a recent study links gut microbial diversity to human longevity.

A single course of antibiotics can reduce the microbial diversity in your gut, often permanently. Make sure you take the proper precautions if you do need to take antibiotics (it's not just a course of probiotics!) and be sure your doctor is prescribing them appropriately.

Increasing compositional uniqueness of the gut microbiome, and corresponding changes in microbial metabolites in the blood, are identified as a signature of healthy ageing in humans.

03/11/2021

Pre-diabetes and diabetes increase your risk of developing dementia. A new study is suggesting that even high-normal glucose levels increase your risk compared to low-normal.

Are your diet and lifestyle setting you up for a long healthspan free from dementia and other diseases?

Aim To understand the relationship between HbA1c and brain health across the entire glycaemic spectrum. Materials and Methods We used data from the UK Biobank cohort consisting of 500,000 individu...

03/04/2021

Food As Medicine: What it Means and How to Reap the Benefits

A healthy diet can help prevent and manage chronic diseases including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Learn about this philosophy and ways to take advantage, here.

03/01/2021

The TYPE of protein you consume is important. In this study, substituting animal protein with plant protein was associated with a lower risk of all‐cause mortality, cardiovascular disease mortality, and dementia mortality.



https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.119.015553?fbclid=IwAR1uih8oIw-PLVELVnoqB64FXoU8zMw57DJrgEvjO1sTS7O0l_HO-zCDIWM&

Background Dietary recommendations regarding protein intake have been focused on the amount of protein. However, such recommendations without considering specific protein sources may be simplistic ...