Courtesy of: Your Rio Vista Chiropractor Dr. Joseph T. Megna Health Alert: Sepsis Risk Increases with Type 2 Diabetes. Sepsis is a life-threatening condition in which the body’s extreme response to an infection causes widespread inflammation leading to organ dysfunction and potentially death. A study that looked at long-term data concerning more than 7,000 adults revealed that type 2 diabetics have double th...

Courtesy of: Your Rio Vista Chiropractor Dr. Joseph T. Megna Health Alert: Microplastic Exposure May Contribute to Alzheimer’s. According to a recent animal study, exposure to polystyrene microplastics and nanoplastics at levels higher than those observed in humans produced Alzheimer-like symptoms in mice carrying the APOE4 gene—a known risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease—after just three weeks. Notably, the ...

Courtesy of: Your Rio Vista Chiropractor Dr. Joseph T. Megna Health Alert: Radiation from Medical Imaging Scans Linked to Childhood Blood Cancers. Following an analysis of health records from 3.7 million children, researchers report that cumulative exposure to radiation from advanced medical imaging—particularly CT scans—was associated with a significantly increased risk of cancers affecting the blood, bone m...

Courtesy of: Your Rio Vista Chiropractor Dr. Joseph T. Megna Health Alert: Has Life Expectancy Plateaued? Researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research report that people born in high-income countries between 1900 and 1938 experienced unprecedented gains in life expectancy, driven largely by reductions in infant and maternal mortality and improvemen...